#pichai — Public Fediverse posts

#FIFA kann beliebig durch #NATO #MAGA #GOP (Republikaner) #EU #NoAfD #CBS #FOX #MUSK #ZUCKERBERG #Pichai (Google) #COOK #Ellison (Oracle) und weiteren ersetzt werden, die #weirdTrump in den Arsch kriechen.

„Platzverweis“ Karikatur: Mester
Aus Tageszeitung Die #Rheinpfalz

#Trump #Politik🏛️

#FIFA kann beliebig durch #NATO #MAGA #GOP (Republikaner) #EU #NoAfD #CBS #FOX #MUSK #ZUCKERBERG #Pichai (Google) #COOK #Ellison (Oracle) und weiteren ersetzt werden, die #weirdTrump in den Arsch kriechen.

„Platzverweis“ Karikatur: Mester
Aus Tageszeitung Die #Rheinpfalz

#Trump #Politik🏛️

Google visto dal manifesto:
“L’accusa è sempre la stessa: abuso di posizione dominante. Le due sentenze contro #Google, però, hanno origini e fondamenti diverse. La prima, in ordine cronologico, è quella emessa dal Tribunale per i brevetti e il mercato di Stoccolma, che ha accordato un maxi risarcimento di 1,7 miliardi di euro a PriceRunner, piattaforma di comparazione dei prezzi controllata dalla svedese Klarna. Secondo il collegio giudicante, Google avrebbe infatti sfruttato il suo motore di ricerca web per favorire il servizio Google Shopping, penalizzando il concorrente. La sentenza è ancora appellabile.
La vera mazzata per l’azienda di Mountain View, però, arriva dalla Corte di Giustizia Europea. Nella giornata di ieri, infatti, i giudici hanno respinto l’appello di Google in merito a un provvedimento della Commissione Europea del 2018, che aveva condannato l’azienda per le pratiche anti-concorrenziali sul suo sistema operativo per smartphone #Android. Qui le cose si fanno più complicate. Le accuse, infatti, riguardano le condizioni imposte da Google ai produttori di smartphone che utilizzano Android.
In teoria il sistema operativo sviluppato da Google è infatti distribuito con licenza open source e, di conseguenza, dovrebbe lasciare un certo margine di libertà a chi decide di implementarlo.
Secondo la Commissione Europea, però, l’azienda avrebbe imposto ai produttori una serie di vincoli per garantirsi notevoli vantaggi sugli eventuali concorrenti. Tra questi gli accordi di distribuzione, che imponevano ai produttori di dispositivi mobili di preinstallare l’app di ricerca Google Search e il browser Chrome sui dispositivi come condizione per poter ottenere la licenza per utilizzare il suo app store ufficiale Play Store.
Non solo: Google avrebbe anche imposto degli “accordi anti-frammentazione”, cioè un impegno da parte dei produttori a non installare versioni di Android non approvate dall’azienda stessa, pena l’essere tagliati fuori (ancora una volta) da Play Store.
Infine, nel mirino della Commissione sono finiti gli “accordi di condivisione dei ricavi”, che prevedevano una partecipazione dei produttori agli utili pubblicitari generati dai servizi di Google solo se avessero garantito una sorta di esclusiva all’azienda di Mountain View, impegnandosi a non preinstallare nessun sistema di ricerca concorrente. Tradotto in soldoni, il patto potrebbe essere riassunto così: “se mi dai il monopolio delle ricerche sui tuoi dispositivi, ti do una fetta dei guadagni”.
Insomma: il “sistema operativo libero” di Google non sarebbe stato così libero. Anzi: per utilizzarlo, i produttori di smartphone avrebbero dovuto legarsi mani e piedi allo sviluppatore e, soprattutto, garantire di non acconsentire ad alcuna apertura nei confronti di eventuali concorrenti.
La sentenza, al di là della sanzione record da 4,1 miliardi di euro, ha un impatto più ampio. In sostanza, il respingimento dell’appello di Google e della controllante #Alphabet nei confronti della decisione della Commissione Europea rappresenta una secca bocciatura delle strategie di business della società guidata da Sundar #Pichai.
La logica a cui si è ispirata Google è sempre stata, infatti, quella di fornire la licenza di utilizzo del sistema operativo gratuitamente (o a prezzi irrisori), contando sul fatto che la sua diffusione fosse uno strumento per far convergere gli utenti verso i suoi servizi.
Ed è proprio da questi ultimi che la società ha sempre ottenuto i reali ricavi, generati attraverso i soliti strumenti di profilazione e la conseguente vendita di pubblicità “mirata” agli inserzionisti.
La stangata della Corte di Giustizia Europea arriva a pochi giorni dalle esternazioni di Donald #Trump, che lo scorso 26 giugno ha postato su Truth Social l’ultimatum diretto ai paesi Ue minacciando dazi del 100% a chi avesse osato penalizzare le big tech mande in Usa attraverso lo strumento della Digital Services Tax. Non è escluso che la sentenza della Corte possa diventare un ulteriore casus belli tra l’Europa e gli Stati Uniti. Nel momento in cui scriviamo, il 47esimo presidente Usa non ha ancora proferito verbo sulla vicenda. Difficile, però, che si lasci sfuggire l’occasione

Google visto dal manifesto:
“L’accusa è sempre la stessa: abuso di posizione dominante. Le due sentenze contro #Google, però, hanno origini e fondamenti diverse. La prima, in ordine cronologico, è quella emessa dal Tribunale per i brevetti e il mercato di Stoccolma, che ha accordato un maxi risarcimento di 1,7 miliardi di euro a PriceRunner, piattaforma di comparazione dei prezzi controllata dalla svedese Klarna. Secondo il collegio giudicante, Google avrebbe infatti sfruttato il suo motore di ricerca web per favorire il servizio Google Shopping, penalizzando il concorrente. La sentenza è ancora appellabile.
La vera mazzata per l’azienda di Mountain View, però, arriva dalla Corte di Giustizia Europea. Nella giornata di ieri, infatti, i giudici hanno respinto l’appello di Google in merito a un provvedimento della Commissione Europea del 2018, che aveva condannato l’azienda per le pratiche anti-concorrenziali sul suo sistema operativo per smartphone #Android. Qui le cose si fanno più complicate. Le accuse, infatti, riguardano le condizioni imposte da Google ai produttori di smartphone che utilizzano Android.
In teoria il sistema operativo sviluppato da Google è infatti distribuito con licenza open source e, di conseguenza, dovrebbe lasciare un certo margine di libertà a chi decide di implementarlo.
Secondo la Commissione Europea, però, l’azienda avrebbe imposto ai produttori una serie di vincoli per garantirsi notevoli vantaggi sugli eventuali concorrenti. Tra questi gli accordi di distribuzione, che imponevano ai produttori di dispositivi mobili di preinstallare l’app di ricerca Google Search e il browser Chrome sui dispositivi come condizione per poter ottenere la licenza per utilizzare il suo app store ufficiale Play Store.
Non solo: Google avrebbe anche imposto degli “accordi anti-frammentazione”, cioè un impegno da parte dei produttori a non installare versioni di Android non approvate dall’azienda stessa, pena l’essere tagliati fuori (ancora una volta) da Play Store.
Infine, nel mirino della Commissione sono finiti gli “accordi di condivisione dei ricavi”, che prevedevano una partecipazione dei produttori agli utili pubblicitari generati dai servizi di Google solo se avessero garantito una sorta di esclusiva all’azienda di Mountain View, impegnandosi a non preinstallare nessun sistema di ricerca concorrente. Tradotto in soldoni, il patto potrebbe essere riassunto così: “se mi dai il monopolio delle ricerche sui tuoi dispositivi, ti do una fetta dei guadagni”.
Insomma: il “sistema operativo libero” di Google non sarebbe stato così libero. Anzi: per utilizzarlo, i produttori di smartphone avrebbero dovuto legarsi mani e piedi allo sviluppatore e, soprattutto, garantire di non acconsentire ad alcuna apertura nei confronti di eventuali concorrenti.
La sentenza, al di là della sanzione record da 4,1 miliardi di euro, ha un impatto più ampio. In sostanza, il respingimento dell’appello di Google e della controllante #Alphabet nei confronti della decisione della Commissione Europea rappresenta una secca bocciatura delle strategie di business della società guidata da Sundar #Pichai.
La logica a cui si è ispirata Google è sempre stata, infatti, quella di fornire la licenza di utilizzo del sistema operativo gratuitamente (o a prezzi irrisori), contando sul fatto che la sua diffusione fosse uno strumento per far convergere gli utenti verso i suoi servizi.
Ed è proprio da questi ultimi che la società ha sempre ottenuto i reali ricavi, generati attraverso i soliti strumenti di profilazione e la conseguente vendita di pubblicità “mirata” agli inserzionisti.
La stangata della Corte di Giustizia Europea arriva a pochi giorni dalle esternazioni di Donald #Trump, che lo scorso 26 giugno ha postato su Truth Social l’ultimatum diretto ai paesi Ue minacciando dazi del 100% a chi avesse osato penalizzare le big tech mande in Usa attraverso lo strumento della Digital Services Tax. Non è escluso che la sentenza della Corte possa diventare un ulteriore casus belli tra l’Europa e gli Stati Uniti. Nel momento in cui scriviamo, il 47esimo presidente Usa non ha ancora proferito verbo sulla vicenda. Difficile, però, che si lasci sfuggire l’occasione

Sundar Pichai enfrentou protestos de estudantes durante o discurso de formatura na Universidade de Stanford, com cerca de 200 alunos a abandonar a cerimónia. Os estudantes manifestaram descontentamento com vaias sonoras direcionadas ao líder da Google.

🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t85646-sundar-pichai-enfrenta-protestos-e-abandono-de-estudantes-na-universidade-de-stanford

#pichai #universidade 

Sundar Pichai enfrentou protestos de estudantes durante o discurso de formatura na Universidade de Stanford, com cerca de 200 alunos a abandonar a cerimónia. Os estudantes manifestaram descontentamento com vaias sonoras direcionadas ao líder da Google.

🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t85646-sundar-pichai-enfrenta-protestos-e-abandono-de-estudantes-na-universidade-de-stanford

#pichai #universidade 

FYI: Pichai on Google Zero, AGI timeline, and a Search he admits is too opinionated: Pichai says Google Search has become too opinionated, while Conde Nast plans for zero referral traffic and AGI timelines continue to shrink across the industry. https://ppc.land/pichai-on-google-zero-agi-timeline-and-a-search-he-admits-is-too-opinionated/ #Google #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #SearchEngine #Pichai

FYI: Pichai on Google Zero, AGI timeline, and a Search he admits is too opinionated: Pichai says Google Search has become too opinionated, while Conde Nast plans for zero referral traffic and AGI timelines continue to shrink across the industry. https://ppc.land/pichai-on-google-zero-agi-timeline-and-a-search-he-admits-is-too-opinionated/ #Google #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #SearchEngine #Pichai

Putin's Oligarchs
Who help the Orange Felon
Who Kissed The Ring

#RussiaUSA #AllTheKingsMen #FOTUS #USA #Trump #TrumpRussia #Musk #Bezos #Cook #Zuckerberg #Pichai #Racists #Nazis #KissTheRing
#Meta #Alphabet #Thiel #RonScott #PeteRicketts #GOP #Google #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook #Republicans

Republicans voted them in by proxy

Putin's Oligarchs
Who help the Orange Felon
Who Kissed The Ring

#RussiaUSA #AllTheKingsMen #FOTUS #USA #Trump #TrumpRussia #Musk #Bezos #Cook #Zuckerberg #Pichai #Racists #Nazis #KissTheRing
#Meta #Alphabet #Thiel #RonScott #PeteRicketts #GOP #Google #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook #Republicans

Republicans voted them in by proxy

Alphabet ha assegnato a Sundar Pichai un pacchetto retributivo da 692 milioni di dollari. Sotto la sua guida dal 2015, il valore di mercato di Google è cresciuto fino a 3,6 trilioni.

#alphabet #google #pichai

Alphabet ha assegnato a Sundar Pichai un pacchetto retributivo da 692 milioni di dollari. Sotto la sua guida dal 2015, il valore di mercato di Google è cresciuto fino a 3,6 trilioni.

#alphabet #google #pichai

Cook and Pichai are getting thumped hard over failure to boot Grok off App stores.

Apple and Google both explicitly ban apps containing CSAM, which is illegal to host and distribute in many countries, and yet Grok is still available on app stores. Grok also is violating X’s own policies, which prohibit sharing illegal content. The EU will likely begin a formal investigation of violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

Cook and Pichai have been called cowards in public media posts.

https://www.wired.com/story/x-grok-app-store-nudify-csam-apple-google-content-moderation/
#CSAM #Grok #Apple #Google #AppStore #PlayStore #Cook #Pichai #nudifyapps #Illegal #Internet #MobileApps #xAI

Cook and Pichai are getting thumped hard over failure to boot Grok off App stores.

Apple and Google both explicitly ban apps containing CSAM, which is illegal to host and distribute in many countries, and yet Grok is still available on app stores. Grok also is violating X’s own policies, which prohibit sharing illegal content. The EU will likely begin a formal investigation of violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

Cook and Pichai have been called cowards in public media posts.

https://www.wired.com/story/x-grok-app-store-nudify-csam-apple-google-content-moderation/
#CSAM #Grok #Apple #Google #AppStore #PlayStore #Cook #Pichai #nudifyapps #Illegal #Internet #MobileApps #xAI

#Pichai selbst scheint sich der Aussage des Satzes
“I think what a CEO does is maybe one of the easier things maybe for an AI to do one day”
nicht bewusst zu sein.

"AI" können heute schon eines perfekt: bullshitten
Sie können komplett falsche Antworten (und ohne jegliches Wissen um die tatsächlichen Hintergründe) in völlig überzeugender Art und Weise präsentieren.

Das ist exakt das, was CEOs wie Pichai und Altman tun!

Sie sind heute schon durch #AI / #KI ersetzbar.

https://fortune.com/2025/11/19/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-ai-can-do-his-job/

Boundless Greed

@ulrichkelber
In der Tat habe ich an ein anderes Urteil gedacht, als ich die Überschrift gelesen habe. Die US-Dollar hätten mir auffallen können.

Mit Strafzöllen wird's dann wohl nix, aber wenn #Pichai brav ist und dennoch tränenreich zu Donald rennt, wird anderweitig Einfluss auf die Justiz genommen. Da geht sicher was. @heiseonline

@ulrichkelber
In der Tat habe ich an ein anderes Urteil gedacht, als ich die Überschrift gelesen habe. Die US-Dollar hätten mir auffallen können.

Mit Strafzöllen wird's dann wohl nix, aber wenn #Pichai brav ist und dennoch tränenreich zu Donald rennt, wird anderweitig Einfluss auf die Justiz genommen. Da geht sicher was. @heiseonline

#Video
Wollt ihr euch mal richtig ekeln?
Tech CEOs zu Gast bei #Trump...
unter anderem #Meta-Boss Mark #Zuckerberg, #Apple-CEO Tim #Cook, #Microsoft-Gründer Bill #Gates und Sundar #Pichai von #Google.
Schleimbeutel sind nix dagegen.

#Video
Wollt ihr euch mal richtig ekeln?
Tech CEOs zu Gast bei #Trump...
unter anderem #Meta-Boss Mark #Zuckerberg, #Apple-CEO Tim #Cook, #Microsoft-Gründer Bill #Gates und Sundar #Pichai von #Google.
Schleimbeutel sind nix dagegen.

@lauren

My impression is that Sundar Pichai and his hand-picked division heads don't care about users, or truth, or injury to the innocent, or harm to the sites they now prefer to not direct any traffic to so long as they can still train their "AI" from their content -- just so long as the "engagement metrics" point in the right direction, to satisfy the "line goes up forever" stock-analyst types .

It is completely evil, but a banal evil that is difficult to get the media to report on (even if they weren't conflicted by ownership and sycophancy).

I don't see Google coming back from this without a clean sweep of the executive suite, and the board isn't independent enough to even consider that.

#Pichai #SundarPichai #CEO #evil #engagement #metrics #executive

@lauren

My impression is that Sundar Pichai and his hand-picked division heads don't care about users, or truth, or injury to the innocent, or harm to the sites they now prefer to not direct any traffic to so long as they can still train their "AI" from their content -- just so long as the "engagement metrics" point in the right direction, to satisfy the "line goes up forever" stock-analyst types .

It is completely evil, but a banal evil that is difficult to get the media to report on (even if they weren't conflicted by ownership and sycophancy).

I don't see Google coming back from this without a clean sweep of the executive suite, and the board isn't independent enough to even consider that.

#Pichai #SundarPichai #CEO #evil #engagement #metrics #executive

@dangillmor

Not disagreeing, in fact in violent agreement with all of that.

> Google is now officially a fascist tool

And not to be trite, but you can also say exactly the same thing about Sundar Pichai.

#SundarPichai #Pichai #CEO #fascist #tool #FascistTool

@dangillmor

Not disagreeing, in fact in violent agreement with all of that.

> Google is now officially a fascist tool

And not to be trite, but you can also say exactly the same thing about Sundar Pichai.

#SundarPichai #Pichai #CEO #fascist #tool #FascistTool

Putin's Oligarchs
Who help the Orange Felon
Who Kissed The Ring

#RussiaUSA #AllTheKingsMen #FOTUS #USA #Trump #TrumpRussia #Musk #Bezos #Cook #Zuckerberg #Pichai #Racists #Nazis #KissTheRing
#Meta #Alphabet #Thiel #RonScott #PeteRicketts #GOP #Google #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook #Republicans

Republicans voted them in by proxy

#USPoli #RussianPolitics

Putin's Oligarchs
Who help the Orange Felon
Who Kissed The Ring

#RussiaUSA #AllTheKingsMen #FOTUS #USA #Trump #TrumpRussia #Musk #Bezos #Cook #Zuckerberg #Pichai #Racists #Nazis #KissTheRing
#Meta #Alphabet #Thiel #RonScott #PeteRicketts #GOP #Google #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook #Republicans

Republicans voted them in by proxy

#USPoli #RussianPolitics

#SiliconValley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of #Trump

Meta’s chief executive Mark #Zuckerberg ; #Amazon founder Jeff #Bezos ; Sundar #Pichai , #Google chief executive; and #ElonMusk, #Tesla and #SpaceX leader, were among the tech leaders who attended President Trump’s inauguration last week.
#Musk #donaldtrump #rights

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/technology/tampons-silicon-valley-workers-protest.html

#SiliconValley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of #Trump

Meta’s chief executive Mark #Zuckerberg ; #Amazon founder Jeff #Bezos ; Sundar #Pichai , #Google chief executive; and #ElonMusk, #Tesla and #SpaceX leader, were among the tech leaders who attended President Trump’s inauguration last week.
#Musk #donaldtrump #rights

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/technology/tampons-silicon-valley-workers-protest.html

Billionaires Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk are attending Donald Trump's inauguration.

#USA #Trump #TrumpInauguration2025 #Zuckerberg #Bezos #Pichai #Musk

Billionaires Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk are attending Donald Trump's inauguration.

#USA #Trump #TrumpInauguration2025 #Zuckerberg #Bezos #Pichai #Musk

Sehr gute Ideen, wie wir #Musk, #Zuckerberg und #Pichai ernst nehmen — und ihren "Plattformen" das #Nichtverantwortungsprivileg, das #Straftatenprivileg und #Monopolprivileg entziehen.

»Die digitalen Sonnenkönige dürfen ihre Probleme in Zukunft selbst lösen.«

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/elon-musk-und-die-medien-warum-seine-entmachtung-so-einfach-waere-wie-ein-zaubertrick-a-b6bb75a4-a673-4734-be54-f590fcb993d6?giftToken=c32af281-fe24-4921-8422-6e5e1a98b326

Everyone is going to blame #AI for the #tech crash.

It's not AI. It's the #layoffs. Well, it's the layoffs coupled with and as a symptom of grossly mismanaged companies that have consistently elevated a managerial class disconnected from both the #technology and the #customers.

#Nvidia #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Alphabet #Meta #Facebook #Tesla #Amazon #Nikkei #Zuckerberg #Musk #Pichai #Bezos

Everyone is going to blame #AI for the #tech crash.

It's not AI. It's the #layoffs. Well, it's the layoffs coupled with and as a symptom of grossly mismanaged companies that have consistently elevated a managerial class disconnected from both the #technology and the #customers.

#Nvidia #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Alphabet #Meta #Facebook #Tesla #Amazon #Nikkei #Zuckerberg #Musk #Pichai #Bezos

Every year, some of the richest and most powerful leaders in business, media and politics touch down in Sun Valley, Idaho,
for a private confab hosted by New York investment bank Allen & Company.

The vibe is trail-dad chic — think puffy Patagonia vests and Apple watches and stealth-wealth cashmere pullovers. Imagine the resort from Dirty Dancing but replace all the beautiful young dancers with mostly older White men carrying Wall Street Journals under their arms and grumbling about regulatory overreach.

The summit’s agenda and lecture topics are kept secret, and reporters who attend generally have to stay off the record so that the one-percenters can mingle and speak freely as they wander the mountain resort,
gossiping about industry and, occasionally, forging historic multibillion-dollar deals.

Sun Valley is widely believed to be the place where Jeff #Bezos decided to buy The Washington Post, and the site of the meet-cute between Comcast and NBC Universal.
(Warren #Buffett, who is notably absent from this year’s guest list, once referred to Sun Valley dealmaking as ABWA, or “acquisitions by walking around.”)

This year’s parade of private jets is expected to touch down Tuesday, as the Idaho Mountain Express reported last month, bringing together dozens of power brokers
— including AI kingpin Sam #Altman; Disney CEO Bob #Iger and a coterie of his potential successors; plus all of the usual suspects like Apple’s Tim #Cook, Meta’s Mark #Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar #Pichai, media moguls Rupert #Murdoch and #Oprah Winfrey and many others, including David #Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, according to Bloomberg and Variety.
(A spokesperson for Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed Zaslav would attend.)

There are also some notably absent names from the guest list this year.

There’s Buffett, who is normally a fixture at the event but who is nearly 94 and, perhaps, happy to let his spryer successor, 62-year-old Greg #Abel, handle the high-altitude trekking and chit-chattery. Less likely but still half-seriously rumored is that Buffett is avoiding the shindig after the press last year picked up on his wife, Astrid, complaining about having to pay $4 for a cup of coffee.

Also absent this year is Elon #Musk, who might seem like a shoo-in until you imagine him winding up on a rafting trip with a bunch of CEOs whom he publicly urged,
less than a year ago, to go f— themselves.

While we expect plenty of chatter about artificial intelligence, the Succession-level drama about Iger’s succession plan, and the head-spinning negotiations that led to the Paramount-Skydance merger, there is one giant elephant — or donkey — in the room this year.

Questions about President Joe #Biden’s ability to campaign have wealthy donors and Democratic officials in a tizzy.
And it would be hard to imagine that a gaggle of elite media moguls would sit around the fire with their s’mores and bourbon and not speculate about potential replacements on the 2024 ballot.

That could make the week particularly important for three governors on the guest list this year: Gretchen #Whitmer, Josh #Shapiro and Wes #Moore, all of whom have been floated as potential Biden replacements, even as the president forcefully denies that he’s contemplating dropping out.

The political intrigue is, well, intriguing. But it’s also a timely reminder to zoom out and consider just how powerful the US has let its billionaire class become, and how events like Sun Valley amplify the inequities in America that are so systemic we hardly bat an eye at them.

As the writer Hamilton Nolan wrote in 2021, Sun Valley is a place where “the billionaires are feted by the mere millionaires; the millionaires drum up enough deals to allow them to buy their third and fourth homes …

This is the wondrous model of American capitalism in action
— a tiny handful of wealthy people eat cake, and an entire nation gathers downstream, hoping to snatch up a few falling crumbs.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/business/sun-valley-summer-camp-billionaires-nightcap/index.html

Every year, some of the richest and most powerful leaders in business, media and politics touch down in Sun Valley, Idaho,
for a private confab hosted by New York investment bank Allen & Company.

The vibe is trail-dad chic — think puffy Patagonia vests and Apple watches and stealth-wealth cashmere pullovers. Imagine the resort from Dirty Dancing but replace all the beautiful young dancers with mostly older White men carrying Wall Street Journals under their arms and grumbling about regulatory overreach.

The summit’s agenda and lecture topics are kept secret, and reporters who attend generally have to stay off the record so that the one-percenters can mingle and speak freely as they wander the mountain resort,
gossiping about industry and, occasionally, forging historic multibillion-dollar deals.

Sun Valley is widely believed to be the place where Jeff #Bezos decided to buy The Washington Post, and the site of the meet-cute between Comcast and NBC Universal.
(Warren #Buffett, who is notably absent from this year’s guest list, once referred to Sun Valley dealmaking as ABWA, or “acquisitions by walking around.”)

This year’s parade of private jets is expected to touch down Tuesday, as the Idaho Mountain Express reported last month, bringing together dozens of power brokers
— including AI kingpin Sam #Altman; Disney CEO Bob #Iger and a coterie of his potential successors; plus all of the usual suspects like Apple’s Tim #Cook, Meta’s Mark #Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar #Pichai, media moguls Rupert #Murdoch and #Oprah Winfrey and many others, including David #Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, according to Bloomberg and Variety.
(A spokesperson for Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed Zaslav would attend.)

There are also some notably absent names from the guest list this year.

There’s Buffett, who is normally a fixture at the event but who is nearly 94 and, perhaps, happy to let his spryer successor, 62-year-old Greg #Abel, handle the high-altitude trekking and chit-chattery. Less likely but still half-seriously rumored is that Buffett is avoiding the shindig after the press last year picked up on his wife, Astrid, complaining about having to pay $4 for a cup of coffee.

Also absent this year is Elon #Musk, who might seem like a shoo-in until you imagine him winding up on a rafting trip with a bunch of CEOs whom he publicly urged,
less than a year ago, to go f— themselves.

While we expect plenty of chatter about artificial intelligence, the Succession-level drama about Iger’s succession plan, and the head-spinning negotiations that led to the Paramount-Skydance merger, there is one giant elephant — or donkey — in the room this year.

Questions about President Joe #Biden’s ability to campaign have wealthy donors and Democratic officials in a tizzy.
And it would be hard to imagine that a gaggle of elite media moguls would sit around the fire with their s’mores and bourbon and not speculate about potential replacements on the 2024 ballot.

That could make the week particularly important for three governors on the guest list this year: Gretchen #Whitmer, Josh #Shapiro and Wes #Moore, all of whom have been floated as potential Biden replacements, even as the president forcefully denies that he’s contemplating dropping out.

The political intrigue is, well, intriguing. But it’s also a timely reminder to zoom out and consider just how powerful the US has let its billionaire class become, and how events like Sun Valley amplify the inequities in America that are so systemic we hardly bat an eye at them.

As the writer Hamilton Nolan wrote in 2021, Sun Valley is a place where “the billionaires are feted by the mere millionaires; the millionaires drum up enough deals to allow them to buy their third and fourth homes …

This is the wondrous model of American capitalism in action
— a tiny handful of wealthy people eat cake, and an entire nation gathers downstream, hoping to snatch up a few falling crumbs.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/business/sun-valley-summer-camp-billionaires-nightcap/index.html

The new Web tab removes the #YouTube cards, but YT links still clutter text search results. Nothing like the fast, clean old #Google. The inevitable result of putting a non-software, non-product lover in charge: #Pichai is Goog’s #Ballmer × #Zuck.

The new Web tab removes the #YouTube cards, but YT links still clutter text search results. Nothing like the fast, clean old #Google. The inevitable result of putting a non-software, non-product lover in charge: #Pichai is Goog’s #Ballmer × #Zuck.

#Ivanka #Trump is no longer "welcome" at #MetGala, but she is invited to the wedding of #MukeshAmbani's son.

#Ambani is expecting billionaires, heads of state, and Hollywood & Bollywood royalty to attend a 3-day bash in the family’s hometown.

The nearly 1,200-person guest list includes Bill #Gates, Mark #Zuckerberg, Sunder #Pichai and Ivanka Trump.

To regale them all, he is bringing #Rihanna, and possibly some #forestMaidens for the forest themed event

#MastIndia

https://apnews.com/article/india-tycoon-mukesh-ambani-sons-prewedding-bash-5a3900a0fe8604c9a16186ccfa9fec3f

#Omnibox è la barra di #Google #Chrome in cui si digita sia un URL sia una parola da cercare. È stata una svolta. Prima digitavi "google.com" per cercare, ora facevi tutto lì. Non a caso è ora standard in tutti i browser

Ma Omnibox ha il proprio lato oscuro: serve a raccogliere dati degli utenti e ad aumentare le ricerche, quindi ricavi e profilazione

Ora l'ha ammesso anche #Pichai (AD di #Alphabet) al processo antitrust

Ps. Come funziona Omnibox è raccontato qui: https://contrachrome.com/comic/806/

#Omnibox è la barra di #Google #Chrome in cui si digita sia un URL sia una parola da cercare. È stata una svolta. Prima digitavi "google.com" per cercare, ora facevi tutto lì. Non a caso è ora standard in tutti i browser

Ma Omnibox ha il proprio lato oscuro: serve a raccogliere dati degli utenti e ad aumentare le ricerche, quindi ricavi e profilazione

Ora l'ha ammesso anche #Pichai (AD di #Alphabet) al processo antitrust

Ps. Come funziona Omnibox è raccontato qui: https://contrachrome.com/comic/806/

@emilymbender

#Google's #SundarPichai on #60Minutes:

"Reporter: “You don’t fully understand how it [#AI] works, and yet you’ve turned it loose on society?”

#Pichai:
“Let me put it this way: I don’t think we fully understand how a human mind works, either.”

Did you catch that rhetorical sleight of hand?"

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/google-ceo-peddles-aihype-on-cbs-60-minutes-4a0e080ef406

Die Tech-Branche feiert Milliardenprofite, aber feuert Zigtausende Beschäftigte.
Dem Hedgefonds-Manager Christopher #Hohn (#TCI) reicht das nicht - er fordert #Google-Chef Sundar #Pichai auf, noch 28.000 Menschen zu feuern. /MS
https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/tech/alphabet-chris-hohn-fordert-google-auf-weitere-28-000-menschen-zu-feuern-a-1547a79c-b64b-474d-ae22-f3f7c7f986f1