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Google opens access to Bard in competition ChatGPT, Details here
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Google opens access to Bard in competition ChatGPT, Details here

Google has announced opening access to ChatGPT rival Bard. This follows the announcements from last week as the company continues to bring helpful AI experiences to people, businesses, and communities. Bard is powered by a research large language model (LLM), specifically a lightweight and optimized version of LaMDA, and will be updated with newer, more capable models […]

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Google employees demand these 5 things from CEO Sundar Pichai
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Google employees demand these 5 things from CEO Sundar Pichai

Recently in January, Google parent Alphabet announced to sack 12,000 employees nearly 6% of the workforce. However, The company CEO took responsibility for the layoffs. As per the recent updates of CNBC reports, The former Google employees that were laid off on their medical or maternity leave have said that Google might not be willing to pay […]

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Google Layoffs: 250 employees walk out in protest over layoffs
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Google Layoffs: 250 employees walk out in protest over layoffs

250 employees of Tech giant google in Zurich have walked out in protest of colleagues’ layoffs. The IT union Syndicom is representing the employees and the walkout started at 11:00 am. The company employees want the officials to have a conversation with workers so that the alternatives to layoffs can be presented. A Syndicom spokesperson said, […]

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Google is bringing AI Chat to Gmail and Docs
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Google is bringing AI Chat to Gmail and Docs

The tech giant, Google is bringing AI Chat to Gmail and Docs. The new generative capabilities for business through Google Cloud, as well as a new API for developers. Google has built helpful products that people use every day — from Search and Maps to Gmail and Docs in Google Workspace. AI has been transformational […]

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Ex-Google VP shares skills she looked for hiring candidates
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Ex-Google VP shares skills she looked for hiring candidates

According to CNBC reports, Claire Hughes Johnson is an Ex-Google employee, she worked with google as a VP for 10 years and shared the top skill that she used to look for in people while hiring candidates. In her role with google, she was responsible for Gmail, Google Apps business, and consumer operations. Additionally, she […]

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Google will promote fewer employees to senior roles in 2023
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Google will promote fewer employees to senior roles in 2023

According to CNBC reports, The technology company, Google will promote fewer employees to senior roles in 2023 to align with the company’s slow growth. Google is planning for lesser promotions of L6 and above grade employees. The promotion process will be similar to the last year and will be manager-led. The employees are reviewing the rating […]

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upGrad, Google & Atlassian to layoff thousands of employees
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upGrad, Google & Atlassian to layoff thousands of employees

The year 2023 is the year of Layoff. In the next round of layoffs soon upGrad, Google, and Atlassian will sack thousands of employees. Atlassian Layoff An Australian software company, Atlassian announces layoffs of 500 employees as a cost-cutting measure. Co-founders billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar wrote to employees that the company has to […]

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Google layoff experience: Logged out at 11 pm, and received termination mail at 2 am
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Google layoff experience: Logged out at 11 pm, and received termination mail at 2 am

An American multinational technology company, recently Google laid off 453 employees from various departments in India. In January, Google parent Alphabet announced to sack 12,000 employees globally. However, Google’s CEO took responsibility for the layoffs. Post the layoff announcement by the company employees have shared their experiences. Vishal Arora was working with google as Head of Engineering, Platform Services, […]

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Google has not only laid off humans but now robots are being fired
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Google has not only laid off humans but now robots are being fired

The tech giant, Google has not only laid off humans but now even robots are being fired. According to reports, The company’s newest subsidiary, Everyday Robots had trained over a hundred robots that had a single arm and wheels to move around. These robots were responsible to open doors, cleaning cafeteria tables, and sorting trash. […]

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Google laid off a star performer in Hyderabad
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Google laid off a star performer in Hyderabad

Technology and search giant, Google has sacked 12,000 employees globally including laying off 453 employees from various departments in India. Many laid-off employees have been sharing their stories on LinkedIn but this time a ‘star performer’ has been laid off in Hyderabad. In a post, Harsh Vijayvargiya said, “I never thought my #Firstpost would be regarding #layoffs Saturday Morning […]

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Google employees to work in hybrid mode, share space to cut costs
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Google employees to work in hybrid mode, share space to cut costs

As per various reports, the tech giant Google has asked its employees to share the desks and work on alternative days in order of cost-cutting exercise. According to CNBC reports, Google spokesperson said, “Since returning to the office, we’ve run pilots and conducted surveys with Cloud employees to explore different hybrid work models and help […]

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Google laid off an Indian HR person during office video call
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Google laid off an Indian HR person during office video call

An American multinational technology company, Google laid off 453 employees from various departments in India. As per reports, the employees from software developers, backend developers, cloud engineers, and digital marketers have been affected. Few of the employees took on LinkedIn to share their experiences. Recently in January, Google parent Alphabet announced to sack 12,000 employees. The company CEO took responsibility for the […]

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