Julia Love
@julialove.bsky.social
Tech reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek. On maternity leave - see you in 2026! 🐣
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: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-03/the-ai-pioneer-trying-to-save-artificial-intelligence-from-big-tech?srnd=undefined
Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-03/the-ai-pioneer-trying-to-save-artificial-intelligence-from-big-tech?srnd=undefined
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.
www.bloomberg.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-03/the-ai-pioneer-trying-to-save-artificial-intelligence-from-big-tech?srnd=undefined
Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-03/the-ai-pioneer-trying-to-save-artificial-intelligence-from-big-tech?srnd=undefined
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...
The company plans to launch a pilot with about 20 national news outlets, sources tell me & Hannah Miller:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Google Seeks Licensing Talks With News Groups, Following AI Rivals
The company has ramped up its overtures to news organizations in recent months
www.bloomberg.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
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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Fox is seeking to recruit hens for a new henhouse project
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)
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July 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Fox is seeking to recruit hens for a new henhouse project
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:
July 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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:
Feels like a good time to re-up this story. Read for free here: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
June 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Feels like a good time to re-up this story. Read for free here: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-24/google-linked-vc-fund-series-x-aims-to-raise-over-500-million?srnd=undefined
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...
www.bloomberg.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-24/google-linked-vc-fund-series-x-aims-to-raise-over-500-million?srnd=undefined
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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
Follow along with my & @julialove.bsky.social's live I/O coverage here
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.
www.bloomberg.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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
Follow along with my & @julialove.bsky.social's live I/O coverage here
Despite the Veo model’s penchant for audio, I’m told the birdsong reverberating through the amphitheater is real. 🎶🐥
May 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Despite the Veo model’s penchant for audio, I’m told the birdsong reverberating through the amphitheater is real. 🎶🐥
Google shares intensified their fall as the company announced AI Mode at #GoogleIO. Were investors hoping for more?
May 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Google shares intensified their fall as the company announced AI Mode at #GoogleIO. Were investors hoping for more?
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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...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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 ...
www.bloomberg.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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
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...
bloom.bg
May 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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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...
But OMB deemed that rationale inadequate, and pushed NLRB to "think creatively" and do "additional staff reductions"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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...
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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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...
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...
www.bloomberg.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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...
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.
April 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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 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...
@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...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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...
@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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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...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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🚨 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
bloom.bg/41W2wwl
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.
bloom.bg
March 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
🚨 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
bloom.bg/41W2wwl
🚨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...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🚨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...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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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
That's in part how he vaulted himself to political power alongside Trump. bloom.bg/3EO50Vo
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.
bloom.bg
February 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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
That's in part how he vaulted himself to political power alongside Trump. bloom.bg/3EO50Vo
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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:
Here, @julialove.bsky.social reveals that Musk’s companies have relied on undocumented workers for a rapid expansion in Austin, Texas:
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
Read for free:
bloom.bg/41gG6a3
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.
bloom.bg
February 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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:
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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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...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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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...
Great reporting from @julialove.bsky.social (gift link 👇)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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...
Great reporting from @julialove.bsky.social (gift link 👇)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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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...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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New @bloomberg.com: Undocumented workers helped build Elon Musk’s Tesla gigafactory bloom.bg/41gG6a3
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.
bloom.bg
February 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
New @bloomberg.com: Undocumented workers helped build Elon Musk’s Tesla gigafactory bloom.bg/41gG6a3
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
Read for free:
bloom.bg/41gG6a3
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.
bloom.bg
February 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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
Read for free:
bloom.bg/41gG6a3