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Google, Gmail, GPay. It’s undeniable that these three are inextricably linked to Indian households. Google India is an integral part of the India story. As a report mentions, Google India started with five employees in 2004 and since then, it has had one of the largest employee bases outside of the US. It started the […]
GIFT City continues to be in the news. Only recently, a news agency reported that Saudi Arabia was contemplating setting up an office of its sovereign wealth fund there. The report reminded of GIFT City’s standing as a tax-neutral financial services centre and a key project for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It rivals financial services […]
If you wanted to know Gujarat, the real Gujarat it was not possible not to have “encountered” Achyut Yagnik. Outsiders often mistook him for an academician interested in just the socio-political and cultural aspects of Gujarat. But those few who regularly kept in touch with him and later became friends knew that Achyut Yagnik was […]
Google has unveiled its latest robot which facilitates more human like learning by “transferring learned concepts to new situations”. The robot has been named RT-2 and is the first vision-language-action (VLA) model for robot control. This model enables robots to execute real-world activities such as trash disposal. According to Google, RT-2 aims to equip robots […]
New Delhi: Elon Musk has tweeted about drastically limiting the number of tweets people can read. This update comes as Platformer reports that Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills, leading to questions on how its trust and safety teams could be compromised. Musk, who is the CTO and owner of Twitter, said on Saturday that the […]
“A testament to India’s growing prominence in the fintech landscape.” Tapan Ray, GIFT City, Managing Director and Group CEO, couldn’t have put it better when Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the setting up of a global fintech operation centre in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City. Ray said the move would go a long way in […]
During his visit to Washington, DC, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held meetings with top CEOs, including Sundar Pichai of Google, Andrew Jassy of Amazon, and David L. Calhoun of Boeing. Their discussions highlighted the commitment of these global leaders towards India’s growth and development. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, announced a significant investment […]
Google has announced a new policy regarding inactive accounts, stating that if users have not logged into their accounts for a period of two years, their accounts and associated content will be permanently deleted. This change comes as a departure from Google’s previous practice of only removing content from inactive accounts in order to free […]
Geoffrey Hinton, a renowned artificial intelligence pioneer, who worked at Google for over a decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, has now quit his job at Google to freely speak out about the risks of AI. He has officially joined the growing number of critics who say the tech […]
Harry Potter fans woke up to a pleasant surprise from Google on Sunday morning. The search engine paid tribute to British actor Alan Rickman with a beautiful Google Doodle. Fans took to social media to share it and remember the late beloved actor. However, April 30 marks the day in 1987 when performed in Les […]
Despite massive employee layoffs, Google did not reduce the pay of Sundar Pichai, its CEO. Pichai’s extravagant salary package also included stock awards worth nearly $218 million, according to the most recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Notably, Google recently let rid of close to 12,000 employees as a cost-cutting strategy. […]
The NCLAT on Wednesday upheld the CCI’s order penalising Internet giant Google with a fine of Rs 1,337.76 crore. The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) two-member bench ordered Google to follow the instruction and deposit the amount within 30 days. The CCI order was modified by the NCLAT panel, which also included Member Alok […]
Google India has reportedly fired 453 employees across various departments. Employees were reportedly informed of their termination through mail by Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President, Google India. Earlier in January, the company had announced its plans to cut more than 12,000 jobs, joining other tech giants including Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon Inc. and […]
With the rapid advancement of technology and the growing popularity of ChatGPT- an Artificial Intelligence bot that generates human-like responses using Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, several companies have integrated its capabilities into their web apps and services. This has given rise to a new trend of ChatGPT extensions for Chrome. To add an extension […]
Google’s Mumbai office received a threat call on Monday claiming that a bomb was placed at google’s Pune office, according to police. One person has been arrested in Hyderabad. Google’s Pune office was put on alert following the threat call that turned out to be a hoax, police said Pune police and the bomb detection […]
Google has marked the 120th birthday of PK Rosy, the first female lead in the history of Malayalam cinema, with a special doodle. Born on February 10, 1903, in Thiruvananthapuram, PK Rosy made her debut in JC Daniel’s groundbreaking film, “Vigathakumaran.” The animated caricature of PK Rosy was shared on Twitter by Google, with the […]
The market value of Google’s parent company’s shares dropped by more than $100 billion on Wednesday as a result of the Bard chatbot advertisement providing incorrect information and the AI search event’s lack of information regarding how it will respond to Microsoft’s ChatGPT challenge, according to analysts. The mistake in Google’s advertising, which aired on […]
Google, on Monday, unveiled its artificial intelligence enabled chatbot to rival Microsoft backed ChatGPT, a hugely popular conversational AI that mimics human writing. Bard leverages Google’s own Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA). Google’s move comes as ChatGPT, created by San Francisco company OpenAI, has become hugely popular due to its ability to write […]
Parth Kothekar, an artist based in Ahmedabad, created a Google doodle today to commemorate India’s 74th Republic Day. The Republic Day parade, a CRPF marching unit, and motorbike riders near the India Gate were all depicted in the doodle art. Rashtrapati Bhavan in India was also depicted in the meticulously hand-cut paper doodle artwork. India […]
CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday that Google will lay off 12,000 jobs across the globe , becoming the latest tech giant to retrench staff en mass amid the global economic downturn. In an email to employees, the Indian-origin CEO said that ‘I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce […]
