Sundar Pichai

Google tried to offer $512 mn package to derail Microsoft antitrust pact

While Google has long trailed Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft in the cloud market, it's begun to see impressive results

Will AI take over software programming jobs? Here's what Sundar Pichai says

Lately, there has been widespread tension and anxiety among professionals that AI-based chatbots like ChatGPT might soon take over their jobs

Google's new policy to let users delete their account data from app

Google has introduced a new "data deletion policy", which aims to empower users with greater clarity and control over their in-app data, requiring Android apps to allow users to delete their accounts

In an open letter to Pichai, Google staff asks for better handling of cuts

In an open letter addressed to Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, employees made a series of demands of the company, including freezing new hires, seeking voluntary redundancies

Google makes breakthrough in quantum computing, much bigger than AI

Quantum computing is the holy grail of scientists and researchers, but it's still decades away from reality. However, Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., moved the ball down the field last month

Google achieves quantum error correction milestone: Sundar Pichai

"Instead of working on the physical qubits on our quantum processor one by one, we are treating a group of them as one logical qubit," said Pichai

Google awards record $12 mn to 700 bug researchers in 2022, Indian leads

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company awarded a record $12 mn in bug bounties to more than 700 researchers in 2022, including the largest award in its bug bounty programme history

Google lays off 100 robot workers used to clean its cafeterias, says report

Alphabet, Google's parent company, recently laid off 12,000 workers and even 100 robots that cleaned its cafeterias at its headquarters

Here is all you need to know about YouTube's new CEO, Neal Mohan

Mohan will join an expanding club of prominent Indian-American executives who are running the show for some of the biggest tech giants in the world

Google layoffs reach Indian shores; company fires 453 employees in India

Last month, Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google, announced that as a measure to cut costs, 12,000 employees, or 6 per cent of its total headcount, would be sacked

Sundar Pichai pushes Googlers to spend more time improving its Bard AI

The email indicates urgency in Google's approach in order to win the next generation of AI-based search

AI integration may soon fundamentally alter how we search on the internet

AI has found its way into a number of industries, from transportation to health. Now it is being integrated with search engines

YouTube Music rolls out redesigned album view for Android and iOS

Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music has rolled out the redesign of the "album view" for Android and iOS

Google opens Bard chatbot to test users, plans more AI for search

In a blog post, Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said his company is opening a conversational AI service called Bard to test users for feedback

Google hopes its chatbot 'Bard' will outsmart ChatGPT, Microsoft in AI

Google is girding for a battle of wits in the field of artificial intelligence with Bard," a conversational service apparently aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft. Bard initially will be available exclusively to a group of trusted testers" before being widely released later this year, according to a Monday blog post from Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google's chatbot is supposed to be able to explain complex subjects such as outer space discoveries in terms simple enough for a child to understand. It also claims the service will also perform other more mundane tasks, such as providing tips for planning a party, or lunch ideas based on what food is left in a refrigerator. Pichai didn't say in his post whether Bard will be able to write prose in the vein of William Shakespeare, the playwright who apparently inspired the service's name. Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity," Pichai wrote Google announced Bard's existen

YouTube Shorts now averaging over 50 bn daily views: Sundar Pichai

YouTube advertising revenue was $7.96 billion -- down 8 per cent from $8.63 billion the year prior -- in the December quarter

Cut 20% jobs at Alphabet, key investor Christopher Hohn tells Sundar Pichai

Google's parent company Alphabet has eliminated 12,000 jobs or 6 per cent of its workforce

Top Headlines: India in green bond mkt, Pichai says job cuts avoided worse

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Big Tech and 'sideloading' debate; IT firms fear security, privacy breaches

Sideloading is a way for app developers to load their applications without going through formal stores such as Google Play for Android phones or the Apple App Store for iPhones

Google-parent Alphabet links more of CEO Sundar Pichai's pay to performance

Google-parent Alphabet Inc said it had approved a new equity award for CEO Sundar Pichai that ties more of his pay to performance