Google fired 28 workers who protested Project Nimbus, a contract with the Israeli government.

We likely haven't seen the last of this story - organizers say their support among employees has increased since the protest.
Story w/ Davey Alba
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NEW w/ Julia Love: We spoke to workers who were involved in Project Nimbus protests at several Google campuses on Tuesday. On Wednesday evening, 28 workers learned that they had been fired by the company

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AI computing is on pace to use more electricity than the country of India (the most populous nation on Earth, jfyi) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Ian King

Reporting for duty from the developer keynote at #GoogleCloudNext ! Shoot me a DM if you are a Googler or a Xoogler, an AI whisperer or an AI novice - I’d love to say hi. 📝🕵️

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is trying to show generative AI is ready for enterprise, despite recent embarrassments in the consumer market. Ahead of #GoogleCloudNext in Vegas today, he gave me & Davey Alba an exclusive rundown of how he plans to do it: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New w/ @byjulialove: Google Cloud has a slew of enterprise updates today as part of its Next conference

—Gemini can spin up short videos & podcasts
—AI answers are 'grounded' in search
—'Zero issues' w/ image generation compared to consumer-facing Gemini

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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan tells me exclusively — if OpenAI is using YouTube videos to train Sora, that would be a “clear violation” of their policies (with Davey Alba)

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A group of Facebook employees invested millions with a co-worker. Then, they lost everything.
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So incredibly heartbroken over the death of my dear friend, the incomparable Rebecca Smith. She was one of The Wall Street Journal's most lauded reporters, for her work on the California energy crisis, Enron and PG&E. Please read her obit here. wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal Katherine Blunt

.Julia Love and Davey Alba's story catalyzed one of the most important tech policy changes in memory – Google will no longer store your location. The data won't exist; so they can't be compelled to turn it over to police and the govt.

Massive impact! Wishing all 🏆's for them!

One of my favorite genres of stories is Mark Bergen and Rachel Metz on Stability AI! The latest installment is especially juicy

🚨check out this NEW story about Stability AI from me and Mark Bergen🚨, in which we dive into the startup's journey from AI darling to cautionary tale, drawing on our entire year's worth of deep reporting on the company.
here's a free link to read it! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Middleton speculation made something clear: Conspiracy is the internet’s favorite sport. It starts here and becomes mainstream.
At one point last week MOST of the content on my For You was about her. None of it was right. This is just what people do for fun & followers now.

anyone who knows AI knows the 2017 'attention is all you need' paper helped spark the current AI boom. its authors have since left Google, but yesterday most of them came together for a reunion of sorts hosted by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. i wrote about it!
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Microsoft is hiring Google DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman to oversee its consumer AI products. I talked to Satya Nadella and Suleyman about his new role bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run its consumer AI business, reporting to Satya Nadella, and hires most of the staff from Inflection AI (Dina Bass / Bloomberg)

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For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/