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Hays: Google Never Needed Good Marketing Due to Dominant Distribution
“Google, Google's basically never had to be, they've never had to be good at marketing because they have the greatest distribution channel of all time.”
Hays: Applying Google's multi-year planning leadership style stalls early-stage startups
“I feel like Google has been in this position where they can plan things across decades and multiple years. And if you apply that style of leadership to a startup, like you probably will never Get off the ground.”
Google Chrome could be valued at $200 billion as a standalone asset
“Like, you run a multiple on that, like, it's a two hundred billion dollar asset, like, or something in that range, like, it's a lot. It's not two billion.”
Coogan: Aspiring founders should never take comfortable corporate tech jobs
“I used to tell people, like, if you want to just be a successful entrepreneur, just never take a job. Because, like, eventually you'll have to figure it out. And like, but as soon as you say, like, I'm taking a couple years off to go work at Google or somethin…”
LA jury awards $6 million in Meta and Google youth addiction case
“On March, 25th, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google slash YouTube negligent for designing platforms harmful to young people. A woman who said she became addicted to social media as a child was awarded 6000004.2 million against Meta and 1.8 million against…”
Google built an internal ChatGPT equivalent but chose not to ship it
“They obviously had effectively a version of ChatGPT internally. They didn't ship it.”
Google becomes Anthropic's largest financial backer through compute lease guarantees
“Obviously Google has made it, you know, massive bet on anthropic and is, You know, becoming their largest financial backer, especially through some new reporting on, on some of the lease guarantees that they're doing.”
Coogan: Waymo sources parts from China but builds vehicles in US
“So Waymo is sourcing like almost all the parts for the new Waymo's from China, but they are building them, I believe in the United States and all of the software is from Google or Alphabet or Waymo.”
Google Admitted Lacking Capacity to Meet Meta's AI Demand
“Because it was just within the last month that Google had said, like, hey, we don't have capacity. We don't have enough capacity for all of Meadow's demand for our models.”
Coogan: $30B of Alphabet's equity raise is earmarked for employee tax
“Thirty billion, you mentioned this earlier today, thirty billion of Alphabet's stock issuance is earmarked for paying tax on employee stock awards”
Coogan: Waymo's Success Will Outweigh All Google's Failed Side Projects
“You look at the progress with Waymo, and it's very clear that just one win in Waymo will be a power law that will wash out all of the side chat apps that never went anywhere or little Little software projects that an April fool's jokes that they launched and s…”
Coogan: Alphabet benefits by raising AI capital before limits appear
“If it turns out there is a limit, Alphabet can only benefit by going first.”
Coogan: Alphabet raised $85B in debt worldwide in the past year
“Alphabet alone, raising eighty-five billion in a series of record breaking issues around the world.”
Hays: Google's Antigravity launch video accidentally revealed internal OpenAI Codex usage
“The Google anti-gravity team flashed a codex folder in their in their actual demo video.”
Hays: Apple will build proprietary smart glasses rather than partner for eyewear
“My expectation, my uninformed
expectation is that Apple will just make Apple glasses, right?
They will probably, I, it's hard to see them taking the route at least early on of partnering and allowing another company to influence the design language”
Google stock rallied after Meta's IPO disproved internet cannibalization fears
“As soon as the company went public, ironically, Google's stock started working. Because they didn't come out and tell you, we want to kill Google, or we're replicating the internet. We're doing kind of something different. Both stocks ended up working.”
Coogan: Google plans full migration to post-quantum cryptography by 2029
“Last week, the tech giant introduced a timeline to fully migrate its own security systems to post quantum cryptography by 2029.”
Kim: Stacking memory directly on GPUs will be a major hardware innovation
“Both chief scientists talked about stacking memory right on top of the GPU or TPU, and that's gonna be a huge innovation in the coming months or years.”
Kim: Meta, Google, and Nvidia engineers report severe AI compute shortages
“I met with dozens of engineers at Meta, Google, NVIDIA. And all of them are seeing crazy inference demand and AI compute shortages.”
Shah: Google can finance inference losses longer than competitors
“And I think Google is particularly well positioned since they already own all of those customers today and they can finance losses from inference a lot longer than everyone else.”
Coogan: Gemini boosts Google ad monetization on complex searches
“The core business is surviving and thriving, due in part to Gemini, helping understand intent so they can deliver ads on longer, more complex searches.”
Coogan: Abstract Super Bowl ads are too risky for AI labs
“You know, I think Apple, Google, like the really established brands do have the permission to sort of go higher higher abstraction. And just sort of do, like, these brand films. For the AI labs who are trying to push a particular product, it's, it feels like a…”
Coogan: Alphabet projects $175B to $185B in 2026 CapEx
“The company said it expected to spend between a hundred and seventy-five billion and a hundred and eighty-five billion in capex in twenty-twenty-six up from ninety-one billion to ninety-three billion in twenty-twenty-five.”
Coogan: Gemini app has over 750M monthly active users
“Google said Wednesday that it has more than seven hundred and fifty million monthly active users just on its Gemini app, which only represents a portion of Gemini's actual users because it's vended into all the different products.”
Patel: Meta poached Google search staff with massive compensation deals
“They actually poached Google search people with similar size deals as, like, these crazy...”
Coogan: Google enforcement expected to knock 9M devices off Ipedia
“Google has also taken steps to remove hundreds of apps affiliated with the company from Android devices, it said. The actions are expected to knock more than nine million Android devices off Ipodea's network.”
Steinberger: Startups acquire other companies just for their Gmail API licenses
“You know, like when you are a company, you want to access Gmail, the amount of red tape is so large that, that startups buy other startups that have the license for Gmail, because going through the process yourself is, is a huge pit.”
Hays: Google has a massive infrastructure advantage over OpenAI in AI ads
“OpenAI has to not only, like, figure out how to actually implement ads within the product, but they have to build out all the advertising
Like, infrastructure, the platform infrastructure, in order for people to run campaigns successfully and at scale.
So, Goo…”
Coogan: Anthropic cloud inference costs ran 23% over projections
“Amir says that Anthropix inference costs on Google and Amazon servers were 23% higher than the company, ah, projected.”
Coogan: Google DeepMind does not need outside funding, relies on cash flow
“Demis doesn't need to raise. Google's doing this with cash flow. Like, that's true for every other lab lead except for demos.”
Coogan: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reportedly has no plans for Gemini ads
“Demis Hassabis from Google told Alex Heath at Sources that, that he has no plan, no plans to put ads in Gemini.”
Coogan: Google appoints Amin Vahdat to lead $100B AI infrastructure buildout
“Google names a new chief to head up its one hundred billion dollar a year AI infrastructure build out, Amin Vadat, who will report to Sundar directly.”
Coogan: Google's Gemini mobile app repeatedly fails with server disconnect errors
“The Gemini mobile app has, is really, really struggling to stay connected. There's something in the, when you fire off a prompt, it doesn't like save it locally and then cash that and then send it off, inference it, and then come back. It like, unless you keep…”
Coogan: Apple's Privacy Focus Left It Ill-Equipped for AI vs. Google and Meta
“Apple has been building a brand around We don't access your data. We don't store your data. We would never train on your data. And that put them in an awkward position where they couldn't just snap their fingers and deliver a great AI experience. Whereas Googl…”
Hays: Apple will block iMessage data portability to Google's Gemini
“I have zero faith that there will be any portability. And the reason for that is Apple's paying Google to effectively, yeah, white label the model, leverage Gemini in the next version of Apple intelligence. And they're just gonna be focused on integrating it w…”
Hays: Google spent billions to acquire Windsurf's intellectual property
“They, of course Google did buy, you know, spend however many billions on, on acquiring the Windsurf IP, so not super surprising.”
Coogan: Gemini 3 Pro is the first LLM to beat GeoGuessr pros
“Gemini Three Pro is the first LLM to beat professional human players at GeoGuessr.”
Google is positioned to thrive whether the AI boom succeeds or fails
“If AI doesn't work, then Google is just in the spot they were before, which is doing very well. If AI does work, then I mean, Gemini is one of the best models. They'll do very well.”
Alphabet is vertically integrated from chips and AI to autonomous robotics
“He's got the data center, he's got the chip, right? Tensor, right? He's got, he does a lot of the operating system type work, including the model, you know, the Gemini model, the applications he does as well, and he even gets all the way to the robotic layer, …”
Gilbert: Almost all foundation model leaders worked at Google in 2015–2016
“Everyone, almost everyone doing interesting things in foundational model companies at the leadership level. You can trace a lineage back to Google. And almost all of them were there, twenty-fifteen, twenty-sixteen.”
Rosenthal: Microsoft owned 49% of OpenAI when ChatGPT launched
“You know, at the worst moment for Google, when ChatGPT came out, Microsoft owned 49% of OpenAI.”
Google pays Apple approximately $20 billion annually for Safari search default.
“Google's been the default search engine on Apple devices since 2002. And, they, we don't know specifics. Most recently is twenty billion dollars annually, but it's been an over 20 year partnership.”
Apple receives 36% of Google's Safari search advertising revenue.
“Apple is like confirmed to be taking 36% of the revenue from Safari that Google makes.”
Judge denied the DOJ request to force Google to divest Chrome.
“The judge denied the DOJ's request for forced divestiture. Of Chrome and Android.”
Google antitrust remedy requires sharing search index snapshots at marginal cost.
“Judge Meta attempts to address number two necessary scale by forcing Google to share various types of data, including Google search index, but not the actual data from the web pages and the index or the output of Google's PageRank algorithm. Competitors, which…”
Hays: Odds of Perplexity acquiring Chrome are closer to zero than 1%
“I would put the odds of this deal happening closer to zero percent than one percent.”
Polymarket Gives Google 46% Odds for Top AI Model by Year-End
“Google is still the polymarket, which company has the best AI model end of 2025. So December 31st, there's been one and a half million in volume, and Google is still sitting comfortably at 46% chance of being at the Top of LM arena at the end of the year.”
Coogan: Google's search growth is driven by higher ad prices, not click volume
“The fact that paid clicks were up four percent and search revenue was up 12% makes it clear that search growth is primarily being driven by higher prices. And so the actual number of clicks is up four percent, but revenue is up 12%. That means that they're Mon…”