Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai sends a ‘thanks note’ to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has publicly thanked investors after Google parent’s massive equity offering was oversubscribed, with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway leading the headline names with a $10 billion check. In a post shared after markets closed, Pichai confirmed Alphabet raised roughly $45 billion in the first leg of the offering, with another $40 billion expected through an “at the market” program starting in Q3—taking the total to around $85 billion. “A huge thank you to our...

'It ends up...': Sundar Pichai on Google's answer to Anthropic & OpenAI's AI coding agents

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledges a current lag in AI coding agents. He states competitors like Anthropic lead in complex developer tasks. Pichai expresses strong confidence that internal data and new model iterations will rapidly bridge this gap.

Sundar Pichai Understands Why People Are Anxious About A.I.

“People, rightfully so, are anxious about the future that this technology will bring,” Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said this week after the company’s annual developer conference.

Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

“This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.”

Google CEO called out 'biggest AI budget problem' of companies world over from IO stage with a solution

Google CEO Sundar Pichai shifted the AI conversation from to economics at this years’s Google I/O conference. Pichai warned that the companies around the world are blowing through their annual AI budgets by May due to runaway token usage. Pichai said the rapid rise of AI agents has created unprecedented costs for enterprises.

Google CEO to entry-level graduates: I don't agree with the troubled AI scenario

At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the global job market, and various executives have predicted massive job cuts, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a reassuring message for the entry-level graduates: the economic future is still bright. In a recent interview, Pichai addressed growing concerns about how AI will impact new graduates entering the workforce. Rather than destroying career opportunities, Pichai argues that AI will serve as a powerful equaliser.

Microsoft and Google are late to AI coding, but 'absolutely critical' they compete for growth

In the booming generative AI market, Anthropic has zoomed ahead of the field, largely thanks to Claude Code, its AI coding assistant. Seeing where the money is, OpenAI shifted much of its focus from the consumer market to enterprise, where its Codex offering is going up against Claude Code. Now, Google and Microsoft are making a concerted effort to get into the game, using their massive balance sheets and expansive cloud businesses to try and lure developers.

Alphabet is seeking fresh capital as stock's 4-week losing streak tests investor appetite

A month ago, Alphabet briefly surpassed Nvidia by market cap. The stock has since been on a downward slide, and is on pace to wrap its fourth straight weekly drop, the longest losing streak in more than a year. That's the market mood Alphabet faces as it pursues $85 billion in fresh capital to help fund its artificial intelligence build-out.

Google may finally have 'advantage' as companies' AI budgets hit millions of dollars

Google to buy computing from Spacex at $920 million per month; filing shows 90 days notice period

Google has agreed to pay Elon Musk's Spacex $920 million a month for computing power as part of a cloud-services deal. According to a Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filing by Spacex, the deal runs through mid-2029. As per the agreement, Google will pay Spacex the monthly fee from October through June 2029, with capacity ramping up through September at a reduced cost.