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Former YouTube CEO and Silicon Valley trailblazer Susan Wojcicki has died at age 56
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who was also one of the most influential early Google employees, has died at the age of 56 according to posts shared online by her husband Dennis Troper and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday night. Wojicki led YouTube for nearly ten years and was one of the only women […]
Read MoreGoogle’s antitrust ruling has experts looking to 25-year-old Microsoft case for answers
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images In ruling Monday that Google has held a monopoly in internet search, U.S. judge Amit Mehta invoked the company at the center of the most famous tech antitrust […]
Read MoreGoogle loses antitrust case over search
CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai meets Polish Prime Minister at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022. Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty Images A federal U.S. judge ruled Monday that Google has illegally held a monopoly in two market areas: search and text advertising. The landmark case from the government […]
Read MoreTrump’s tech backers are ‘making a big mistake,’ Sequoia’s Mike Moritz says
Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital Scott Mlyn | CNBC As leading tech investors continue to vocally take sides ahead of the 2024 presidential election, legendary venture capitalist Michael Moritz is making his preference clear. In a Financial Times opinion piece published on Monday, Moritz wrote that those in the industry who are supporting Donald Trump “are […]
Read MoreEx-Google engineers who founded Character.AI rejoin company with new AI partnership
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Founders of one of the hottest artificial intelligence startups Character.AI are rejoining Google along with other team members. Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, in addition to certain members of Character.AI’s research team, are joining Google’s AI unit DeepMind, the companies said Friday. Character.AI uses large language models […]
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