Japanese toilet-maker is an AI company now

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Peak enshittification here


For all the people reading the headline and not the article, toilet-maker Toto uses its ceramics expertise to supply products used in silicon wafer production. They’ve been in the industry since the 1980s but with the AI boom non-toilet manufacturing has become over 40% of their operating income.


I see they went from clean up to production.


Yeah, I mean AI is 💩, so it makes sense 😸


Remember long Island Iced Tea Blockchain?


Speaking of business in the toilet


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