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"People should not "blindly trust" everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet told the BBC.
In an exclusive interview, chief executive Sundar Pichai said that AI models are "prone to errors" and urged people to use them alongside other tools.
Mr Pichai said it highlighted the importance of having a rich information ecosystem, rather than solely relying on AI technology."

Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, Google boss tells BBC
Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google's models.

Gemini 3 Pro is priced at $2-$4 per 1M input tokens and $12-$18 per 1M output tokens, cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.5 but more expensive than GPT-5.1 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/

Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark
Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, …

Report: at an xAI meeting, Elon Musk and his executives said the Grok chatbot has 64M monthly users; OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had 700M weekly users (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-says-gr…

Elon Musk’s xAI Says Grok Has 64 Million Monthly Users
Elon Musk’s xAI told staff this week that its Grok chatbot has 64 million monthly users, the New York Times reported on Thursday. By contrast, OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had hit 700 million weekly users, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in July that its Gemini app had 450 million monthly users. xAI also has a much smaller enterprise business than OpenAI or Google. Musk pushed

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/now-tech-moguls-w

Sundar Pichai proved to be the "wartime CEO" that Google needed after ChatGPT's launch, making the company an AI leader, in part by empowering Demis Hassabis (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2…

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-

Google Posts First-Ever $100B Quarter in Wake of Historic DOJ Antitrust Battles
Google surged past Wall Street’s Q3 estimates, with shares up over 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday.

Adsorption-induced surface magnetism
Milo\v{s} Baljozovi\'c, Shiladitya Karmakar, Andr\'e L. Fernandes Cauduro, Mothuku Shyam Sundar, Marco Lozano, Manish Kumar, Diego Soler Polo, Andreas K. Schmid, Ashutosh V. Bedekar, Pavel Jelinek, Karl-Heinz Ernst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03897

Adsorption-induced surface magnetism
We report the emergence of adsorption-induced magnetism from heterohelicene molecules on a non-magnetic Cu(100) surface. Spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy (SP-LEEM) measurements reveal spin-dependent electron reflectivity for enantiopure 7,12,17-trioxa[11]helicene (TO[11]H) monolayers, indicating the formation of a spin-polarized state localized in the topmost copper layer. Control experiments on clean Cu(100) and TO[11]H on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite show no such effect, ex…

Internal memo: Google is naming Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025/google-names-n…

Exclusive: Google names new chief of AI infrastructure buildout
Amin Vahdat, a veteran leader at Google, will become chief technologist for AI infrastructure, according to the memo reviewed by Semafor, and report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Global Optimization Algorithm for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs with Trigonometric Functions
Christopher Montez, Sujeevraja Sanjeevi, Kaarthik Sundar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26516

Global Optimization Algorithm for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs with Trigonometric Functions
This article presents the first mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)-based iterative algorithm to solve factorable mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) with bounded, differentiable periodic functions to global optimality with an emphasis on trigonometric functions. At each iteration, the algorithm solves a MILP relaxation of the original MINLP to obtain a bound on the optimal objective value. The relaxations are constructed using partitions of variables involved in each nonlinear term a…

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.NA. https://arxiv.org/list/math.NA/new
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- A convergence rate result for front tracking approximations of conservation laws with discontinuo...
Shyam Sundar Ghoshal, John D Towers

A convergence rate result for front tracking approximations of conservation laws with discontinuous flux
Shyam Sundar Ghoshal, John D Towers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22952 htt…

A convergence rate result for front tracking approximations of conservation laws with discontinuous flux
We consider the initial value problem for a scalar conservation law in one space dimension with a single spatial flux discontinuity, the so-called two-flux problem. We prove that a well-known front tracking algorithm has a convergence rate of at least one-half. The fluxes are required to be smooth, but are not required to be convex or concave, monotone, or even unimodal. We require that there are no more than finitely many flux crossings, but we do not require that they satisfy the so-c…

Enhancing Financial RAG with Agentic AI and Multi-HyDE: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Retrieval and Hallucination Reduction
Akshay Govind Srinivasan, Ryan Jacob George, Jayden Koshy Joe, Hrushikesh Kant, Harshith M R, Sachin Sundar, Sudharshan Suresh, Rahul Vimalkanth, Vijayavallabh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16369

Enhancing Financial RAG with Agentic AI and Multi-HyDE: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Retrieval and Hallucination Reduction
Accurate and reliable knowledge retrieval is vital for financial question-answering, where continually updated data sources and complex, high-stakes contexts demand precision. Traditional retrieval systems rely on a single database and retriever, but financial applications require more sophisticated approaches to handle intricate regulatory filings, market analyses, and extensive multi-year reports. We introduce a framework for financial Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) that leverages agent…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CE/new
[1/1]:
- Enhancing Financial RAG with Agentic AI and Multi-HyDE: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Retrieval a...
Srinivasan, George, Joe, Kant, R, Sundar, Suresh, Vimalkanth,

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-

Google Posts First-Ever $100B Quarter in Wake of Historic DOJ Antitrust Battles
Google surged past Wall Street’s Q3 estimates, with shares up over 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday.