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Julia Love

@julialove.bsky.social
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Tech reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek.

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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Google pitches hiring as one of many places AI can be helpful. Some of its own AI researchers may not be so sure. My latest! Gift link:
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Google’s AI Team Tells Job Seekers Its HR Filters Are Unreliable
Alphabet Inc.’s Google pitches its artificial intelligence tools to corporate clients as a way to more quickly sift through a mountain of job applications to find the most promising candidates. Some o...
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🚨My latest: Google has an enviable position in the AI race, making its own chips and selling them to customers. This success has made its computing resources so valuable, though, that its own AI researchers have to get in line.
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Google’s Own AI Researchers Jockey for Access to Its Computing
In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has an enviable position: The company has a healthy cloud computing business, makes its own chips, a...
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New scoop from me and Shirin Ghaffary: Google is set to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic.
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Google Plans to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic
Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between two companies that are at once partners and rivals in the race t...
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I’m excited to share my latest story - a profile of @Essential AI CEO Ashish Vaswani, one of the godfathers of the latest wave of AI. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/features/202…
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What If We’re Doing AI All Wrong?
Ashish Vaswani helped usher in modern AI. Now he’s worried Big Tech is blinding itself to new breakthroughs.
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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...
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Google Seeks Licensing Talks With News Groups, Following AI Rivals
The company has ramped up its overtures to news organizations in recent months
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Fox is seeking to recruit hens for a new henhouse project
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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 · 05/06/2025
Feels like a good time to re-up this story. Read for free here: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory
Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
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Google-Linked VC Fund Series X Aims to Raise Over $500 Million
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...
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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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
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Alphabet’s Pichai Says Google Bringing Products to Market Faster
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 · 20/05/2025
Despite the Veo model’s penchant for audio, I’m told the birdsong reverberating through the amphitheater is real. 🎶🐥
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Google shares intensified their fall as the company announced AI Mode at #GoogleIO. Were investors hoping for more?
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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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...
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Google’s Pichai Calls US Remedies ‘De Facto’ Spinoff of Search
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 ...
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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
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Google Places Ads Inside Chatbot Conversations With AI Startups
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...
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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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White House Pushed Job Cuts at Agency That’s Clashed With Musk
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.
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Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen @leahnylen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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DOJ Google Antitrust Case Wraps With Generative AI in Spotlight
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 · 09/04/2025
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.
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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...
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Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’
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.
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Josh Sisco @sisco.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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...
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Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT
Big changes are underway for the internet’s most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🚨 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
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Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT
Big changes are underway for the internet’s most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🚨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...
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Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT
Big changes are underway for the internet’s most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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
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Elon Musk Is Now X’s Biggest Promoter of Anti-Immigrant Conspiracies
Elon Musk’s online rhetoric is boosting Trump’s plans to deport migrants and laying the groundwork to dispute the US election results.
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Sarah Frier @sarahfrier.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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:
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Cecilia D'Anastasio @cecianasta.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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...
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The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory
Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.
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Kurt Wagner @kurtwagner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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...
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The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory
Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.
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Tom Giles @tomgiles.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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...
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The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory
Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.
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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New @bloomberg.com: Undocumented workers helped build Elon Musk’s Tesla gigafactory bloom.bg/41gG6a3
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The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory
Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.
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Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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
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The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory
Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.
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