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Google consolidates teams with aim to create AI products faster

scmp.com Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai announced changes to Google’s workplace teams structure, saying the moves will help the company develop artificial intelligence (AI)…

Google is combining Android and Chrome software group with Pixel and Fitbit hardware division to more broadly integrate AI

fortune.com Google will combine the software division responsible for Android mobile software and the Chrome browser with the hardware division known for Pixel smartphones and Fitbit…

Google is combining its Android software and Pixel hardware divisions to more broadly integrate AI

theglobeandmail.com Google will combine the software division responsible for Android mobile software and the Chrome browser with the hardware division known for Pixel smartphones and Fitbit…

Google Consolidates AI-Building Teams Across Research and DeepMind

pymnts.com Google is consolidating the teams that focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) models across Google Research and Google DeepMind. All this work will now be done…

Google's CEO says its workplace isn't a place to 'fight over disruptive issues or debate politics'

aol.com None Google doubled down on its messaging to employees about staying focused on work. • None Sundar Pichai said in a blog post the office isn't a place to "debate politics."…

Pro-Palestine tech workers push back against Google's cloud project

fortune.com “Don’t be evil,” was Google’s motto for many years. That all shifted to “do the right thing,” when the tech company became a subsidiary of Alphabet in 2015. Whatever slogan…

Google just made a huge company shakeup. Here's who's gaining power

aol.com None Google is merging more parts of the company in an effort to move faster in AI. • None Google's DeepMind chief has gained more power, while the head of Pixel will also…

Google fires 28 employees involved in 'Googlers against Genocide' sit-in at New York, Sunnyvale offices

aol.com Google has fired dozens of employees involved in anti-Israel protests that took over the corporate offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. In a memo to employees,…

Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again'

aol.com None Google fired 28 employees involved in protests against a $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel. • None The company warned employees that disruptive behavior won't be…

U.S. tech CEOs give India PM Modi boost ahead of election

cnbc.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook listen as India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, speaks during a meeting with senior officials and CEOs of American and…

Google unveils internal reorganizations, including an AI-focused Platforms and Devices group overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, and more, led by Rick Osterloh

theverge.com AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big ways to try to make it happen even faster. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal…

Google fires 28

reason.com No sit-ins on company dime: Yesterday, Google fired 28 of its workers after employees held sit-ins to protest the company's contracts with the Israeli government. The…

Google laying off staff again, moving some roles to 'hubs'

theregister.com Google is again firing the redundancy cannon for the second time this year, with a restructure being pushed through and teams in the finance and real estate units of the…

The AI hype bubble is deflating. Now comes the hard part

washingtonpost.com A year and a half into the AI boom, there’s growing evidence that the hype machine is slowing down. Drastic warnings about AI posing an existential threat to humanity or…

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

nypost.com Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, to protest the company’s…

Google Laying Off Unspecified Number of Employees Amid Shifting Priorities

pymnts.com Google is laying off an unspecified number of employees and shifting some roles to other countries as part of a continuing effort to cut costs. The employees will be able to…

Google restructures finance team as part of AI shift, CFO tells employees in memo

cnbc.com Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in a memo Wednesday that Google is restructuring its finance organization, a move that will include layoffs and relocations,…

Google lays off employees, shifts some roles abroad amid cost cuts

theglobeandmail.com Alphabet-owned Google GOOGL-Q is laying off an unspecified number of employees, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday, marking the latest cuts at the technology giant as…

The top 15 companies for career growth if you work in the US, according to LinkedIn

businessinsider.com JPMorgan Chase & Co. Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images LinkedIn published a ranking of the best large companies for career growth in the US. Amazon ranked No.…

Is Google’s Gemini chatbot woke by accident, or by design?

economist.com IT ALL STARTED with black Vikings and Asian Nazis. Users of Google Gemini, the tech giant’s artificial-intelligence model, recently noticed that asking it to create images…

Even a $2 Trillion Company Can Grow the Size of Its Pie

investorplace.com "I see this as a basis for growing the size of the pie,” emphasized Google vice president Amin Vahdat. Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) has certainly been cooking. On Tuesday, the…

Ad transparency tools are 'major disappointment' ahead of election, new study shows

cnbc.com Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, US, on Wednesday, April 3,…

Oh look at that! Now Google is using AI to answer search queries

businessinsider.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai, whose company is racing to figure out AI. Justin Sullivan/Getty Google is testing AI-generated answers in regular search results. The experiments…

Jamie Dimon joined other top business leaders at the glitzy White House dinner. See who joined him on the guest list

finance.yahoo.com Jamie Dimon joined other top business leaders at the glitzy White House dinner. See who joined him on the guest list. • None Leaders from JPMorgan, Microsoft, and Apple…

Google’s AI Narrative is Starting to Flip

thewrap.com Hours after Google wrapped its major cloud keynote on Tuesday, I sat down for dinner with three public tech company CEOs and a handful of journalists on New York’s West…

Google CEO Talks About Changes In Search, AI And SGE

mediapost.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai says what excites him about AI is how one technology can improve search, business, YouTube and Waymo - and putting it in the cloud to customers.

Antitrust worries could push HubSpot to consider none-Google bidder

investing.com Investing.com — The tech market was shaken about a week ago when Reuters that Google's parent company, Alphabet (NASDAQ: ), was contemplating an all-cash deal to acquire…

Google says it is discontinuing its Google One VPN due to a lack of use; Google's free Pixel VPN that debuted in 2022 with the Pixel 7 will remain unchanged

9to5google.com Back in October of 2020, Google One introduced a VPN that later became available on all plans and platforms. Google announced today that the VPN by Google One is shutting…

Alphabet Stock Rises Amid Introduction of AI Products

pymnts.com Alphabet’s stock is reportedly headed toward a $2 trillion market value, driven by investors becoming more optimistic about the company’s strategy in the artificial…

Jim Jordan Investigating Renewed DOJ, FBI Contacts With Big Tech, Amid Concerns Of Censorship Pressure

zerohedge.com Jim Jordan Investigating Renewed DOJ, FBI Contacts With Big Tech, Amid Concerns Of Censorship Pressure Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Chairman…

Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez were among the top tech bosses and business leaders to attend a lavish White House dinner

aol.com None The former Amazon CEO joined over 200 other guests at a White House state dinner on Wednesday. • None President Joe Biden hosted the dinner in honor of the Prime…

Why Alphabet CEO’s $3.5M GOOG Stock Sale Is NOT an Exit Signal

investorplace.com You can get confident AI portfolio exposure with Alphabet stock Alphabet (NASDAQ: , NASDAQ: ) stock is showing progress as the company develops its artificial intelligence…

Elon Musk Challenges Alphabet With Tesla's Robo Taxis As Apple Exits The Self-Driving Car Race After Wasting Billions

benzinga.com In a significant week for the autonomous vehicle industry, tech giants Apple Inc. APPL, Alphabet Inc. GOOGL and Tesla Inc. TSLA have made headlines. Apple has exited the…

Google’s AI Updates for Enterprises Point to Big Tech’s Ambitions for B2B

pymnts.com Big Tech giants have always targeted enterprises. And with the recent announcement during Alphabet’s annual Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday (April 9) of…

Google's Cloud Next keynote was by far its most impressive presentation in the AI era, not least because the company realizes its infrastructure advantages

stratechery.com It was impossible to miss the leading message at yesterday’s Google Cloud Next keynote: Google has the best infrastructure for AI. This was CEO Sundar Pichai in his video…