Google told employees that it was confident its work with the Department of Defense aligned with the company’s AI principles — and that it was “leaning more” into securing national security work with governments, Business Insider has learned.In a Google DeepMind town hall in January, leaders including CEO Demis Hassabis…
Vibe coding took the AI community by storm in 2025. Now, Google is trying to start a new trend: “vibe designing.” Loading audio narration… Google Labs introduced the term on Wednesday while unveiling several new updates to Stitch, an AI-powered tool that uses simple prompts to generate “high-fidelity” UI design…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ganesh Karthik Sankar, a 29-year-old UX designer at Google who previously worked at Amazon as a product designer. He lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.During my last job search, I had the opportunity to interview…
Lots of publishers are freaked out about “Google Zero” — the notion that one day, Google will stop sending them any traffic at all.That’s more or less already happened at People Inc., says CEO Neil Vogel: Vogel says Google referrals used to account for 70% of his properties’ traffic, but…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Pratiksha Patnaik, a 30-year-old cloud infrastructure engineer at Google Cloud Consulting, based in Seattle. Her identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been with Google for around three years and…
When Elon Musk committed big money to start OpenAI in late 2015, he wanted to create another AI company to stop Google from dominating this important field.While a lot has changed since then, the reason OpenAI exists still holds: Google has been working toward this AI moment for over 25…
OpenAI and Google employees are warning their companies not to hand over AI to the Pentagon without safeguards.A growing number of current and former staff at OpenAI and Google have signed a joint petition opposing the use of their companies’ AI tools for mass surveillance use and weapons that can…
Google is ramping up pressure for more employees to use AI — and it’s not just software engineers who are expected to embrace it.In recent weeks, managers at Google have informed some workers in non-technical roles that they are also expected to use AI in their workflows, four employees familiar…
Google apologized on Tuesday for a news alert about a controversial moment at the British Academy Film Awards that contained the unedited N-word.”We’re deeply sorry for this mistake,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “We’ve removed the offensive notification and are working to prevent this from happening again.”The now-deleted…
The memory shortage takes no prisoners. Even Google isn’t immune.AI companies are duking it out for greater and greater quantities of memory chips. The problem? The industry is heavily supply-constrained. Costs have skyrocketed, products have been tied up, and some companies — especially those in consumer electronics — are increasing…
