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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicts AI data centers will be ‘on military bases’  New York Post Source link

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google until 2011. John Lamparski/Getty Images Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reportedly been building a startup called White Stork. New details emerged after Forbes previously reported on the project’s existence earlier this month. Schmidt previously told Wired that AI has the potential to revolutionize US military equipment. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is building a military… Source link

open share links close share links Artificial intelligence was a thing, but not the thing, when Eric Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001. Sixteen years later, when he stepped down from his post as executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, the world had changed. Speaking at Princeton University that year, Schmidt declared that we are in “the AI century.” Schmidt, who recently chaired the Source link

Nov 2 (Reuters) – Arta Finance, a fintech that aims to replicate the family office experience for a wider audience through artificial intelligence, debuted on Wednesday with $90 million in funding from investors who include Betsy Cohen and former Google (GOOGL.O) chief Eric Schmidt. Calling the operation a “digital family office,” Arta CEO Caesar Sengupta, who led Google’s payments initiatives until 2021, said the startup will offer AI-personalized portfolios and alternative investments to… Source link

About four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. It was a powerful perch. Congress tasked the new group with a broad mandate: to advise the U.S. government on how to advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other technologies to enhance the national security of the United States. The mandate was simple: Congress directed the new… Source link

Ex-Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt says he’s invested “a little bit” of money into cryptocurrencies — but for him, the most interesting part of blockchain isn’t virtual currency. It’s Web3. “A new model [of the internet] where you as an individual [can] control your identity, and where you don’t have a centralized manager, is very powerful. It’s very seductive and it’s very decentralized,” Schmidt, 67, tells CNBC Make It. “I remember that feeling when I was 25 that decentralized would… Source link

After more than two years of remote work and multiple return-to-office delays, most Google employees are heading back to the office at least part-time — and ex-Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt couldn’t be happier about it. “[I]t’s important that these people be at the office, in my view,” Schmidt, 66, tells CNBC Make It, arguing that for decades, the in-office style has been proven effective. “I’m a traditionalist.” Starting Monday, Google’s hybrid work arrangement kicked off, with most… Source link

This story is part of the Behind the Desk series, where CNBC Make It gets personal with successful business executives to find out everything from how they got to where they are to what makes them get out of bed in the morning to their daily routines As far as career accomplishments go, it’s hard to top Eric Schmidt. A self-described software “nerd” from Falls Church, Virginia, Schmidt was hired as Google’s chairman and later CEO by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2001 to provide… Source link

Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, has paid $65 million for Enchanted Hill, a prized piece of undeveloped land in Beverly Hills that was owned by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, according to people familiar with the situation. The deal, which closed in December, marks the end of a more than three-year push to sell the roughly 120-acre property, which came on the market asking $150 million in 2018.  Source link

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt sounded skeptical on Tuesday that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, will succeed at building the metaverse. “I look forward to excellent innovation in the metaverse,” Schmidt told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday. “I’ve been waiting for about thirty years … As to whether Facebook will build that, I don’t know.” Schmidt reacted to the news that Meta would shift its focus to build the metaverse, a virtual world where you can socialize, work and play. Google, Source link