Anyone know what they are spending this on? Can't remember seeing one OpenAI ad.. Is it just pr and influencers? Ads in the US?

Source?

The OpenAi filing will be very interesting indeed.

("trust me bro" statements from sama et al does not count, since I don't trust them)

Edit:

The best argument I have seen look at the price of inference from smaller companies running open models. And assuming they are profitable-ish. Their prices are lower than the OpenAi and Anthropics best models, so maybe they do make money on inference (ignoring all other costs)

But also, trust me bro.

I wonder how many other secrets and tokens have been stolen, just waiting to be abused to publish a malicious version of.. something.

IMO, the problem is [1] that actually rotation all secrets just because you might have installed a compromised packe is a huuge PITA. So it's tempting to take it lightly and hope for the best. And even if you really try, it's easy to miss one.

1: in addition to "running code from whereever" with little sandboxing

Disagree. Gp didn't make anything.

I told a waiter in a restaurant what I wanted to eat, and I got it. But I did not make the food : )

At some point you have to be OK with accepting "I made this" as meaning "my vision was executed under my supervision".

No one has to be ok with this.

It's like oneshotting an app with Lovable or cc and bragging about what "I made"

As the GP, I actually agree. I will never claim to have written the song, and I generally try to avoid claiming I "made" the song unless I include the "with Suno" caveat. I prefer to say that I "generated" the song.

> I told a waiter in a restaurant what I wanted to eat, and I got it. But I did not make the food : )

Then can we also stop giving credit to CEOs for the products their company makes? Elon Musk doesn't make EVs or rocket ships.

Absolutely! CEOs does many and difficult things, but they don't build anything

How is the battery life?

All the pretty much the smallest and lightest I could find. So not fantastic, but good enough. For me, battery life is much lower on the list than "small and lightweight" and "works well with Linux".

The default install is actually very useful, and includes a lot, like parent said. Having run OpenBSD in the past, I found the their versions of things were often superior, at least for small setups (and some of them for large installs as well.. probably : )

But TheRegister did reach out to Google and they have not replied yet: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/20/google-cloud...

That is exactly what GCP should do: not comment on a customer's issues. Even when it's due to abuse from a customer, which might even be the case.

From what I've read in other comments, the root cause seems to have been automatic account suspension as an anti-abuse measures.

It's also telling that Railway describes the root cause simply as "Google Cloud Platform has suspended Railway's production account." It then mentions this

> At 22:20 UTC on May 19, Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. As this was a platform-wide action, there was no proactive outreach to individual customers prior to the restriction.

The why is conspicuously absent, but this sort of sweep is indeed consistent with anti-abuse measure.

If this is the case I would be cautious in accusing a cloud provider of wrongdoing. Many things need to go awfully wrong to trigger this sort of alarm, and I'm not talking about GCP's anti-abuse system. In fact, it's telling that no reputable, well established business is reporting any impact. The whole point of any anti-abuse system is to suspend accounts that are caught engaging in some sort of abuse.

Cloud has pros and cons, both for small and large setups. I've spent ca 10 years working with GCP, and as the article says, there's a lot of complexity in these systems as well. And the network cost.. yikes