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

Google supercharges AI search in competition with OpenAI, allows users to chat about anything from smartphone camera

Google supercharges AI search in competition with OpenAI, allows users to chat about anything from smartphone camera

“This is a moment of growth and opportunity,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told reporters, when asked if the AI updates could risk Google’s profitable business. The product presentation at Google’s annual I/O developer event in Mountain View, California, followed a shorter showcase by rival OpenAI on Monday. OpenAI demonstrated how ChatGPT could voice answers with … Read more

Google staffers question execs over ‘decline in morale’ after earnings

Google staffers question execs over ‘decline in morale’ after earnings

Google’s business is growing at its fastest rate in two years, and a blowout earnings report in April sparked the biggest rally in Alphabet shares since 2015, pushing the company’s market cap past $2 trillion. But at an all-hands meeting last week with CEO Sundar Pichai and CFO Ruth Porat, employees were more focused on … Read more

3 of most valuable companies are run by Asian American leaders

3 of most valuable companies are run by Asian American leaders

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday … Read more

AI engineers face burnout in ‘rat race’ to stay competitive hits tech

AI engineers face burnout in ‘rat race’ to stay competitive hits tech

A picture shows logos of the big technology companies named GAFAM, for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, in Mulhouse, France, on June 2, 2023. Sebastien Bozon | AFP | Getty Images Late last year, an artificial intelligence engineer at Amazon was wrapping up the work week and getting ready to spend time with some … Read more