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Google's CEO Sundar Pichai told 60 Minutes in a recent interview that he predicts that there will be global treaties in the future to regulate the use of artificial intelligence and to limit misuse.

About 100 ex-employees who were laid off while on paid leaves are writing to Google asking the company to follow their agreements and pay the rest of the due amount on their leaves.

Google sent out a memo to some employees, asking them to share their desk space with other workers on days when they are not working in the office. This is being done to cut costs at the company.

The content of a leaked company wide email reportedly indicate that Google CEO Sundar Pichai wants his employees to "contributed in a deeper way” in the internal testing of the Bard chatbot AI.

The newly announced Bard AI chatbot is going to get a lot of internal testing from all of Google's employees, according to an all-hands internal email from the company's CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google is the latest big tech firm to announce major layoffs following Microsoft and Amazon. The company is reducing its headcount by 12,000 and has encouraged employees to work from home today.

Sundar Pichai and other Google execs have been answering employees' questions at an internal meeting. Various expenses are being targeted for cuts as the firm tries to weather the economic storm.

Google has launched a Simplicity Sprint where it will attempt to boost productivity. The bad economy means that sales have dampened, and now it needs to be more productive with its resources.

Google's Sundar Pichai has announced that it has extended its hybrid work setup for employees until January 10, 2022 to give them "flexibility and choice" before they're expected back in the office.

The testimony of Big Tech CEOs was released on Tuesday. The chief executives make the case that they're not a monopolistic force in the industry, and face stiff competition from competitors.

Google has invested in many Indian businesses, including through its growth equity investment fund CapitalG. The company aims to help accelerate the digitization of the Indian economy.

Google plans to invest ₹75,000 crores (approximately $10 billion) in India in the next five to seven years to help accelerate India's digital economy. India is a key overseas market for the company.

In addition to offices opening from June, Pichai also announced a day off in late May, so that employees can deal with the burnout resulted from working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Google's Sundar Pichai has said in a piece for the Financial Times that governments should create new regulations for artificial intelligence technologies in a bid to prevent abuse.

After almost a decade with DeepMind, the company's co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, will now be joining Google directly to work on applied artificial intelligence starting January next year.

In an open letter published on Google's blog, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have announced they're stepping down from their roles as CEO and President, respectively, of Alphabet.

Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, is set to meet with Republican lawmakers later this week to discuss the company's future plans for China. Also on the agenda are allegations of bias against conservatives.

With today being World Food Day, Google has announced that every year on this day, it will donate the proceeds from the sale of a collection of games and apps in its Play store to aid world hunger.