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M.G. Siegler quoted
Technology writer of Spyglass
Their wordsGoogle paid all that money for less than two years of service for Shazeer. Sorry, they also technically paid for the "non-exclusive licensing rights" to Character.AI, but as we're learning today, those are effectively worthless.
↗A Couple Elephants in the Character.AI Bankruptcy Roomspyglass.org
- 2 days earlier
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsThe last company to remove DSA interviews (aka Leetcode) is Google
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsGoogle will keep asking it in in-person settings / on sites for sure
- 2 days earlier
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Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Their wordsGoogle Zero—Google driving zero traffic to anyone else’s website—is coming.
- 1 day earlier
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Our readingGoogle's incident management for Firebase was poor and inconsistent with its usual standards.
Their wordsFirebase – built by Google – has had a nasty outage this week with shockingly poor incident management at odds with how Google itself usually deals with high-severity incidents.
↗The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor responseblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsAI agents might be making lots of work more efficient, but following up on action items seems to move at the same snail pace at Google, as it did pre-AI!
↗The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor responseblog.pragmaticengineer.com
- 6 days earlier
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsKind of wild how quickly discovery of these small businesses went from Google to AI agents and AIO (AI optimization, similar to SEO but ofc for AI) starts mattering very much for them...
- 3 days earlier
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsThe assumption that Google has a quality release process - aka automated tests, world-class monitoring & alerting, and a standout incident management process - is no longer true for Firebase
- 1 day earlier
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsThe new generation will probably never know I am wondering when most places (not Google) will drop Leetcode
- 3 days earlier
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsAside from out-Googling Google with their AI personal assistant Muse, it's arguably more impressive that Meta appears to have out-Apple'd Apple by turning the just-okay Quest into what sure sounds like a better version of the Vision Pro.
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsGoogle is launching their first data centers in space test which sounds promising (on paper and in labs), but also like none of this will be viable at any sort of scale for a decade at least.
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsGoogle integrated Gemini into every single place inside Google Workspace where it doesn't work, and nowhere where it would be useful
- 3 days earlier
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsWhile the company framed it around AI during their initial unveiling back in May, all the coverage around the launch this week makes it pretty clear that it's far more about Android.
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsThe reality is that ChromeOS probably isn't too long for this world.
- 1 day earlier
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsSecond, related, is that Google once again clearly has competing products in the space. Say hello to 'CC', which is not Gemini Spark, but another agentic product that Google is working on.
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsThird, and by far the biggest problem for Gemini Spark is simply that Muse is better. I'm not even speaking about the underlying models and capabilities here, just the products.
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsA year after it looked like Google had not only caught up in AI, but could run away with the game, we find a company that can't ship their latest flagship model, is far behind Anthropic and OpenAI in agentic coding, and has just been made to look foolish in the personal AI assistant space by Meta and Apple.
- 2 days earlier
- TB
Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsThe difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 10th of 15 in this piece
- 1 day earlier
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Our readingFew tech companies put as much thought and effort into internal decor and vibes as Google does.
Their wordsFew tech companies put as much thought and effort into internal decor + vibes as Google does, even today
- 3 days earlier
- NF
Nev Flynn quoted
Head of Design at ElevenLabs
Their wordsit's really hard and it's also unfair to say hey everybody we're all going to use this new product and that's all we're going to use from now on. Um you kind of need to support both.
↗Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise designyoutube.com 13th of 20 in this recording
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Nev Flynn quoted
Their wordsand that's pain if you're a designer. I think designing in Google Slides is the most humbling thing that can possibly happen to a designer.
↗Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise designyoutube.com 14th of 20 in this recording
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsI don't know a single startup or serious tech company using Teams sorry they are all on Slack OK, Cloudflare is on GChat
- 1 day earlier
- GR
Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Their wordsServerless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google.
- 3 days earlier
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Zvi Mowshowitz quoted
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase
Our readingMany employees at major AI labs earnestly believe humans may go extinct by the end of the decade.
Their wordsMany in the AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, earnestly believe that humans may all go extinct by the end of the decade.
↗Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascadethezvi.substack.com
- 8 days earlier
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsthe way you make a new Google is not by attacking them head on. You have to wait for things to change so much that their model is is obsolete and that's when you can do it. And that's what Open AI is.
↗Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Foundersyoutube.com 3rd of 16 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
- EA
Emily Atkin quoted
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting…
Our readingA company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.
Their wordsBut if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.
↗We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oilheated.world 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
- PC
Patrick Collison quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute
Their wordsAnd just human organizations are complicated and it's very hard to have um to manage to aggressively prosecute 100 different priorities and to deal with all the issues and interference that arises among them and so forth. And so, you know, Google has done incredibly well in a bunch of specific places, but it's not like Google has done all the things even if in some kind of basic material sense, uh Google maybe, you know, had that ability.
↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 15th of 20 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
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Daniel Stenberg quoted
Swedish open source developer
Their wordsThe feature is disabled by Google in ChromeOS, Android and in production Google servers which certainly holds back some use of it.
↗Workshop Basel day threedaniel.haxx.se 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Ketan Joshi quoted
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo
Their wordsIt is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.
↗Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloatketanjoshi.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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Ketan Joshi quoted
Their wordsWhat is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.
↗Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloatketanjoshi.co 2nd of 3 in this piece