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What Google’s AI Shake-Up Means for Pichai Succession

By Martin Peers · Aug 5, 2026 5:01pm PDT
A flood of June-quarter earnings updates—from the likes of Uber, DoorDash, Shopify and Disney—was interrupted on Thursday by Google’s announcement that its AI guru, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, had been elevated to chair of the AI unit and chief scientist of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. That news coincided with the revelation that... A flood of June-quarter earnings updates—from the likes of Uber, DoorDash, Shopify and Disney—was...
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Star Google AI Researcher Shazeer Joins OpenAI

By Erin Woo and Amir Efrati · Jun 17, 2026 5:09pm PDT · 4 comments
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday. Shazeer left Google in 2021 to co-found a chatbot startup Character.AI, but rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion deal with his AI startup. He then became a tech lead... Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is...
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Google’s AI Fundraising; Anthropic’s IPO Option

By Martin Peers · Jun 1, 2026 5:01pm PDT
How is running an AI firm like running for Congress? In either case, you have to spend half your time raising money! Take Google’s surprising announcement on Monday afternoon that it plans to raise a total of $80 billion in equity “as part of its plan to fund investments” in AI. That’s in addition to the $85 billion it has already borrowed in... How is running an AI firm like running for Congress? In either case, you have to spend half your...
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OpenAI, a Longtime Nvidia Customer, Plans to Buy Google’s AI Chips

By Ryan Barwick · Oct 27, 2026 4:59pm PDT · 1 comment
OpenAI plans to buy Google’s AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost for a rising competitor to OpenAI backer Nvidia. Financial terms and other details of OpenAI’s planned purchase couldn’t be learned. But any deal for it to buy tensor processing units would be a big win for Google’s chip business, which is a growing... OpenAI plans to buy Google’s AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost...