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> The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts.
The only way that's possible is if they had another job in their back pocket and got a severance package they're treating as a departure bonus.
And even then, I'm betting it never happened.

Sources say Sundar Pichai is now making day-to-day decisions about adding generative AI to Google products even as some worry about his low-key leadership style (Financial Times)
https://t.co/MMxjNEdqaS

Google-Chef hält kontroverse KI-Antworten von Gemini für "völlig inakzeptabel"
Nach problematischen Antworten der eigenen KI gibt Sundar Pichai in einem internen Memo Fehler zu. Der Google-CEO verspricht strukturelle Änderungen bei Gemini.

Memo: Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Gemini's problematic responses around race "completely unacceptable" and vows to make structural changes to fix the problem (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024…

Google CEO calls AI tool’s controversial responses ‘completely unacceptable’ | Semafor
In a memo to employees sent Tuesday evening, Sundar Pichai vowed to make structural changes to address the issues found in Gemini’s racially inaccurate images.

Google-Chef fordert globales KI-Regelwerk
Sundar Pichai hält das in Europa angestrebte Regelwerk für gelungen. Der AI-Act der EU reiche aber nicht aus.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Chef-ford

I’m glad that letter is floating around exposing how Sundar Pichai undid all the work myself and all the other search engineers and scientists put into making Google useful. It has been maddening watching so much of my work get undone in favor of short term money making. He actively made Google search worse for everyone.

"Yet the world I fear is one where these people are allowed to run rampant, turning unique content into food for an ugly, inbred monster of an internet, one that turns everybody's information sources into semi-personalized versions of the same content. These people have names — Sam Altman of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (which has its own model called LLaMA), Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and Satya Nadella of Microsoft — and they are responsible for trying t…

Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

An interview with Sundar Pichai on the evolving web, training Gemini to be a multimodal AI, future paid and ad-supported generative AI, hallucinations, and more (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-prepares-for-a-future-where-sea…

Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King
CEO Sundar Pichai tells WIRED that Google's new, more powerful Gemini chatbot is an experiment in offering users a way to find information and get things done without a search engine.

Sundar Pichai says Google One crossed 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from free plans; YouTube Premium recently hit 100M subs (Wes Davis/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/10/2406853

Google One hits 100 million subscribers
Google One now has 100 million subscribers as Google continues pushing users to transition from free plans to its paid tiers by ditching the benefits of the no-cost version.