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Google is laying off at least 200 employees from its "Core" organization, which includes key teams and engineering talent, CNBC has learned.As part of the unit's reorganization, the company will be hiring corresponding roles in Mexico and India."Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or f...

Alphabet beat on earnings and revenue in its first-quarter results.Revenue increased 15% from a year earlier, the fastest rate of growth since early 2022.The company also announced its first dividend and a $70 billion buyback.Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Brueg...

Google search boss Prabhakar Raghavan told employees to prepare for a different market reality, because "things are not like they were 15-20 years ago."At a recent all-hands meeting, Raghavan said user behavior is changing, competition is heating up and regulation is becoming a bigger challenge.Raghavan said he's sh...

Google fired an employee who disrupted an Israel executive's conference keynote this week, CNBC has learned.It's the latest sign of controversy at the company, which has struggled with employee dissent for several years.Google also prematurely shuttered an internal discussion forum ahead of a planned International W...

Google's Sergey Brin spoke to a roomful of entrepreneurs over the weekend at the "AGI House" in Hillsborough, California.Brin said Google "definitely messed up," referring to the company's faulty Gemini image generation launch earlier this month.Regarding changes in the search business, Brin said, "As long as there’...

In a memo Tuesday evening, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company’s artificial intelligence mistakes, which led to Google taking its Gemini image-generation feature offline for further testing.Pichai called the issues “problematic” and said they “have offended our users and shown bias.” The news was first re...