1. Good Ideas Don’t Come From Design Sprints The best ideas at Google Labs never came from a design sprint. Josh Woodward, VP, Google Labs, Gemini & AI Studio, on where NotebookLM, Flow, AI Studio and Google Beam actually sta 10/21 18:30 ♡
2. Celebrate the PM Who Says “Don’t Launch This” A PM told him not to launch a Gemini feature. He replied all to say thank you. Josh Woodward, VP, Google Labs, Gemini & AI Studio, on the signs it’s time to kill an idea, and build 10/20 18:30 ♡
3. Hire for Unlearning Rate, Not Learning Rate Forget learning rate. How fast can someone learn something and then walk away from it? Josh Woodward, VP, Google Labs, Gemini & AI Studio, on the two signals he’s hiring for right 10/19 18:30 ♡
4. Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic) Emmanuel Ameisen is an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, where he looks inside LLMs like Claude to understand how they think. Before joining Anthropic, he spent years in ap 10/18 20:30 ♡
5. Fall in Love With the Problem, Not the Product Early product-market fit isn’t DAU. It’s whether people’s eyes light up. Josh Woodward, VP, Google Labs, Gemini & AI Studio, on falling in love with the problem instead of the prod 10/18 18:30 ♡
6. Every Company Needs A Labs Team Google Labs VP Josh Woodward explains why every company now needs to think and operate like a labs team 10/16 09:00 ♡
7. The internet is going to agents The majority of actions on the internet will be taken by agents. Tibo Sottiaux, Head of ChatGPT & Codex, on what builders aren't pricing in yet, and what happened to Notion's traff 10/12 18:45 ♡
8. Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs) Josh Woodward is the head of Google Labs, the Gemini app, and AI Studio. He has spent over 17 years at Google and oversees its longest-running and largest labs team, whose products 10/11 20:30 ♡
9. Autonomy Only Works If You Own the Mistakes Everyone assumed 17 people reviewed it. He wrote it in 30 minutes and shipped it. Tibo Sottiaux, Head of ChatGPT & Codex, on OpenAI's culture of autonomy and taking production down 10/11 19:41 ♡
10. AEO Won't Get Your Plugin Recommended Want ChatGPT to recommend your plugin? Build a good one. Tibo Sottiaux, Head of ChatGPT & Codex, on how retention and quality decide which plugins get surfaced to users and why it' 10/10 18:29 ♡
