Brian Barrett

The idea that once you sort of stop going to websites and once you stop, once it's only agents, only bots are visiting websites, you're choking off the supply of information, right?

You are, you know, smaller publishers.

Exactly.

So you, like, the web itself kind of shriveled up into a Google-shaped hole.

Every six years, someone decides micropayments are going to save journalism.

I'm going to pull this back from implications for us and focus again on the broader implications because there's one other part.

There were a lot of announcements today.

Search to me was the biggest one.

I'll say too, like Google has announced big changes before and then like not actually gotten there and not gotten nowhere in the way that they initially proposed.

So there's a little bit of an asterisk next to a lot of this.

I think it's probably mostly coming though.

But they also announced something called Gemini Spark, which I just want to talk about very briefly.

Gemini Spark is Google's answer to OpenClaw.

We remember OpenClaw.

Delightful.

OpenClaw, a little agent that can sort of just like run autonomously, has access to all your stuff.

Gemini Spark is Google's answer to OpenClaw.

It's the same sort of autonomous assistant that can do all the things.

But because it's Google, it has access to everything that you do on Google or any app that you tie in.

So you can see how that becomes really powerful and a real sort of, you know, open call is already kind of a privacy question mark.