Apple, Google instructed by House committee to prepare to dump TikTok

Apple, Google instructed by House committee to prepare to dump TikTok

A supporter holds up a sign that read “TikTok” during a news conference on TikTok in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2023. Alex Wong | Getty Images House Committee members are urging the top executives of Apple and Google to be prepared to comply with a law that could … Read more

Google’s Biggest Bet Is Bringing AI to Search, Says CIO

Google’s Biggest Bet Is Bringing AI to Search, Says CIO

Google has made multi-million dollar investments in founders, internet infrastructure and clean energy, but its biggest gamble so far has been choosing to add AI to search, says Google’s chief investment officer and president Ruth Porat. “The biggest bet we continue to make is actually the application of AI to search and continuing to evolve … Read more

Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai Geek Out on Google’s Willow Chip and ‘Quantum Cluster in Space’

Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai Geek Out on Google’s Willow Chip and ‘Quantum Cluster in Space’

Google’s revolutionary Willow quantum chip has ignited a buzz in the tech world, drawing praise from Elon Musk. After Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced the chip on social media, the CEO of X, responded with a simple yet impactful “wow.” This sparked a lively exchange between the two tech leaders, with Pichai suggesting creating a … Read more

Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Big Changes to Search Next Year

Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Big Changes to Search Next Year

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that when it comes to AI, “we are in the earliest stages of a profound shift.” Pichai explained at the New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday that AI models are going to get better at reasoning and carrying out actions reliably over the next few years. The upgrades to … Read more

Google’s cloud outpaces AWS, Azure in Q3 as AI battle heats up

Google’s cloud outpaces AWS, Azure in Q3 as AI battle heats up

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Munich Security Conference at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany, on February 16, 2024. Tobias Hase | Picture Alliance | Getty Images With Wall Street laser focused on cloud computing this week, Google outpaced its rivals in growth, a key sign for investors that the internet company … Read more

Google CFO says company can ‘push a little further’ in cost savings

Google CFO says company can ‘push a little further’ in cost savings

Alphabet incoming CFO Anat Ashkenazi, who spent 23 years at Eli Lilly Eli Lilly For nine years, the CFO role at Google and parent company Alphabet was held by Ruth Porat, who took a giant pay package in 2015 to leave Wall Street for Silicon Valley. On Tuesday, Porat’s successor, Anat Ashkenazi, made her earnings … Read more

Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips

Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips

Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Source: Reuters; Apple Apple said on Monday that the artificial intelligence models underpinning Apple Intelligence, its AI system, were pretrained on processors designed by Google, a sign that Big Tech companies are looking for alternatives to Nvidia when it comes to the training of cutting-edge AI. Apple’s choice of Google’s … Read more

Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi jumps from GLP-1 boom to generative AI

Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi jumps from GLP-1 boom to generative AI

Alphabet incoming CFO Anat Ashkenazi, who spent 23 years at Eli Lilly Eli Lilly Alphabet’s outgoing finance chief, Ruth Porat, spent the past year and a half trying to help her internet company navigate the generative artificial intelligence boom. The person who was just named her successor was knee-deep in a very different phenomenon: anti-obesity … Read more

‘Develop Deep Understanding Over Mere Knowledge Acquisition’: Sundar Pichai’s Advice To Aspiring Software Engineers

‘Develop Deep Understanding Over Mere Knowledge Acquisition’: Sundar Pichai’s Advice To Aspiring Software Engineers

Sundar Pichai. (Photo Credits: Instagram Google CEO Sundar Pichai has expressed confidence in India’s capability in artificial intelligence (AI) and said the country is “well-positioned” to shape the future of this technology Google CEO Sundar Pichai has expressed confidence in India’s capability in artificial intelligence (AI) and said the country is “well-positioned” to shape the … Read more