Julia Love

In late 2020, I wrote a man who was serving time for trying to sneak migrants through an immigration checkpoint. I was hoping he'd help me understand the vast smuggling economy. The story he shared was more complex and moving than I ever imagined. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Full story: Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down in a blockbuster changing of the guard. As one former executive who reported to Williams told me, “the band is dissolving.” Details here, what it means and what happens next: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Friday evening scoop about the other X! A fund affiliated with Alphabet's moonshot factory has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in spinouts from the lab. Read for free here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Google shares are intensifying their fall as the company announces AI Mode at #GoogleIO . Were investors hoping for more?

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 & @hgmiller29: bloomberg.com/news/article...

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) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250722/p12#a25…

🚨$200 million+ 🚨 Meta has made shockingly high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team — including a $200m+ package for former Apple Inc. engineer Ruoming Pang. Scoop w/@markgurman as the AI talent wars continue: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… $META

NEW: Waymo is launching a new account type that lets teenagers hail a robotaxi and ride alone This will be initially available in Phoenix. SF and LA customers will have to wait as California currently does not allow unaccompanied minors on AVs. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250702/p1#a250…

Confirmed by Google -> Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites "Google on Tuesday confirmed it ended the trial. “We continually experiment with ways to make…

Google has decided not to launch a recipe feature in search that had many food bloggers fearing for their traffic - and their livelihoods. Story with @daveyalba: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW from me: a quick profile of Alexandr Wang, who left his company Scale to become one of Meta's most $$$ expensive hires with some fun details like - why his name is missing an e - how YC thought he "may be arrogant or brilliant" also, I got bloomberg to print "these nuts"

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

🚨AI Is Draining Water From Areas That Need It Most🚨 We analyzed data on thousands of AI data centers, and found that roughly two thirds of them since 2022 are in places with high to extremely high levels of water stress. With @HiMichelleMa @dinabass⭐️ bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…

Major news now out of the Google trial: Apple's @Cue says company is exploring shift to AI search in Safari, including with players like OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic. Still, says he is losing sleep over potentially losing rev. share with Google. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner (@byjulialove / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… mediagazer.com/250501/p1#a250…

Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner (@byjulialove / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250501/p1#a250…

Scooplet on the Google beat: Google is now serving up ads in search chatbots’ results - giving it a way to profit even if its market share declines. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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 says AI Overviews drive more traffic to publishers. But it has never shared data to back up that claim. @daveyalba & I spoke to 25 creators who painted a very different picture. Several have gone out of business. One is on food stamps. Our latest: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The journalism landscape feels more treacherous than ever, and yet… there is still the thrill of a cover story. Check out my latest with @daveyalba! bloom.bg/41W2wwl