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A retrospective piece revisits predictions from Kevin Kelly's 2016 book The Inevitable, including his claim that by 2026 Google's core product would be AI rather than search. The piece recounts Kelly's early-2000s conversation with Larry Page, who told him Google was 'really making an AI,' and argues Google has used search queries to train its AI systems rather than the reverse.
Ken Karklin has stepped down after more than four years as CEO of Pivotal, the electric vertical takeoff and landing company backed by Larry Page. The company says he is pursuing new opportunities and gave no further details. Board member Mike Ross, an aviation executive who joined in November 2025, will serve as interim CEO.
A technical writeup walks through the logic behind PageRank, the algorithm Sergey Brin and Larry Page built at Stanford in the 1990s to rank web pages by the links pointing to them rather than just keyword matches. The piece argues the core idea is simple enough that a curious person could reconstruct it themselves, and it includes a short Python implementation showing how reputation flows between pages using a damping factor.