> The department said Friday it is now capable of using in classified settings the technology and models from the ChatGPT maker, OpenAI; Alphabet’s Google; Elon Musk’s SpaceX; Microsoft; Amazon; Nvidia; and a startup, Reflection AI. SpaceX owns Musk’s AI company, xAI.
> The deals show how much of Silicon Valley is agreeing to the Defense Department’s terms in a way that Anthropic didn’t when it rejected the Pentagon’s contract earlier this year in what spiraled into a monthslong feud... Anthropic is fighting the administration’s ban on use of its software for defense work in two separate legal cases.
> Many of the companies with newly completed agreements have said their Defense Department deals include commitments that their tools wouldn’t be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. The Pentagon has said that it wouldn’t carry out those illegal activities and that companies should trust the military to use AI responsibly.
The official forum for SAP users is called the "SAP Community"[0]. I've seen it in other corporate places too, but this was the first occurrence which came to mind.
You could extend this even further to discussions about media that was traditionally used to escape, like sports, movies, even books.
A lot of interactions regarding sports is focused on "advanced analytics" and highlighting obscure data points above all else, e.g., Team X is the fourth team on the West coast since 1970 to score Y points through N games. People rarely talk about how much they enjoy a movie, but everyone is quick to discuss box office numbers and Rotten Tomatoes scores.
Books too now have an entire subculture associated with their economic framing ("buy books from local bookstores!") rather than actual discussions of the material.