Google has started offering voluntary buyouts to employees in several teams, including those working in its Knowledge and Information (K&I) unit, which includes its Search and Ads divisions, reported CNBC. This move is part of ongoing efforts to downsize its workforce, a strategy the tech giant has been employing since its notable layoffs in 2023 … Read more
Artificial intelligence is experiencing a period of meteoric acceleration. Scarcely a week passes without fresh demonstrations of its expanding capabilities, as giants like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic and Microsoft unveil deeper integrations of their AI models, each flaunting ever more advanced capabilities. These firms’ fortunes were built on data, both scraped from the internet and … Read more
Ahead of the Google I/O 2025 annual developer conference, starting May 20, Google has announced its new AI agent called AlphaEvolve. The company introduces the AI agent as “an evolutionary coding agent powered by large language models for general-purpose algorithm discovery and optimisation.” It explains that AlphaEvolve combines the inventive problem-solving strengths of Google’s Gemini … Read more
Image: borodai/Envato Elements The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has found that Apple is restricting competition in the country by limiting the use of rival browsers on its iOS devices and effectively requiring developers to use its WebKit browser engine. This, and a number of other concerns, is “holding back innovation and could be limiting … Read more
New Delhi: Google has launched an AI system called “AI co-scientist,” built on Gemini 2.0, to assist scientists in developing new research hypotheses and plans. As per the company, researchers can use natural language to specify a research goal, such as understanding the spread of a disease. The AI co-scientist will then suggest testable hypotheses, … Read more
An email announcing Google’s elimination of various programmes intended to improve diversity at the company was sent to employees on Wednesday. The email was first seen by the Washington Post saw the email and was the first to report about it. Google is no longer setting hiring targets to improve representation, and is considering ceasing … Read more
Alphabet’s Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from under-represented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of U.S. businesses scaling back diversity initiatives. “In 2020, we set aspirational hiring goals and focused on growing our offices outside California and New York to improve … Read more
New Delhi: Google has announced a collaboration with the Government of Andhra Pradesh to accelerate the deployment and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the state. This collaboration, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), will drive the development and implementation of AI solutions, focusing on key sectors like healthcare and sustainability, while also prioritizing … Read more
In the mid-’90s, an ambitious university project paved the way for what would become a titan in the digital realm. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University, embarked on a quest in 1996 to build a formidable search engine that would transform the internet. By 1998, their vision caught the attention … Read more
