Tag: Google

  • 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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  • A guide to platform engineering – For those who want to “be like Google.”

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  • Google is a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant for SCPS –

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  • Beyond London Summit 2025: Decoding Google Cloud’s Scale Narrative – Summary of stated Google cloud strategy, from Bola.

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  • Google Study: 65% of Developer Time Wasted Without Platforms – Better get a platform. // ‘Intriguingly, 86% of the survey’s respondents also said they believe that “platform engineering is essential to realizing the full business value of AI. ” // “At the same time, a vast majority of companies view AI as a catalyst for…

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  • Google Translate Can Now Be Set as the Default Translation App on iOS – Set your Apple stuff to use Google Translate as the translation service.

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  • “the great murderer of boredom”

    “the great murderer of boredom”

    My Content Two Software Defined episodes this week: “I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza,” startups, open source, and more, with Sarah Christoff – After an extensive discussion of 7-Eleven pizza cuisine, in this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Sarah Christoff. They discuss working at startups, the point of startups, working in open source and…

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  • Half-ass Vibe Coding

    Half-ass Vibe Coding

    I was on Cloud Foundry Weekly yesterday. We discussed “vibe coding.” More precisely, what I think of as “half ass vibe coding.” I get the AIs to write code for me, but then ask it questions, maybe even mess around with it myself. I think that might just be “coding with an AI assistant,” but…

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  • This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a ‘ghost’ branch of humanity – A lost genetic line.

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  • Google Fi is launching a $35 / month unlimited plan – If you have the means, I highly recommend getting a Google Fi number, especially if you’re an expat. Have two phone numbers is great.

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  • Google Cloud engineering chief: that Kubernetes dev experience? Sorry about that… – ‘”McCleod, possibly with at least part of his tongue in his cheek, said. “I also just wanted to kind of apologize for the developer experience in Kubernetes. I think when we open source all this wonderful technology, we also open source some of…

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  • Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity – “the revenue shares for our eight cloud companies in the combined IaaS/PaaS cloud market at nearly $300 billion projected for 2024. AWS has 36% of this combined market, Microsoft 23% and Google 7%. Alibaba, Oracle Tencent Huawei and IBM combine for around 14% of the…

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  • Docs are the new something – The Google Docs web.

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  • Beyond Infrastructure as Code: System Initiative Goes Live – “In practice, as Jacob has pointed out, this has led to unwieldy, hard-to-update and difficult-to-understand systems built on static definitions. The tools are tightly tied to a version control, making them brittle and difficult to work with. And only elite companies, such as Google, can deploy…

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  • Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds – Oracle runs its stack in the various clouds.

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