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When Gemini 3.0 was released, Google's stock dropped by 10%.[fz] It's the best model, and still not transformatively better. This is what it would look like if we were hitting the top of...
Google's Private AI Compute is a great development. It uses confidential computing for frontier Gemini models - hardware-enforced privacy, not just policy p...
Google was a one trick pony… but it was one hell of a trick. If Google hadn't messed up mobile then maybe it could have parlayed that one trick into owing a...
...u should be muted when you dial into a call. It often doesn't do what you want. Google Meet has an elegant heuristic: if you're the sixth or higher person to dial in, you're muted. Here are a few elegant heuristics I wish Peloton bikes ...
... Microsoft 365 Copilot allows arbitrary data exfiltration via Mermaid diagrams. Google Gemini's own demo breaks Google's own captchas without asking the user for permission.
Google culture in its golden era was downstream of the dotcom bust. A massively profitable business when no one else was doing anything. Not the Microsoft s...
...tion from feeling shame because no one person is singled out. When I started at Google, there was an executive who would do stochastic shaming. He wanted everyone to do OKRs every quarter. On the due date, he'd randomly sample PMs and l...
...tal when others can't. But a stable equilibrium to me seems to be Anthropic and Google staying in the race indefinitely. They have the capital and backing to stay in the game no matter what. And of course, there's the possibility of ope...
...opilot into YOLO mode. ASCII smuggling of prompt injection across various LLMs. Google refuses to fix it because "it's the user's responsibility." Responsibility laundering! CamoLeak: GitHub Copilot can leak private source code. An RCE ...
...g valuable for the layer on top, making them just a commodity. Windows with IE. Google with BERT. They give away the secret sauce without realizing it.
Google Search started off as being most useful in the long tail of use cases. For all the things where the head of portals and manually-curated directories ...
Anthropic is about to release a feature of LLM-powered software. Opal from Google is a similar shape, but without custom UI. Normal UI, but LLM guts underneath. Someone will figure out the right complement of normal software and LL...
Google has a ton of your information, but unstructured. There's no internal ontology, no way for you to tell it, "this is my grandmother." ChatGPT attempts ...
...ity the demand for the product is so great it's hard to have messed it up. When Google Maps launched its massive UI revamp more than a decade ago, the main user success metrics barely budged. People used Google Maps to accomplish tasks ...
...cution. AgentFlayer: ChatGPT Connectors 0click Allows exfiltration of sensitive Google Drive docs a user added to ChatGPT via the Connectors, with no interaction from the user. The reason we aren't seeing more about prompt injection yet...
...te" all of the illegible state locked up in the various 3P apps on your device. Google does have a lot of 1P context on you in their service, structured into their own ontology so they could plausibly extract a lot from it. However, if ...
Writely (the precursor to Google Docs) didn't compete with Microsoft Word on features. It changed the battleground fundamentally. The killer feature was collaboration in the cloud. A...
My friend Dimitri launched Google Opal last week. It's a cool tool that allows you to create little micro-apps that are entirely powered by LLM smarts. We could change the second, too...
...ne human in it. This allows network effects of collaboration to boot up faster. Google Wave wasn't wrong, it was just very, very early–and didn't have LLM collaborators. "Google Wave but for you and an AI to collaborate" could be a powe...
... holiday card distribution list. Our family "system of record" is spread across Google Contacts, iCloud, AirTable, Minted.com's list, etc. Every time during the year when I get an email from an old friend about how they moved, I make a ...