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The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup

Google CEO Sundar Pichai at Google I/O. | Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its larg

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