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☆ Google just made a huge company shakeup. Here's who's gaining power.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Google is merging more parts of the company in an effort to move faster in AI. Google's DeepMind chief has gained more power, while the head of Pixel will also oversee Android. The changes put more firepower behind some key Google products, and could help it launch faster. CEO Sundar Pichai announced a series of re-orgs in a memo to staff on Thursday, and — surprise, surprise — Google says it's all happening because of artificial intelligence. Pichai said the changes, which include merging different parts of the company, would help Google "simplify decisions" and move faster.

Persons: Google's, —, Sundar Pichai, Pichai Organizations: Google, Service, Research, Business

☆ Google lays off more employees and moves some roles to other countries
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Several teams across Google's finance and real estate units have been affected, according to two current employees, who said staff had been informed of the cuts this week. One said that the affected teams in finance include Google's Treasury, Business Services, and Revenue Cash Operations teams. AdvertisementA Google spokesperson confirmed the cuts but declined to elaborate on the number of affected staff. "As we've said, we're responsibly investing in our company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead," said a Google spokesperson. They said that impacted employees could apply for open roles inside Google.

Persons: —, Ruth Porat, we've, Sundar Pichai Organizations: Service, Google's Treasury, Business Services, Cash, Business, Google, BI Locations: Bangalore, Mexico City, Dublin, India, Atlanta

☆ It's not just you: Reddit is taking over Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

In February, Google and Reddit announced a blockbuster deal that would let Google train its AI models on Reddit content. Google said the deal, reportedly worth $60 million, would "facilitate more content-forward displays of Reddit information," leading to some speculation that Google promised Reddit better visibility in exchange for the valuable training data. Per Sistrix data, Reddit is now as visible in top Google Search results as Instagram. Google CEO Sundar Pichai on stage at Google IO 2023 JOSH EDELSON/GETTYGoogle's Reddit deal and its endorsement of Reddit content in Search show how much it sees Reddit as a crucial part of the future of search. AdvertisementYouTube already has heaps of videos offering advice on hijacking Reddit to rise to the top of Google Search.

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☆ Google restructures finance team as a part of AI shift, CFO tells employees in memo
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"The tech sector is in the midst of a tremendous platform shift with Al," Porat wrote in the memo, obtained by CNBC, that was sent to employees in finance. The restructuring will impact finance teams domestically and abroad, including in the Asia Pacific region and Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Porat noted. "Over the past year, we have talked about creating hubs of Fin'ooglers around the world that are vibrant and have a strong culture," Porat wrote. "As we've said, we're responsibly investing in our company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead," a Google spokesperson told CNBC in an email. WATCH: Google Cloud CEO says company is monetizing AI in a variety of ways

Persons: Ruth Porat, Porat, Sundar Pichai, we've Organizations: Google, CNBC, San Francisco Bay Area Locations: Asia, Europe, East, Africa, Bangalore, Mexico City, Dublin, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco Bay, Fin'ooglers

☆ Ad transparency tools are 'major disappointment' ahead of election, new study shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

That's according to research out Tuesday from Mozilla and CheckFirst, which concludes that leading tech platforms are lagging in their ad transparency tools. None of the results were great, and some were "a major disappointment," according to the researchers. "This is now no longer something that's voluntary," Claire Pershan, EU advocacy lead at Mozilla, told CNBC. It's troubling news as the major platforms prepare for a huge year of elections that affect upward of 4 billion people in more than 40 countries. Lesplingart told CNBC that users had to know the advertiser name, targeted country and date of the advertisement in order to export to an ad file.

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☆ Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez were among the top tech bosses and business leaders to attend a lavish White House dinner
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The former Amazon CEO joined over 200 other guests at a White House state dinner on Wednesday. President Joe Biden hosted the dinner in honor of the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida. Other guests in attendance included Apple CEO Tim Cook and JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon. AdvertisementJeff Bezos, founder and former CEO of Amazon, and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez, a former news anchor and philanthropist, joined 200 other guests at a White House state dinner on Wednesday. Jill Biden had the State Floor of the White House transformed into what she dubbed a "vibrant spring garden" for the event.

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☆ Opinion: Google’s AI blunder over images reveals a much bigger problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Rizwan Virk | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

When asked, Gemini politely refused in some instances to generate images of historically White people, such as the Vikings. In the image space, if you asked previous AI image generators for an image of a CEO or a doctor, they initially almost always showed images of White males. Google announced its Gemini AI chatbot was pausing the generation of people in images after concerns were raised that it was creating historically inaccurate images. What makes censorship and manipulation worse with AI is that today’s AI already has a well-known hallucination problem. It may be a portent of what’s to come with AI and Big Tech leading us into Orwellian territory.

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☆ Jon Stewart takes aim at Sam, Satya and Sundar for 'false promises' on AI and jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jon Stewart is taking aim at tech bros over their "false promises" about AI and work. "The Daily Show" host blasted AI as labor-replacing, calling it a threat to jobs. Stewart also mocked the suggestion AI was creating new jobs like prompt engineers. AdvertisementJon Stewart is taking aim at tech bros over their "false promises" about AI and work. "The Daily Show" host mocked some of Silicon Valley's most influential AI leaders on Monday's episode, sharing clips of OpenAI's Sam Altman, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai among others.

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☆ Google will delete billions of browsing records to settle privacy lawsuit: court filing
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewGoogle will destroy users' browsing data to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit about its "incognito" browsing, according to federal court filings. The 2020 class action lawsuit accused the search engine of collecting millions of users' data without their knowledge while they used incognito mode. Now, Google has agreed to delete billions of data records that are older than nine months, the filing states. Previously, Google had used third-party cookies to collect users' data even when they were on non-Google sites. Related storiesGoogle had known for years that the marketing and branding of its incognito mode was potentially misleading, the lawsuit alleged.

Persons: —, José Castañeda, Lorraine Twohill, Sundar Pichai, David Boies Organizations: Service, Google, Business, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal Locations: California

☆ 9 AI hacks that Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and other business leaders use
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Business leaders are using AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT as the sector booms. Some have tried AI on the job, while others have played with it to write raps and translate poetry. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Some workers have used ChatGPT to generate lesson plans, produce marketing materials, and write legal briefs. From translating poetry to creating rap songs, here's how executives from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other major companies have personally used AI.

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☆ Investor Brad Gerstner bought notable first-quarter underperformers Tesla and Alphabet on the dip
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Altimeter Capital's Brad Gerstner is betting on some of the first quarter's biggest technology underperformers, revealing fresh Alphabet and Tesla stakes during an interview with C NBC's "Halftime Report" on Wednesday. Both Alphabet and Tesla have lagged most of their "Magnificent 7" peers year to date as they grapple with a slew of company-specific headwinds. Despite the recent mishaps, Gerstner views Alphabet as a "super capable" company with "extraordinary resources," highlighting monetization potential within search among the reasons for diving back into shares. TSLA YTD mountain Tesla stock this year Despite some difficulties in China and the potential for Tesla to miss upcoming delivery numbers, Gerstner views much of the negativity as already priced in. "This is not for the faint of heart," he said, adding that investors need to willingly buy more shares on pullbacks.

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☆ Google's AI can ingest multiple books. What will it do with all that data?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Today, the emergence of huge AI models is turning this book-scanning debate on its head. So it's safe to interpret this comment as a yes: Google will use this data to train future AI models. Developers versus corporate customersThe internet giant treats information shared with its AI models and services differently, depending on the offering. It's probably why some big companies have sent around warnings again recently prohibiting employees from sharing sensitive data with AI models. Prompt data controlsHere are some other important tips for controlling how Google uses any prompts you submit to its AI models.

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☆ Nvidia has a parade of partners, but these two stocks are my favorite beneficiaries
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +23 min

That's what Nvidia needed semiconductor design firm Synopsys to do to make this next generation of chips. Right now, Nvidia has had not one, but two different breakthroughs: Accelerated computing at a ridiculously fast speed and generative artificial intelligence. I think Jensen regards Dell as a crucial partner when it comes to installing Nvidia's systems anywhere. Do I think Nvidia would like to do more business with Apple? I think Nvidia would like to do more business with everyone, including alleged opponent Intel .

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☆ Google and Apple's rumored partnership could upend the AI industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at what a potential partnership between Google and Apple over AI features would mean for both companies and the wider industry. The big storyGoogle, Apple, AIRebecca Zisser/BITwo of the world's biggest tech companies are reportedly discussing a partnership that would upend the AI industry. Apple is considering integrating Google's AI model, Gemini, into the iPhone . The company has been noticeably quiet around its AI plans compared to peers like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. So even if Apple and Google come to an agreement, they could still face some serious regulatory pushback.

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☆ AI Is Upending Google's Search Business. a Lady Gaga Query Shows How.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Kali Hays | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Search versus SGESince December, Business Insider has plugged the same queries into Google's traditional search engine and its generative AI version to see how information is presented differently. Mark Mahaney, a top internet analyst at ISI Evercore, has been testing SGE alongside generative AI rivals like Perplexity and OpenAI's ChatGPT. Ray has spotted answers in SGE results that are not sourced from websites that rank in the top 100 positions for that query in traditional Search results. Neither query produced any sort of generative AI response — although a search for "common cold" did. They've already got billions of people using Chrome and using Google search," Shmulik told BI.

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☆ How an Apple and Alphabet AI deal could benefit both companies and their out-of-favor stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

The aforementioned Siri is an obvious area in need of a generative AI upgrade. That said, we do know that Apple has been hard at work on its own generative AI model, Ajax. However, if true, this would prove a major, and much-needed, win for Alphabet in generative AI. AAPL YTD mountain Apple YTD As for Apple, we've been expecting an update on its generative AI efforts at some point this year. A smart phone displaying Google with Google Gemini in the background is being featured in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on February 8, 2024.

Persons: Tim Cook, Apple, we're, Bard, Sundar Pichai, Jim Cramer, Apple's Siri, Siri, It's, we've, Jim, Jim Cramer's, Jonathan Raa Organizations: Apple, Bloomberg, Google, ChatGPT, Microsoft, CNBC, Ajax, Developers, Nvidia, Charitable Trust, Google Gemini, Nurphoto, Getty Locations: U.S, Wells, Brussels, Belgium

☆ Google restricts election-related queries for its Gemini chatbot
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Google announced it will restrict the types of election-related queries that users can ask its Gemini chatbot, adding it has already rolled out the changes in the U.S. and in India, where voters will head to the polls this spring. "Out of an abundance of caution on such an important topic, we have begun to roll out restrictions on the types of election-related queries for which Gemini will return responses," Google wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. "We take our responsibility for providing high-quality information for these types of queries seriously, and are continuously working to improve our protections." A Google spokesperson told CNBC that the changes are in line with the company's planned approach for elections.

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☆ Google confirmed it 'terminated' an employee who staged a protest against Israel at a tech event
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewA Google engineer who publicly protested a talk by the head of Google Israel is now out of a job. Google did not immediately return Business a request for comment from Business Insider on Saturday. Google workers have previously voiced their concerns over fears that Israel could use the contract to support its military. Google workers also flooded the company's employee message board with comments about Project Nimbus on Thursday, CNBC reported.

Persons: —, Barak Regev, Regev, Ariel Koren, Sundar Pichai, Axel Springer Organizations: Service, Google, Business, CNBC, Tech, Nimbus, YouTube, Austin City Council Locations: New York City, Israel, Google's, York

☆ Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Ahead of an International Women's Day Summit in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Google's employee message board was hit with an influx of staffer comments about the company's military contracts with Israel. The event on Monday in New York featured an address from Barak Regev, managing director of Google Israel. A Google spokesperson said the employee was fired for "interfering with an official company-sponsored event" in an email to CNBC on Thursday. Unfortunately, before the event a series of off-topic and divisive questions and comments were posted to internal forums. WATCH: Google vs. Google

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☆ Google's Gemini firestorm shows the risks of the company's race to catch up with its AI rivals
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The company has been defending itself against fierce backlash sparked by its AI chatbot's image-generating feature. The product has landed Google at the center of what was described in some circles as a "woke" culture war. AdvertisementGoogle's 'Gemini era' is all about GPT-4Pichai claimed late last year Google was entering its "Gemini era." The model is widely seen as the company's answer to OpenAI's GPT-4, a product heavily backed by Microsoft and already powering many of the company's AI products.

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☆ The rise of 'zombie' VCs puts startups that took funding from them in a difficult spot
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

What's on deckAdvertisementBut first, zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie-ie. AdvertisementThat's why zombie VCs pose such a problem for the industry. Sussing out the prudent investor from the penniless one takes time and effort, two things startups can't necessarily afford when times are tough. AdvertisementIs having a zombie VC as an investor the equivalent of a scarlet letter? If a partner jumps ship from a zombie VC, startups they backed will be in a tough spot.

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☆ Google co-founder Sergey Brin says in rare public appearance that company 'definitely messed up' Gemini image launch
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Brin, 50, spoke to entrepreneurs on Saturday at the "AGI House" in Hillsborough, California, just south of San Francisco, where developers and founders were testing Google's Gemini model. He also commented on the flawed launch last month of Google's image generator, which the company pulled after users discovered historical inaccuracies and questionable responses. Brin was also asked how online advertising will be disrupted considering ad revenue is core to Google's business. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images“I of all people am not too terribly concerned about business model shifts,” Brin said. Beyond AI, Brin was asked about Google's difficulties in hardware given recent advancements in virtual reality.

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☆ YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job after going on strike last year. AdvertisementThe entire YouTube Music team is out of a job as tensions rise at Google parent company, Alphabet. The Alphabet Workers Union, which represents workers at Google's parent company, Alphabet, said Google laid off the YouTube Music team on Friday. "We just got laid off, our jobs are ending today, effective immediately," one worker tells the city council in video of the meeting. The YouTube Music team previously went on strike in February 2023 over Google's crackdown on remote work.

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☆ There are growing calls for Google CEO Sundar Pichai to step down
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The slip-up was so bad it sent the company's stock tumbling, and had CEO Sundar Pichai address the troops, calling the situation "completely unacceptable." The debacle has strengthened the narrative that Google is suddenly behind in the AI race, and now there's a growing chorus of voices calling for CEO Sundar Pichai to be replaced. Pichai, who was appointed CEO of Google in 2015, and Alphabet in 2019, has proven a strong peace-time CEO for the company. He's been an effective and steady hand who protects Google's prized search business and deals diplomatically with regulators. Responding to a tweet by Color Health CEO Othman Laraki, who said Google as facing an "unsolvable problem," Mayer defended Google somewhat.

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☆ A garland-wearing Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a glitzy Indian wedding celebration — and boy is he in full vacation mode
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla are attending the lavish Ambani pre-wedding party in India. The Meta CEO appears to be in full vacation mode after being pictured with a floral garland. The event for Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant is due to feature a performance by Rihanna. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . He appears to be in full vacation mode after flying in with his wife for the Ambani family's extravagant three-day affair.

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