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Ryan Barwick retweeted
Trump:
I called Google Maps to change the name of the Atlantic Ocean to Trump Ocean.
Sundar said, “No, no, no. This time I'm not doing it.” He said, “Oceans are different, sir. They cover a lot of countries. Please don't ask us to do that.”
So we'll probably pass. Let's keep it the Atlantic Ocean.
Google's and Voltus' energy "won’t come from new power plants.
Instead, Voltus will "will sign up homes and businesses and give them financial incentives to curb their usage."
nytimes.com/2026/10/22/clima…
Google will no longer require local officials to sign NDAs when it wants to build data centers.
Decision follows Microsoft and Amazon in stopping the practice activists say isn’t transparent.
theinformation.com/briefings…
A bit lost in all the Gemini 4 Argon news, @joshwoodward saying that Google's personal agent is coming.
"We hear you loud and clear...Just one prompt box, you tell it what you want and it just does stuff for you..there's a lot of stuff we're playing with that will be out soon."
Signal inbox already flooded !
Some personal news: I've joined @theinformation to cover Google.
I'll be covering everything from Gemini to Search, from Cloud to Waymo. As always, I'm on Signal at 302-519-0567 and at [email protected].
Talk to Barwick folks!
Ryan Barwick retweeted
Gemini 4 Argon is here.
It’s available globally today for developers and enterprises in the paid tier of the Gemini API and the Gemini platform, for Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, and Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and Search.
Hope you all enjoy it!
Some personal news: I've joined @theinformation to cover Google.
I'll be covering everything from Gemini to Search, from Cloud to Waymo. As always, I'm on Signal at 302-519-0567 and at [email protected].
Talk to Barwick folks!
I worked at a trade pub that had nothing but an occasional hot dog roller they’d bring out. entire newsroom stank like grease
Everyone wants to tell me how great their office pantry is but after the Bloomberg pantry nothing can surprise me. The Bloomberg pantry is the size of a small regional airport. The Bloomberg pantry has a fresh peanut butter machine and matcha on tap. The Bloomberg pantry makes the Thrive Capital pantry look positively soviet. Its memory will drive you to tears whenever you visit another newsroom
Ryan Barwick retweeted
The same reporter who scooped the SpaceX S1 just obtained the Anthropic s1 as well - no big deal for @DEER_ECHO_ who's more on LinkedIn than here reuters.com/business/finance…
Ryan Barwick retweeted
people have said it before but the whole shortform video / youtube / podcast content industry is so extractive of actual newsroom labor, and as far as I can tell very few of those studios have hard news operations, reporters / checkers / researchers...
Ryan Barwick retweeted
I think I’m in the same lounge as Neil Young. Can anyone confirm. Guy’s just hoovering pistachios
Ryan Barwick retweeted
Vital Farms stock up more than 10% after Axios Pro's @Ryanbarwick reported that it's exploring strategic alternatives $VITL
axios.com/pro/merger-deals/2…
Ryan Barwick retweeted
Stumbled onto a new dark-money, conservative digital influence operation. Every month, someone is giving a Latvian company six-figure sums to manufacture support for the right online via the internet manipulation technique du jour: clip farming theatlantic.com/politics/202…
