[vivzkestrel]

any ideas why they are selling this?

[sounds]

Didn't they announce they were selling it off a while back? I thought the reason was it's not very much like the other things Google does.

[pas]

someone wants to increase some number in a spreadsheet and this department doesn't have the usual infinite money characteristics that software has (or the compounding network effects that building a cloud platform has)

[jsnell]

Almost certainly so that they can afford more AI data center capex.