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In a recent staff-wide email, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the potential for a recession and how it could affect the company. “We need to be more entrepreneurial working with greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we’ve shown on sunnier days,” he wrote. Many thought Pichai’s words sounded grim, according to TechCrunch, which missed the overarching message within the email.  What Pichai really meant is that he has a brilliantly simple plan to help top… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Industrial production is one of the dirtiest corners of the corporate world. A startup from former Google engineers thinks it can clean it up with artificial intelligence. Phaidra, a company based in Seattle, sells AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial giants. It’s relying on the same fix as their former company, DeepMind, Google’s research lab. For several years, DeepMind has let its AI… Source link

“Why won’t Google just build that?” That question has been posed to entrepreneurs by venture capitalists so often that it’s become a cliché. But not when asked of Richard Socher, the former Salesforce chief scientist who founded a web search startup called You.com. Driving the news: You.com today is announcing $25 million in Series A funding led by Radical Ventures. This follows a $20 million seed round last fall led by Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures. Other backers in the new deal include Breyer… Source link

Comment on this story Comment Google’s new Bay View campus might best be described as a mash-up of a steel-clad circus tent, a big international airport, and an indoor shopping or entertainment center. The office is complete with droves of natural sunlight, two-story art installments and colorful street signs that adorn each corridor. But are all the bells and whistles enough to get Google workers excited about working at the office again? In April, Google mandated that tens of thousands of… Source link

Google Google One is the paid upgrade for Google accounts that adds more cloud storage and other helpful features. Premium subscribers now have access to features that used to require a business account. Google revealed this week that subscribers for Google One Premium, which costs $9.99 per month (or $99.99 per year), can now use a few account features that used to only be accessible to paid Google Workspace accounts. Group calls in Google Meet can now last up to 24 hours, instead of the… Source link

Google has told employees that it’ll be “slowing down the pace of hiring for the rest of the year,” according to an internal memo Tuesday by CEO Sundar Pichai obtained by The Verge. Pichai says the company will have to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we’ve shown on sunnier days.” You can read the full memo below. According to the memo, the company isn’t freezing hiring entirely; it’ll still hire for… Source link

The TikTok threat to Google’s business isn’t just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps, are also being impacted by a growing preference for social media and videos as the first stop on younger users’ path to discovery, a Google exec acknowledged today, speaking at an industry event. Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan, who runs Google’s Knowledge & Information organization, referenced the popular social apps in a broader… Source link

With Daniel Lippman GOOGLE LOBBYIST HANGS A SHINGLE: Stewart Jeffries, an in-house lobbyist at Google for more than a decade, is launching his own government affairs shop, Jeffries Strategies. Jeffries joined Google in 2011 as the tech giant’s first competition policy counsel amid an FTC probe into its business practices, and later led the company’s outreach to House and Senate Republican leadership, committees and personal offices. — He previously served as the chief antitrust… Source link

For the second time in its history Google’s parent company, Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG), is set to split its stock for the second time in its history.  The 20-for-1 split means Alphabet investors will receive an additional 19 shares for each one they already own. It will be the company’s first stock split since April 2014, when it split its shares 1,998-for-1,000. Google Stock Split Date The Google stock split is set to take place after the market’s close on July 15. Alphabet’s Stock… Source link

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Most of the time, when authorities issue search warrants to Google for information, Google complies. It hands over emails, location history, search data. It has all kinds of information about you. So how will Google respond when authorities ask for details about people seeking abortions in places where it’s now illegal? NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn reports. BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: When police are trying to solve a crime, they often turn… Source link