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soil under strict compliance rules.

The announcement follows a series of large cloud and AI contracts with the US government and comes as rivals court similar deals.

Supporters highlight potential gains in productivity and national competitiveness, while skeptics point out the energy usage, vendor lock-in, and the growing influence of a few giant or critical public infrastructure and decision making.

So to me, it sounds like these two stories are somewhat

somewhat about their interconnectedness, at least the kind of data and infrastructure questions there.

Okay.

Well, I could keep on going unless someone else has another story they want to talk about.

Oh, oh, oh.

We talked about Claude yesterday, so I didn't want to rehash the same thing, but if you guys want to keep on going to Claude, let's do it.

Well, I think right now, ChatGPT is equivalent of Kleenex.

Yes, literally.

It's not AI, it's ChatGPT.

It's ChatGPT.

But what we're seeing, I just wanted to point out, and I'm in total alignment with you, Carl, the thing with the benchmarks is this is how tech does its assessments or tries to push itself initially.

Does anybody remember the CPU megahertz, gigahertz wars, right?

Cycles.

It's like, oh, well, this Pentium came out with a thousand megahertz.

Well, this came out with 1.4 gigahertz, right?

But that didn't say anything about what the actual result was.

And so I think a lot of people are getting to the point, or at least within our larger bubble here, is it comes down to the use cases and what's the actual output.