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Dec 11, 2022

NEW: For many months,

@robaeprice

and I have been investigating how Larry Page and Sergey Brin are spending their time and money. This is also a story about how they keep many of their activities hidden, and the family offices managing their worlds

Private islands, flying cars, and psychedelic parties: Inside the wild post-Google lives of Larry...

Larry Page has shrouded his ventures in the utmost secrecy. Sergey Brin has partied it up at Burning Man and poured millions into philanthropy.

Feb 5

The Babylon hive grows stronger every day

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Ella Kemp

@ella_kemp

Feb 4

Just caught up with BABYLON and all I have to say is that movies are dreams

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Feb 4

Crazy to think we’re only in phase one of the TÁR cinematic universe (TCU)

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Film Updates

@FilmUpdates

Dec 20, 2022

Todd Field’s THE FUNDRAISER, a new short that expands the TÁR universe, will screen at Berlinale 2023. (berlinale.de/en/2023/news-p)

Ed Zitron

@edzitron

“DOJ investigating Squiggles NFT project and founders on wire fraud and other crimes” I say to myself as the doctors shake their heads and pull my life support

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Can someone on the earnings call ask a question for Larry and Sergey. I just wanna see what happens.

Watching Google absorb DeepMind into its core biz and thinking about how Demis once wanted to go in the opposite direction!

DeepMind spent years trying to break away from Google. Insiders detail a secret plot sparked by...

Almost from the moment Google acquired DeepMind, the leading AI research group was hatching a plan to go independent. Code name: Mario.

I'm currently out on paternity leave, but follow

@tomaxwell

@rosaliechan17

et al for everything on goog's earnings today

Google is making a change to its earnings report next quarter that shows just how important AI has...

Alphabet will disclose its investments in AI on future earnings reports. The move signals the company's seriousness about competing in the AI race.

Rosalie Chan (曾奕寧)

@rosaliechan17

Google had an internal town hall meeting today to discuss mass layoffs of 12K.

@tomaxwell

& I reported on the biggest takeaways. First off, Googlers asked if execs will take a pay cut. CEO says yes: a 'very significant reduction' in bonuses

In a tense town-hall meeting with employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says executives will take a...

The comments came during an all-hands meeting where top executives fielded questions from shocked employees.

Stunned Google staff want 'psychological safety' after layoffs. 'How are we supposed to ever feel...

"How are we supposed to ever feel safe again?" Googlers struggle to adjust to the reality of working at a public company during a downturn. Even a company as successful as Google businessinsider.com/google-layoffs via

The internet giant started cutting 12,000 jobs late last week. It held a town-hall meeting on Monday to field questions from employees.

In a tense town-hall meeting with employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says executives will take a...

We take you inside the Google townhall meeting today after massive layoffs. Major question from some staff: Who's taking responsibility for overhiring so much? Sundar's answer here: businessinsider.com/google-layoffs via

The comments came during an all-hands meeting where top executives fielded questions from shocked employees.

In a tense town-hall meeting with employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says executives will take a...

In a tense townhall meeting with employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says executives will take a 'very significant reduction' in bonuses businessinsider.com/google-layoffs via

The comments came during an all-hands meeting where top executives fielded questions from shocked employees.

Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight

Jan 21

Kudos to

@nicoagrant

for this very good story and for scooping me on a tip I’d been chasing. The boys are, indeed, back in town

nytimes.com

A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three years ago re-engaging and more than 20 A.I. projects in the works.

Joanna Robinson

@jowrotethis

Jan 15

The “comeback” is a very old narrative but something new I’m loving this awards season is the number of folks who are holding Hollywood accountable for how it will mercilessly turn its back on you. Very “sure you like me now but where have you been?”

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andré

@enigmaworId

Jan 12

Burial sampling Ray J’s “One Wish” combined with Metal Gear Solid in Archangel. twitter.com/TurnedOutToBey

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Jan 13

Our slime reporter Hugh Langley spins some gold out of this Google slime mold document businessinsider.com/google-documen via

@businessinsider

A document circulated by Googlers explains the 'hidden force' that has caused the company to become...

In a presentation titled "Why everything is so darn hard at Google," a former employee explained how Google's bottom-up structure could be harming it.

Cult classic

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LetsCinema

@letscinema

Official Trailer of James Cameron’s cult classic film #Titanic remastered and releasing in cinemas — February 10th.

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M is for Mineral | Mineral

Funnily enough, I also reported that X was gearing up to spin out Mineral. A few hours later, it announced it's doing just that! (An X spokesperson had declined to comment when I asked about it 🤷)

mineral.ai

Mineral is developing new tools to help humanity feed the world while saving the planet.

Staff worry the shift may put some projects in jeopardy, including A-Life, a secret years-long effort to engineer synthetic life through the study of cells. Another project for building neural networks based on the design of fly brains was killed last year

Google's moonshot factory is coming down to Earth

Insiders say Alphabet is rethinking its iconic Moonshot lab focusing on immediately profitable bets at the expense of some of its ambitious projects.

X still asks employees to take big swings, but many of the biggest swings so far haven't landed. Reality is also starting to butt up against the ambitions of X's chief, who told staff he wants to spin out at least four bets worth more than 5% of Alphabet's market cap by 2030

NEW: Inside the tug of war between ambition and profit at Google's moonshot lab, X, which is rethinking its purpose within Alphabet and turning its attention to more practical and commercially-friendly projects

Google's moonshot factory is coming down to Earth

Insiders say Alphabet is rethinking its iconic Moonshot lab focusing on immediately profitable bets at the expense of some of its ambitious projects.

Jan 5

Wow. Unrecognizable!

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DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

Jan 5

First look at Vin Diesel as Dom Toretto in ‘FAST X’. First trailer releases in February.

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Lucy

@LMAsaysno

Dec 30, 2021

nearly hootenanny time

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Andy Orin

@andyorin

Dec 31, 2022

RIP Dark Sky. So many weather memories… I met my wife on dark sky (I’m a cloud)

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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2023? twitter.com/Pulpcurry/stat…

Dec 29, 2022

This kid looks like he’s working through his second divorce and owes gambling debts to the mob

Dec 27, 2022

But the ending is good actually

Dec 27, 2022

Also idk maybe a box office bomb is appropriate for a movie in which it seems Chazelle is trying to set fire to his career

Dec 27, 2022

It’s been 48 hours since I saw Babylon and I’ve landed on a similar conclusion. It’s an astonishing piece of filmmaking that will piss off a lot of people for reasons I understand and also strongly disagree with

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Matthew Belloni

@MattBelloni

Dec 26, 2022

BABYLON is fantastic and the movie of our times, and everyone who hates it is stupid. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Dec 26, 2022

Chazelle writing that ending

Dec 25, 2022

It’s Christmas Day baby. You know what that means. It’s time to drink precisely one beer and go see Damien Chazelle’s BABYLON

Dec 25, 2022

For those following along: >Reuters reports Twitter removed suicide prevention feature >Twitter’s head of trust & safety *confirms* it was removed, will be restored next week >It gets restored today >Elon is now throwing Reuters under the bus by implying it was never removed

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Dec 24, 2022

Replying to @ReutersTech

False, it is still there

Brooks Otterlake

@i_zzzzzz

May 11, 2022

Group of drunk Boston guys yelling "Go home avatah!!!" at a Na'vi

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Arctic Monkeys Japan

@ArcticMonkeysJP

Dec 23, 2022

🎅🏻❄️

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Dec 23, 2022

Deeply embarrassed to admit it’s taken me this long to get to it, but I have finally read

@mhbergen

’s YooToob book and can confirm it is a certified *banger*. The boy can write!

MMitchell

@mmitchell_ai

Dec 20, 2022

In order to understand why ChatGPT can't replace Google Search, it's useful to understand the early days of web search and the role that PageRank played. 1/n

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Dec 19, 2022

Big Jim continues to be an absolute lord

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Culture Crave

@CultureCrave

Dec 18, 2022

James Cameron flips off crowd who boos him for not signing autographs #AvatarTheWayOfWater twitter.com/GoddammitBaz/s