Google CFO Ruth Porat made references to the year 2008, when Google made similar cuts to respond to the financial crisis.
The U.S. Virgin Islands is suing JPMorgan Chase over sex trafficking by former customer Jeffrey Epstein, a one-time friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
Google is reorganizing its Assistant team to include more focus on Bard as the company shifts more resources to artificial intelligence.
In responding to employee criticism of Google’s new desk-sharing policy for the cloud unit, CEO Sundar Pichai reminded staffers that real estate is pricey.
After rolling out Bard as an AI service largely for search, Google executives appear to be pivoting away from that focus without providing specific use cases.
Some cloud employees will be asked to alternate days at their desks.
Google leadership has faced criticism of late for its slow response to ChatGPT and emerging competition from Microsoft.
“You don’t want to put a system out that either says wrong things or sometimes says toxic things,” Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy said at a conference Monday
Passkeys, which require you to accept a prompt on a secondary device when you log into an account, are on the path to replace password logins.
The escalation in urgency comes as the company ups its rivalry with Microsoft-backed OpenAI, whose ChatGPT chatbot took the internet by storm.
Google Bard comes as the company tries to compete with the popularity of ChatGPT.