Google is dialing up the pressure for more employees to use AI — and not just engineers

Google managers are telling some employees their AI use will be factored into performance reviews, including non-technical staff.
The Information

Exclusive From The Electric: A $1 Billion Payday From Google For Battery Startup Form Energy

Since it launched nine years ago, next-generation battery developer Form Energy has faced a single skeptical question: Do businesses really need a battery that lasts 100 hours or longer?

Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic

More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.

Orgs Using AI at Scale Need to Know: Scrutiny ‘Is What Winning Feels Like’

A recent Newsweek webinar on AI governance featured insights from Suraj Srinivasan, professor at Harvard Business School, and Keith Enright, former chief privacy officer at Google.

Form Energy to supply batteries for world's largest storage project

Form Energy will supply a 300-megawatt battery system for Xcel Energy's Google data center project in Minnesota, the world's largest by capacity.
Weirton Daily Times

Form Energy battery system to power Minnesota data center

A Minnesota-based Google data center will have some backup from a local source. According to officials, Form Energy will ...

Google’s new 1.9GW clean energy deal includes massive 100-hour battery

Google announced Tuesday that it will build a data center in Minnesota that’s backed by 1.9 gigawatts of clean power, ...
The New York Times

Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies

More than 800 employees delivered a petition to management, condemning the Trump administration’s use of Google technology in immigration enforcement. By Tripp Mickle Reporting from San Francisco ...
PV Tech

TerraForm Power buys 1.56GW solar project in Illinois

Mark Noyes, CEO of TerraForm, said the project will scale during a period of unprecedented power demand and grid constraints. Image: Brookfield/TerraForm. New York-headquartered independent power ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Google's Project Genie sparks fall in gaming shares as industry experts question use-case

Google's AI world-building tech Project Genie, rolled out to US users only, enables the creation of 60-second virtual worlds. Shares in Take-Two, Roblox and Unity fell on the news of the announcement.
Forbes

World Models Like Google’s Project Genie Can Enable Autonomous Weapons

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. What looks like a game may be the next AI world model for training autonomous weapons Google ...
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Google Opens Access to Project Genie, an AI That Generates Infinite Interactive Worlds

Google has officially taken a major step toward AI-generated virtual worlds. The company has opened access to Project Genie, an experimental prototype capable of generating interactive 3D environments ...