Posted on 11/19/2025 1:50:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Google's ultra-private CEO Sundar Pichai is showing me around Googleplex, its California headquarters. A walkway runs along the length of it, passing by a giant dinosaur skeleton, a beach volleyball pitch and dozens of Googlers lunching under the hazy November sun.
But it's a laboratory, hidden away at the back of the campus behind some trees, that he is most excited to show me.
This is where the invention that Google believes is its secret weapon is being developed.
Known as a Tensor Processing Unit (or TPU), it looks like an unassuming little chip but, says Mr Pichai, it will one day power every AI query that goes through Google. This makes it potentially one of the most important objects in the world economy right now.
"AI is the most profound technology humanity [has ever worked] on," he insists. "It has potential for extraordinary benefits - we will have to work through societal disruptions."
But the confusing question lingering over the AI hype is whether it is a bubble at risk of bursting - as, if so, it may well be a spectacular burst akin to the dotcom crash at the start of the century, with consequences for us all.
The Bank of England has already warned of a "sudden correction" in global financial markets, saying "market valuations appear stretched" for tech AI firms. Meanwhile. OpenAI boss Sam Altman has speculated that "there are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now".
Asked whether Google would be immune from a potential bubble burst, Mr Pichai said it could weather that potential storm - but for all his starry-eyed excitement around the possibilities of AI, he also issued a warning: "I..."
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Tesla is accomplishing that now.
The Teslas are all connected to the AI world wide. The computer in the vehicle has been extracted and implanted into an Optimus robot that is also connected.
The same computer has been given a phone ap and is the Tesla Pi phone. The Tesla Cybercab is autonomous self driving and is connected to the AI and learns what all Cyber Cabs learn
Tesla is a good product, my son-in-law drives one.
But the P/E numbers need a head examination.
TSLA 277
INTC 762
AMD 120
PLTR 1550
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