Davey Alba

@daveyalba

@technology reporter covering Google and big tech / daveyalba.com / Bluesky profile: bsky.app/profile/davey.…

New York bloomberg.com/authors/AVvdlC… Joined April 2008

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Google is switching off its AI tools for K-12 students by default. It’s also turning off Google Search by default, so schools that turn search back on get the AI built into it.

In today’s newsletter, I look at how this echoes the search antitrust case: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

www.bloomberg.com Google’s Policy on AI in the Classroom Puts Schools in a Bind The offer to let schools decide whether students can use AI tools comes with a catch

Davey Alba @daveyalba Sep 30

NEW: As Google unveils Gemini 4, sources tell us there's a gap b/w how it scores on benchmarks and how it performs on real-world tasks, including certain coding work. Internally, opinions are mixed on whether it has caught up to OpenAI & Anthropic.

Scoop w/@byJuliaLove @EdLudlow

Davey Alba @daveyalba Sep 18

There's so much to dig into with this issue, hope we can all continue to talk about it. Here also is a companion newsletter in which I go into more detail about the mechanism of the Hugging Face hack bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

www.bloomberg.com Hugging Face Hack Shows Humans Can Keep AI In Check The rhetoric focused on the technology’s existential threat overshadows more correctable issues

Davey Alba @daveyalba Sep 17

New w/ @rachelmetz: For the past few days, the normie world has been getting a glimpse of the long-running "we're all gonna die" story in AI. But what is it, exactly, that we're talking about when we talk about doom? Or rather, what are we NOT talking about? (Accountability.)

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Davey Alba @daveyalba Sep 18

at this point, we've all seen talk of why we should fear AI, why it might kill all humans. but researchers that @rachelmetz and I spoke to say that rhetoric makes it harder to hold companies making this technology accountable.

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Davey Alba @daveyalba Sep 17

New w/ @rachelmetz: For the past few days, the normie world has been getting a glimpse of the long-running "we're all gonna die" story in AI. But what is it, exactly, that we're talking about when we talk about doom? Or rather, what are we NOT talking about? (Accountability.)