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Today
The Bots Have Won The Web!
Bots passed human web traffic for the first time, per Cloudflare's CEO. The S&P 500 rejected fast-entry for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX. Anthropic embedded engineers at the NSA, Meta hid face-recognition code in its app, and Cambridge trialed the first AI-designed vaccine. Cloudfla ... Show More
20m 59s
Yesterday
Small And Open Source Still Has A Horse In This Race
Google released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model that runs locally on 16GB devices. TSMC's CEO warned chip supply won't meet demand for years. Ramp raised $750M at $44B, and Anthropic says 80%+ of its merged code is now Claude-authored. Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-param ... Show More
21m 59s
Jun 3
Microsoft Build
Microsoft dominated Build with Scout, an always-on Teams agent, the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, its first reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1 aimed squarely at Anthropic, and Project Solara for agent-first devices. Trump signed a scaled-back AI executive order on cybersecurity. Microso ... Show More
19m 32s
Jun 2021
Google Coughs Up $270 Million to French Authorities
4m 20s
Mar 2022
Big Tech Puts the Squeeze on Russia
3m 59s
Mar 2019
Google to Unveil its ‘Future of Gaming’ Tomorrow
2m 44s
Apr 2021
Google Wins Landmark Supreme Court Case
4m 34s
May 2020
Google's Meet for video calls - Zoom killer?
Google is offering its "premium" video conferencing app, Meet, for free through September. Should you switch? Jefferson Graham weighs inSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2m 33s
Mar 2021
Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing
4 m
May 2021
Google Tests Offices for a Post-Pandemic Future
3m 50s
Jan 2021
Google Employees Unionize to Bolster Employee Activism
3m 46s
Jul 2020
Will Pay for Quiet: Communication Apps Silence Your Barking Dog
5m 48s
Jan 2023
Google Slapped With Another Ad-Related Lawsuit
4m 20s
I had already reached out to Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen this week to talk about the Google Civil War, but then, of course, there was other big Google news this week. So, come for the assessment of Google’s culture at the moment but stay for an assessment of regime change and a lot more.
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