Sundar Pichai

Users will soon be able to use language models “as a companion to search,” Pichai said on a conference call following the internet search giant’s fourth-quarter earnings report on Thursday.

Google layoffs: Taking to LinkedIn like many of his former colleagues, the Los Angeles-based legal executive narrated how get got to know about his job loss at 2 am, while he was feeding his newborn.

The ex Google worker, in his lawsuit, claims that the company’s human resources department did not take action after he complained about the alleged incident.

Google layoffs: 27 in-house massage therapists were laid off, with 24 in Google’s Mountain View office and three in the Southern California markets of Los Angeles and Irvine, CNBC reported.

Before the layoffs, Google had decided to pay out 80 percent of bonuses in January with the rest expected in March or April. Earlier, the full bonus was paid in January.

Chris Hohn said in his letter to Sundar Pichai that Google needs to shrink its workforce by 20 per cent and also reduce employee compensation.

In an internal meeting, Sundar Pichai, who is CEO of Google parent Alphabet Inc., said he had consulted with the company’s founders and board in making the decision for 6% cuts, according to remarks reviewed by Bloomberg.

Christopher Hohn also told Sundar Pichai that the management should also address "excessive employee compensation" at Alphabet, Google's parent company.

The Alphabet Workers Union said in a statement that the company's leadership taking “full responsibility” for widespread layoffs is “little comfort” for the 12,000 workers who are now without jobs.

The job cuts affect 6 percent of its workforce, and follows thousands of layoffs at tech giants including Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Meta Platforms Inc who are downsizing after a pandemic-led hiring spree left them flabby in a weak economy

Sundar Pichai said that Google will "support employees as they look for their next opportunity.

Google's Alphabet Layoffs 2023: Pichai said the layoffs will affect jobs globally, and also said he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here"

Google's Alphabet Layoffs 2023: The cuts will affect jobs globally and across the entire company CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an email today that he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here."

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has ranked second on Brand Finance’s list of the world’s top CEOs released by Brand Finance.

The Microsoft CEO is currently touring India across a few top cities for its Future Ready Leadership Summit.

The hackers urged Elon Musk and Twitter to buy the data exclusively from them to avoid paying $2.76 million in breach fines.

Alphabet said the award was tweaked to increase the performance stock units (PSUs) to 60 percent from 43 percent in 2019, while increasing the performance requirement for the payout.

“Back in India this week after a few years away! Super energized by the entrepreneurs, leaders, and Googlers I met in Delhi and Bangalore," Sundar Pichai wrote on Instagram.

On Monday, Pichai said Google is building voice and text search for over 100 Indian languages and will spend USD 75 million to support women-led startups in the country.

At the Google event, Sundar Pichai also had separate sessions with Telecom and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and author Twinkle Khanna who interviewed Pichai.