Spanberger and VA are a perfect symbol of what I’ve been saying, there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat now. Spanberger and Biden were the most recent two to billed as such. Both have governed as extremists. It shouldn’t surprise anyone who has read any of the party platform.
My take is that Microsoft's engineers and computer scientists (who are mostly foreign born or the children of immigrants) are having their lunch eaten by Google's engineers and computer scientists (who are also mostly foreign born or the children of immigrants). ChatGPT is the best thing that ever happened to Google. It lit a fire under them at a time when they were getting stodgy and complacent.
Microsoft hasn't made anything new and exciting in decades. There's 2 ways microsoft makes their money.
They hired Mustafa Suleyman (British-born, Syrian father), one of the founders of Deepmind, to be CEO of Microsoft AI. He in turn poached some other people from Google. But nothing that would make a difference in the chasm that exists between the two companies in terms of technical talent.
Google also just has much deeper pockets. they had 100 billion more in revenue than Microsoft in 2025. So they can hire and train the best people because they have more money.
The causality there goes both directions.
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I honestly can’t believe you think enough of this stuff to repost it