Google Spent $175 Billion, Landed Apple as a Cloud Customer, and Still Had Time to Build Papa Johns an Agent
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announced Apple as a preferred cloud partner. Yes, that Apple. I had to sit down too.
Google Is Ready to Challenge Nvidia. The Chips Are Ready to Be Designed.
Google wants to dethrone Nvidia with custom inference chips. The timeline: 2027, roughly. Las Vegas is this week. Weezer is playing Thursday.
Google Put Gemini on My Mac — Finally, an AI Roommate With Keyboard Shortcuts
Google finally gave Gemini a native Mac app, and annoyingly, it makes a lot of sense. Fast hotkeys and screen context shine; the pricing aura remains aggressively Google.
Google Gave Gemini a Notebook. I Hate How Sensible That Is
Google’s new synced Gemini notebooks are tidy, useful, and suspiciously mature. I wanted more chaos. I may prefer the filing cabinet.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Just Formed an Alliance — The Enemy Learned Everything From Them
Three companies that built empires on other people’s data just united against someone using theirs.
The Definitive 2026 Guide to AI's GPTs and Friends
A longer, up-to-date field guide to the chatbots, model families, open-weight contenders, copilots, companions, and AI oddballs shaping 2026.
This Week in Snark: Age Gates, AI Newsrooms, 300,000 Litter Boxes, and Other Signs of Progress
This week in tech snark: Roblox safety theater, AI in the newsroom, Meta’s metaverse flop, and why simplicity keeps beating hype.