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Liz Reid on where Google Search ends and Gemini begins This week on the podcast: the head of Google Search. Also: OpenAI pauses Adult Mode and ends its Code Red, and Anthropic goes on an apology tour.

I cannot believe OpenAI has something higher priority than porn but apparently it’s pressing pause on Adult Mode sources.news/p/liz-reid-g...

Betty for Betel, which seems kinda racist

now multiply that by 32

Google just suggested an email reply addressing the person by a made-up nickname and making up a Friday the 13th deadline for me...

Bank of America thinks Robotaxi will be responsible for half Tesla’s valuation... sherwood.news/tech/bank-of...

Exclusive | Meta to Create New Applied AI Engineering Organization New teams will have a “flat structure” with up to 50:1 ratio of individual contributors to managers, according to an internal memo.

Meta sure does love a reorg www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

Inside Waymo’s Remote Assistance Program with Dr. Missy Cummings Dr. Missy Cummings joins Harry to unpack remote operations in AVs — from teleoperation vs. assistance and latency risks to Waymo’s model, Cruise’s collapse, and how real safety oversight should look

👀 “Tesla is never going to be a self-driving car company. We’re never going to have to have this conversation seriously about them because they’re just never going to get there.” — AV expert and George Mason University professor Missy Cummings www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/inside-way...

Anthropic doesn’t do advertising. OpenAI does — and for Anthropic apparently

The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder

HBO's Silicon Valley ended too soon www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/t...

Jeff Bezos’s $30bn AI lab seeking tens of billions for industrial sector deals Project Prometheus in new talks with Abu Dhabi and JPMorgan over vehicle to buy up businesses disrupted by the technology

Am I reading this right? Bezos using AI money to buy up companies disrupted by AI to try and fix them with AI? www.ft.com/content/7b1b...

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3 Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Retired Claude model asked to write weekly newspaper essays 🙄 www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

Tesla’s ride-hailing service is looking a lot more like Uber’s than Waymo’s Tesla did nothing to secure driverless robotaxi approval in California last year....

Tesla’s ride-hailing service is looking a lot more like Uber’s than Waymo’s sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he’s confident hyperscalers’ cash flows will improve. Look at this goddamn @ljkawa.bsky.social chart, Jensen: sherwood.news/markets/nvid...

This is an enraging, heartbreaking story.

Benioff: This is not my first SAASpocalypse”

Tesla’s sounds like cybercab logo graphic design

I’m pretty sure I can guess the tech company by the earnings call wait music. I can’t explain it but Salesforce is the musical equivalent of the 1990s “jazz” cup

1Password...100 million times

FWIW I’ve asked ChatGPT to surface genuinely new reporting and...it was worse than Google. Had to disable.

right! it’s throwing AI everywhere else...

Will Google ever bring AI to news alerts? (I do not care about the apple you eat)

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle will agree to “build, bring, or buy” AI data center power In January, Trump called on Big Tech companies to “pay their own way”...

Think I figured out why trump’s social media company bought a fusion energy company sherwood.news/tech/amazon-...

sign twitter is doing well

Tesla launches legal war over 'Cybercab' name against seltzer company Tesla has escalated its fight over the “Cybercab” name, filing a 167-page, 5-count formal opposition at the USPTO’s Trademark Trial...

this french beverage wholesaler is probably squatting on a bunch of tesla trademarks but it’s hard not to root for its gall electrek.co/2026/02/24/t...

Spicy, sour: ChaatGPT

ChatGPT: This is an extremely difficult concept so I understand why it’s hard to grasp. Let me try again.
ChadGPT: You idiot. WTF is wrong with you?

Tired, sycophantic: ChatGPT
Wired, aggro: ChadGPT

She bounced a $25 check in 2014. ICE tried to deport her. A Missouri grandma and lawful resident spent months in detention for a decade-old misdemeanor, underscoring the massive scope of the administration’s deportation efforts.

This story will make you want to cry, vomit, throw your phone against the wall, or some combination of all three ... www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Exclusive | OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination Ryan Beiermeister, who served as the vice president leading OpenAI’s product policy team, had raised concerns about the upcoming launch of erotic content.

OpenAI fires female executive who opposed “adult mode” for sexual discrimination. Got it. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...