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Google is a multinational technology company specializing in internet-related products and services, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Its core businesses include search, advertising and cloud computing, but it also has divisions in hardware and software development. Sundar Pichai currently serves as CEO. Its primary competitors include other major tech companies such as Amazon, Apple and Facebook. Google is making forays into artificial intelligence with Gemini, its conversational AI that aims to compete with OpenAI.
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Google’s (Small) Antitrust Victory and Microsoft’s Azure Shift
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Google’s (Small) Antitrust Victory and Microsoft’s Azure Shift

By Martin Peers · Sep 2, 2026 5:00pm PDT
We had lots of news today, including Microsoft’s decision to start breaking out Azure numbers, and Broadcom projecting bonanza growth in its AI chip business in the next couple of years. Oh, and the Trump administration threw its weight behind OpenAI in its copyright lawsuit against The New York Times Co. We have more on all those below. ... We had lots of news today, including Microsoft’s decision to start breaking out Azure numbers,...
Andi Gutmans, vice president and general manager, Google Data Cloud. Photo courtesy of Google
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Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers

By Kevin McLaughlin · Aug 18, 2026 2:19pm PDT · 1 comment
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises. Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do. While Google Cloud recently said it plans to hire... Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing...
Demis Hassabis. Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images.
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What Google’s AI Shake-Up Means for Pichai Succession

By Martin Peers · Aug 5, 2026 5:01pm PDT
A flood of June-quarter earnings updates—from the likes of Uber, DoorDash, Shopify and Disney—was interrupted on Thursday by Google’s announcement that its AI guru, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, had been elevated to chair of the AI unit and chief scientist of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. That news coincided with the revelation that... A flood of June-quarter earnings updates—from the likes of Uber, DoorDash, Shopify and Disney—was...
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How to Use Google Gemini to Brainstorm Content and Thought Leadership

By The Information Partnerships · Sep 10, 2026 8:07am PDT
In almost any organization, there are practically infinite content ideas hiding in memos, emails, presentation decks, and meeting notes. But too often, this material mostly sits idle. Ideas that sparked excitement in the moment get ignored in favor of the countless little emergencies of office life, and eventually they are forgotten entirely. ... In almost any organization, there are practically infinite content ideas hiding in memos, emails,...
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How to Use Google Gemini for Market Research and Campaign Planning

By The Information Partnerships · Sep 8, 2026 11:40am PDT
For marketers, the start of annual campaign planning is the ultimate blank page. Even with access to comprehensive product information and results from past campaigns, it can be daunting to begin pulling this data together and finding ways to improve in the year ahead. Often, marketing leaders are overwhelmed with a combination of highly... For marketers, the start of annual campaign planning is the ultimate blank page. Even with access...