Alphabet incoming CFO Anat Ashkenazi, who spent 23 years at Eli Lilly Eli Lilly “Hundreds of thousands of people fill scripts for Mounjaro and Zepbound, yet we understand the frustration from those facing prescription delays or uncertainties getting their medicine,” Ashkenazi said on Eli Lilly’s first-quarter earnings call in April. The two drugs are part of a …
Google Search is often referred to as the doorstep to the internet—it’s the first stop on most people’s journey to information online. However, Google doesn’t say much about how it organizes the internet, making Search a giant black box that dictates what we know and what we don’t. This week, a 2,500-page leak, first reported …
Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The question for some is extremely urgent. In this ChatGPT era, AI will generate more and more decisions for health care providers, bank lenders or lawyers, using whatever was …
For an academic who’s credited with some of the most important breakthroughs in AI over the past decade, Hassabis is extremely clear on his task ahead: bring the latest AI technologies to every corner of the Google universe to serve its billions of users. “We’re like the engine room of the company,” Hassabis told CNBC, …
Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) gained as much as 13% in after-hours trading Thursday, following a stand-out quarter that beat revenue and earnings estimates and stoked investor excitement with the announcement of a cash dividend program of $0.20 per share. The board of directors also approved stock repurchases up to an additional $70 billion. “Our …
Some Google employees were fired after protesting the company’s contract with Israel. After the protests, CEO Sundar Pichai said workers should not ‘attempt to use the company as a personal platform.’ Google fires staff who protested contract with Israeli government Google fires dozens after protests over $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with Amazon, which provides …
Google has reportedly fired more than 20 employees following sit-in protests at its offices in New York and California, according to a report by The Verge. This comes after the company dismissed 28 employees last week, bringing the total number of employees fired for protesting to nearly 50. The protests were against Google’s $1.2 billion …
Employees from Alphabet Inc, its Google unit and members of Jewish and Palestinian organizations, protest cloud computing work by Google and Amazon for the Israeli governmentPhoto: Paresh Dave (Reuters) Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees not to “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics” at the office, a day after the company fired 28 workers …
STORY: From Facebook cracking down on fakes, to a new prediction from Elon Musk, this is AI Weekly. Facebook is set to start labeling content generated by artificial intelligence. Video, images and audio concocted by bots will get a “Made with AI” stamp. More prominent labels will go on content deemed likely to deceive the …
We’re all familiar with artificial intelligence, Silicon Valley’s latest revenue stream hopeful that’s currently making all of our lives much, much better. AI has had a remarkable rise these last few years, sucking up the internet and reducing it to some of the ugliest, most incoherent spam we’ve ever seen. It really is impressive. But …