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☆ Silicon Valley's biggest ever 'dogfooding' experiment has begun. The implications are huge.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Big Tech companies are testing AI tools internally in a massive 'dogfooding' experiment. This involves Big Tech companies taking large language models and generative AI tools and putting them to work inside their own organizations. The findings could also change how Big Tech companies operate — and how many expensive engineers they need. Big Tech companies want to sell AI tools to help businesses, developers, advertisers, creators, and other customers reach this new productivity nirvana. If these dogfooding tests go well, Big Tech companies may not need to hire as many workers in the future.

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☆ Google's old guard shifts roles as the company searches for itself
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA string of Google executives have changed their roles in the span of several months, in a shift that has sidelined many of company's remaining old guard. The changes encompass high-profile executives such as CFO Ruth Porat, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and employee No. Some say they have left their roles for a new challenge and others have left to seek opportunities in AI. While she'll still be in an advisory role at Google, she said, she wanted to "start a new chapter." Google's AI head, Jeff Dean, who's been at Google since 1999, became a chief scientist as part of the change.

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☆ Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Urs Holzle, Google's senior vice president for technical infrastructure, speaks about the Google Cloud Platform during a conference on June 25, 2014, in San Francisco. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years of leading technical teams, CNBC has learned. Most recently leading technical infrastructure for Google Cloud and reporting directly to CEO Thomas Kurian, Holzle oversaw an organization that consisted of more than 12,000 full-time employees. The move comes amid a shakeup within the company's cloud organization, according to an email from Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian viewed by CNBC. Ben Treynor Sloss, vice president of engineering at Google Cloud, will begin reporting directly to Kurian.

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☆ Tech giants aren't just cutting thousands of jobs — they're making them extinct
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That has far-reaching implications for tech workers and those seeking to work in the industry. By some estimates, more than 250,000 tech workers have been laid off since the start of 2022. Site-reliability engineers manage the operations of Google's systems and keep them running, while software engineers work on developing Google's infrastructure and products. This trend has significant implications for tech workers and those hoping to work in the industry. As Insider's Ito has reported, tech workers and software engineers have often been thought of as impervious to the march of automation.

☆ The US is bleeding tech workers to other countries — it needs to move fast or risk falling behind.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The US is losing tech workers to other countries. And so, many tech workers are opting to move and work there instead of the US. Plus, many of these countries are making their immigration systems easier for tech workers. My teammates Emilia David and Paayal Zaveri break down how the US is on the brink of losing an entire generation of tech workers. And it showed that Boomers and Gen Z both love many of the same cars, including the Toyota RAV4.

☆ Leaked email shows Google engineering head Urs Hölzle's plan for increased efficiency, starting with rebalancing the different types of engineers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Google will be focusing on efficiency this year "given the economic environment," engineering senior vice president Urs Hölzle told technical infrastructure teams. Additionally, the team will aim to use automation to reduce the ratio of site reliability engineers to software engineers to less than 5%. Site reliability engineers manage the operations of Google's systems and keep them running, while software engineers work on developing Google's infrastructure and products. Besides efficiency, Google's technical infrastructure teams plan to focus on reliability, infrastructure innovation, security of infrastructure and data, climate and sustainability, and effectiveness. Below are more details on what Google's technical infrastructure teams plan to focus on:Theme #1: EfficiencyHölzle said that the team should focus on technical efficiency.

☆ Googlers make memes to express anxiety as tech companies including Amazon, Meta, and Twitter lay off thousands
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Rosalie Chan | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Googlers are creating and sharing memes to express their anxiety about industry layoffs. Sources say they have not heard of planned layoffs at Google, but many employees are still nervous. Amazon, Meta, and Twitter have cut thousands of jobs lately. Across the tech industry, companies including Amazon, Meta, and Twitter are laying off thousands. Meta laid off 11,000 employees, while Twitter laid off more than 3,000 full-time employees, along with many contract workers.

☆ SpaceX colaborează cu Google pentru a dezvolta internet prin satelit
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-13 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

SpaceX, compania de explorare spațială a lui Elon Musk, va face echipă cu Google pentru a furniza servicii de internet de mare viteză și servicii de calcul la distanță clienților, companiilor și organizațiilor sale, potrivit AFP, citează hotnews.ro. SpaceX este în curs de lansare a serviciului său de internet prin satelit, care ar trebui să permită o conexiune de mare viteză fără a trece prin infrastructuri terestre. „Combinând viteza mare și latența redusă a Starlink cu infrastructura și resursele Google, vom oferi organizațiilor din întreaga lume conexiunea sigură și rapidă pe care o așteaptă”, a declarat Gwynne Shotwell, președinte și director executiv, într-un comunicat. „Suntem mândri să colaborăm cu Google pentru a oferi acest acces întreprinderilor, organizațiilor din sectorul public și multor altor grupuri din întreaga lume”, a adăugat ea. SpaceX și Google se așteaptă ca această nouă ofertă să fie disponibilă în a doua jumătate a anului 2021.

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