Sundar Pichai

It was a notable appearance because Pichai’s been having a bit of a rough go lately. Google is widely perceived to have gotten a late start on generative AI.

Sundar Pichai on the challenge of innovating in a huge company and what he’s excited about this year

Google CEO Sudar Pichai said that the company’s Google One cloud storage service is ” just about to cross” 100 million subscribers. Speaking during Alphabet’s Q4 2023 earnings call, Pichai…

Sundar Pichai says Google One cloud storage service has nearly 100M subscribers

After laying off over 1,000 workers across multiple divisions last week and cutting 100 jobs at YouTube, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to its staff warning more layoffs…

Sundar Pichai warns Google staff more layoffs are coming

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified Monday in the U.S. government’s antitrust trial against the company. The executive defended Google’s business tactics, including its deal with Apple and other partners to…

5 things we learned so far about the Google antitrust case

Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said, joining a roster of other high-profile American giants ramping up commitment…

Amazon plans to invest another $15B in India by 2030

Google received some relief in its key market of India after a tribunal court set aside four of 10 directives from the country’s competition regulator.

Google wins partial relief in Android antitrust case in India

Google is revising its business agreements with phonemakers and other partners in India and making a series of other changes in the South Asian market to comply with the local…

Google to make changes to Android business terms in India after antitrust blow

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said Monday that India is going through an important period of time as it drafts several key regulations and asserted that it stands to benefit…

Important that India’s regulations provide legal and innovation certainty to firms, Google CEO says

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the Code Conference last week, suggested the tech company needed to become 20% more efficient — a comment some in the industry took to…

Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120

Google has announced they will be taking a two-week hiring freeze, according to an article published by The Information earlier today.  This comes after the company announced last week they…

Google to pause all hiring for two weeks

Sundar Pichai, boss of Google and its parent Alphabet, told employees to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger” in a staff-wide email that warned of consolidation, several news…

Google tells staff to act ‘more entrepreneurial.’ Translation: Work harder, or else

The U.S. House Oversight Committee is probing a collection of period tracking apps and data brokers in light of emerging concerns about how private health data might be weaponized in…

Congress probes period tracking apps and data brokers over abortion privacy concerns

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the public preview of a full cluster of Google Cloud’s new Cloud TPU v4 Pods. Google’s fourth iteration of its Tensor Processing…

Google launches a 9 exaflop cluster of Cloud TPU v4 pods into public preview

Alphabet, the parent company to Google, announced its first-quarter earnings this evening, and for the creator industry, that means a slew of news and updates about YouTube. YouTube is known…

Google tells shareholders that YouTube Shorts is doing great, don’t worry about TikTok!

The European Parliament has definitively backed major limits on behavioral advertising during a plenary vote on amendments to the pan-EU Digital Services Act (DSA). The move looks set to crank…

European parliament backs big limits on tracking ads

Google Labs is back, but this time around, it’s not a consumer-facing brand delivering a range of experimental products. Instead, it’s the internal name given to a new team at…

Google reorg moves AR, VR, Starline and Area 120 into new ‘Labs’ team

In a wide-ranging interview at the WSJ Tech Live conference that touched on topics like the future of remote work, AI innovation, employee activism and even misinformation on YouTube, Alphabet…

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai calls for federal tech regulation, investments in cybersecurity

Google plans to invest up to $50 million in African early- and growth-stage startups via its Africa Investment Fund, ramping up efforts to support more businesses on the continent. Google…

Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups

While the rise of the Delta variant is extending the company’s work-from-home policy through October 18, it’s not entirely clear what happens after that date.

Want to work at a Google campus? You’ll need to be vaccinated

Trump’s spicy trio of lawsuits against the social media platforms that he believes wrongfully banned him have succeeded in showering the former president with a flurry of media attention, but…

Trump’s new lawsuits against social media companies are going nowhere fast

Google today announced a sizable update to its Anthos multicloud platform that lets you build, deploy and manage containerized applications anywhere, including on Amazon’s AWS and (in preview) on Microsoft…

Google’s Anthos multicloud platform gets improved logging, Windows container support and more

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Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters

The warrant ordered Google to turn over a set of user account data. Civil liberties groups have criticized the use of these dragnet search warrants.

Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters

Hellllooooo, 2021! Welcome back to Human Capital, a weekly newsletter that details the latest in the realms of labor, diversity and inclusion. Not a ton happened this week so I…

Human Capital: The biggest labor stories of 2020

A day after the Senate Commerce Committee moved forward with plans to subpoena the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google, it looks like some of the most powerful leaders in…

The next big tech hearing is scheduled for October 28

Google is paying a lot of money for its news licensing program, Microsoft announces an affordable laptop and Facebook says it won’t accept ads casting doubts on the election. This…

Daily Crunch: Google commits $1B to pay publishers

It looks like we’re in for another big tech CEO hearing. The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to move forward with subpoenas for Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and…

Section 230 will be on the chopping block at the next big tech hearing

Google has long had a frenemy position with regards to the world of news: It can direct a lot of traffic to online publishers, but that’s only if people bother…

Google to pay out $1B to publishers to license content for new Google News Showcase

As the antitrust drumbeat continues to pound on tech giants, with Reuters reporting comments today from the U.S. Justice Department that it’s moving “full-tilt” on an investigation of platform giants…

Travel startups cry foul over what Google’s doing with their data

A 17-year-old Florida teenager is accused of perpetrating one of the year’s biggest and most high-profile hacks: Twitter. A federal 30-count indictment filed in Tampa said Graham Ivan Clark used…

Decrypted: How a teenager hacked Twitter, Garmin’s ransomware aftermath

In a set-back for Google’s plan to acquire health wearable company Fitbit, the European Commission has announced it’s opening an investigation to dig into a range of competition concerns being…

Google-Fitbit deal to be scrutinized in Europe over data competition concerns