Google restructures finance team as part of AI shift, CFO tells employees in memo


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CNBC— Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat wrote to employees that the finance teams would be restructured, a move that will include relocations and layoffs.

Droid Life—Google Brings Pixel and Android Teams Together Because AI. If you didn’t already know that Google was going heavy on AI, major reorganization news out of the Search giant today should finally help you realize that they believe AI is the future and they need teams working closer together to realize it. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new “Platforms and Devices” team that … Continued Read the original post: Google Brings Pixel and Android Teams Together Because AI

ETtech.com—Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams amid AI push. Alphabet-owned Google said on Thursday it would consolidate teams that focus on building artificial intelligence models across its Research and DeepMind divisions in its latest push to develop its AI portfolio. Google will relocate its Responsible AI teams - which focuses on safe AI development - from Research to DeepMind so that they are closer to where AI models are built and scaled, the company said in a blog post. The move comes amid growing global concerns about AI safety and increasing...

PYMNTS.com—Google Consolidates AI-Building Teams Across Research and DeepMind. Google is consolidating the teams that focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) models across Google Research and Google DeepMind. All this work will now be done within Google DeepMind, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said in a note to employees posted on the company’s website Thursday (April 18). Pichai said in the note that this move will “scale our […]