Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more
Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. He sits down with John and Elad Gil to discuss Google's resurgence in the AI race …
Q&A with Stratechery's Ben Thompson on aggregation theory, AI, TikTok, ByteDance, AI agentic commerce, SaaS stocks, running Stratechery, TSMC, Stripe, and more
Ben Thompson, the internet's premier tech analyst, joins John for a wide-ranging conversation on the mechanics of the internet economy.
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads
deadline.com/2025/12/yout... John Scalzi / @scalzi.com : Good. I would fucking hate when I would inadvertently click on these fake trailers — deadline.com/2025/12/yout... @jason1749 : good now go a...
Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work
all 3 @UofCalifornia professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation and possibility, California is proud to dream big and deliver even bigger. @e...
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more
Recall that the right wants to ban AI legislation *at the state level*. They're cashing in on the mis/dis information AND from the tech flooding us with it. — www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg... Stefan...
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option
in Case You Need a Loan to Pay for Your Burrito Jordan Valinsky / CNN : DoorDash will soon let users eat now and pay in installments Niket Nishant / Reuters : NYSE-bound Klarna signs payments deal wit...
Religious leaders are experimenting with AI, spurring an industry of faith-based tech companies that offer AI tools to do theological research and write sermons
Eli Tan / New York Times : Bluesky: @numerius , @phillyfilly , @shelleybwoke , @michaelklein.io , @ruthgraham , and @notjessewalker Bluesky: Iulus Mayfair / @numerius : Megachurches were just an earl...
Ghost's CEO details the organization's governance structure and says the open-source CMS generates ~$7.5M in annual revenue and has been profitable for 12 years
Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license. Threads: @prschulz , @dvdwinden , and @quillmatiq . Mastodon: @ben@werd.s...
How Apple added support for automatic transcript generation in the Podcast app, a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators
As seen in MacRumors, iOS 18 beta testers can set a new Siri wake … X: Dave Winer / @davewiner : @johnspurlock John, I just heard about transcriptions a couple of days ago. Do I have to publish my pod...
How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023
Washington Post : Mastodon: @nitashatiku@mastodon.social . X: @g_delta753 , @edwardmehr , @sunofjackson , @landsmanwayne , @aphysicist , @adoricko , and @filarons . LinkedIn: William Schlickenmaier M...