Erin Woo

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Erin Woo is a reporter covering Google and Alphabet for The Information. She previously covered social media for The Information, and venture capital and startups at The New York Times. She was part of a team that won a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing award for coverage of OpenAI in 2023. A graduate of Stanford University, she lives in San Francisco and can be reached at @erinkwoo.07 on Signal, [email protected] and at @erinkwoo on X.

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Meta Shakes up its Generative AI, Messenger and Facebook Units

The company has been making several organizational changes in recent weeks.

Early Google Employee Who Negotiated Apple Search Deal Has Departed

The deal became the centerpiece of the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google.

Apple Requests a Pause to Google Search Antitrust Penalty Trial

The judge last year ruled that a contract between the companies to make Google Search the default search engine of Apple’s Safari browser was illegal.

Google Offers Voluntary Buyouts to Android, Chrome, Pixel Employees

The move comes nine months after Google combined the teams under executive Rick Osterloh, giving him oversight of more than 20,000 employees globally.

Google Reportedly Invests More than $1 Billion in Anthropic

Already, Anthropic has raised $8 billion from Amazon, and Google committed $2 billion to Anthropic in 2023.