Given billionaire LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong's willingness to directly influence the LA Times' editorial (spiking 2024 Harris endorsement) and news (AI-generated "bias meter"), one has to wonder if this article is the result of some billionaire-level feud Soon-Shiong and Schmidt are conducting.

Of course if Schmidt does have the backdoor described by the paper, it's well past time to leave gmail and google docs. That's not tolerable.