The Pulse #93: OpenAI makes Google dance
Google’s core search business has never been under as much threat as it is today – and the threat comes from OpenAI. Also: Google Cloud deletes a customer’s infra, and Tesla in trouble.
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Today, we cover:
Industry pulse. NetBSD and Gentoo ban AI-generated commits, StackOverflow to sell data to OpenAI, AWS losing market share, jail time for for Tornado Cash developer, and more.
OpenAI makes Google dance. OpenAI is setting the pace for Google with AI phone assistant capabilities, and is probably the reason that Google started shipping AI answers on top of search results.
Google Cloud deletes Australian trading fund’s infra. A $124B fund in Australia would have lost all data stored with Google Cloud, had they not relied on a third-party backup. A rare blunder from GCP, where regional replication did not stop the deletion – and a just as rare statement from Google Cloud’s CEO taking the blame.
Tesla trouble accompanies poorly executed layoffs. The market leader for electric vehicles in the US is seeing demand for cars drop, and is responding with mass layoffs. This included firing the 500-person Supercharger team: only to start to rehire them a week later.