Google's decision to delete inactive accounts starting in December 2023. The company says that this is necessary to prevent security threats, such as hacks. If an account has not been used or signed into for at least two years, Google may delete the account and all of the content associated with it, including emails, documents, photos, and videos. The policy change only applies to personal Google accounts, not to those for organizations like schools or businesses. Google will send multiple notifications to the account email address and recovery mail before deleting the account. Users who want to keep their accounts active can do so by logging in at least once every two years.

Google has announced new features backed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will be updated across its major platforms during its annual Google I/O conference. The updated Pathways Language Model (PaLM 2) has improved capabilities around reasoning, coding, and multilingualism. Google also showcased two specialized models, Med-PaLM 2 for medical applications and Sec PaLM 2 for cybersecurity.

Recent data reveals that while the banking industry in the U.S. is facing significant challenges, executives are mentioning “credit tightening” more frequently in earnings calls than during the 2008 financial crisis.

A senior software engineer at Google has written a critique stating that the company is losing its advantage in artificial intelligence (AI) to the open-source community. The engineer argues that independent researchers in open-source technology are making swift and unforeseen strides in AI technology, surpassing Google and other big tech companies in the AI race. The engineer contends that open-source models are more customizable, faster, and more useful than Google's own models, posing a real threat to the company. The critique argues that Google's focus on competition with OpenAI has diverted attention from the progress in open-source technology, which is advancing quietly but quickly.

Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google wrote a critique asserting that the internet search leader is losing its edge in artificial intelligence to the open-source community, where many independent researchers use AI technology to make rapid and unexpected advances.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai received a hefty pay raise last year, making him one of the highest-paid CEOs in America. Last week, his company announced the authorization of a $70 billion stock buyback.

Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, recently predicted that artificial intelligence systems would reach human-level cognition somewhere between “the next few years” and “maybe within a decade.” 

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Tuesday ordered top executives from Google, Meta and Spotify to appear before the country’s federal police to testify about a public campaign against pending legislation that takes aim at so-called fake news.

Geoffrey Hinton, an artificial intelligence pioneer known as one of the "godfathers of AI" resigned from his position at Google so that he could openly express his concerns about how A.I. could cause significant harm to the world.

While Google is still third in the U.S. cloud infrastructure market, its business is growing rapidly and, as of the first quarter, is finally contributing positively to Alphabet’s bottom line. Earlier this week, Alphabet said Google’s cloud unit generated $191 million in operating profit, after losing a total of $4 billion in 2021 and 2022. Revenue jumped 28% from a year earlier to $7.45 billion, far outpacing Google’s struggling ad business.