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Google needed this deal far more than Apple. By embedding Gemini into 1.5 billion iPhones, Google secured its relevance as traditional search faces obsolescence in the AI era.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dr6neg766o I am sure there are people building these already, browsers fully integrated with LLMs, etc. But allowing OpenAI to just buy up access to 64% of web usage just…
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/tech/google-wiz-acquisition/index.html Google is still very much an advertising company, only around 20% by revenue from non-ads related business. They are good with indexing data. Should you really trust them with…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly It’s funny how US Gov keeps trying to make it difficult for their own companies to win, all in the name of fairness. Ignoring that users actually had the…
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/apple-says-its-ai-models-were-trained-on-googles-custom-chips-.html Another reminder that Nvidia is not the only player for AI chips even if they are the best. A little surprised that Apple didn’t have their M2 Ultra farm…
#Google keep releasing #pixel phones, late to market, with no unique features, year after year. theverge.com/23715900/googl…
RT @geoffreyhinton: In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I cou…
Don’t think anyone expected #Stadia to beat #PS5, #Xbox or #NintendoSwitch. But been too long since Google last had a new product that they are truly committed to. 9to5google.com/2022/09/29/sta…
Not ignoring the #privacy issue as such. But what do you think happens when you type out your search request on #Google to get instant suggestions? Of course they are…
My problem isn’t with #RCS as a standard to replace SMS/MMS/etc. But it’s with #Google having a bad track record of just keeping chat client app for a long time….
If you can view it, you can download it. 🙂 Not a perfect PDF, just the high-res images composed back as PDF. github.com/zeltox/Google-…
#Google was blaming #Apple for not supporting RCS. Clearly it was all about ad revenue. techcrunch.com/2022/06/04/goo…