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921 Google's Internal Politics Leave It Playing Catch-Up On AI Coding

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 04/21/2026 14:00 EDT

Google's Internal Politics Leave It Playing Catch-Up On AI Coding

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: At Google, leaders are anxious about falling behind in the race to offer AI coding tools, especially as rivals like Anthropic PBC offer more effective and popular tools to businesses, according to people familiar with the matter. The search giant is now working to unite some of its coding initiatives under one banner to speed progress and take advantage of a surge in customer interest. In some corners of Alphabet's Google, particularly AI lab DeepMind, con

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