23 Jun 2026
As top talent leaves Google DeepMind, some question if the lab can remain at the forefront of AI development
Welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s issue: Google DeepMind loses top AI talent, raising questions about its status in the AI race
23 Jun 2026
AI Collapses on a Classic Psychology Test. What It Reveals Could Stall Human-Level AI.
"Attention is all you need." This 2017 breakthrough idea transformed AI. The concept of self-attention became the foundation of today’s chatbots. Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are all large language models (LLMs), AI systems designed to focus on the matter at hand while filtering out distractions. The results have been remarkable. From brainstorming recipes to generating code, apps, websites, and…
23 Jun 2026
Google's Secret Crisis: Why Search Volume Is At An All-Time High But The Company Is Panicking
Caught between ChatGPT’s billion users and a growing anti-AI backlash, Google risks losing ground on both fronts Google has never processed more searches. Sundar Pichai says query volume is at an “all-time high,” according to recent earnings remarks. Yet ChatGPT has reportedly surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, and DuckDuckGo is seeing surging installs for a feature that does the exact…
23 Jun 2026
Google’s online dominance is showing signs of cracking in AI era
Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images
23 Jun 2026
The AI talent wars are heating up again. In the battle for stars, Google is losing out.
Noam Shazeer is leaving Google to join OpenAI.
23 Jun 2026
SpaceX, GOOG weigh on tech sentiment
Asia market update: SpaceX, GOOG weigh on tech sentiment; KR VOL continues; IDX MSCI in focus; US quantum compute EO.
22 Jun 2026
Alphabet paces for worst day in a year on AI concerns after high-profile exits
Google is on pace for its worst day on the stock market in a year, as artificial intelligence concerns have mounted and two high-profile researchers departed for rivals in recent days.
22 Jun 2026
AI May Push Wealth Managers to Focus on Ultra Rich
Wealth managers keen to stay relevant in the age of artificial intelligence may soon find that clients with a mere $1 million in liquid assets are no longer worth spending human hours on. “The mass-affluent client now gets something close to private-banking quality from AI,” said Debasish Patnaik, senior partner McKinsey & Co. That not only “strips the value from the advisor whose role was…
22 Jun 2026
Copilot Statistics 2026: Users, Adoption, Revenue and Market Share
Microsoft 365 Copilot reached 20 million paid enterprise seats by the end of Q3 FY26, up from 15 million one quarter earlier, per Microsoft’s earnings disclosures. The Q3 figure was disclosed on April 29, 2026. The productivity add-on grew by 5 million paid seats in a single quarter. That is the fastest three-month growth Microsoft has reported since launch. The developer-focused sibling product,…
