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At a recent Google all-hands meeting, employees questioned leadership on 2025 compensation packages.
Hugh Langley
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AI companies are copying each other's homework to make cheap models
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Google's new AI Mode is a huge leap away from search as we know it
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ChatGPT isn't slowing down Google just yet, and these numbers prove it
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Mark Zuckerberg has big plans for Meta's 2025. Here's what's underway, plus what's still to come.
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Google just had layoffs, and Googlers are using a Google Doc to track who got cut
Google made cuts to several teams across the company this week.
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Meta's job cuts surprised some employees who said they weren't low performers
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Meta layoffs have begun. Here's everything we know so far.
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Meta employees question the company's removal of posts on its internal forum: 'This is a free speech issue'
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Verily enters an agreement to sell its insurance business to Elevance Health
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Google employees respond after company drops its promise on AI weapons: 'Are we the baddies?'
After Google scrubbed wording that promised not to use AI for weapons, some staffers slammed the decision in the company's internal message board.
Google CEO downplays DeepSeek threat as the company plans to spend $75 billion on AI this year
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tried to allay concerns about DeepSeek, boasting that Google's own AI models were comparable.