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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- White House Accord on Super Intelligence: The Four-Layer Frontier Commitment →
On September 30, 2026, President Trump and CEOs from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence — formally the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. The document commits frontier labs to four layers of internal controls, external audits, and board oversight. It is voluntary, not statute, but it names the checklist enterprise buyers will ask about next quarter.
- 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.