How Sundar Pichai Pushed Google To the Front of the AI Race

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.
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Google clinical director says AI can be a ‘bridge’ for people having a mental health crisis

Google's clinical director Megan Bell Jones on how the company is addressing concerns over mental health impacts of its AI products.
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Google AI breakthrough means chatbots use six times less memory during conversations without compromising performance

A compression algorithm like TurboQuant turns the data in the AI's working memory into a smaller, more efficient form.
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Google’s AI Max Positions Travel Ads for AI Overviews and AI Mode

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.

Investors still trust Google more than Meta when it comes to spending their money on AI

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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AI Was Supposed to Kill Google Search — Instead It Reignited Growth

Here’s What Happened Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG | GOOG Price Prediction) reported Q1 FY2026 results after the close on April 29, 2026, and investors loved what they saw. EPS came in at $5.11 against a $2.63 consensus,

Why Google AI Studio’s “Vibe Coding” is Changing App Development

Learn how to use Google AI Studio to build AI-powered apps, generate watermark-free images, and create custom audio without any coding experience.