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executives are pushing employees to act with more urgency in their use of artificial intelligence as the company looks for ways to cut costs.
That was the message at an all-hands meeting last week, featuring CEO Sundar Pichai and Brian Saluzzo, who runs the teams building the technical foundation for Google’s flagship products.
“Anytime you go through a period of extraordinary investment, you respond by adding a lot of headcount, right?” Pichai said, according to audio obtained by CNBC. “But in this AI moment, I think we have to accomplish more by taking advantage of this transition to drive higher productivity.”
In its earnings report last week, Alphabet said it plans to spend $85 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, up from the $75 billion it was targeting earlier in the year. It’s a theme that’s resonating across technology, where internet giants are racing to build costly data centers to run big AI models and workloads while simultaneously cutting expenses elsewhere.
