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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has publicly pushed back against the narrative of a “chip war”, wherein custom AI chips like Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are seen as a threat to Nvidia’s dominance. Kurian’s comments have come about a month after a turbulent week where news of Facebook-parent company partnering with Google to train…
The latest TV viewing numbers in America are out. And once again, as per rating agency Nielsen, Google-owned YouTube beats every other platform in viewership in America. In November, YouTube accounted for nearly 13% of viewing time, compared with 8% for Netflix, the next in line, according to Nielsen. In fact, YouTube has been winning…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed his company narrowly escaped being crushed by Google in the AI race, crediting Google’s delayed response to ChatGPT for crucial breathing room. Altman argued Google’s lucrative business model hinders its AI pivot, suggesting future success lies in AI-native products, not retrofitting existing ones. OpenAI recently issued a ‘code red’ alert…
Google has informed its employees that it will restart and also ‘ramp up’ application for the US green cards via the PERM program in 2026. The company’s plan to restart the process comes after the pause of three years which wS started among sweeping layoffs in 2023. As reported by Business Insider, the announcement by…
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, has identified the ‘biggest weakness’ in Google’s AI armour, arguing that the search giant infusing AI into already built products rather than creating a product around artificial intelligence may hinder its ability to lead in the age of AI. While acknowledging that Google possesses “probably the greatest business model…
Jamshedpur: The police on Saturday said it has arrested a gang of thieves which used Google Maps to select houses in the Steel City for breaking in.East Singhbhum SSP Piyush Pandey said the gang used Google Maps to select its targets and used the technique to break into six homes across various cities in Jharkhand,…
Europe’s biggest aerospace company Airbus reportedly wants to move away from two of the biggest American technology companies — Google and Microsoft. According to a report in Register, Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud. The aerospace manufacturer uses products and services of Google…
Google and Apple advised US-based employees on work visas not to travel internationally after their outside counsel warned of delays of up to 12 months at US embassies and consulates worldwide amid the immigration crackdown, documents reviewed by Business Insider show. On Thursday, BAL Immigration Law, which represents Google, sent a memo stating, “Please be…
Google has asked some of its employees in the US to not travel abroad amid the H-1B visa row. According to a report by Business Insider, the company’s outside counsel, BAL Immigration Law has sent an internal memo which says that workers who require a new visa stamp to re-enter the US risk being stuck…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently acknowledged that Google’s efforts were not as effective in 2023 as it is now. He said that if Google had chosen to focus on OpenAI at that time, the ChatGPT-maker would have been in a “really bad place.” Speaking on the Big Technology Podcast with Alex Kantrowitz, Altman called Google…
