Nilay Patel
Bold, yet responsible. And crunchy.
Just a reminder that Google CEO Sundar Pichai told me there is no solution to LLMs hallucinating on the roadmap.
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The head of Google sat down with Decoder last week to talk about the biggest advancements in AI, the future of Google Search, and the fate of the web.
Nilay Patel
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TikTok is suing the US government — can it beat the ban?
On today’s episode of Decoder, Verge editors Alex Heath and Sarah Jeong join me to discuss the lawsuit TikTok filed last week against the US government in response to the divest-or-ban bill.
One reason I wanted to have both Alex and Sarah on here is that there’s a lot of back and forth between the facts and the law; some of TikTok’s arguments are contradicted by the simple facts of what the company has already promised to do around the world, and some of the legal claims are complex and sit in tension with a long history of attempts to regulate speech and the internet.
TikTok averted a ban once before under the Trump administration. But this time around, the bill is on far more solid footing, and TikTok is arguing that divesting its US business is not possible “commercially, technologically, or legally.” So we walked through each of those arguments one by one.
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Here’s Sergey Brin holding court with reporters at Google I/O.
Sergey posted up outside the area where Google was giving demos of Project Astra multi-modal chats. He said he thinks Sundar is doing a good job making hard decisions as CEO, said he mostly uses AI for coding tasks, and politely declined to answer a question from Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary about Larry Page accusing Elon Musk of being a “speciesist.”
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Every car needs a 360 button right on the dash.
Enjoy this video of the tank turn buttons on the new electric G-Wagen, won’t you?
The tech and the consumers both might not be quite ready yet, but he’s betting big on an AI future.
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Here’s Chris Hayes on the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin that will now be a Microsoft data center.
Hayes reads liberally from Josh Dzieza’s award-winning 2020 feature on Foxconn in Wisconsin in telling the story of how President Biden came to announce a Microsoft AI facility in Racine, of course.
But look, it’s not all bad: the good people of southeastern Wisconsin can still gaze upon Foxconn’s tiny dome, where it makes 3+3=∞.
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The sharks are in the water for Peloton.
A number of private equity firms are thinking about buying Peloton and taking it private, according to CNBC. That’s after the company’s bad quarter (and lack of strategy) led to both a 15 percent staff layoff and CEO Barry McCarthy stepping down. How will the PE vultures fix things? They have “zeroed in on cutting Peloton’s operating expenses,” of course. That’ll fix it, sure.