This post really doesn't add much to the NYT article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3233201).

It allows MG to reference himself, so that has to be worth something. /s

It is purely a "I knew about this story, just so you know" pissing contest between tech 'journalists'.

That's what MG is all about. Expand stuff from other articles. His Apple posts are expanded versions of Gruber stuff.

We in 3rd world mostly have MG-quality columnnists; they sit lazy at their desk; have a fixed angle to look at life and apply their biased rhetoric to all the emerging news. waste of time i read this.

The fact that Google's spokeswoman is forced to justify a project like this as critical to the Google DNA is very sad.

I'd kill for a chance to work on something amazing and have it financed by one of the wealthiest companies on the planet.

sounds a bit like a modern bell labs

Sounds like we know not a lot about what they are doing there. For all we know? Foosball.

AI foosball.