'Reach everyone always with a caring heart': At 17, this Indiana teen turned her childhood health struggles into a mission to help people experiencing homelessness. She raised $6,800 and distributed 100 ‘blessing bags’At 17, Natalia Kleinrichert turned her childhood health struggles into a mission to help people experiencing homelessness in Fort Wayne, In...
12 Aug, 2026, 06.11 PM IST
400 goodbye messages, yoga and late-night soccer: Jeff Dean’s final 48 hours after 27 years at Google, co-leading Gemini and becoming ‘unemployed’ for one minuteAfter 27 years at Google and helping oversee and co-lead the development of Gemini, Jeff Dean’s final 48 hours were filled with emotional g...
12 Aug, 2026, 05.28 PM IST
Google's Gemini AI assistant reaches one billion usersGoogle's artificial intelligence assistant Gemini has surpassed one billion monthly users, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Tuesday, a week afte...
12 Aug, 2026, 08.04 AM IST
Google seeks to step up AI push with DeepMind shakeup: ExpertsGoogle DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis stepped down from that role on Wednesday to become its chairman. DeepMind chief technology o...
07 Aug, 2026, 08.17 AM IST
Shiprocket trims IPO size; Google's AI leadership shake-upShiprocket is set to launch its IPO after lowering its issue size. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
06 Aug, 2026, 07.49 PM IST
US stocks: Alphabet shares fall 4% as DeepMind chief shifts role in Google’s AI shakeupAlphabet's Class C shares declined significantly after a major AI leadership restructuring. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is moving to a new ...
06 Aug, 2026, 01.02 AM IST
Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shifts roleGoogle's AI division sees a significant leadership overhaul and key departures. Demis Hassabis moves to chief scientist while Koray Kavukcu...
05 Aug, 2026, 10.18 PM IST
Former DeepMind researchers bet on visual AI with new startupAndrew Dai has launched Elorian, a startup aiming to improve AI’s ability to understand and reason about visual information. Backed by majo...
10 Apr, 2026, 10.11 AM IST
A16z-backed Yupp AI shuts down operations; here is whyLaunched for public use in June last year, Yupp was a free-to-use platform that provided users with response options generated by over 500 ...
01 Apr, 2026, 11.17 AM IST
Google workers speak out in open letter against company’s links to immigration crackdownNearly a thousand Google employees have signed an open letter. They are calling for transparency on contracts with ICE and CBP. Employees a...
08 Feb, 2026, 10.45 AM IST
Indian vibe coding startup Emergent gets strategic investment from Google’s AI Futures FundFounded by Mukund and Madhav Jha in 2025, Emergent calls itself an agentic vibe coding platform that lets non-technical users build full-st...
09 Dec, 2025, 05.54 PM IST
Google appoints former Character. AI founder as co-lead of its AI modelsNoam Shazeer will serve as a technical lead on Gemini, joining the other co-leaders Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals, the company said in a memo...
23 Aug, 2024, 08.57 AM IST
ETtech Explained | Google rolls out ChatGPT rival Gemini: its smartest AI model yetGemini is said to be Google’s most flexible large language model (LLM) yet, capable of running on everything from data centres to mobile de...
08 Dec, 2023, 07.56 AM IST
Paytm shares tank on small loan scale down; IT firms hire senior execs amid headwindsShares of Paytm tanked 20% in intraday trade Thursday after the payments major said it would take a cautionary approach towards small-ticke...
07 Dec, 2023, 07.35 PM IST
Google introduces Gemini as its largest, most capable AI modelStarting today, Google said Bard will use a fine-tuned version of Gemini Pro which will be available in English across 170 countries and te...
06 Dec, 2023, 11.41 PM IST
ETtech Exclusive: GenAI models not always factual, issue needs to be worked on, fixed: Google’s Jeff DeanIn an interview with ETtech, Jeff Dean, chief scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research, spoke about playing catch-up in the artificia...
28 Nov, 2023, 12.08 PM IST
ETtech Exclusive: Google’s Jeff Dean interview; VCs scrutinise corp governance amid rising lapsesHappy Tuesday! In the backdrop of the buzz surrounding Generative AI, Jeff Dean, the chief scientist of Alphabet Inc’s merged AI entities (...
28 Nov, 2023, 08.02 AM IST