fundamentally, NATO is a U.S.-dominated forum, rather than a symposium of equals — a reality that Rutte’s relentlessly patient handling of the Trump administration makes clear.

This is only too true, but Europe and non US NATO allies are working to hard change that as quickly as possible.
Where in EU the end goal is complete independence from USA, and very clearly NATO members both Canada and European countries are looking for alternative weapons suppliers to USA, resulting in US military suppliers are not gaining much if any value from the increased budgets in other NATO countries, where for instance Rheinmetall has increased 700% in 3 years.

This is especially bad in USA, but usually a bit better in European countries that have representation of the unions on the board.

Epic Games CEO and Fortnite boss Tim Sweeney:

everyone will have to 'fess up to using it eventually as AI will become “involved in nearly all future production.”

Once again Epic games act like the moronic villains they are.

It doesn’t translate anything automatically, you have to choose translation manually for a site in a foreign language. It ALWAYS shows the original first.
So that’s complete and utter made up bullshit.

What a charming story. There is much depth to it beyond the obvious.

this would be nice if it were opt in, I guess.

It doesn’t do shit if you don’t use it, why would you want opt in for that?
The same goes for the other features.

Delivering total nonsense, with complete confidence.

Just like a real CEO.

Because Mozilla isn’t the scumbag company the blog tries to paint them as.

I bet even Hillary could win over one of those two, not that I’m challenging her to try, I hope next if there even is an election, the Democrats will run with someone inspiring and progressive.
But who am I kidding, from the looks of it, the chances of that are near non existent.

They won’t, it’s a stupid blog that is making shit up.

Removed by mod

Your source is a blog with a stupid anecdote from Japan as its main feature. Why should I take that seriously?

standard approach with such a controversial feature

The “controversial” features:

1. Alt-text generation: Creates descriptions for images, which is particularly useful for making PDFs more accessible to screen readers.
2. On-device translation: Translates web pages without sending your content to external servers, protecting your privacy.
3. Smart tab groups: Analyzes open tabs to suggest names and group similar ones together to help with organization.
4. Link previews: Generates key points from articles to give you a quick summary.

These are all very modest in requirements even on an old phone. And the use is actually zero unless you use the function.
AFAIK all further AI functionalities are all optional.

Number one is particularly useful for blind people, a group that absolutely needs screen readers to work well.

So again stop the bullshitting, just because you are bullshitting yourself too doesn’t make it better.
Either that or mention just one single specific function you “needed” to disable and why.
IMO your misunderstood whining is annoying.

Personally I use the translation function a lot, it is both very handy and very good, and I have used it for both Russian and Ukrainian and Chinese, and it works surprisingly well.
But maybe you speak every language on the planet, or find it more convenient to use an online translator, leaving unnecessary extra digital trails and requiring extra bandwidth?
How you don’t find that feature useful is beyond me???

Vance’s lead over Trump Jr had plummeted

What! Seriously?
Those are what GOP is currently considering the best 2 options?

USA is a joke, and unfortunately a very bad one.

He calls it a crack up, seems more to me like just another week in the Trump administration.
But I hope he is right.

I don’t trust the corporate overlords to do what’s right long term.

You don’t have to, if Mozilla really screwed the pooch with Firefox it would be forked. Debian used to do it with IceWeasel over a petty thing like the copyright of the Firefox logo, which 100% has always been justified, and is necessary to distinguish between an official Firefox and a fork.

The AI bullshit features as you call them are completely non invasive, I always use the newest Firefox, and I never even noticed those features.

Stop the bullshitting and complaining over things are completely irrelevant. and will never ever have any negative influence on anything you do with Firefox.
I’m so sick of this lame community doing this over and over and over again, and it always turns out to be nothing.

Yes they are, because I bet this, as always, is a complete nothing burger, just like the previous 10 times the past year I’ve seen similar baseless attacks on Firefox.

Why the fuck is lemmy so chuck full of anti Fiirefox and anti Mozilla propaganda?
I even see comments about Firefox needing to be open source again!?!?
It FUCKING IS open source, anybody can fork it if they want to, the only thing they can’t do is use the Firefox logo and name.

You are all a bunch of idiots!! (everybody who upvoted this trash blog)

Americans boasting about free speech and freedom in USA are morons that have no idea about the reality of the world.

Yes you are right, it’s hard to find an analogy that is both as stupid and also sounds somewhat plausible.
Because of course a bread company cannot reasonably claim that eating their bread is against terms of service. But that’s exactly the problem, because it’s the exact same for OpenAI, they cannot reasonably claim what they are claiming.