Discovery Loop
Between us, we have pioneered massive scale computing and led the creation of critical infrastructure, products, and foundational AI advances that the world relies on, including multiple generations of Google Search, Google Ads, Google News, Google Translate, Google File System, MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, TensorFlow, Pathways, TPUs, AlphaChip, AlphaStar, AlphaCode, AlphaFold, Gemini, model distillation, mixture-of-experts model […]
The next chapter of our AI momentum
Message from Sundar Pichai We’ve made extraordinary progress to deliver on our full AI stack. We’ve got amazing talent, world-class compute, and products that bring AI to more people than any other company. And you saw the incredible momentum at earnings across all our businesses, including Search, YouTube, and Cloud. Our Gemini models are in […]
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed; he was eventually arrested […]
Citigroup, Idaho, and Build-a-Bear Launched a Coordinated Attack on Me
knock-knock.net A multinational bank, a US state, and a custom teddy-bear workshop all unwittingly joined the same phone-fraud botnet. Here’s how to check whether one of your own machines got caught in the same honeypot. August 5, 2026 On August 1st, Citigroup, the State of Idaho, and Build-A-Bear launched a coordinated attack on me. They […]
Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits
The short answer: shrink or consolidate before August 18, 2026# If you’re running any Ampere A1 ARM instance larger than 2 OCPUs or 12 GB of RAM — or more than one of them — you need to act before August 18, 2026, or Oracle will terminate the excess automatically. Your two free x86 instances […]
The ”Disability Dongle”: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake. There is a feel-good genre of viral video that I call ”The Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex.” You know the one. It usually features a college engineering team, a dramatic piano soundtrack, and a disabled person strapped into a machine that looks like a Transformer having […]
Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
Edit: To be clear, I’m not saying everyone or even a majority of people in the SF tech scene think this way. But some certainly do (e.g. the opening conversation is verbatim) and this post is about a particular core scene whose views carry disproportionate weight in the discourse and in policymaking. At a recent […]
The Entropy of a Markov Chain
A more explicit example Clausius (1865)¹ defines a quantity called entropy. By decomposing physical processes as a chain of engines, he shows that entropy always increases for irreversible processes. For reversible processes like Carnot’s ideal engine, the change in entropy is zero. But when an irreversible process occurs, entropy can never decrease unless energy is […]
Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else
‘Solutionism’ envisages the technology ending everything from the climate crisis to cancer, but huge class divisions are a more probable outcome Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei John NaughtonColumnist Share Related articles: Why do tech moguls seem so disconnected from the real world? Think, for example, of Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei saying that half of entry-level jobs […]
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Every organization has a mission, a reason for being. Organizations pass that mission — along with their terminology, procedures, systems, standards, and ways of working — to their people. People, in turn, take this context together with their own experience and work towards the mission. Work can take many forms, from code, to documents and […]