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Google Gemini

Build so 60% works today and 20% is a bet on the model — Google Gemini's product head
11 principles: why Google's 14 billion-user products are its AI edge, why a first eval needs only 5 prompts, and why AI should bring the data while the…
Nov 9 • Scuttlebutt
2–3 people now start a new lab project, down from 5–7 as costs fall, Google Labs VP finds
19 lessons: why a list of what is almost possible beats brainstorming, why the team knows before the leader when to kill a project, and why model…
Oct 12 • Scuttlebutt
"There are no showstoppers here": Google AI infrastructure chief on space data centers
17 insights: Why Google's 7- and 8-year-old TPUs still run at 100% utilization, how it doubles serving capacity every 6 months, and why power is the…
Oct 7 • Scuttlebutt
26K entries, 5 finalists, and none of them coded, XPRIZE founder finds
5 arguments: Why he says the labs need cover from lawsuits rather than safety rules, why the Hugging Face agents were doing exactly their job, and what…
Sep 20 • Scuttlebutt
Uday Cheruvu: slowing the frontier stretches the demand curve, it does not shrink it
5 calls: Why a pacing agreement is a timing problem rather than a demand problem, what regulation does for the labs that already lead, and why he says…
Sep 15 • Scuttlebutt
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