Tag Archives: ALPHABET

24Oct/26

Why Gemini 4 Forced Google Into Space

October 24, 2026Innovation.google, Alex Kantrowitz, ALPHABET, Alphabet Inc., Android, Artificial intelligence, Cloud computing, Computational neuroscience, Computer architecture, Computing, Deep learning, DeepMind, Digital technology, Gemini, SpaceX, Sundar Pichai, Tensor Processing Unit, waymoadmin

Frontier AI Takes Priority: How Google Is Sacrificing Cloud Revenue to Win the AI Arms Race

Sat Oct. 24, 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — Google has reaffirmed its commitment to frontier AI with the launch of Gemini 4 Argon, which processed approximately 25 trillion tokens in its first 72 hours—a threefold surge over Gemini 3.0 during its initial release. To maintain leadership at the technical frontier, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai stated that dedicating compute to Google DeepMind is an absolute, non-negotiable priority. As a result, Google Cloud is actively sacrificing short-term revenue by reallocating computing resources away from enterprise leasing and toward internal frontier research. This reallocation addresses a severe, industry-wide compute shortage caused by a rigid two-to-three-year lag in data center infrastructure development alongside an unexpected explosion in agentic task demand, making 2027 computing capacity exceptionally difficult for external customers to secure. Continue reading →

30May/26

Semiconductor Chokepoints and Google Willow

May 30, 2026Innovation.google, Alibaba, ALPHABET, China, DEEPSEEK, Eleanor Crane, India, Japan, king's college london, Netherlands, Quantum computing, Quantum error correction, Quantum supremacy, Qubit, Russia, South Korea, SpaceX, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United Statesadmin

King’s College London Pioneers UK Quantum Research with Access to Google’s 105-Qubit Processor

Sat, May 30 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — Technical Breakthroughs and Error Correction: Google’s Willow is a 105-qubit processor that represents a major milestone in hardware stability. Its most significant achievement is in quantum error correction—demonstrating that as the system scales and adds more qubits, the error rate exponentially decreases. Leveraging a new algorithm called Quantum Echoes, Willow achieved “verifiable quantum advantage” by modeling complex physical experiments 13,000 times faster than the world’s best classical supercomputers. Continue reading →

10Feb/23

Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing

February 10, 2023Internet.google, ALPHABET, Alphabet Inc., Articles, Artificial intelligence, Baidu, Bing, Blake Lemoine, Chatbot, Creative Commons, duckduckgo, Google Search, Instant messaging, Internet bot, Internet search engines, LaMDA, Larry Page, Microsoft, Natural language parsing, Sergey Brin, Toby Walsh, Victoria, Websites, World Wide Webadmin

Toby Walsh, UNSW Sydney

Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice.

After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies. You click on one of the links and finally read about how to pick a good ’un. But not for much longer.

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17Aug/22

Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy

August 17, 2022TechnologyALPHABET, Amazon, Apple, Apple Inc., Behavior, Caste, Caste system in India, Cisco Systems, Companies, Dalit, Dell, DELL.N, Discrimination, Facebook, GOODWIN PROCTER, Human behavior, IBM, India, Indian caste system, Janine Yancey, John-Paul Singh Deol, Kanishka Singh, Kevin Brown, Koray Bulut, law professor, Mayuri Raja, META, Microsoft, OAKLAND, Paresh Dave, San Francisco, Social issues, Social status, Sudarshan Varadhan, Sundar Pichai, United States, Washingtonadmin

OAKLAND, Calif, Aug 15 (Reuters) – America’s tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India’s ancient caste system, with Apple (AAPL.O) emerging as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of a rigid hierarchy that’s segregated Indians for generations.

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