Artificial Intelligence
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop alongside Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, extending a string of senior AI researcher departures even as Google Cloud reported 82% revenue growth in the second quarter.
Jay Goldberg · 6 DAYS AGO
Artificial Intelligence
Google announced a sweeping AI leadership shake-up on Wednesday, with chief scientist Jeff Dean departing after 27 years to start a new company and Demis Hassabis stepping back from the CEO role at Google DeepMind to become its chairman and Alphabet's new chief scientist.
Jay Goldberg · 7 DAYS AGO
Cybersecurity
Google is developing a Chrome feature that would block policy-installed extensions from hijacking the New Tab page or default search engine on unmanaged consumer Windows and macOS devices, according to work-in-progress Chromium code changes.
TechEchelon Staff · 10 DAYS AGO
Artificial Intelligence
AI spending among the largest technology companies is projected to reach $765 billion in 2026 and nearly $1.2 trillion in 2027, as Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all reported deteriorating cash positions amid a worsening memory chip shortage.
Sara Montes de Oca · 12 DAYS AGO
Business & Finance
Moody's Ratings warned in a Wednesday research note that AI infrastructure spending is eroding free cash flow and raising balance-sheet risk at six major tech companies, including Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Oracle, Microsoft, and CoreWeave.
Jay Goldberg · 19 DAYS AGO
Politics
President Trump defended DOJ subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters in a leak investigation, as court filings revealed Google also received a grand jury subpoena seeking subscriber information tied to the same probe over the president's Air Force One plane.
Sara Montes de Oca · 19 DAYS AGO