In case you haven't heard of the Google "crayon chart", it's a delightful slice of early Google history. You can zoom into the photos and see lots of interesting early Google events: "New index" (happened ~monthly in early Google days) "Sunnyvale starts serving Go2net"
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Early Google Query Metrics: Lucas Pereira’s Crayon Chart
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Here's a couple: (1) In the earliest days of Google, when we were all together in Building Zero, Lucas Pereira maintained an awesome "crayon chart" that showed the number of queries we got each day (grouped by whether they were on http://
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Unexpected AI tool capabilities emerging throughout 2026
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A principio de años ni me olía que fuéramos a tener herramientas tan capaces como las que tenemos en este punto del año. pic.twitter.com/l1VStuKMJ7
— Carlos Santana (@DotCSV) 11 août 2024A principio de años ni me olía que fuéramos a tener herramientas tan capaces como las que tenemos en este punto del año.
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Anduril’s Limitation: China’s Numerical Advantage in Comparable Technology
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Anduril is great, but the problem is that China has 100 Andurils.
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25 Years at Google: From Palo Alto Startup to Billion Users
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25 years ago today I officially started at a small search engine company, wedged into a tiny office space above what's now a T-Mobile store in downtown Palo Alto. Since then, I have had the incredible pleasure of working with awesome colleagues on software used by billions of
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Blue Yonder’s Acquisition of One Network: Supply Chain and AI Integration
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What it means for our company @blueyonder to purchase @onenetwork #SupplyChain and #AI powerhouse @mvollmer1 @nicochan33 @pawlowskimario @antgrasso @alvinfoo @tamaramccleary @betamoroney @jimharris @chuckdbrooks @kirkdborne @yuhelenyu @ronald_vanloon
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Microsoft’s Ecosystem Strategy Advantage Over Google in AI
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Microsoft’s DNA is to be the keystone of the IT ecosystem. That’s how Windows won. Google’s is to do everything in house. In AI the latter has no hope against the former.
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Microsoft’s AI Spending and Market Cap Growth Surge
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The only thing growing faster than Microsoft’s AI spending is its market cap.
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Regulatory Thresholds Could Eliminate Open Source AI Models
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Once models have reached the FLOPs threshold in a few years, the mathematically impossible requirements this bill puts on devs means that no open source models could meet them, so we'll all be entirely reliant on big tech's commercial closed offerings.