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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · 2026-10-23 · 11 min · 1,994 words

Friday Wrap-Up: Lessons from Google’s Former CEO and Europe’s AI Regulation Problem

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Hi everyone and welcome back to the Friday wrap up. I'm Still Mart. I'm Nicola Tangan. This week you spoke to Eric Smith, his former CO of Google. And I would say one of the lowest Voices on

A I Absolutely. I mean he was very important at Google, but he remains very important in uh the tech society, extremely well plugged in. and uh very, very knowledgeable and having seen the whole development and continues to be Involved in AI also within uh weapon production and weapon development and very involved also in Ukraine.

A new AI model takes about six months to build and then It might be out of date in in five months. How should we as an investor think about a business model like that? Well that's the really big question when these companies come to the market. Uh what's the sustainability of the business model?

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