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The workplace where the engineer and his wife were employed, and where the incriminating Google Doc was discovered.

“So he, he tells Ivy. She finds the Google Doc. Not only did he take her to the airport, he constantly lied about, uh, oh, and the Google cafeteria. She's finding out that he met her at the Google cafeteria, her workplace that she didn't even wanna work at. She…”

The workplace where the individuals involved in the affair and marriage are employed.

“Yeah. For her to show up in, even at the Google cafeteria, knowing that-”

The employer of both the perpetrator and the victim, and the site of the lunch date.

“cafeterias, and he's going to be meeting his white rose, his ex-girlfriend, Zhang, the ex-girlfriend. She's visiting from Seattle, which, like I said, she works at Waymo, and she just ended her engagement to her fiance, who worked at Google DeepMind. She's tec…”

The employer of the perpetrator, mentioned in the context of a shared document used as evidence.

“And she was asked directly about certain quotes, and then when it becomes inconvenient... Because people are wondering, like, in the Google Doc, were you making it a big thing about wanting Ivy gone? Were you just saying things like, "Oh, if she were gone, we …”

The employer of both Tony and Ivy, where they worked as software engineers.

“This is part two of the audio podcast for the case of the Google software engineers. If you haven't listened to part one, please go listen. Part one, we covered a lot of ground. There are two Google software engineers, Tony and Ivy. They're a married couple. T…”

Referenced in the context of the ex-girlfriend's document and the husband's employment.

“testimony is just a testimony of convenience in my feeling, in my honest opinion, my personal opinion. There are times where she distinctly remembers how she felt in certain moments, and then she'll completely forget what she told Tony or things that she said …”

The employer of the defendant, mentioned in the context of his professional background.

“I think that we can kind of predict the outcome of this case because the evidence is just so, it's just so plentiful in this case that, yeah. The police, they testify of what it was like going through the house, seeing him in that state. I think during the tri…”

The company where Ivy worked and where false rumors claimed she had an affair with a higher-up.

“But they were like, "No, she's not in this group chat." So that was, like, the first round of rumors, was that he found out that she was involved with Vince, who everybody knows Vince, especially if you went to UCSD, and he snapped. They're like, "That makes s…”

The tech company where Tony and Ivy were employed.

“Which is maybe the ex-girlfriend. He gets to marry her. But he starts making up excuses about how this airport was the last true goodbye, like him saying goodbye one last time, they will never, ever be in each other's lives again. He, like, just wanted to get …”

Discussed as a potential leader in AI and for its interest in orbital data centers.

“There'll be one or two companies that will dominate. Probably, uh, Anthropic is one of them at this point, interestingly. Probably Google is the other.”

Referenced as a company controlling ninety percent of search, contributing to market consolidation.

“every tax policy, keeping minimum wage low, uh, writing off all CapEx, subsidizing certain ener- uh, certain industries, everything is about how do we consistently take money from earners who minimum wage was $7.25 fifteen years ago, it's still $7.25, the na- …”

Used AI to generate and publicly report security vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, creating friction with the project's volunteer maintainers.

“Just to be clear, Google are one of the biggest supporters of open source out there. They have been for a long time. It's just, I think some things kind of went a bit overboard this time. So FFmpeg itself, and, and this is not like a secret, it's on the homepa…”

Mentioned as a major contributor to open source through programs like Google Summer of Code and as an employer of skilled engineers.

“Well, I just wanna put a little bit of love out there, even to the bigger community. Uh, much love and respect to Google engineers. Like you said, they're, uh, uh, some of the, the best software engineers in the world, and they do contribute a lot-”

Criticized for its disproportionate level of contribution to FFmpeg relative to its massive usage of the software.

“they need to contribute either financially or with patches. Google uses FFmpeg at, at a scale probably you or I couldn't even contemplate, millions of CPU cores. And yes, they contribute in areas mostly regarding their own products, so VP9, AV1. But in a wider…”

Mentioned regarding Google Video's historical use of VLC plugins and current issues with search results hosting fake VLC versions.

“Well, actually, it's funny because, like, uh, Google Video, which was, uh, something they did before, uh, they acquired YouTube, uh, was actually using the VLC plugin so that you could run VLC inside the web browser, uh, using the ActiveX plugin. And so it wor…”

Users search for 'cone player' on Google to find and download VLC.

“That's the thing that Google for is cone player.”

Developed the VP9 codec as a royalty-free alternative to existing standards.

“Let's be honest. All of those codecs since MPEG-2 video are the same concept. The same concept about inverse transform, about intra prediction, motion compensation, entropy coding, all of them. However, each generation gives you a bump between twenty-five and …”

Compared unfavorably to teenagers regarding the amount of assembly code written for FFmpeg.

“... account, and you responded, "Teenagers have written more assembly in FFmpeg than Google engineers." But also just pointing out that there's a lot of incredible contributors who are teenagers.”

Mentioned as a large organization with vast resources compared to the small VLC team.

“For me, like some of the headaches we have is around some OS that are difficult to support, right? Because, um, uh, if you look at VLC and thanks to FATE and FFmpeg, we run on... The last version of VLC runs on Windows XP and still run there and runs on Window…”

Mentioned as a member of the Alliance for OpenMedia.

“And when this format was launched, uh, many people said, especially even from the Alliance for OpenMedia, right, which is Google, Netflix, Amazon, uh, Mozilla, say, "Well, this format is so complex, it must be done in hardware to do decoding," right? And well,…”

Mentioned as an example of a large corporation that fails to recognize the human element and fragility behind the open source projects they rely on.

“... as maintainer, uh, because the maintainers f- got fed up, right? Um, some on VideoLAN, some outside of VideoLAN, uh, because it's sometimes you need a, a, a tough skin, right? Because you get, like, it's not really attacks, but, uh, oh, this is not working…”

Mentioned as being aware of malicious software practices involving dark SEO and adware.

“Because that's how they, they do the detection. And after three weeks, there is a small program that is a service that install at the same time that wakes up after three weeks and start downloading spyware and adware. And Google knows about it. They've decided…”

Mentioned as a member of the Alliance for OpenMedia working on the AV1 codec.

“So AV1 is this codec that is done by the Alliance for OpenMedia, right? Where there is, uh, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, uh, VideoLAN, where we try to make a royalty-free very good codec, right? And now it's being deployed. But actually, the codec was finis…”

Mentioned as one of the companies that pushed for royalty-free codecs like AV1.

“Um, because it's very mathematical, and you can get great gains and so on. Um, so Google and Meta and Netflix wanted something where it was royalty-free. There are people who say that they have patents outside, but they are fringe patents, right? So m- it's mo…”

Cited as a browser that uses FFmpeg on the client side to handle video.

“Yeah, of course, I'm sure. Because so most of the people, they're going to take FFmpeg file in, file out, and specify the format, right? But you can... We've seen thousands of characters, and we've seen also, like, people, like, doing, um, programming, um, uh,…”

Discussed as having a strong opportunity to integrate AI assistants into personal data like Drive and Photos.

“... your Google Drive, your Google Photos, where all of your personal information sits. It can become your, your point of calendaring, your point of asking it questions about your personal life. "Hey, when did I email this person?" Et cetera. And in the enterp…”

Mentioned as a platform integrated into Marc Benioff's AI workflow.

“... nobody knew what was happening. And like, I'm using that myself, but I can then connect it into other things, so I have the ability to go into Salesforce and Google and everything. And so when I'm on Slackbot, I can ask it any question about my company. Wh…”

Mentioned as a potential partner for Apple regarding search defaults.

“[laughs] That's a very, uh, generous way to say it. [laughs] What should Apple do? Should they just go back to the loving arms of Google, where they made $100 billion being partners with them on the search default, your alma mater?”

In talks with SpaceX regarding a rocket launch deal for space-based data centers.

“[chimes ringing] In other business news, we're exclusively reporting that Google is in talks with SpaceX for a rocket launch deal that would help Google put its own data centers in space. A deal like this would have Google and SpaceX working together, even as …”

The company whose approach to AI development prompted Musk to co-found OpenAI.

“Yes. Rewind to 2015. We have this moment of Elon Musk sitting down with Larry Page, chief executive of Google, and having basically a big disagreement over the future of what AI should look like. Musk says, "I'm very worried," apparently, he's been talking at …”

Mentioned as a competitor that Microsoft believed was far ahead in AI development.

“I mean, it's funny, he actually does continue to pay rent on their offices [laughs] for a few more months, which is nice of him, I guess. But Sam and Greg start talking to Microsoft, the king of software from forever. They've been doing a bunch of AI spending …”

Competitor whose operating system put pressure on BlackBerry's hardware sales.

“We're talking twenty eleven, and, um, a couple things were going on. Um, one, our hardware business had grown a lot, but it was under pressure, huge pressure, and there were new, uh, o-operating systems, one from Apple and one from Google, that were putting tr…”

Partnered with Anthropic on a five-gigawatt compute deal for TPUs.

“We announced a partnership with SpaceX for their Colossus facility in Memphis. Really excited about that. It's gonna allow us to continue to expand, especially on the consumer and prosumer side. But that's just one example of us just, as you said, looking for …”

One of the three major cloud platforms where Anthropic's models are deployed.

“We're fortunate in that we have really great partners in Amazon, in Google, in Microsoft, but also with Broadcom and Nvidia as well. Our ecosystem, we are the only model that's on all three clouds today. We're the only model that has large language lab that's …”

A provider of CPUs and TPUs used by Anthropic for model development.

“Means a couple of different things. Number one, we use three different chip platforms. So we are customers of Amazon's Trainium chip, Google CPUs, and Nvidia's GPUs. We use these chips fungibly. If you think about the compute we buy, we're using it for model d…”

A strategic partner that has inked a significant capital deal with Anthropic.

“Claude and our Claude platform. When you have this investment that we made and will continue to make in safety, interpretability, alignment, that actually inures to the benefit of the enterprise customers as well and all of our customers because they want that…”

Suggested as a tool to look up information regarding the O-rings involved in the Challenger disaster.

“Google, Google O-rings.”

Used to track the surge in search volume for the term 'childlessness' following the controversy.

“If you look at searches on Google for the world childl- word childlessness, right at this time, it rockets.”

Chris Williamson mentions his impact on Google Trends data regarding his controversial podcast topics.

“Yeah, but did anybody else impact Google Trends data? That's what I want to know.”

Mentioned in the context of tracking search trends related to personal arguments.

“When, and as a woman, like there are many times when my husband will say the sensible thing, and I'll get super mad about it and I'll be like, "No, you're wrong," and then I will, I will, you know, I will spike the Google Trends of our household.”

Chris Williamson mentions a friend who held a high-powered job at Google before choosing to become a stay-at-home mom.

“There was a, a conversation I had with a friend who had two kids while she was still working, very high-powered job at Google, and then one kid after COVID, uh, where she decided she was gonna be a stay-at-home mom.”

Mentioned as the provider of the host's workspace account and a tool for AI experimentation.

“That, that, that's, that's sort of... I mean, like, for what it's worth, though, so, you know, this is, like, my paid Google workspace for my, my, my work account.”

Reported that their threat intelligence group identified an attacker using an AI-developed zero-day exploit.

“Yes, just to name a few of those, Mozilla was one of those companies saying that it had pushed 423 security bug fixes in April alone, compared to an average of about 22 per month, uh, throughout 2025. Uh, Google announced on Monday that for the first time ever…”

Used as a tool to research current pop culture news.

“subconscious doesn't know the difference between the things that are happening and the things that you make up, it's a really powerful tool. Yeah, I hope that was helpful, guys. And like I said, if you wanna go back and listen to that full episode on keeping a…”

Used as an example of a workplace identity that parents should not conflate with their true self.

“And you know, it's interesting. It makes me think about a core principle, uh, kind of the Good Inside method, which is untangling your identity from your behavior, right? That's the whole idea of Good Inside, right? So for a kid, okay, my kid's hitting. In ord…”

Kevin Maguire mentions working at this company for nearly a decade while struggling to balance his career with fatherhood.

“... to be a dad today. And so much of that is around, like, you know, just how they show up for their kids. And I think there is so much... You know, my dad was one of the, was that generation that he prided himself on, you know, "I never cl- I never changed a…”

Maguire mentions using the search engine to research his symptoms during the night.

“Well, I mean, you know, the, the re- the gestation of the new fatherhood, it began... So my son is six years old now, and, um, s- so about a few months after he was born, I, I would take myself out. I would, you know, once he was in bed, I would take the dog. …”

Used as a search tool to identify the historical spike in eye roll mentions.

“What we do know is that if you just search on eye rolls on Google Books, there's a huge spike in the 1980s, which is when it appears to have been first captured.”

The listener used the search engine to try and identify the specific horror sound effect.

“Josh was sure this sound was happening all the time in scary movies and in trailers. But because he couldn't name it or remember specific examples of where he'd heard it, Google was no great help. He kept trying, though, using all sorts of different combinatio…”

Jasper mentions using the search engine to look for hookworms for sale.

“Absolutely. And so you, did you just Google it?”

Referenced in the context of early self-driving car development.

“Right. So you see point to point things. In cars, as you know, I've been a big proponent. I was one of the early Google cars, but they're fantastic. I find them fantastic.”

Referenced as a shorthand for searching information online, which the AI assistant mimicked.

“So essentially it was a dumb assistant armed with ch- with Dr. Google, essentially.”

Mentioned as one of the major tech companies pivoting resources toward AI development.

“And then we had the advent of the transformer model, which was underpinning of ChatGPT, and so many of these generative AI and the LLMs, and that enabled ChatGPT to have this breakout moment. And we saw, we have all, actually all lived through this, even if yo…”

Used as a comparison by OpenAI to describe the nature of their factual responses.

“So when we reached out to OpenAI about this, they said, "This is a terrible tragedy, but we are not responsible for this," and that, "Our product, uh, has been cooperating with authorities," and that-All it did was provide factual responses just the way that G…”

Used as an analogy for Fidelity's potential to disrupt Vanguard's business model by offering free services that undercut their primary revenue source.

“This is like Vanguard is Microsoft and Fidelity is Google, and they could launch Gmail and say, "That thing that's your primary business, we're gonna make that free now, and you have no other businesses to compete with us on 'cause you don't have cash coming i…”

Mentioned as one of the major companies with significant ownership by large index funds.

“Yes. There is an equilibrium. Long before we get to that problem, you'll have arbitragers that are interested in trading because it's profitable, that... You're right, it'll hit an equilibrium. At least that's my, my perspective on this. The other concern is, …”

Mentioned as a company competing for talent by offering six months of paternity leave.

“Um, so a lot of it was competitive where, like, I don't know what, which company it was, but, like, Facebook says six months, and then all of a sudden Google, Spotify, all these other places that are competing for the people-”

Mentioned as a competitor in the wearable technology space.

“As a matter of fact, when your hearing goes, you stop processing words, and you become more, i- i- this is gonna sound strange. Well, it's not strange. People have a much more difficult time maintaining societal contact, relevance in relationships when their h…”

Mentioned in the context of their Gemini model and the challenge of not cannibalizing their search business.

“I think the tools are gonna be very easy. There's an economic setup for the tools to be so easy everyone can figure them out. So I don't think the AI tools are gonna be complicated. Right now there's a lot of command line. I think Claude Bot and CoWork are not…”

The company where Gmail was developed.

“This comes back to the most important piece of advice I ever got. The first day of Y Combinator, Paul Graham said, "It's better to have 100 people love you than a million people sort of like you." And that came from Paul Buchheit. Paul Buchheit was a partner a…”

The search engine used by the suspect to research methods for the crime.

“So when investigators looked at the footage from Daniel's home, that's when, and this is the oddest moment, they see a bald man typing at Daniel's computer, and that's the first time they realize that Daniel was actually bald. It was Daniel without a toupee. A…”