Erin Woo is a Reporter at Knowledia. She covers a range of topics within the tech industry, focusing on enterprise technology, supply chain and logistics, and deep learning. Her work has been featured in notable publications including The Information, Sage, and Singularity Hub.
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By: Erin Woo
Google DeepMind employees in the U.K. sent a letter to management asking Google to voluntarily recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives of the AI research unit’s U.K.-based staff.The letter, sent Tuesday, is the first official step toward possible unionization for the 1,400 Google DeepMind employees based in the U.K., where the AI unit was
By: Erin Woo, Julia Hornstein
Private equity firms Blackstone, KKR and EQT are in talks with Alphabet to get their portfolio companies access to Google’s AI models, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.The discussions follow the establishment of two separate companies set up by Anthropic and OpenAI and several PE firms that will employ technical consultants to integrate AI into the PE firms’ portfolio
By: Theo Wayt, Laura Bratton, Erin Woo
OpenAI is combining teams working on ChatGPT, its Codex coding product and its API into one organization, pressing ahead on its more streamlined strategy despite the prolonged medical leave of top executive Fidji Simo.OpenAI president Greg Brockman will lead the new product strategy, with Thibault Sottiaux—who had previously worked on Codex—leading core product and platform teams, OpenAI said
Google on Tuesday announced a new video model, upgrades to search and a slightly streamlined coding agent offering at its annual conference.The Google I/O event is officially a developer conference, but in practice Google has also used it in recent years to showcase new consumer AI offerings and to try to draw attention away from rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.Tuesday’s announcements
By: Erin Woo, Julia Hornstein
Google DeepMind agreed to pay between $80 million and $90 million to hire employees from AI agent startup Contextual AI and to license its technology, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.Douwe Kiela, Contextual’s cofounder and CEO, is expected to join DeepMind alongside over 20 researchers from his startup, the person said.DeepMind’s agreement with the three-year-old startup
Google came into its flagship developer conference, Google I/O, on Tuesday with a big question to answer: Does it have a counter to Anthropic’s dominance in coding?The takeaway, after a sweltering day in Mountain View, Calif.: Google wants to redefine the competition. Google didn’t release a new ...
Google parent company Alphabet announced plans to sell new stock for the first time since 2005, aiming to raise $80 billion in equity to spend on AI infrastructure and compute.As part of the plans, announced Monday, Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to purchase $10 billion in stock at a discount to the current market price. Additionally, Google will raise $30 billion in underwritten public
By: Erin Woo
OpenAI announced specialized features within its Codex coding app designed to help with tasks ranging from product design to investment banking, as it seeks to compete with Anthropic for business customers.At an event Tuesday emphasizing its enterprise efforts, OpenAI also said it will put Codex within its core ChatGPT app “in the next few weeks” as it moves towards its long-promised
Google’s parent company Alphabet said on Wednesday that it was increasing the size of its equity raise to $84.75 billion from $80 billion.The bulk of the money—Google’s first time selling new stock since 2005—is earmarked for spending on AI infrastructure and compute, highlighting the cost of the AI infrastructure buildout. Google said on Monday that around $30 billion will go towards paying
