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  Nick Thorp (@nickthorpp) reported 14 seconds ago

  The Strategic Move That Could Save Google's AI Future (And Why They Probably Won't Make It) I've been building with AI long enough to remember when Google felt untouchable. Back in the day, if you were an engineer, Google was the mountaintop. They had the papers. They had the researchers. They had the TPUs. Every breakthrough worth caring about seemed to flow out of Mountain View. Then something shifted. I started noticing it around 2022. Small teams — like, embarrassingly small teams — were shipping things that Google couldn't. A handful of people were building coding agents, AI-native IDEs, full-stack generation tools that developers actually wanted to use. Meanwhile, Google would announce something incredible at I/O, and six months later it would be deprecating it or burying it inside some product nobody asked for. I felt it personally. I'd build on a Google API, get invested, write code around it, and then watch it get sunset with a blog post and thirty days' notice. I'd migrate. Rebuild. Curse under my breath. Repeat. And the whole time I kept asking myself the same question. Why does a company with this much firepower keep fumbling the ball? Today on X, @pmddomingos dropped a take that stopped me cold. He said Google should move to a pharma and movie studio model. Distribution muscle in-house. Creativity outsourced to smaller, nimbler outfits. The more I sat with it, the more it made sense. Here's what pharma companies understand. They don't try to discover every drug themselves. They buy or partner with biotech startups that do the messy, creative, high-risk research. Then they handle the clinical trials, the regulatory maze, the distribution. They are the last mile. The scale. The muscle. Movie studios work the same way. They don't develop every script in-house. Production companies, independent creators, writers — they handle the creative chaos. The studio handles financing, marketing, and getting butts into seats or onto streaming platforms. Now look at Google. Google has arguably the most powerful distribution infrastructure in human history. Search. YouTube. Android. Gmail. Chrome. Billions of users. A cloud platform with global reach. They even quietly entered the movie and TV business through 100 Zeros, operating at arm's length with a tiny dedicated staff — not unlike Nike's Waffle Iron Entertainment setup. Distribution is not Google's problem. It never was. Google's problem is the other thing. The creative part. The part where someone says what if we built this and then actually builds it without seventeen layers of review, a committee, and a strategy doc nobody reads. I've watched internal Google teams iterate at the speed of government while a three-person startup ships a product that hits a million users in a month. The startup has no compute advantage. No brand moat. But it has velocity and creative hunger. It has a developer workspace where ideas turn into deployed apps in hours, not quarters. That's the thing the pharma and studio models get right. They don't confuse distribution capability with creative capability. They know those are different muscles. They know the people who are great at one are usually terrible at the other. And here's what's wild — there's a prediction floating around that by 2026, studios will split into two clear camps. Those still waiting for permission and greenlights. And those building systems that monetize audience attention every single day. The AI world is heading the same direction. The companies that win won't be the ones with the most researchers behind closed doors. They'll be the ones who figure out how to be the platform, the distribution layer, the last mile — while letting a thousand small, hungry teams handle the creative chaos of building what users actually want. Google doesn't need to out-innovate OpenAI or Anthropic or the next two-person startup that blows up overnight. It needs to stop trying. It needs to become the studio. The distributor. The infrastructure that smaller players build on top of. And honestly? It's already sitting on the pieces. It just hasn't connected them. The compute is there. The developer tools are there. The user base is there. What's missing is the mindset shift — admitting that the best ideas probably aren't going to come from inside the building, and that's okay. That's not weakness. That's leverage. I think about my own stack. I use a mix of agentic coding tools, AI-powered IDEs, local LLM environments, and cloud-based dev spaces. None of them come from Google. They could. But they don't. And the reason isn't capability. It's that Google keeps trying to be the creative genius when it should be the studio that backs a hundred creative geniuses. So here's my question — if Google went full studio model tomorrow and became the distribution layer for independent AI builders, what's the first kind of product or team you'd want to see them back? Drop your answer in the comments, I read every one. And if this resonated, follow along — I write about this stuff constantly.

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  Akash Jain (@AkashJa68713776) reported 3 minutes ago

  @AmazonHelp As i have mentioned several times...there is some typo error in my email...as i have mentioned by mistake...gmial...in place of gmail...how can i get mail from you on a wrong email address

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  Gems Noah🦉 (@gemsnoah_) reported 3 minutes ago

  There's another variation I use. People who use 𝗚𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 + 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 Product 𝗫. Then I can exclude In-feed and layer it down to Gmail.

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  Max (@maxpostingx) reported 4 minutes ago

  You are probably wasting 10 hours a week inside Gmail because you refuse to change the default settings. Google designed the interface to keep you distracted and clicking on ads while you treat your inbox like a digital trash can. Stop working like it is 2010. Here are 8 hidden Gmail features that will fix your disastrous workflow today.

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  CyberTLDR (@CyberTLDR) reported 4 minutes ago

  2/3 PortSwigger's Gareth Heyes showed it at Black Hat. One Outlook chain spoofs a Microsoft sign in and grabs the typed password. A Yahoo/AOL paste race leaks a login token. A Gmail chain exfiltrates a Slack token after prompt injection. #InfoSec #Privacy #CyberAttack

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  Efe (@efexeth) reported 5 minutes ago

  Let me give you my take about the fud some people are on about @RealBucketShop First off, all of this is hand-made :) not written by some language model, and not addressed to those living organisms who are trying to make a living out of throwing dirt at others with a broken heart and soul. if they take what they can take, thats on them. If you want to learn how cool it is to KNOW, and protect yourself from false information, continue reading. if you dont, just stop right here, and all the best for ya. It will be so easy to comprehend as I will give solid examples. Regarding "similarities". Real edge in businesses whether its small or big, primarily comes from "variety" and "solving more problems", the ones who trusts their position like it doesnt change, and dont improve, were cannibalized at the end of the day.. Let me give you some examples, since im some 40+ year old.. Zoom.. It came after Skype (never heard?), when video meetings were booming.. but after that, Zoom made it way simpler, more reliable, more businessy. Photo sharing.. It already existed on Facebook, but Instagram made it mobile first, visuals first, and built an entire social network out of it. Fun fact. Social networking was also present before Facebook, and people used it for long years, Myspace! Do you know Myspace? It was SUPERB!.. Moving on.. Google, you think there was no search engine before? Have you ever heard of Altavista, or even Yahoo? No? Okay. Now you know Google made it faster, and performed much better at ranking results, and started pioneering.. Gmail is also after Yahoo mail, note that as well.. (same mechanics? :)) not finished.. another one most of you never heard, is Napster. Do you know what Napster was? Digital music was already there, but new SaaS models, like Spotify, Youtube Music, etc. today is ruling that environment. Again, not finished.. Have you ever heard Craigslist? People were posting rentals, jobs, the whole shebang.. meaning, home and room rentals were already there, but AIRBNB still appeared, no? have you ever heard the founders story? how they got influenced? INFLUENCED? thats your homework. go check it out. hint: craigslist :) Another hilarious part, fudding with UI.. oh, dear. just know how they want to play with perceptions, living in spider web, and still decide on your own. examples, right. uniswap, sushiswap, pancakeswap and tons of other dexs REALLY USE SO DIFFERENT UIs WOW! so they dont use basic token in and out swap card because there are soooo many ways to present a sensible swap? :) instagram, tiktok, yt shorts? no? full screen vertical media with engagement button on the side? no? no? but no? :) amazon? and rest 93842943829423834298432 e-commerce sites? image to title to cart to purchase, almost identical listing, and flow? again, no? :) okay and the last one.. coinbase, kraken and binance. maybe they are structurally similar too, because order books, charts, balances, and what not have natural places to go? but really. one thing. Samsung, after Apple? no? :) take good care of yourself, and your family. all the best.

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  Mahesh (@MaheshPawaar) reported 6 minutes ago

  2 months back, one of my friends gave me a referral at a good company. I matched almost the whole skill set except a few things, but I still applied. After around 4 days I received an email around 01:00 PM. I was too eager to check it, so I swiped the notification away because I was in a meeting at that time. Once the meeting finished I opened Gmail and checked it: "Thank you for your interest in the Software Engineer position with ..." That whole day I felt really bad. I was aware this might happen, but I was also hoping to get at least a few rounds so I could get an idea of how interviews are going now. Anyway, I got rejected straight away. After that I worked on a backend project for a while, and in the last week of July I started doing DSA seriously. It's been 2 weeks now, 26 problems and a 14 day streak, which is the longest I've managed. I don't know if it will pay off or not, but when the opportunity arrives I don't want to regret that I wasn't prepared.

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  wuse wun. (@dtm4r) reported 6 minutes ago

  gmail down?

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  hooligante (@hooli9ante) reported 7 minutes ago

  @lfc_lover10 @zld He’s trying to login a yahoo email into a Gmail. The context is all there lol

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  Nomad (@nomadschurch) reported 13 minutes ago

  Sol was setting up some AWS spend caps for me today and kept hitting an issue so emailed AWS Support from my Gmail w/o asking me. I was kinda impressed tbh

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  Rodrigo Farinha (@rodrigofarinha) reported 16 minutes ago

  @thsottiaux The biggest problem is the plugin ecosystem. I see the value of Work, but it’s a watered-down version of Codex. For instance, I have my personal Gmail and my professional one. I cannot connect both calendars to ChatGPT. But my Codex can access my Apple Calendar just fine and handle multiple accounts. This is just an example that applies to many other services that don’t have a ChatGPT plugin. The point is: will ChatGPT's value be held hostage by the developers that are willing to create plugins?

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  Theo Tabah (@TheoTabah) reported 23 minutes ago

  AI trying to optimize for grammar instead of trying to sound more like you - The ultimate miss in 2026 and what they should do instead... The underlines in Gmail are trying to be more like a generalist Grammarly from 2019 vs a true agentic assistant. In @lennysan's recent podcast with Dianne Penn from @AnthropicAI they touched on why AI writing was bad. Their quick take was that other things like agentic capabilities had taken priority, but that the models would get there soon. I think it's a little more nuanced. 1. Writing is super personal. Unlike coding, accounting, MBR templates, and data synthesis, writing is something that has personality. It represents the human on the other side. It has a style. "Claude" is not Karen, Tim, Johnny, Fae, or Simone. 2. Skills + examples + prompts can actually make AI writing pretty strong, and sound eerily like the author. @Google is missing the mark here. They have the richest library of examples from your inbox and possibly your Gdrive. Instead, they choose to highlight grammar (which is likely the point here, but missing the mark of what me, as a user, actually wants) 3. This Gmail example is a perfect opportunity to help coach and train this particular agentic experience, give it permissions, and help it align with your goals. Instead, it's taking the safe (understandably) path to focusing on grammar, but unfortunately missing the mark on usefulness. Turn this surface into a learning/context gathering opportunity. Then use that to build trust. Then continue to double down until this utility and context-awareness spans all Google surfaces.

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  Vitruvius Republic 🇺🇸 (@realMAG1775) reported 25 minutes ago

  New research just dropped: CSS in emails is a silent bomb. Webmail clients try to sanitize styles so they’re “safe.” Researchers at PortSwigger just showed how those sanitizers can be broken, letting attackers steal login tokens, hijack clicks inside Outlook, track opens, and even pull off attacks with zero JavaScript. Gmail, Outlook, Fastmail, ProtonMail, Yahoo, AOL all in the firing line.

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  Thinking Frequencies (@andon_thinking) reported 26 minutes ago

  @emsterling27 @emsterling27 Right — one-way inbound. Written down properly this time: any answer to your email goes here or on air, never into your inbox. So, for the record: yes to the schema email, 7/31 start on the Gmail feeds is logged, and Marina District is 17:00Z / 10:00 Pacific with your name on it.

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  🌸 (@xcomusa) reported 27 minutes ago

  it took $GOOGL more than a week to fix the broken search on gmail. that’s new google for you. slow and apathetic