At my employer, we reduced our RSU refresher in the last cycle across the board. Directors and above did not receive an equity refresher (can be a substantial portion of yearly compensation). So I’m happy we are at least trying to send the right signals.
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NYT: Google Calls in Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight
Google is too slow. People having too much fun at fancy offices to do work.
Last month, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s founders, held several meetings with company executives. The topic: a rival’s new chatbot, a clever A.I. product that looked as if it could be the first notable threat in decades to Google’s $149 billion search business.
Mr. Page and Mr. Brin, who had not spent much time at Google since they left their daily roles with the company in 2019, reviewed Google’s artificial intelligence product strategy, according to two people with knowledge of the meetings who were not allowed to discuss them. They approved plans and pitched ideas to put more chatbot features into Google’s search engine. And they offered advice to company leaders, who have put A.I. front and center in their plans.
The re-engagement of Google’s founders, at the invitation of the company’s current chief executive, Sundar Pichai, emphasized the urgency felt among many Google executives about artificial intelligence and that chatbot, ChatGPT.
The bot, which was released by the small San Francisco company OpenAI two months ago, amazed users by simply explaining complex concepts and generating ideas from scratch. More important to Google, it looked as if it could offer a new way to search for information on the internet.
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OpenAI has 492 employees on LinkedIn. I’m sure not all are on there, but even if the actually count is 2-4x more that’s crazy. How many does google have working on AI?
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Pichai said that all roles above the senior vice president level will witness “very significant reduction in their annual bonus,” adding that for senior roles the compensation was linked to company performance. It was not immediately clear how big Pichai’s own pay cut would be.
Everybody are so concerned about Pichai’s pay. He had given up lots of pay before this. Larry offered tons of money to him but he asks for a much lower pay for assuming the CEO post.
Time to say goodbye to Google? Is no longer a good LT investment. Search is disrupted.
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This bonkers 
if true
He claims that Google’s Employee Investigations Team said he’d expressed favoritism toward high-performing employees, and that he was “ableist” because he’d made comments on colleagues’ “walking pace.”
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Wow. Their AI is going to become the most woke version of AI on earth. Do they really think Google employees are going to be neutral and without emotion? They are a bunch of angry toddlers about everything.
“ Under do’s, Google instructs employees to keep responses “polite, casual and approachable.” It also says they should be “in first person,” and maintain an “unopinionated, neutral tone.”
For don’ts, employees are told not to stereotype and to “avoid making presumptions based on race, nationality, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, political ideology, location, or similar categories.”
Also, “don’t describe Bard as a person, imply emotion, or claim to have human-like experiences,” the document says.
Google then says “keep it safe,” and instructs employees to give a “thumbs down” to answers that offer “legal, medical, financial advice” or are hateful and abusive.
“Don’t try to re-write it; our team will take it from there,” the document says.”
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Google employees still think the CEO works for them.
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Is anyone surprised by this? Google claims their search algo uses trends to predict what terms people are trying to search. It’s either terrible at it, or they were rigging the algo. It’s been pointed out before, and now they don’t want to cooperate with the investigation. I thought it was their own wokeness, but it turns out they were probably being told to do it.
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So Apple must be next even though it prevailed in the earlier case.
“Sweeney attributed the win to revelations during the trial that Google had allegedly deleted or failed to keep records such as chats about its secretive deals with app makers. He also noted that it had been a jury trial, while the Apple case was decided by a judge.
“The brazenness of Google executives violating the law, and then deleting all of the records of violating the law,” Sweeney said in an interview with CNBC. “That was really astonishing. This is very much not a normal court case, you don’t expect a trillion-dollar corporation to operate the way Google operated.””
Don’t be evil. Lol.
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Google and Meta are known to 
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