nilay patel (@reckless.bsky.social)

How Sundar Pichai is rethinking Google for the AI era | Decoder Connecting with Google CEO Sundar Pichai at I/O every year is one of our favorite Decoder traditions. This was our fifth year doing it, and there’s always a whole slew of new things to talk about. This year, in addition to the news, we talked about Google Zero; picking fights with YouTube creators and publishers; and what being at “the foothills of the singularity" even means. #google #ai #agi #tech 0:00 – Intro 0:41 – Introduction & episode overview 3:44 – How Google is structured today 8:53 – How Sundar restructured Google in response to ChatGPT 11:55 – Decision-making framework 15:23 – Could AI replace the CEO? 17:06 – AI agents, Gemini Spark & Antigravity explained 22:55 – Live search demo: AI Overview vs. organic results 26:51 – Public anxiety around AI — can Google close the gap? 33:21 – Google Zero & the health of the open web 33:53 – Condé Nast CEO says "assume zero search traffic" 37:56 – Should publishers & YouTube creators opt out of AI training? 41:57 – "Foothills of the singularity" — what does it mean? 43:28 – Can LLMs get us to AGI? 45:21 – Sundar's AGI timeline Follow Decoder on TikTok: @decoderpod Follow Decoder on Instagram: @decoderpod Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Follow on TikTok: http://bit.ly/42VeCVU Watch The Vergecast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/40RFRkg The Vergecast Podcast: https://bit.ly/3WQDexZ Decoder with Nilay Patel: http://apple.co/3v29nDc More about our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv Wallpapers from The Verge: https://bit.ly/2xQXYJr Shop our Verge merch store here: https://bit.ly/4kPCmEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANV3tE5ywv0