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Google adds chief AI architect to accelerate development of AI products
VCV | Visual China Group | Getty Images Google on Wednesday added a chief AI architect to its leadership ranks as the company continues to prioritize artificial intelligence and add the technology to more of its products. The company tapped Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind’s chief technology officer, for the new senior vice president position, the […]
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Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks at the Google I/O developer conference. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Google on Tuesday offered buyouts to employees across several of its divisions, including those within its knowledge and information and central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams, CNBC has learned. Knowledge […]
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Google overhauls internal learning platform to focus on AI, ‘business priorities’
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, speaks during an event in New Delhi, December 19, 2022. Sajjad Hussain | AFP | Getty Images Google is overhauling a popular internal learning platform to focus on teaching employees how to use modern artificial intelligence tools in their daily work routines, CNBC has learned. Grow, as the learning service […]
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Amazon to invest $10 billion in North Carolina data centers in AI push
A power substation near the LC1 CloudHQ data center in Ashburn, Virginia, on March 27, 2024. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon plans to spend $10 billion on new data centers in North Carolina to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure, the company said Wednesday. Amazon has earmarked up to $100 billion this year […]
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Amazon AI deal with New York Times brings the paper’s content to Alexa
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters The New York Times on Thursday struck a deal with Amazon allowing it to use the storied news organization’s content across its artificial intelligence platforms. The multi-year deal “will bring Times editorial […]
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Tech conferences are ramping up security to quell employee protests as political tensions rise
Security officers block entrance doors after pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to enter the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center Arch building in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty Images At Microsoft’s annual Build conference on Tuesday, Executive Vice President Jay Parikh’s keynote was interrupted by an employee protesting […]
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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi unit issues second software recall in a month after San Francisco crash
A Zoox autonomous robotaxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s Zoox robotaxi unit issued a voluntary recall of its software for the second time in a month following a recent crash in San Francisco. On May 8, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was […]
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Sergey Brin points to where Google Glasses failed — and what Android XR gets right
Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin sat for an interview at Google I/O. Jennifer Elias Google on Tuesday announced that it’s getting back into the smart glasses game, and co-founder Sergey Brin said that this time will be different. “I’ve learned a lot,” Brin said Tuesday at a fireside chat during the […]
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Google launches $250 per month ‘VIP’ AI subscription service
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is adding a new artificial intelligence subscription service that offers exclusive access to the company’s most “cutting edge” AI products. Called “Google AI Ultra,” the new plan includes […]
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Google launches Veo 3, an AI video generator that incorporates audio
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks at the Google I/O developer conference. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio. The artificial intelligence tool competes with OpenAI’s Sora video generator, but its ability to also incorporate audio into […]
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