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Ashwini Vaishnaw meets Sundar Pichai at Google HQ, discusses India Stack
Pichai last met Vaishnaw during his India visit in December, saying it was important for the government to create regulatory frameworks that help companies innovate on top of those local laws of the land. "Met @sundarpichai at the @Google HQ. Good discussion on India Stack and Make in India programme," tweeted Vaishnaw.
YouTube's revenue falls as ads slow down for 3rd quarter in a row
YouTube logged $6.69 billion in advertising revenue for the quarter that ended March 31, compared to $6.87 billion during the same period last year. The company, however, is seeing growth in Shorts as watch time and monetisation is "progressing nicely". People are engaging and converting on ads across Shorts.
Sundar Pichai creates 'Google DeepMind' to build robust AI systems
This group, called 'Google DeepMind', will bring together two leading research groups in the AI field: the Brain team from Google Research, and DeepMind. "Their collective accomplishments in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequence to sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, training and deploying large scale ML models," Pichai explained in a blog post late on Thursday.
Sundar Pichai promises more capable Bard AI chatbot soon
Bard was released for the public on March 21 but failed to garner the attention won by OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot. We clearly have more capable models. Pretty soon, we will be upgrading Bard to some of our more capable Pathways Language Model (PaLM) models, which will bring more capabilities; be it in reasoning.
Google achieves quantum error correction milestone: Sundar Pichai
In quantum computing, a qubit is a basic unit of quantum information that can take on richer states that extend beyond just 0 and 1. Our breakthrough represents a significant shift in how we operate quantum computers. Instead of working on the physical qubits on our quantum processor one by one, we are treating a group of them as one logical qubit," said Pichai.
Google awards record $12 mn to 700 bug researchers, Indian leads
The Android Vulnerability Reward Programme (VRP) had a record-breaking year in 2022 with $4.8 million in rewards and the highest paid report in Google VRP history of $605,000. Submitting an impressive 200+ vulnerabilities to the Android VRP, Aman Pandey of Bugsmirror remains one of our programme's top researchers said Sarah Jacobus.
Google lays off 100 robot workers used to clean its cafeterias
According to a Wired report, Alphabet's 'Everyday Robots' project -- an unit under Google's experimental X laboratories -- has been shut down by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. It had trained 100 one-armed, wheeled robots to help clean the company's cafeterias. Several of these robot prototypes were transported out of the lab and were doing useful duties.
YouTube Shorts now averaging over 50 bn daily views: Sundar Pichai
Pichai said that this performance will reward creators and help improve the Shorts experience for everyone. "Our subscription business continues to grow, with YouTube Music and Premium surpassing 80 million subscribers, including trials. Together with our YouTube Primetime channel subscriptions and YouTube TV, we have good momentum here," Pichai said.
US tech giants continue with layoffs despite improving economy
The tech giant cut 12,000 employees from its global workforce last week, joining the continuing spate of layoffs by tech firms. Mark Zuckerberg sounded equally contrite last November when Meta fired more than 11,000 employees.
Cut 20% jobs at Alphabet, key investor tells Sundar Pichai
Google's parent company Alphabet has eliminated 12,000 jobs or 6 per cent of its workforce. In a letter that has gone viral on social media, Hohn told Pichai that the decision to cut 12,000 jobs is a "step in the right direction", but it "does not even reverse the very strong headcount growth of 2022".
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