Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, photographed on April 8th in Mountain View, CA. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, photographed on April 8th in Mountain View, CA.Daniel Dorsa for TIME Many years ago, Sundar Pichai was scuba diving with his family in Hawaii when the weather turned unexpectedly rough.

Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon. But to hear Google tell it, generative AI is the future, and the company’s products have to change to keep up with the technical reality.

Google is expanding its AI Max advertising product — which goes beyond keyword-based campaigns and connects ads to AI Overview searches — to travel brands, the company announced Thursday, while also teasing upcoming travel-specific tools.

A compression algorithm like TurboQuant turns the data in the AI's working memory into a smaller, more efficient form.

Alphabet and Meta both boosted their capex guidance in their first-quarter earnings reports, but Wall Street viewed one much more favorably than the other.

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Google’s rapid integration of its Gemini AI across apps, military contracts, and new personalization tools is triggering privacy concerns, employee protests, and regulatory scrutiny. Users can now disable or limit AI features, but some updates—like ...