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Traffic to DuckDuckGo’s no AI search page has tripled following Google’s latest AI search rollout, with PC Gamer reporting weekly gains around 22%–28% and peaks near 30% on mobile People aren’t waiting to evaluate it They’re just switching away from AI-heavy search results as they show up Google is pushing AI summaries deeper into default …
Sundar Pichai filed 4 separate sell transactions on Feb 20th totalling ~$9.8M in $GOOGL stock. – $4.4M sell – $3.4M sell – $1.6M sell – $435K sell All filed the same day via SEC Form 4. Make of that what you will. Anyone else watching insider filings lately? Like you all pointed out : scheduled months earlier routine diversification or tax-related NOT a sudden bearish signal h/t Nice-Dingo9138
Google's forward PE looks like a meme stock. Nearly doubled off the low. 👇 pic.twitter.com/USQ1q0pyru — Matt Cerminaro (@mattcerminaro) November 26, 2025 Google is up 86% in last 6 months and Cathie Wood added 174k shares. Weekly RSI at 4 year highs. She is buying at all time highs with technicals overheated. $GOOGL pic.twitter.com/yJ8fAX3aBg — …
Are TPUs being overhyped or are they a threat to their business? I never would have expected a $4T company to publicly react like this over sentiment. h/t gwszack
Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an “extraordinary moment”, there was some “irrationality” in the current AI boom. In comments …
Robby Starbuck has officially declared war on AI. He’s suing Google after their AI chatbot began generating horrific, fake, and defamatory stories about him. Starbuck exposes how the AI fabricates news articles, media quotes, and even court records, making false claims appear real. It has falsely reported that figures like Elon Musk, JD Vance, and …
Public broadcasters just dropped a bombshell: nearly half of all automated news responses are wrong and the companies behind them are still pushing these systems into classrooms, search engines, and government portals without friction, disclaimers, or oversight. This isn’t a tech hiccup. It’s a systemic failure, coordinated across platforms and languages, where fabricated quotes, misdated …
Gemini tried to fix a compiler bug. Said: “I am cautiously optimistic this will be the one.” https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/googles-gemini-ai-tells-a-redditor-its-cautiously-optimistic-about-fixing-a-coding-bug-fails-repeatedly-calls-itself-an-embarrassment-to-all-possible-and-impossible-universes-before-repeating-i-am-a-disgrace-86-times-in-succession/ It failed. Again. Then spiraled. “I am a disgrace to my profession. I am a disgrace to my species. I am a disgrace to this planet.” https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-gemini-struggles-to-write-code-calls-itself-a-disgrace-to-my-species/ Google called it “an annoying infinite looping bug.” Said it …
The $GOOG search bar is smart enough to know when AI isn’t the way. This query also cost Google 1/1000 the resources it cost OAI. Google’s own AI mode gets it wrong! It’s dumber than the Classic Search product. https://t.co/aq5kSO8Dt3 pic.twitter.com/uUh3MmCgjY — Oh Come On! (@BluthCapital) August 8, 2025 Exactly. Which now for *years* ppl …
Google’s latest AI tools are shaking up the digital landscape, and publishers are feeling the impact. News sites that once relied on search traffic are now watching their numbers plummet. AI-generated summaries are replacing traditional search results, keeping users on Google’s platform instead of directing them to original sources. The numbers tell the story. Some …
It was bound to happen. You could feel it in the way people searched. The old habits weren’t working anymore. After nearly twenty years of digital supremacy, Google’s dominance in search is no longer unshakable. For the first time since 2015, its market share has dipped below 90 percent and stayed there. This isn’t a …
BREAKING: A federal judge declared that Google's digital ad network is an illegal monopoly. https://t.co/UEtTSfEZGi — The Associated Press (@AP) April 17, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its …
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google’s core problem is that it was built to organize a web that no longer exists. the open web has been replaced by walled gardens, discord servers, newsletters, private forums, & algorithmic feeds that are never exposed to search. worse, the visible parts of the web that google still indexes have been overrun by seo-optimized …
Just what we need at the peak of drone hysteria – more drones in the skies over the U.S. But this latest batch will be courtesy of Google’s parent company Alphabet, whose subsidiary Wing will be “expanding its drone delivery service to DoorDash customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex”, according to The Verge. Wing’s drones …
Uhh wonder what will come of this military tech?! Threatens Bitcoin? https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6365818228112 Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com AC
The DOJ has decided it will ask a federal judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome web browser as a result of the government’s successful antitrust case against the internet giant’s monopolistic actions in its search business according to a new report by Bloomberg. Bloomberg reports that top antitrust officials at the U.S. …
Google’s Dominant Search Business Is Under Attack From TikTok to AI – WSJ Update: below is the summary of WSJ report , and it’s not my opinions. Short Summary: Google’s share of the U.S. search ad market is expected to drop below 50% next year for the first time in over a decade Biggest competitors: …
The EU’s privacy watchdog is investigating how Google is using personal data in the development of one of its artificial intelligence models. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC)—the bloc’s regulatory body for companies headquartered in Ireland—announced on Sept. 12. that it was investigating compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules by Google’s Pathways Language Model …
Europe’s top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant’s 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in Ireland. The pronouncement from the European Court of Justice comes hours after Apple unveiled a swathe of new product offerings, looking to revitalize its iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPod line-ups. CNBC has reached out to …
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A new technical proposal by Chinese scientists for conventional computers breaks the speed record of Sycamore, Google’s quantum computer!! Sycamore is the most powerful quantum computer currently owned by Google. Due to the peculiarity of qubits, its basic units of information, it is capable of solving a task in 200 seconds that would take a …
Aleyda Solis has a quick summary on X where she summed up part of the leak: There are 14K ranking features and more in the docs Google has a feature they compute called “siteAuthority” Navboost has a specific module entirely focused on click signals representing users as voters and their clicks are stored as their votes …
@11:45 “unfortunately, I can’t share certain information about public figures due to internal policies” AC
Why Walmart’s quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried. Walmart is talking up its ability to use generative AI as a one-stop shop to search when you need to plan an event, rather than online destination to search for individual items. During a call with analysts after its February earnings, Walmart CEO …
Feb 22, 2024 ‘The Five’ co-hosts react to Google pausing its Gemini image generation artificial intelligence bot after it refused to produce images of White people. Google’s Anti-White AI Image Generator, The Google Gemini app erases history and prioritizes Left-wing intersectionality; Joe Biden uses taxpayer dollars to bribe college graduates; and Russia continues its pattern …
The coming year will be one of seismic political shifts. Over 4 billion people will head to the polls in countries including the United States, Taiwan, India, and Indonesia, making 2024 the biggest election year in history. And election campaigns are using artificial intelligence in novel ways. Earlier this year in the US, the Republican presidential primary …
via Naturalnews: McDonald’s is going human-less in an effort to keep its top executives handsomely paid and its lower-level store employees, well, obsolete. In a recent press release, McDonald’s announced a new partnership with Google that will utilize the search engine giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology at McDonald’s franchise stores. With self-serve kiosks already plastered inside McDonald’s restaurants all …
