Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai is warning employees that more job cuts are coming this year as the company continues to shift investments toward areas like artificial intelligence. … Read more
DETROIT — General Motors’ plans to diversify its business through trendy industries such as ridesharing and other “mobility” ventures or startups have largely fallen flat since the automaker started investing in such growth areas in 2016. Cruise, its majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is increasingly looking like it might be next. The unit has quickly gone … Read more
A team at Google has proposed using artificial intelligence technology to create a “bird’s-eye” view of users’ lives using mobile phone data such as photographs and searches. Dubbed “Project Ellmann,” after biographer and literary critic Richard David Ellmann, the idea would be to use LLMs like Gemini to ingest search results, spot patterns in a … Read more
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. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Google is launching what it considers … Read more
The Hugging Face website on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Nvidia announced a partnership with Hugging Face, a popular developer of AI models and data sets, that will add a training service to its website that uses Nvidia DGX Cloud, allowing users to tap the chipmaker’s servers to … Read more
Humane, a five-year-old artificial intelligence startup founded by former Apple designers Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, announced its first product on Thursday — a $699 pin you wear on your lapel. The Humane AI Pin is designed to replace your smartphone, allowing the user to make calls, send texts and look up information through voice … Read more
David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images When a Google employee asked the company if he could organize his work schedule to work fewer hours on more days, a human resources representative responded saying the average Google employee works more than a normal 9-to-5 work day — seeming to refute earlier reports … Read more
Airplanes from United and JetBlue populate the taxiway at Laguardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York City. Bruce Bennett | Getty Images Google can help you save money ahead of the holiday travel season. You can follow the price of airfare with Google Flights for a trip you’re interested in and receive alerts … Read more
Jeff Green, CEO, The Trade Desk Scott Mlyn | CNBC The Trade Desk shares plunged about 30% in after-hours trading on Thursday after the ad-tech company issued fourth-quarter revenue guidance that fell well short of analysts’ estimates. Third-quarter results topped estimates. Here’s how the company did: Earnings per share: 33 cents, adjusted vs. 29 cents expected … Read more
Arm CEO Rene Haas cheers as Arm holds an initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on Sept. 14, 2023. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Semiconductor technology company Arm reported its first post-initial public offering earnings on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations for sales and showed that the company’s lucrative licensing business … Read more