Paresh Dave
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Three items removed from Waze's list of prohibited communications support.google.com/waze/answer/...
Pretty weak privacy and terms update notice in the year 2026. Surprised Google is allowing its Waze unit to send out this generic notice without any clarity.
Juror #7 also had a couple of smart questions. We wrote about the "moral high ground" for going the nonprofit route but how it ultimately bit OpenAI in the back. www.wired.com/story/musk-v...
Has anyone from @sfgiants.com even tried their stadium food chatbot? It thinks pizza is the only vegetarian option at Oracle Park??
This feels like a rare look at how deceptive patterns are cooked up inside tech companies. Stems from what I wrote about yesterday - www.wired.com/story/antitr...
At the Sam Altman-backed startup World's "At Last" event in San Francisco tonight with @kylierobison.com and @laurengoode.bsky.social where I have become a verified human. Around the 26.2 millionth
Wait did we all make extra money last year (because there were more working days in 2024 than the couple of years before) or just Google executives did?
Add Amazon to the list of tech companies cutting back mention of DEI on their annual regulatory filings, which detail goals and risks. No more "we focus on...inclusion and diversity, safety, and engagement to hire and develop the best talent." Just "We strive to be Earth’s best employer."
Alphabet/Google today removed a section on diversity from its annual SEC filing. No more "we are committed to making DEI part of everything we do" Also it broadened language on using contractors and replaced a reference to wanting "productive" employees to wanting ones who "perform at a high level"
Not sure if it's an omen but in today's cloudless twilight, the only things that I see are the moon and Venus. #nostars
At WiRED's LiveWIRED event, Fei-Fei Li and Reid Hoffman voiced frustration wit @nytimes.com for talking to >80 people for a story about "How the AI fuse was lit " and not featuring any women. "It's wrong," Li says. Hoffman says, "Irritated by the incompetentence reflected by the article."
Looks like a victory for transparency in the next antitrust trial coming up against Google (slated to begin on Thursday in SF with jury selection) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...