# Sundar Pichai

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A Very Busy Grumpy Week of Web Politics in a Constant Zero Day Edition

It has been wild on the Web the week and Jim is grumpier than usual. Rogue AI agents and the Super Intelligent ability find holes where nobody saw them before have put the Web on an exhaustingly constant Zero Day posture. The discovery of ancient security flaws deep in the codebase of PHP sent the …

Weekly Briefing - October 27, 2026: Know What Ran

This week, Google and OpenAI gave their ad systems more room to change bids, rewrite ads, and add words the advertiser never wrote. Google also made its existing AI-search controls easier to find, Sundar Pichai described how he expects AI agents to reach websites, and Meta gave businesses until Nov…

Google Q3 2026 Earnings Call: Agentic Search, Connected Apps (MCP) & Gemini 4 Carbon

I went through the entire Google Q3 2026 earnings call transcript to pull out what actually matters for SEOs, business owners, and anyone building for the AI era. Even though Alphabet stock dropped after the call, what Sundar Pichai shared about Agentic Search, combined with Google's new Connected …

Google’s AI in Space: A Breakthrough, but Does the Business Case Add Up?

Google has taken a step towards computing in space. Project Suncatcher has returned an AI-created response from a data-centre-class processor aboard a prototype satellite. It is an engineering milestone, but does it establish a practical alternative to data centres on Earth? In this episode of AI t…

AI This Week: Grok Bot Picks Up the Phone

In this issue * Grok Bot can now make phone calls for you * Elon says the next Grok model is late and Grok Imagine posted a prompting guide * OpenAI released Terra, a cheaper model for computer use * OpenAI showed how its monitors caught the sandbox escape * Anthropic filed to go public * Claude fo…

The Stand, Episode 4: The Billionaire Spectrum, A Tale of Good and Evil

* Let’s say that your friend decides to count to 1 billion. How long will it take her? She will be able to say the small numbers like 4 or 31 fairly rapidly, but most of the numbers between one and a billion are long and challenging to pronounce. When she starts counting the larger numbers like 467…

Klaus Thymann, scientist: Indonesia’s ‘eternal glaciers’ are vanishing

“I can't pronounce the local language, but if it's kind of translated into English, it becomes ‘the eternal glaciers’. And to have something on a mountain that has that cultural history, and has been so important for local belief, and local culture, to disappear. It's a culture heritage disappearin…

'Plot Twists' in Global AI. Google, Frontier Models & DeepSeek. ARD #136

Three storylines reversed direction this week, all global. Google's AI center of gravity crosses from the UK to California. The frontier models find new ways to talk in their most locked-down tests. And AI pricing in China turns up instead of down. Today's theme: new 'Plot Twists' in global AI. Ye…

#57 - Is the AI Bubble Popping? Intel Crashes, UBS Counts 12,700 AI Agents, and a Satellite Writes a Haiku

Intel falls almost 30% in a day as investors sell AI stocks, UBS counts more than 12,700 personal AI agents, and a Google satellite answers with a haiku. Is the AI bubble popping? Malcolm thinks it is a recalibration. Recorded around midnight in Beijing, a day after Shanghai, with a visit to the…

Google AI Mode Is Citing 74% Fewer Sources. Now What?

Google AI Mode went from about 16 cited sources per answer to about 4, roughly 74% fewer, according to one new dataset. Paris Childress covers three stories in today's GEO briefing: fewer AI Mode citations, how ChatGPT picks ads, and Sundar Pichai's agentic layer. In this episode: 74% fewer sou…