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Google Seeks Licensing Talks With News Groups, Following AI Rivals

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · Jul 22

Over the past few months, there’s been a subtle but significant shift: Google is seeking AI-related licensing deals with news organizations.

The company plans to launch a pilot with about 20 national news outlets, sources tell me & Hannah Miller:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The company has ramped up its overtures to news organizations in recent months

Google Ends Recipe Pilot That Left Creators Fearing Web-Traffic Hit

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jul 22

Fox is seeking to recruit hens for a new henhouse project

Techmeme @techmeme.com · Jul 22

Sources: Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to AI, and plans to launch a pilot initially with ~20 US outlets (Bloomberg)

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · Jul 1

Read for free here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-01/google-ends-recipe-pilot-that-left-creators-fearing-web-traffic-hit?accessToken=

Google has ended tests of a feature that would have let users open a snapshot of cooking-recipe content directly in web search results — a welcome development for creators and food bloggers who were c...

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · Jul 1

Google won’t launch a recipe feature in search that had many creators fearing for their traffic - and their livelihoods. Story with @davey.bsky.social:

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · Jun 5

Feels like a good time to re-up this story. Read for free here: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.

Google-Linked VC Fund Series X Aims to Raise Over $500 Million

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · May 24

Friday evening scoop about the original X! A fund affiliated with Alphabet has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in startups spinning out from the lab. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-24/google-linked-vc-fund-series-x-aims-to-raise-over-500-million?srnd=undefined

A venture capital fund with links to Alphabet Inc.’s famed moonshot factory, X, has raised hundreds of millions to invest in the companies that spin off from the lab, according to a person familiar wi...

Alphabet’s Pichai Says Google Bringing Products to Market Faster

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · May 20

New: As Google search head Liz Reid announces at #googleio that AI Mode is rolling out to all US users today, Alphabet shares drop...

Follow along with my & @julialove.bsky.social's live I/O coverage here

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will bring products to market faster to keep pace with new rivals in the artificial intelligence age.

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · May 20

Despite the Veo model’s penchant for audio, I’m told the birdsong reverberating through the amphitheater is real. 🎶🐥

Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · May 20

Google shares intensified their fall as the company announced AI Mode at #GoogleIO. Were investors hoping for more?

Google’s Pichai Calls US Remedies ‘De Facto’ Spinoff of Search

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · Apr 30

NEW: Pichai is testifying in the DOJ's search remedies antitrust case today. Here's my and @leahnylen.bsky.social's first take. The Google CEO called the DOJ's proposed remedies a "de facto" spinoff of search.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai told a judge who found that Google illegally monopolizes online search that a Justice Department proposal to share search data with rivals would be ...

Google Places Ads Inside Chatbot Conversations With AI Startups

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · May 1

Scoop on the Google beat: Google has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots, starting with AI search startups like iAsk and Liner. This means that even if Google's share of the search market dwindles, it still stands to profit. bloom.bg/436FhkR

Google’s ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.’s efforts to keep its edge in digital advertising as generative artificial inte...

White House Pushed Job Cuts at Agency That’s Clashed With Musk

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Apr 29

Scoop: Trump's NLRB leaders concluded layoffs “cannot be implemented without impairing the Agency’s ability to fulfill its statutory mandate.”

But OMB deemed that rationale inadequate, and pushed NLRB to "think creatively" and do "additional staff reductions"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The White House is privately urging the federal labor board to reduce staff, despite pushback by Trump-appointed officials warning that further cuts would imperil the agency's functions.

DOJ Google Antitrust Case Wraps With Generative AI in Spotlight

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Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen @leahnylen.bsky.social · Apr 29

DOJ rested its case against Google today in the remedies hearing over how to fix competition in online search. A recap by me and @davey.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The US Justice Department’s proposed fixes for Google’s illegal monopoly in the online search market are more likely to spur competition than the remedies offered by the company, an economist called b...

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · Apr 9

In Las Vegas this week checking out Google’s AI restoration of The Wizard of Oz, among other cloud news! Would love to meet Google partners and employees while I’m in town, DM me to connect.

Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’

Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · Apr 7

Google says AI Overviews drive more traffic to a diverse mix of publishers. But it has never shared data to back up that claim.

@daveyalba & I spoke to 25 creators who painted a different picture. Several are out of business. One is on food stamps. Our latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.

Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT

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Josh Sisco @sisco.bsky.social · Mar 24

Excellent read on what’s at stake for Google as revamps it search business in the age of AI and why it’s fighting off major changes proposed by the the DOJ. From @julialove.bsky.social and @davey.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Big changes are underway for the internet’s most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.

Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨 NEW: Google Search has ruled the web for >20 yrs. But in recent years, a chorus of discontent has been building among the web-going public. Google is drastically remaking search with gen AI just as people are complaining that the service is slowly degrading—and degrading the web.

bloom.bg/41W2wwl

Big changes are underway for the internet’s most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.

Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨NEW: Google has spent the past 2+ years trying to remake search with generative AI. The results? Mixed. Check out my cover story with @davey.bsky.social on missed opportunities, Google's attempts to right the ship & the price being paid across the web. Gift link:

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Big changes are underway for the internet’s most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.

Elon Musk Is Now X’s Biggest Promoter of Anti-Immigrant Conspiracies

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · Feb 14

Last year, we showed how Musk posted incessantly abt immigration, to great effect—and potentially as a tactic. His false assertions abt migrants received more reposts than any other policy issue he discussed.

That's in part how he vaulted himself to political power alongside Trump. bloom.bg/3EO50Vo

Elon Musk’s online rhetoric is boosting Trump’s plans to deport migrants and laying the groundwork to dispute the US election results.

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory

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Sarah Frier @sarahfrier.bsky.social · Feb 14

Elon Musk posts frequently about immigration, and the dangers of letting unauthorized people into the country.
Here, @julialove.bsky.social reveals that Musk’s companies have relied on undocumented workers for a rapid expansion in Austin, Texas:

Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · Feb 14

For my latest story, I reported on the lives of the undocumented contract workers who helped power Elon Musk's expansion in Austin. Sweeping debris, laying plumbing and pouring concrete, these workers built facilities that helped make Musk’s $400 billion fortune.

Read for free:
bloom.bg/41gG6a3

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory

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Cecilia D'Anastasio @cecianasta.bsky.social · Feb 14

If you're not already in the @julialove.bsky.social fan club, now is a great time to join. Her latest involves interviews with 10 undocumented immigrant workers who said they'd worked at Tesla + SpaceX facilities - while Musk's anti-immigrant rhetoric intensifies: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory

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Kurt Wagner @kurtwagner.bsky.social · Feb 14

New: Elon Musk relied on undocumented workers to help build Tesla's gigafactory in Texas. He later propagated anti-immigrant sentiment to vault himself into political power alongside President Trump.

Great reporting from @julialove.bsky.social (gift link 👇)

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory

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Tom Giles @tomgiles.bsky.social · Feb 15

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on undocumented workers even as Musk advocated for a border crackdown. In many posts on X he has criticized local and federal officials for not doing enough to vet the migrants they take in. By @julialove.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · Feb 14

New @bloomberg.com: Undocumented workers helped build Elon Musk’s Tesla gigafactory bloom.bg/41gG6a3

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.