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A few days ago, Sundar Pichai announced a $100 million Google Career Certificates fund. It’s got nothing to do with college education, and instead, focuses on giving up-and-coming data analytics, IT, project management, and UX design students the tactical tools needed to start their careers with a bang. It follows in a long line of similar efforts by coding bootcamps across the country and online educational portals like Udemy and Coursera.  To all of this I say: Thank goodness. Now, I’m… Source link

Google’s chief executive approved an agreement with Facebook at the heart of an antitrust lawsuit that 16 states and Puerto Rico have lodged against the search giant, according to a portion of the complaint revealed on Friday. The lawsuit, led by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, argues that Google has obtained and abused a monopoly over the network of technology used to deliver ads online. When publishers started using an alternative system for selling their ad space, Google worked to… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and parent company Alphabet Inc., GOOG 0.91% said the U.S. government should take a more active role in policing cyberattacks and encouraging innovation with policies and investments. In the wake of recent cybersecurity breaches attributed to Chinese and Russian hackers, Mr. Pichai said the time had come to draft the equivalent of a Geneva Convention for technology to… Source link

CEO Sundar Pichai is stressed about Google’s plan to become carbon free over the next decade. That means the company aims to use no carbon-based energy whatsoever by 2030. “It’s a long shot, it stresses me out in terms of how to get there,” Pichai said at a virtual climate change event hosted by earth-imaging platform Planet in July. But “you bet on technology and innovation,” he said. Google has been carbon neutral since 2007, Pichai said. That means that though Google’s operations still… Source link

As boss of both Google and its parent company Alphabet, he is the ultimate leader of companies or products as varied as Waze, FitBit and DeepMind, the artificial intelligence pioneers. At Google alone he oversees Gmail, Google Chrome, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Docs, Google Photos, the Android operating system and many other products. Source link

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has pledged support in India’s battle against second wave of Covid-19, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had referred to as a ‘toofan’ (storm) while addressing his radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday. Taking to Twitter, Sundar Pichai said,” Devastated to see the worsening crisis in India. Google and Googlers are providing Rs135 crore funding to Unicef and non-profit Give India for medical supplies, supporting… Source link

For Google, the Techlash arrived with a vengeance last week. After years of mounting angst about the power of Big Tech, two state-level antitrust suits against the search giant in the US landed on consecutive days, adding to a Federal case launched in October. The European Commission, which has fought a running battle with Google over a series of competition complaints for the past decade, also upped the ante by proposing sweeping new laws aimed at curbing the power of a handful of… Source link

The letter, sent to CEO Sundar Pichai, is titled “The future of Ethical AI at Google.” It lays out the moves the researchers want the company to make in order to “rebuild trust” with the team and create an environment in which they can continue their work. The team researches the ethical repercussions of artificial intelligence and advises the company on AI policies and products. It comes in the wake of the sudden exit of Timnit Gebru, who until early December was the co-leader of Google’s… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the controversial departure of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru in an email to staff on Wednesday. “We need to accept responsibility for the fact that a prominent Black, female leader with immense talent left Google unhappily,” he wrote. News of the email was first published by Axios. While Pichai did not say Gebru was fired as she and many others have claimed, he promised to review the steps that led to her leaving the company. “We need to… Source link