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☆ Alphabet tempers fears that it's falling behind in AI with blowout first-quarter results
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in conversation with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. There were other reasons for skepticism ahead of Alphabet's earnings report. Like Meta, Alphabet is pouring money into AI. Last month, Alphabet announced a suite of products, including Vertex AI, a no-code console for enterprise companies to build their own AI agents. With first-quarter results in the rearview mirror, Alphabet now has to keep up with heightened expectations, which will only increase as competitors roll out more generative AI products.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Emily Chang, Ruth Porat, missteps, Investors, Mark Zuckerberg, Pichai, he's, Prabhakar Raghavan, Raghavan Organizations: APEC, Summit, Moscone West, YouTube, Nasdaq, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, Revenue, Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, rollouts Locations: San Francisco , California, San Francisco, U.S

☆ Jamie Dimon says the future of the world depends on whether the US can sort out its relationship with China
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewHow the US handles its shaky relationship with China will affect the future of the world, says JPMorgan chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. "It's the thread from Ukraine, oil and gas, food, migration, all our relationships, the most important one being China," Dimon told Bloomberg's Emily Chang in an interview that aired Wednesday. Related storyDimon's fresh remarks on China come as the world's second-largest economy finds itself in a fraught relationship with the US. And in January, CIA chief William J. Burns said China is a far bigger threat to the US than Russia. But while Dimon did single out China as a significant risk to the world, he told Chang that he is optimistic that the US could manage them.

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☆ Google CEO tells employees Gemini AI blunder ‘unacceptable’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in conversation with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. In a memo Tuesday evening, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company’s artificial intelligence mistakes, which led to Google taking its Gemini image-generation feature offline for further testing. Google introduced the image generator earlier this month through Gemini, the company’s main group of AI models. Over the past week, users discovered historical inaccuracies that went viral online, and the company pulled the feature last week, saying it would re-launch it in the coming weeks. This has to be our approach for all our products, including our emerging AI products.”Read the full text of the memo here:

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☆ AI can 'disproportionately' help defend against cybersecurity threats, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMunich, GERMANY — Rapid developments in artificial intelligence could help strengthen defenses against security threats in cyber space, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Amid growing concerns about the potentially nefarious uses of AI, Pichai said that the intelligence tools could help governments and companies speed up the detection of — and response to — threats from hostile actors. But AI, I think actually, counterintuitively, strengthens our defense on cybersecurity," Pichai told delegates at Munich Security Conference at the end of last week. Sundar Pichai CEO at GoogleHowever, Pichai said that AI was also lowering the time needed for defenders to detect attacks and react against them. Google last week announced a new initiative offering AI tools and infrastructure investments designed to boost online security.

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☆ Google CEO Sundar Pichai compares AI to climate change at APEC CEO Summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said artificial intelligence is like climate change in that it will proliferate worldwide, and that people across the globe share a responsibility to create guardrails. At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in San Francisco on Thursday, Pichai was asked by Bloomberg's Emily Chang how to get to a global consensus on "smart AI regulation." I think that's true for AI." Pichai said countries have a shared responsibility to build global frameworks — something he's warned about in recent months.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Pichai, Emily Chang, Joe Biden, Xi Jinping Organizations: Americas, U.S . Chamber, Commerce, Google, Economic Cooperation Locations: Los Angeles , California, Asia, San Francisco, Japan

☆ Bumble CEO says AI will actually help you get more dates. Here's how.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd told Bloomberg in an interview that AI can enhance the dating game. She said AI can help dating app users improve their flirting and can even be good for business. AdvertisementAdvertisementAI has come for your favorite dating apps — and the CEO of Bumble thinks the technology can help users land more dates. AdvertisementAdvertisement"The average US single doesn't date because they don't know how to flirt, or they're scared they don't know how," Wolfe Herd said. Wolf Herde doesn't just think AI can help people flirt better — she said that the technology can help dating apps make more money.

Persons: Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd, —, Wolfe Herd, Emily Chang, doesn't, Wolf, TikTok, Wolf Herde Organizations: Bloomberg, Morning

☆ 'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Ben Bergman | Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Many tech workers in California moved to Austin during the pandemic in search of a new lifestyle. Some tech workers say they regret moving there, given its middling tech scene and "fake" atmosphere. They cited several contributing factors, including extreme temperatures, traffic, overcrowding, and — perhaps most surprising — a middling tech scene that fails to live up to the hype. From Silicon Valley to the Silicon HillsNot long ago, Austin's tech scene was ascendant, with national headlines suggesting it could take on Silicon Valley. He acknowledged there's not much of a tech scene there but will take that over what he perceived as Austin's smoke and mirrors.

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☆ Sam Altman says he'd go watch Elon Musk cage fight Mark Zuckerberg
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have taken digs at each other before. Now the two tech CEOs have seemingly agreed to a cage fight. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Bloomberg he "would go watch" if the two actually fight. "I would go watch if he and Zuck actually did that," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Bloomberg's Emily Chang on Thursday, though he said he doesn't think he would ever take Musk on in a physical fight. "He really cares about AI safety a lot," Altman told Bloomberg of Musk.

Persons: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg —, —, Zuck, Emily Chang, Altman, OpenAI, didn't Organizations: Bloomberg, Morning, Tech, Twitter, city's Apex, UFC, Musk

☆ SVB collapse is double-whammy for tech startups already navigating brutal market
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

He'd started the process six months earlier during a brutal period for tech stocks and a plunge in venture funding. Investors were just pulling in their horns, the SPAC market had fallen apart, valuations for tech companies were collapsing." In the absence of venture funding, money-losing startups have had to cut their burn rates in order to extend their cash runway. Since the beginning of 2022, roughly 1,500 tech companies have laid off a total of close to 300,000 people, according to the website Layoffs.fyi. Kruze Consulting provides accounting and other back-end services to hundreds of tech startups.

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