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...t number of silos that you know everyone uses. This reduces down to WhatsApp or Google Docs. The lowest common denominator multi-user tools. In enterprise, higher leverage tools can emerge, because there's a schelling point of the tools...
... requests are involved. Imagine a local-first piece of software reaching out to Google with an anonymous query for [hemorrhoids cream]. Your IP address is easy to correlate with other network requests you've sent and identify you. Imagi...
...st by search traffic declines. Suh-prise. It's still shocking to me how quickly Google jumped over the AI-results cliff, just because everyone else was doing it. The engine of that ecosystem and how value flows through it, previously li...
This week in the Wild West Roundup: Axios: Exclusive: Google patched AI chatbot flaw that could have exposed customer conversations. When even mainstream news publications are having exclusives on gaping securi...
...iple malicious OpenClaw skills found online - including two macOS infostealers. Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real.
Google and other companies of that era hired chief economists to figure out how to do mechanism design so the system creates mutual benefit. The chief econo...
People who worked at Google tend to get the automatic flow working first, with manual as a fallback. People who worked at Apple tend to get the manual approach useful first and ...
...and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem. "OpenClaw, abandoned packages, Google's closed pivot, and Anthropic's recursive self-improvement report all point to the same problem: autonomy arrived before accountability."
...mizing for, so there isn't a ton of variance. We didn't mind this too much with Google Search. Google went out of its way to not have strong beliefs that colored the output. Anthropic is all about having strong moral beliefs.
If you showed a Google search engineer from 15 years ago today's results page they'd faint. Not only do many queries have AI-generated results. But also, every result above...
...ere I live, and finding information I know for a fact I've never volunteered to Google. Intellectually, I know that Google knows an incredible amount about me — add up my emails, my calendar, my photos, and my search history, and you've...
... a new indirect prompt injection technique that enables attackers to manipulate Google Gemini through seemingly benign notifications, exposing how AI assistants can be tricked into performing unauthorized actions without the user's know...
...inal to turn on a dangerous developer feature. The fact that Bits and Bobs is a Google Doc is itself a form of gauntlet. The gauntlet tests two things: 1) Does the user have the capability to make it through the gauntlet? 2) Does the us...
...ther professional help. Review the risks." Helluva warning! Back in the days of Google Toolbar, a warning like this would have deliberately been designed to draw your attention. In red text: "Please read this carefully, it isn't the usu...
WhatsApp and Google Doc are the only two viable collaboration tools because enough people have accounts. Those are the lowest common denominator coordination tools.
...eet: "it's in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that's for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that's ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in ...
...tech is like any other industry. Silicon Valley will look like Detroit someday. Google will increasingly become Procter & Gamble.
Google will launch a proactive agent at I/O this week. Of course, it won't be private. It will be what an advertising company thinks is best for you. That m...
This week in the Wild West Roundup. Google's Threat Intelligence Group saw a 32% relative increase in malicious Indirect Prompt Injection between November and February in the wild. Gemini CLI:...
An analysis: What Google thinks you're worth. The methodology almost certainly comes to the wrong number, but it's directionally correct. Rich users are worth a ton of money ...