This only goes hard because you read ranking and pull data from AI without having any understanding how they work. Grok ranks them by Nominal GDP which isn't a good basis for living standards. At least 30% of Mexicans live in extreme poverty and in terms of political influence they get bullied by the US all the time.
Their GDP per Capita is lower than an enormous number of countries. And the military speaks for itself, 0 tanks and only 2 aircraft which is Miserable.
North Korea could literally win against mexico in a very short time period.
Saudi does not have more political leverage than countries like turkey, spain, south korea, canada I don't know what thought process led you to saying that.
If you were to for example enter a war with the US or they start sanctioning you, all of your military equipment would become disabled because they have safety switches for these things. You wouldnt be able to maintain them either because you need to buy the ammunition and other requirements from them to begin with. This is the issue when most of your economy and military is dependent on foreign powers.
That is not true. They have been disrupting the strait of hormuz for about a year now which includes exports from all gulf countries (not just saudi) and despite there being issues, the world isn't ending. I'd like to add being an economic power constitutes of that being self-sustained which means you don't bring foreign knowledge or labor to build your infrastructure or military for you. Saudi cannot decide to stop selling oil because as soon as a country like that starts misbehaving the west will start putting it into its place just like how they did with Iraq.
@arerunes@seqCharm Having oil money that helps bring american and europian engineers to build infrastructure and purchase american weapons does not mean they can fight off nuclear powered nations with ICBM's with their own technology which is the same as the UAE which he has ranked as C2 here.
I've said this many times before and I'll say it again; Pumpfun needs to be annihilated and sent to zero. They're one of the worst leeches the industry has ever seen and it doesn't seem they plan on stopping.
No proper onboarding will happen so long as we have things like that.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first βAI General Engineerβ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
@coinbureau This is very misleading and full of holes.
Mortgage rates are way higher and the PCE index gives a lower weight to housing than the consume price index.
Higher real incomes β greater financial security.
Claude writes about 90% of Claude Code's code.
From June to September, merged PRs more than doubled while the share reverted fell by more than 40%.
We wrote about how we changed code review to get there, and how to adopt it:
https://t.co/9sZe64g3mb