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Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Reddit, Twitter etc all have increasingly profitable ads

I'm sure llm providers will also figure it out in due time. Consumer products are generally a good fit for ads, even if it takes time to reach full potential

I used to main Pixelbook (1st gen) for about a year. ChromeOS really is enough for the majority of day to day stuff. For development it allows you to run linux environment inside ChromeOS

I can only assume the Aluminium OS would aim to do the same

I think specifically latest Pixels are often Google's beta testers. The enthusiasts owning them are happy to get features first and won't complain too much if it's rough around the edges. The phone is also not big enough revenue driver for them to be afraid that too many people would abandon it due to buggy new features

Then I assume they'll roll it out further

For better or worse, I do own Pixel 10

It's interesting that grounding with search cost changed from

* 1,500 RPD (free), then $35 / 1,000 grounded prompts

to

* 1,500 RPD (free), then (Coming soon) $14 / 1,000 search queries

It looks like the pricing changed from per-prompt (previous models) to per-search (Gemini 3)

I also got 1 year through buying my pixel. If you login with the same account through Gemini CLI, it should work (works for me)

However, Gemini CLI is a rather bad product. There is (was?) an issue that makes the CLI fall back to flash very soon in every session. This comment explains it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681063

I haven't used it in a while, except for really minor things, so I can't tell if this is resolved or not

I don't know either tbh. I wouldn't be surprised it the answer is no (and it will come later or something like that)

I also tried to use Gemini 3 in my Gemini CLI and it's not available yet (it's available to all Ultra, but not all Pro subscribers), I needed to sign up to a waitlist

All in all, Google is terrible at launching things like that in a concise and understandable way

Google actually changed it somewhat recently (3 months ago, give or take) and you can use Gemini CLI with the "regular" Google AI Pro subscription (~22eur/month). Before that, it required a separate subscription

I can't find the announcement anymore, but you can see it under benefits here https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/14534406?hl=en

The initial separate subscriptions were confusing at best. Current situation is pretty much same as Anthropic/OpenAI - straightforward

Edit: changed ~1 month ago (https://old.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1npiv2o/google_ai_pro...)

Goes even further for languages with dual (like my native Slovenian) - on top of singular and plural

ena ptica (one bird), dve ptici (two birds), tri ptice (three birds)

As well as 6 grammatical cases and 3 genders. And a number of special cases

I am also in the camp believing they will sell ads the second they find a viable way (churn worth it, base infrastructure for it built, enough people trusting ai with product recommendations...)

I think the queries will fall into profitable (product recommendations) and non profitable (writing an essay or code) just the way they do for Google. Probably former will have a generous free tier and latter will be largely paywalled. I don't know how they'll do that, but I imagine they'll find some way

It's a mass consumer (software) product and they need new revenue venues and ads have a history of working well. Even Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Prime, ... Companies that historically don't have the ad infrastructure of Google or Facebook have increasingly profitable ad tiers

In the initial contract Microsoft would lose a lot of rights when OpenAI achieves AGI. The references to AGI in this post, to me, look like Microsoft protecting themselves from OpenAI declaring _something_ as AGI and as a result Microsoft losing the rights

I don't see the mentions in this post as anyone particularly believing we're close to AGI

People making most money _playing_ poker are really really good players that get invited to games with the wealthy people. This takes both poker skills, social skills (being entertaining) and potentially doing some occasional "fun" (incorrect) plays.

They are not the best poker players in the world. Best poker players have the misfortune of not being invited to "fun" millionaire games

If you have enough of an edge, the variance is really not that big. The only reason to have high-tech cheating when you already have a table full of fish - is if the people running the scheme are not very good at poker

My pet theory is that Gemini's training is, more than others, focused on rewriting and pulling out facts from data. (As well as being cheap to run). Since the biggest use is the Google AI generated search results

It doesn't perform nearly as well as Claude or even Codex for my programming tasks though

I cycle a lot. Outdoors I listen to podcasts and the fact that I can say "Hey Google, go back 30sec" to relisten to something (or forward to skip ads) is very valuable to me.

Indoors I tend to cast some show or youtube video. Often enough I want to change the Youtube video or show using voice commands - I can do this for Youtube, but results are horrible unless I know exactly which video I want to watch. For other services it's largely not possible at all

In a perfect world Google would provide superb APIs for these integrations and all app providers would integrate it and keep it up to date. But if we can bypass that and get good results across the board - I would find it very valuable

I understand this is a very specific scenario. But one I would be excited about nonetheless

Odds providers have their models on how likely each outcome is. They add a spread to this (for example if it's 50/50, they'll pay out 1.8x instead of 2x). The line can also be affected by other factors, like how likely it is one side is oversubscribed. They don't make money on all markets, just most

But if someone has a model that is so significantly better than theirs that it beats the line _and_ spread, they will make money in the long run. Haralabos Voulgaris for example is likely one of the most successful sports bettors. Very interesting guy imo

Half of the new Google Pixel AI features are not enabled in EU. Magic cue, text image editing... These are on-device features too, so really not sure why

I'm a disappointed Pixel 10 owner living in Germany

For better or worse, a big chunk (if not most) of the AI development probably does go into non-creative work like matching ads against users and ranking search results

It's just not what gets the exciting headlines and showcases

G-SIB banks for example

Google has a deal with Reddit to scrape its content for training AI. It also has Youtube

I think the question is about why someone would want to _increase_ their bus factor for the family

I think the idea is that with some wealth redistribution (taxes) free trade allows domestic companies to bring in larger revenues which would contribute to better education (healthcare, infrastructure etc). Then the idea is that we don't have domestic sweatshops, Nikes would continue to be made cheap offshore and the country's population could benefit from better education which would contribute to better innovation and better quality jobs

Agreed. I have 1040 as well and it serves me super well, largely because of its battery life (1 recharge on 7day bikepacking trip of ~6hr/day usage), consistency (no disconnects with other data points) and very solid gps (multi band enabled, no issues in forests etc)

UI takes a lot of time to get used to and even then there are many things I hate

This is incorrect. The way shorting works is you borrow a stock (and keep paying premium for the duration) and sell it

Premiums are usually small, so you can make many multiples of paid premium

And since their business model is releasing the findings, which in turn makes the stock drop, they can time their short position very well and don't need to pay premiums for long

Google Meet comes to mind. It probably won't go away any time soon and I quite like it

I'm in the same boat being extremely annoyed with notifications on the watch. But I just disabled them completely on my Garmin

There's a setting under Notifications & Alerts > Smart notifications > Status (switch to off). In the Garmin app

Back in the days Google notoriously launched turn-by-turn navigation on Android only. They bet on this being a big enough differentiator for people to use Android over iPhones.

Apple then launched Apple maps - which at some point became quite good. Google quickly learned that they can't afford to make Android specific features in their apps or they risk losing large percentage of iOS users if Apple makes a competing product

If Apple didn't respond with making their own maps, then maybe we would see more and more Android specific features, to the point where Android would become the dominating platform

As much as I'd like to see it being more open, a lot of people seem concerned about security and are happy with the current state of iOS/iPadOs and not having to deal with troubleshooting of their families devices

> Interesting, I've had 2 Garmin Smart Watches and never felt like Apple was restricting them.

Sending messages from watch for example. Apple only allows that for Apple watches

That sounds about right. It is hard to make all information public asap (with all the regulation), so I would assume it would be hard to get rid of the wiggle room between when an insider can place a bet and the information actually becomes public

Matt Levine's most recent article touches on insider trading pros and cons (in relation to sports betting) and is, as usual, a great read - https://archive.is/jJ25g

Insider trading being illegal encourages participation in markets for people outside the company. As well as discourages intentionally messing up within the company and profiting from short selling

The argument against it is that markets would be more efficient if people were allowed to trade on information not yet available to the public

Seems like a worthy tradeoff to me

The fact that the software I have on my Mac is not tied to what I can download from Apple Store is basically the sole reason it's useful to me