Travis Katz

GM YouTube Shopping; Founder, Opinions expressed here are my own.

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

This is a productivity game changer

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

You can now ask Gemini to create Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, and more directly in your chat. No more copying, pasting, or reformatting, just prompt and download.

Available globally for all @GeminiApp users.

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

@koshercockney These are likely paid talking points. Ex MAGA influencer @stclairashley breaks it down here: https://t.co/z9zyd1dVlx

[YouTube for Business @YTforBusiness]

Join us at Shoptalk today → https://t.co/yrpqIOppm9 🛍️✨

@zdwigder sits down with @traviskatz and @jessicaalba to discuss how YouTube is shaping the future of entertainment and leading in an era where trust matters most to shoppers.

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

@elonmusk And you used your wealth to undermine America’s ability to compete in the energy economy of the future. Why?

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

@RepLisaMcClain @ICEgov If you are truly concerned about people sexually assaulting children, what are you doing to ensure the full, unredacted Epstein Files are released in compliance with the law and perpetrators held accountable?

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: NVIDIA just announced Alpamayo, what CEO Jensen Huang calls the world’s first thinking, reasoning autonomous vehicle AI, launching on U.S. roads later this year, starting with the Mercedes CLA.

Jensen: "It's trained end-to-end. Literally from camera in to actuation out; It reasons what action it is about to take, the reason by which is came about that action, and the trajectory."

Alpamayo introduces Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which enable self-driving systems to interpret what they see, reason about complex driving scenarios, and generate driving actions. The platform includes large reasoning models, simulation tools for testing rare and edge-case scenarios, and open datasets for training and validation.

NVIDIA says the approach improves transparency, safety, and robustness in autonomous systems, particularly in complex real-world environments, and supports progress toward higher levels of vehicle autonomy:

"With a 10-billion-parameter architecture, Alpamayo 1 uses video input to generate trajectories alongside reasoning traces, showing the logic behind each decision. Developers can adapt Alpamayo 1 into smaller runtime models for vehicle development, or use it as a foundation for AV development tools such as reasoning-based evaluators and auto-labeling systems. Alpamayo 1 provides open model weights and open-source inferencing scripts. Future models in the family will feature larger parameter counts, more detailed reasoning capabilities, more input and output flexibility, and options for commercial usage."

[Balaji @balajis]

This is the EV flippening.

Electric vehicles now fill up roughly as fast as gas. The new BYD chargers add 400km of range in just five minutes.

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

Whomever is in charge of customer service for the @Costco / @ATT relationship should be required to attempt the upgrade process themselves every day for a week and then decide whether they deserve an end of year bonus.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

I woke up thinking I was seeing images from October 7.
It wasn’t history. It was today. Sydney.

A Jewish community event turned into a scene of terror.
This is what happens when the danger of Islamic ideology is denied, excused, or rebranded as “resistance.”

We the people who have experienced living under Islamic ideology warned the free world. But we were mocked. Called Islamophobic. Silenced.
Now innocent civilians are dead.

This is the result of normalizing so-called “resistance.”
Of cheering terror at rallies.
Of chanting “intifada” in the streets

It is beyond tragic that some Western leaders choose ideology over national security.
Warnings about Islamist terrorism are dismissed in the name of “tolerance” and “political correctness.”
This is the cost.

Denial has consequences.
Cowardice has a body count.

Stand against Islamist terrorism
Or this will keep happening.
Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the entire Jewish community in Australia, who came together in joy and were met with violence instead.

💔

#Hanukkah event at #BondiBeach in #Sydney,

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

UC Admissions is broken. Nearly 20% of UCSD admits can’t do 8th grade math. @jbmilliken when will you bring back SATs? As an employer how can I trust the UC brand? https://t.co/g2GA81zUhA

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

I’m really excited about our release of Gemini 3 today, the result of hard work by many, many people in the Gemini team and all across Google! 🎊

We’ve built many exciting new product experiences with it, as you’ll see today and in the coming weeks and months.

You can find it today on @GeminiApp and AI Mode in Search. For developers, you can build with it now in @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex AI.

https://t.co/KRV0xzniBY

The model performs quite well on a wide range of benchmarks.

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

Your TV is now a storefront! 🛍️

We're launching shoppable QR codes on the @YouTube app on your TV. See it, scan it, shop it. The living room is officially open for business.
#CreatorEconomy
https://t.co/7TE7nMuDV4

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Just posted Q3 earnings. We delivered our first-ever $100B quarter driven by double-digit growth across every major part of our business. (Five years ago, our quarterly revenue was at $50B🚀)

Our full-stack approach to AI is driving real momentum and we’re shipping at speed. 

Thank you to our employees and partners around the world for the terrific quarter!

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

There is a lot of talk about the dangers of AI, not enough about the incredible potential. @demishassabis is focusing on how AI will benefit humanity.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells. 

With more preclinical and clinical tests, this discovery may reveal a promising new pathway for developing therapies to fight cancer.

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

@eightsleep we’ve got a problem

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

In honor of Generals serving who were forced to listen to an awful speech, here's an awesome speech from General Mark Milley. “We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution...

...and we're willing to die to protect it.”

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

@united FYI your flight status page in the app is showing incorrect gate and terminal. On the airport monitor it says my gate is E8. The app shows A17. Thankfully I got here early as it’s a 25 min shuttle ride.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

People don’t get it

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

lol

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

WOW! FOX NEWS CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT ME (GAVIN C. NEWSOM), AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR!!! TONIGHT THEIR ENTIRE PRIMETIME LINEUP WAS ABOUT ME! JESSE WATTERS KEPT CALLING ME “DADDY” (VERY WEIRD, NOT INTERESTED, BUT THANK YOU!). SEAN HANNITY (VERY NICE GUY) NEARLY CRIED BECAUSE I WON’T TAKE HIS “ADVICE.” SORRY SEAN!!!! THEN THEY DRAGGED OUT THE B-TEAM OF DUMB DUMBS: “MEATBALL RON,” TOMI “TOILET” LAHREN, AND TEDDY “CANCUN” CRUZ (HE EVEN FLEW BACK SPECIAL FROM MEXICO!) ALL WHINING ABOUT ME, GCN! THEY HAD TO “PLAY THE MUSIC” TO SHUT TED UP ABOUT MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR (I GET IT! SO JEALOUS!). TOTAL DISASTER. MAGA HATES ME BECAUSE THEY HATE YOU. THEY HATE THAT CALIFORNIA IS THE 4TH BIGGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD. THEY HATE THAT CRIME IS DOWN, THAT WE’RE #1 IN FARMING (I LOVE THE FARMERS!), MANUFACTURING, TOURISM & TECH… ALL WHILE WE GIVE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE, FREE SCHOOL MEALS (MAKE AMERICA PREGNANT AGAIN!), PAID “BABY LEAVE” FOR MOMS (THEY SHOULD NOT RETURN ANYWAYS!!), $20 MINIMUM WAGE & SO MUCH MORE FOR THE PEOPLE!!! THEY HATE THAT DEMOCRATS ARE WINNING. FOX & MAGA HAVE NEWSOM DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!!! THEY SHOULD CRY HARDER! SAD!!! — GCN

[Travis Katz @traviskatz]

@elonmusk The market appears to disagree