The stock is now negative for this year as more controversies around its AI model

Gemini rollout mount. Some are calling for a change in leadership.

It is Tuesday, February 27th.

Welcome to the Tech Check Podcast.

I'm Deja Bosa with Mark Gilbert Heymark.

What's up, Dee, how are you?

We are on day two of this story together,

a story we've been talking about, honestly, a lot this year and a lot for the past, you know, year and a half.

I was going to say is it day two or is it like day 300?

Yeah, exactly.

It's sort of crystallized in the last few days,

but it's sort of been a slow motion, you know,

train wreck, which has been the rollout of Gemini

and sort of the flawed release of some of these sort of half-baked products.

You know, what I will say is that's no different than ChatGPT, right?

Which launched and then there was, you know, all of these stories about the different things that, the different

problems with it and the different crazy things you could get it to say and the hallucinations

that it was having.

The problem with, between Chat TBT or the difference rather between open AI and

Google is that it feels like one stumble after another for Google like from that

first barred demo to now this Gemini rollout.

Yeah. And that I think is what's been like building and piling on top of its problems.

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