Tag: Google

  • Gemini has a billion users now

    Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. … Alphabet Inc. put the app at 650 million monthly users last October and 750 million by February. Pichai cited 900 million on stage at Google I/O in June,…

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  • Claude market penetration in enterprises still low

    Enterprises, IDC says, remain largely unsold on Anthropic’s Claude models, with only 19 percent using them extensively and 25 percent actively evaluating them. OpenAI and Google are better represented in enterprises, with about 42 percent and 38 percent of organizations” This means there’s lots of “headspace” to grow revenue, or disappointing and incomprehensible ROI, i.e.,…

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  • CEO AI Psychosis, Information Cleaners, and Mid-century Architecture Cartoons – Related to your interests, Wednesday

    Also: Zoom system-of-action, the curl deluge, the unreasonable effectiveness of HTML, behavior-first mainframes, fewer books, the meeting Ask, and the multi-agent delegation problem. Related to your interests Executives have a narrow view of AI gains – “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still…

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  • How to raise money without profit, and then profit

    Winning in the court of opinion, and all that: Musk, to be clear, has already succeeded. Regardless of what actually happened and what’s decided from here, he’s inflicted real pain. The trial has been an opportunity to make Altman and OpenAI’s founders look like greedy, sociopathic liars, which is a narrative that much of the…

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  • Tinkerslop, Class Wartime, and Jobs Not AI Enough – Related to your interests, Friday

    Tinkerslop, Class Wartime, and Jobs Not AI Enough – Related to your interests, Friday

    Also: VCF 9.1 prefers private cloud for AI, the McGroc analyst trap, and the bank that lost the pope’s account. From: The undertow – Astrid Related to your interests VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 – a roundup of it all. Broadcom Announces VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 – “A preview of Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2026 report…

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  • Never Talk About Goblins, McDonald’s AI Teammate, and the Slop Defense – Related to your interests, Friday

    Never Talk About Goblins, McDonald’s AI Teammate, and the Slop Defense – Related to your interests, Friday

    Also: human-in-the-loop theatre, MCP-on-Go pain, and Google Translate at 20. From: The Spanish napkin Related to your interests Where AI Accountability Goes To Die When You Stick A ‘Human In The Loop’ And Call It ‘Governance’ – 🤖: “Stuart Lauchlan and HFS / Altimetrik’s Humans at the helm of AI study of 505 G2000 execs…

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  • Using AI for security log analysis and how to fix it suggestions: Building on that foundation, leading the list of announcements is a strategy described as an “agentic security operations center” powered by its latest Gemini AI models. Google is introducing adaptive AI agents that can investigate alerts, synthesize intelligence and assist in remediation workflows…

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  • Researchers at the University of Manchester followed 25,000 11- to 14-year-olds over three school years, tracking their self-reported social media habits, gaming frequency and emotional difficulties to find out whether technology use genuinely predicted later mental health difficulties. Participants were asked how much time on a normal weekday in term time they spent on TikTok,…

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  • Google shows that large language models, when paired with traditional tools and validation pipelines, can accelerate enterprise code migrations by 50% or more, unblocking projects stalled for years. The robot says: The most dramatic impact occurred in previously stalled migrations, which AI unblocked after years of delay. One migration achieved an 89% estimated time savings,…

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  • Winning in AI, story mode

    Winning in AI is now defined as having a great chat app, not the AI infrastructure running that app. Amazon (AWS) has no chat app (that I know of, which is the point!), so people don’t think they’re winning. If AWS did have an app, and evolved it as a product, they would be at…

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  • Facebook shutting down metaverse. It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting control) to try out new things. We’re all about innovation and expect it; you have to embrace lots of failure, giant failure. The actual problem is then discarding all the people you hired to help you. It shucks the “with…

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  • Relevant to your interests, Tuesday 3 + 4 – On the three day work week. AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate – “Internal documents reportedly show 69-81% ‘regretted attrition’–meaning the people leaving are the ones Amazon desperately wanted to keep. Where have the senior engineers who’ve been through…

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  • Google has many overwhelming advantages. It has vast access to data, access to customers, access to capital and talent. It has TPUs. It has tons of places to take advantage of what it creates. It has the trust of customers, I’ve basically accepted that if Google turns on me my digital life gets rooted. By…

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  • Tech DEI programs on decline

    Major employers including Meta and Google suspended minority hiring targets and dropped some references to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from their websites and regulatory filings around the time of Trump’s order. Meta and Google also significantly reduced funding for DEI initiatives, such as events, training, and recruiting drives aimed at improving representation of minority groups,…

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  • Gemini could lap ChatGPT in app features

    This would be great. I implicitly trust Google because my stuff is there. While I love using ChatGPT and Gemini, I have less trust in their security (they just don’t have the track record yet) and even less on their morals and law-following (they obviously blatantly violated copyright for their models). // If things keep…

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  • Not helpful

    I am in my Gmail, and I open up the Gemini side bar and type: Flag emails I should just archive. The criteria is that if they are not directly to me, probably archive. Also if they are old, probably archive. Only save emails where there is some direct question to me or task I…

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  • AI women skew young

    “Despite there being no systematic age differences between women and men in the workforce according to the US Census, we found that women are represented as younger than men across occupations and social roles in nearly 1.4 million images and videos from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr and YouTube, as well as in nine language models…

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  • Manton reviews ChatGPT Pulse: it might drive traffic to more websites, going around Google

    Manton reviews ChatGPT Pulse: it might drive traffic to more websites, going around Google: There’s something else about how this works that is fundamentally different than current chat-based AI where people are looking for answers. Instead of replacing a Google search, it’s adding opportunities to point to other websites and blogs. Because it’s proactively pushing…

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  • Google Cloud: $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years

    nine out of the top 10 AI labs use Google’s infrastructure. He also says that nearly all generative AI unicorns run on Google Cloud, that 60% of all GenAI startups worldwide have chosen Google as their cloud provider, and that the company has lined up $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two…

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  • “A man who had over the course of a week absorbed, as by osmosis, the Spirit of the Internet. And that is a foul, foul thing.” a slightly embarrassed announcement

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