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Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets

Apr 3

Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets : March 16-31, 2026

Welcome to the March 16–31, 2026 edition of Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets. The nuggets are also available on YouTube.

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The Needed - Stephen Hilton

Mar 30

DON'T GOOGLE ME

I’d like to reintroduce myself to you

Hi. I’d like to reintroduce myself, I’m Stephen Hilton. Nice to meet you.

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Jenny with the Glock

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11h

I never believed in pathological liars until I discovered you Stephan. I thought “There’s no way that someone can lie so much that it just becomes what they do.” But here you are… lying. The funniest part is you want people to subscribe to your lies and bullshit. No one is googling you because no one cares, no one even knows who you are outside of being that weird guy in Lauras videos that she stupidly married and procreated with ughhh. Some may know you as the guy that relapsed “for art” and flushed his cushy life down the commode. You aren’t known for anything good or outstanding. You’ve very little talent in anything, and have failed in Literally everything you’ve tried. You say you’ll answer people questions honestly on here. You say that the drugs were the reason you did such horrible things, but what about Xolani? I thought you were sober then. So why did you do that? What about all the rage baiting? You were supposedly sober then too. But your shitty personality was shining bright. So I guess it wasn’t just the drugs huh Stephan? You are an angry little man, abusive, narcissistic, jealous. And you can’t tell the truth to save your soul. Clocks ticking on those court dates. Better hope you are better at convincing a judge that you aren’t a joke of a human being, because so many of us are calling your bluff old man. You’re gonna have to get an actual job soon because this can’t be paying the bills.😆

Lo's Letter

Mar 30

don't google yourself

This Week:

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Sara Trojanowski

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Thank you for sharing so openly and honestly and happy to hear you are taking a little time for yourself! My son is 13 and I still find myself with the challenge of self care. Sending you and your sweet family all the love and well wishes with your health!❤️

Jilly Hendrix

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❤️beautiful

Cloud Girl

Apr 2

What is Google TurboQuant

The Paper That Crashed AI Chips & Your GPU Wins

Running a large language model on your own hardware felt like driving a sports car with the handbrake on. Fast enough to be exciting. Powerful enough to feel like the future. But the moment you pushed loaded a long document, pasted in a transcript, tried to hold a real conversation across dozens of exchanges something would give. The model would forget.…

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Shwetank Kumar

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14h

Good callout on the asymmetric K/V norm issue with Qwen, Priyanka — that alone changes the deployment math for a lot of production stacks.

The strategic question nags at me: if this is genuinely worth billions in inference savings, why did Google publish it? Google is a chip buyer, not a seller. You publish when the PR value exceeds the strategic value.

And the RaBitQ controversy adds context. Jianyang Gao, whose method TurboQuant builds on, is documenting benchmark inconsistencies — single-core CPU for RaBitQ vs A100 GPU for TurboQuant. If the 6x number needs an asterisk, the downstream deployment math changes significantly.

Meanwhile Goldman Sachs is forecasting 49% semiconductor revenue growth and $700B in AI hardware by Q4 2026. Efficiency doesn't shrink demand in AI — it feeds it.

All of these mean that we will have plenty to write about on our substacks for the foreseeable future! :)

GenAI Assembling

Apr 1

When Google Copies You

What Wanderboat's story tells us about where AI-native local search is actually going.

On March 12, Sundar Pichai announced that Google Maps would get a major AI upgrade — Gemini integration, conversational search, intent-based recommendations, multi-stop itinerary generation. Wu You, CEO of Wanderboat, had one response: “I’m excited to announce I’ve been named Chief Product Officer of Google Maps.”

GenAI Assembling

Letters by Burk

Apr 2

Europe’s Tech Breakup with the US Isn’t Going Great

Microsoft, Amazon, Google

Europe has a dependency problem. We know this. Awareness is growing. I’ve written about this multiple times now.

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Alex Ewerlöf Notes

Mar 22

Github Copilot vs Google Antigravity

Why Github gets developers and why it's hard to tell who Antigravity is for

I’ve been using Github Copilot (in VS Code and CLI) since 2021 as well as Google Antigravity (and its Gemini CLI) since November 2025.

Alex Ewerlöf ∙ 7 LIKES ∙ 2 RESTACKS

Thomas

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Mar 23

I've never used the "Agent Manager" of antigravity, but I've certainly ran through the huge amount of bugs it has. The roll-back-removed-files bugs, the roll-back-re-send-sends-nothing bugs and the current one workspace-memory-loss. Compared to Cursor and VSCode and even Kilo Code, this is really embarrassing for Google to release something like this too early. That said, nothing even comes close to the Google One Ultra plan's Opus 4.6 usage limits, which is the only reason i stay..

Bernardo Gomes de Abreu

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Mar 23

Good article. Thanks for sharing!

Ben's Bites

Mar 5

Google apps in the terminal

two new models, lot of rumours and revenue

Hey I’m Ben. I build stuff with agents, even though I’m not technical. Here’s all the stuff I’m reading and tinkering with. If you want to start building or level up your ‘vibe-coding’ skills, join our community.

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Leonidas Tam, PhD

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Mar 5

"The Information reports that OpenAI is building an internal alternative to GitHub. OpenAI’s browser Atlas came 11 months after The Information reported on it first. So expect this to take some time."

This is huge news. OpenAI realizes how far behind it is in enterprise versus Anthropic, and it's making a strategic play, both on workflow and dev tools with datasets. The question is, can they match Anthropic's pace, shipping Claude workspace in a week, according to Claude creator Boris Chervny.

The Quantum Foundry

Mar 26

Google Including Neutral Atom Qubit Approach

BigTech is charting their Quantum computing future more clearly in 2026. Many roadmaps point to 2030 as key year. However this full-stack dual qubit modality approach is promising.

It’s March, 2026 and Google Quantum’s roadmap is getting a lot more tangible. Google Quantum AI is broadening its quantum computing roadmap by introducing a neutral atom quantum computing programme alongside its established superconducting qubit research. This is of course validation for Neutral Atom approach to qubit development.

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Unsloth AI

Apr 2

Google Gemma 4 now in Unsloth

Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 today, a new family of open models, including E2B, E4B, 26B-A4B, and 31B. These multimodal, hybrid-thinking models support 140+ languages, up to 256K context, and come in both dense and MoE variants. Gemma 4 can now run locally and be fine-tuned in

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Local Marketing Minute

Apr 2

⚡️Google Changed. Authority Still Wins.

Plus: ChatGPT “near me” results, smarter reporting, and a quick plan for real leads.

I’m back with another edition of Local Marketing Minute. You’ll get insights, tips, and news about Local SEO, AI, and Ads to “Help You Get More Leads.”

Justin Herring ∙ 3 LIKES

Club des Meal

Apr 5

When Google Reviews Lie in Paris

And how I'm still falling for the traps after all these years

A quiche, according to the French dictionary Larousse, is a savory tart of pâte brisée (shortcrust pastry) often garnished with lardons and filled with a mixture of eggs and cream. The dry, dense wedge staring up at me from my plate, then, is not a quiche. The menu called it a quiche. But a quiche it is not.

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Bobby Frank

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21h

I'm looking at the photo, and, that is not a QUICHE. It looks dry and dense as a bone.

John’s Substack

Mar 31

How to audit your own Google Ads account in 5 minutes using a free Google tool

Schedule a chat for questions: https://calendly.com/itallstartedwithaidea-client/1-1-open-public

Most small businesses running their own Google Ads have no idea if their account is set up correctly. They're spending $3-5k/month and guessing. Agencies charge $1,500-3,000/month to tell you what's wrong. Google quietly open-sourced a terminal tool called Gemini CLI that — with the right setup — can audit your account across 7 areas, flag what's broken…

John Williams ∙ 54 LIKES

Tim Stoddart

Mar 30

Google Just Dropped A Massive Algorithm Update

The goalposts have moved for local search. Here is the exact paradigm shift you need to understand to win.

Welcome to issue #001 of Marketing Mondays. Each week, I send you an essay to help you become a better digital marketer. I will also give you a digital lead gen audit for free.

Tim Stoddart ∙ 36 LIKES

Mark Shandrow

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Great read

UX Collective

Mar 28

Google says “Vibe Design” is here, but...

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“I woke up this morning to see Figma stocks had plummeted by nearly 12% as a result of Google formally launching its Google Stitch AI design tool. I was in a 1:1 call with my manager today, and she was telling me about how she thinks something big is brewing. She was there during the rise of Figma when the majority of the design market was still using S…

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XR AI Spotlight

Mar 31

What 3DGenAI Founder Revealed Before Google Acquisition

How AI will replace game engines

Today I have a very special interview to share, the conversation with Tejas Kulkarni, CEO of Common Sense Machines.

Gabriele Romagnoli ∙ 2 LIKES

BadProtein

Apr 4

GOOGLE EARTH

You can forget about a normal, human, childhood for 700 years. Then the Asteroid comes.

All I wanted was a Pepsi

BadProtein

Cynthia Ross

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Hmm

“>>>>>>>>>> why will you not allow me to distinguish who i am talking to?”

PeerPulse by PeerCapital

Mar 27

Peer Power

The Questions You Can't Google - Part 3

Is my co-founder feeling the same pain I am?

Ankur Pahwa and PeerCapital ∙ 1 LIKES

Mr.Grow - AI 4 Agencies

Apr 5

Es posible 3x tus Resultados en Google Ads?

60% de descuento en Magnify. Solo 50 plazas. Solo hoy.

Mientras tú descansas, tu competencia sigue robándote clics.

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ARB Letter

Mar 31

8AM Announcement from Pentagon

538: Google/Microsoft Opportunity, Major Iran Update

Good morning.

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Technomanagers

Mar 29

Spec-Driven Development for Product Managers

Explained with Real Example of Google Maps

You are a Senior Product Manager at Google Maps.

Shailesh Sharma and Apoorva Mittal ∙ 4 LIKES ∙ 4 RESTACKS

Sifu Yik's Substack

Apr 4

Google Artificial Intelligence Free Courses with Certificates 2026

Sifu Yik's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Sifu Yik Chan ∙ 3 LIKES

Last Week in Plain English

Mar 31

Google Wins with TurboQuant, OpenAI & Meta Face Consequences

Issue #247: Big Tech hits a wall. AI compute limits, OpenAI’s cost problem, and Meta’s legal reckoning.

Sunil here, and this week’s issue is all about what it looks like when tech stops being limited by imagination, and starts being limited by cold, harsh reality.

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The Quantum S.H.I.F.T.

Apr 1

Google Just Shrunk the Quantum Threat by 20x

sorry, your 2030-2035 timelines are toast now

I just touched down from a trip to Belgium, where I was delivering a keynote at CyberNova on why the "Q-Day" narrative is a myth. The timing’s super eerie… I was literally mid-flight when this Google news hit my inbox, proving that while the "apocalypse" is hype, the math is moving way faster than anyone expected.

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