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Data centers and ads boost Alphabet’s profits as it faces down AI rivals

By Davey Alba, Julia Love, and others

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Eric Schmidt on buying TikTok: ‘I looked at it for a while,’ but the government should regulate instead

By Alex Barinka, Caroline Hyde, and others

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Sundar Pichai fires 28 Google workers for staging sit-in protest over $1.2 billion Israeli contract on company property

By Davey Alba, Julia Love, and others

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Google and the government agree that it hid its AI dominance for years, they just disagree on why

By Davey Alba, Leah Nylen, and others

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on alleged comment about working hand in glove with Apple: ‘I don’t recall myself saying that line’

By Todd Shields, Leah Nylen, and others

Google insiders are slamming Bard for not being worth it on private chat groups: ‘What are LLMs truly useful for?’

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 02: A sign is posted in front of an office at Google headquarters on February 02, 2023 in Mountain View, California. Google parent company Alphabet reported lower-than-expected fourth quarter revenue with net income $13.62 billion, or $1.05 per share, compared to $20.64 billion, or $1.53 per share, one year ago. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

‘Incredibly suspicious’: A union is accusing Google of violating labor law by retaliating against workers for organizing

By Davey Alba, Josh Eidelson, and others

Google’s Bard A.I. chatbot is being trained by contractors who say they’re overworked, underpaid, stressed and scared

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg

Electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on among other CEOs before a roundtable during the 6th edition of the “Choose France” Summit at the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris on May 15, 2023. Since 2018, the Choose France Summit seeks to promote France’s economic attractiveness and encourage international investment across the country and brings together hundreds of leaders from the largest multinational corporations. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk loses two Twitter safety executives in one week amid questions over harmful content, advertiser relations

By Aisha Counts, Davey Alba, and others

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‘We have no secret sauce’: Top Google engineer admits tech giant is falling behind in the A.I. arms race

By Julia Love, Rachel Metz, and others

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc. speaks during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Playing catch up in A.I., Google merges its DeepMind and Brain research teams in an effort to ‘significantly accelerate’ progress

By Davey Alba, Julia Love, and others

Former US President Donald Trump speaks during an “America First Education Policy” event in Davenport, Iowa, US, on Monday, March 13, 2023. Most polls show Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whos widely expected to enter the race some time after the Florida legislative session ends in May, as the strongest challenger to Trump in a potential 2024 primary field. Photographer: Miriam Alarcon Avila/Bloomberg via Getty Images

YouTube lifts its ban of Donald Trump from the Jan. 6 riot so that voters can ‘hear equally from major national candidates’

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg

Members of the Alphabet Workers Union (CWA) hold a rally outside the Google office in response to recent layoffs, in New York on February 2, 2023. – Google’s parent company Alphabet announced in January it will cut about 12,000 jobs globally, citing a changing economic reality. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Thousands of Google contractors just got a raise after union protested against low pay and benefits

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg

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Google parent Alphabet is slashing 12,000 jobs: Sundar Pichai emails staff saying he takes ‘full responsibility for the decisions that led us here’

By Julia Love, Davey Alba, and others

FUERSTENWALDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk arrives to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines, as well as German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier yesterday. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

The people have spoken—or maybe not: Elon Musk’s use of Twitter polls for key decisions invites manipulation

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg