CEO of Google and Alphabet
Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. He leads Google's product and business strategy, including its work on AI-powered services.
About Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet and serves on Alphabet's board of directors. Google's official biography describes his leadership as focused on applying advances in artificial intelligence to the company's products and services.
Pichai expanded his responsibilities from Google CEO to CEO of both Google and Alphabet in December 2019. The appointment made him responsible for leading Google and overseeing Alphabet's investments in its other businesses.
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- Google DeepMind Fast-Tracks Gemini 4 After Skipping Gemini 3.5 Pro →
At The Information AI Agenda Live Summit on September 24, 2026, new Google DeepMind leader Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 entered post-training and that Google intends to ship an early post-training build as soon as possible — potentially well before end of 2026 — after Gemini 3.5 Pro never launched. Here is what post-training means, why Google skipped 3.5 Pro, and how builders should prepare API and agent routes.
- Google Put Four TPUs in Orbit: What Project Suncatcher Is Actually Testing →
Google confirmed the Transporter-18 launch: a Planet-built prototype carrying four TPUs is in orbit and responding. The chips still only burst about 15 minutes before they must cool. This is a hardware survival test, not Gemini from space.
- Ed Zitron's AI Predictions, Fact-Checked: What Dan Luu Found →
Software engineer Dan Luu, known for a rigorous takedown of futurist prediction accuracy, turned the same method on Ed Zitron — the most widely cited AI skeptic. Using an LLM to compile Zitron's dated, falsifiable claims and then checking each against reality, Luu found most of them wrong, often by a wide margin. The post hit the Hacker News front page with 900+ points.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Is Official: Benchmarks, Flash Cyber, and Pricing →
Google confirmed Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity-focused Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on September 2, 2026, at the same $0.75/$3.75 introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash. Here's what the official benchmarks (DeepSWE, HLE-Verified, CyberGym, CWE-Bench) actually show against Claude Opus 5, what the new Fairwind Program is, and what was still rumor when we first published this piece hours earlier.
- Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Grok 4.6 vs Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.6: The Real Numbers →
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 14, 2026, three weeks after 3.6 Flash, at half the price. Its own launch charts show the new Flash model beating Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on three of four benchmarks — but Grok 4.6 doesn't appear on a single one of them. explainx.ai lays out Google's numbers honestly, cross-references Grok 4.6 from a separate source, and flags exactly where the comparison stops being apples-to-apples.