{"id":263082,"date":"2025-11-14T20:53:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263082\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:53:31","slug":"google-sundar-pichai-is-ai-wartime-ceo-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263082\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sundar Pichai Is AI Wartime CEO After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">There was a time everyone seemed to have a take on why Open AI\u2019s ChatGPT beat Google to market in November 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">One view was that Alphabet Inc.\u2019s bloated company culture had held it back and made it too touchy-feely for cutthroat competition. Another was that protectionism over Google\u2019s advertising revenue had curbed the company\u2019s ambition, creating a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/21\/technology\/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">code red<\/a>\u201d moment that left it vulnerable to disruption, even destruction. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2023\/the-google-ceo-question-steve-ballmer-and-peacetime-ceos-about-that-bard-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">questioned<\/a> whether Sundar Pichai, the company\u2019s soft-spoken leader, possessed the ruthlessness to be the \u201cwartime CEO\u201d Google needed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time everyone seemed to have a take on why Open AI\u2019s ChatGPT beat Google to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5544,554,10981,733,4308,2339,5343,24583,4140,48583,3356,8177,86,56,54,55,10976],"class_list":["post-263082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advertising","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-culture","tag-demis-hassabis","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-seven","tag-stocks","tag-sundar-pichai","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}