Sundar Pichai conceded Google needs to improve at coding but rejected claims it is losing the AI race, as Alphabet Q2 revenue hit $119.8bn and cloud grew 82%.

Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai’s admission in a New York Times podcast that Google is “falling a little behind” in AI coding tools has become one of the more pointed lines to emerge…

Google's delayed frontier model has rivals taking jabs. One analyst said it has shifted the perception "from leading edge to trailing edge."