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Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in the knowledge and information organization, which includes the company’s core search and much of the ads organization, a senior executive told staff on Tuesday.
The move comes as Google’s search business faces unprecedented threats from ChatGPT and following its loss in a U.S. antitrust case that could hurt the company’s ability to distribute its search product. Nick Fox, who runs the knowledge group, said in an email to his team that the buyouts were ai
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The most important cryptocurrency bill in history could become law next week, but its immediate effect on everyday Americans will be negligible. Instead, the biggest impact will occur overseas, where it will boost both crypto and the dollar in the global economy. The law will bolster confidence in stablecoins, cryptocurrencies pegged to a traditional asset, generally the U.S. dollar. Individuals and businesses across the world—from Argentina to Turkey—have embraced stablecoins... Read more ›
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When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz. We covered all that. But over the course of the interview, I heard something more interesting emerge: two clear new doctrines that are guiding Zuckerberg... Read more ›
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The artificial intelligence boom is already visibly reshaping the cloud wars. For instance, Amazon Web Services looked like an insurmountable front-runner just a few years ago, but Google has made gains among AI developers thanks to its ability to serve some models at a much lower price, my colleague Kevin reported yesterday.More broadly, we’re starting to see evidence that the cloud providers are all racing to make small improvements to... Read more ›
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