Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more
and how the company reorganized itself to make sure its scale was not an impediment to seizing the AI opportunity, but an accelerant. Gift link: https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more
Sundar Pichai was blindsided by ChatGPT. Soon after being named Google CEO in 2015, he'd declared that the world was entering an AI-first era.
xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to “catch up and exceed our competitors” in coding by mid-2026
and Musk says he's rebuildingVictor Tangermann /Futurism:Elon Musk Orders Sweeping Layoffs as xAI Fails to Catch UpMichael Kan /PCMag:Grok, Is This True? Musk Says xAI Needs to Be ‘Rebuilt’ As Co-Foun...
Binance.US names Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO
The appointment of Stephen Gregory comes as U.S. crypto exchanges intensify competition and broaden offerings beyond digital assets.
Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI closes down 12.9%
Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10%+
What to know: … Gemini Space Station Inc. (GEMI) is parting ways with three top executives, including its chief operating officer (COO) …
Gemini exits the UK, the EU, and Australia, and cuts 25% of its staff; the crypto exchange is refocusing on the US as “foreign markets have proven hard to win”
Quick Take — Gemini links its latest layoffs to a push for a leaner, more automated operating model, saying increased use of AI lets it run faster with fewer staff.
A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October
Josh Woodward may not be a household name in Silicon Valley. But inside Google, everybody knows about him.
Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a sort of robot OS
DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.
Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments
This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company's internal discussion forums … X: @amir X: Amir Efrati / @amir : Google paid ~$3 billion to hire AI genius Noam Shazee...