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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’  Hindustan Times Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google is officially a $2 trillion company  The Verge Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]TikTok parent company ByteDance has no plans to sell app after Biden signed bill that includes potential ban. Here’s …  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Hey Google, Set YouTube Free as a Standalone Company  Bloomberg Source link

Google recently fired an engineer after the employee expressed anti-Israel sentiments during the Israeli tech industry conference, Mind The Tech, in New York. During a speech by Barak Regev, Google’s CEO in Israel, the employee publicly protested against Google’s collaboration in Project Nimbus, the Israeli military’s cloud computing project.  “I’m a Google software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance,” he shouted before being… Source link

More than 600 Google workers and counting have signed a letter addressed to Google marketing leadership demanding that it drop its sponsorship of Mind the Tech, an annual conference promoting the Israeli tech industry taking place in New York this week. “Please withdraw from Mind the Tech, issue an apology, and stand with Googlers and customers who are despairing over the overwhelming loss of life in Gaza; we need Google to do better,” reads the letter, which was seen by WIRED. The two-day… Source link

Google has reportedly cut a team of contractors that had gone on a union strike against the company. According to a report by The Verge. the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA, representing contractors for YouTube Music, allege that Google terminated their contracts following an extended strike.The affected group, comprising moderators employed by Google contractor Cognizant in Austin, Texas, was responsible for vetting music content for YouTube Music.According to a statement provided to The Verge,… Source link

Are Google AI courses Free? A lot of the foundational AI courses mentioned above can be found in Google’s library of online courses are free to take, and they’re pretty comprehensive. There are also lots of additional resources and teaching materials you can access for free too. However, Most Google Career Certificate learners will have to pay a Coursera monthly fee for taking one Google certificate course, typically around $49. However, This may vary depending on how quickly you complete… Source link

Google said last week that YouTube Music and YouTube Premium have reached the 100 million subscriber milestone. Now the company CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that Google One – a subscription service that provides expanded cloud storage – has also crossed 100 million subscribers.“We just crossed 100M Google One subscribers! Looking forward to building on that momentum with our new AI Premium Plan (launched yesterday) offering AI features like Gemini Advanced, plus Gemini in Gmail,… Source link

The Netherlands-based parent company of the Yandex group is selling its Russian businesses to local investors for $5.2 billion, the company announced on Monday. Despite a mandatory discount of at least half enforced by the Kremlin, this would be the largest corporate exit from Russia since it invaded Ukraine two years ago. Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google,” was founded in Russia in the late 1990s and went public on the Nasdaq in 2011 via a company called Yandex NV registered… Source link