https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/28/24085445/google-ceo-gemini-ai-diversity-scandal-employee-memo
It was an election year. They were all jittery. The smallest misstep, the simplest slip and he was convinced it was game over. The party needed discipline. And so he was as angry as he was disappointed by what had happened. And it was the anger that was driving the meeting. The party managers were feeling the full wrath of the leader as he asked what he should do. Condemn the comments, obviously but if he threw the offender out there’d be a powerful rival outside the tent. And he knew that rival was popular, connected and intelligent… very intelligent.