Anything beyond parity with Claude or just catching up stuff?

And what are they going to do with that money they 'saved'?

This is the advantage of decentralization over federation. IMHO the fact that Lemmy is only federated really hurts it. Not so much for user accounts (in theory these can be backed up restored and moved. Not ideal but not awful) but in that communities are tied to servers. When the server a community is on goes away it is hugely damaging to that community.

You look up what Googlebot does. No AI. You want to know what crawlers do AI? Just search for "AI", or "training", or some such, or skim through. It's not long. Google-Extended collects training data. Note that Google-Extended is explicitly not used to rank pages. Did that help?

I loved my N95. It showed what an oldschool smartphone could look like. Until the N900 came along and defined for me what a modern smartphone should look like. Thus killing my enthusiasm for all future Android phones. But the N95 was sturdier. I still have it in my backpack as a backup phone.

How do they get away with charging people different amounts for the same product? Couldn’t they charge more if they don’t like someone, like because they maybe a not white republican?

I appreciate that! I’m in the states unfortunately

I certainly hope so! Human ingenuity has gotton us here. I'm interacting with you across who knows how much distance, using a handheld device that folds up. .....but, just because we've gotten ahead of trouble and found solutions thus far, doesn't mean that an unintended bit of code, or hardware fault, or lack of imagination can't cause consequences further down the road. I appreciate your optimism and pragmatic understanding. You seem to be a solution driven person that believes in our ability to reason and fix things. We'll definitely need that type of attitude and approach when and if something goes sideways.