Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella were conferred with Padma Bhushan while homegrown entrepreneurs like Prahlad Rai Agarwala and Jagjit Singh Dardi were honoured with Padma Shri.

Ahead of 73rd Republic Day, the Indian government released the list of Padma Awards -- one of the highest civilian awards of the country, in three categories -- Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent business, stated that Google had progressed "with the built-for-India cheap smartphone co-developed with Reliance."

Google's Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat sent a memo to Google employees on Friday outlining the elimination or reduction of several perks, including some of the company’s micro kitchens that provide employees with free snacks like cereal, espresso, and seltzer water. According to the memo, the company will also no longer allocate funds towards purchasing personal devices like laptops.

Time magazine's 2024 list of top AI influencers includes tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai, but surprisingly excludes Elon Musk, despite his vocal stance on AI's future. The omission is notable given Musk's previous inclusion and his significant involvement in AI projects like OpenAI and Neuralink.

"It's up to all of us to make the firm more efficient. We'll be establishing more methods for you all to interact and share ideas to help, so stay tuned," Pichai added.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai celebrated Halloween with a humorous "Error 404: Costume Not Found" T-shirt and shared pictures of costumed "Dooglers" at Google's Halloween party. He also extended Diwali greetings on his Threads account.

Google held its annual Google for India event 2022 on December 19. The event is joined by Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India along with Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Know top 6 tech announcements that Sundar Pichai made.

Google has lined up an AI-centric event this month which promises us to give us new updates on Search and Maps.Google is concerned about getting overtaken by Open AI with ChatGPT in the market and this event could give us more details about its own plans.

Google layoff: An employee revealed that he discovered that he was fired when he could not access his account anymore. A similar thing happened with a Google recruiter, who was in the middle of a call with a potential candidate when the call was disconnected all of a sudden. Read full story here.