This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rob Waters, a former Google employee who was laid off last November. The 42-year-old cofounded Kanawai AI and lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In November 2025, I was on a flight to Los Angeles…
A Google employee said he resigned from the company, citing the pursuit of powerful artificial intelligence as “inherently irresponsible.”Robert O’Callahan, who worked at Google DeepMind, wrote in an X post that his team was developing chips to make AI faster and cheaper and that he believed AI was already “progressing…
Meta is cooking up camera-free glasses, according to a new report. And why shouldn’t they? After all, wearing a camera on your face has always been a tough sell — just ask Google.Remember when Sergey Brin jumped out of a plane wearing Google Glass, recording grainy video of his sky…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, a 41-year-old watercolor artist and founder of Swil Arts who lives in San Diego. Prior to her art career, she worked as a software engineer in the finance and tech industries before quitting her job at Google in 2022.…
A former Google DeepMind researcher said he left the AI lab over fears that AI “has the potential to kill us all” and humanity “might be running out of time to avoid this outcome.””At Google, I witnessed AI development first hand,” Bilal Chughtai wrote in a statement that he posted…
Googlers have some of the best perks in Silicon Valley, but there’s one thing many of them have long been denied: access to Anthropic’s Claude.That just changed.The company recently made one of Anthropic’s strongest coding models available to engineers across the company through its internal development tool, according to two…
Accenture is sending an army of engineers onto the AI battlefield.The consulting giant and Google Cloud are teaming up to send 1,000 engineers to work with major clients on deploying AI agents, in a partnership they’re calling the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group.It brings together Accenture’s Google Cloud-skilled professionals and…
Congratulations to Google and Meta — they’re expecting.OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, was describing her company’s ads ambitions on Tuesday when she said that ChatGPT is like “if Google and Meta had a baby.”Friar made the remarks before a full room of investors and analysts at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia…
Google escapes again.A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Google doesn’t have to break up its adtech business — which was the nuclear option sought by the Justice Department after the tech company was found to have operated an illegal monopoly in certain online advertising markets.It’s the second time in recent…
Apple is joining Google in taking the plunge into controversial waters.On Tuesday, Apple Maps changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The move follows President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which he issued amid a trade war with Canada. Earlier Tuesday afternoon, the lake was still labeled Lake…
