seeing the source url, I feel this can largely be dismissed as a billionaire class owned publication steering the public discourse

So you're saying it's a news outlet?

you certainly have a point, though there are organizations with more journalistic integrity and freedom and a different ownership structure. But maybe not in the US any more.

This year:

chromeos is 17

android is 18

chrome is 18

google docs is 20

google translate is 20

In retrospect, it is wild how good/successful google was 17-20 years ago!

Few years ago, we had Google Bard, the ancestor of Gemini, which was supposed to be an AI LLM, and when you right-clicked the page, it was a fake page with hardcoded sentences in a .js file...

> was supposed to be an AI LLM

Are you claiming Bard wasn't an LLM???

None of them looks like their original form, none would survive without google’s enormous investment.