Google Cloud Summit: The off-stage conversation that mattered most
Google’s Senior Vice President for Research, Labs, and Technology, James Manyika, spent about 45 minutes in a room with journalists at Africa’s first Google Cloud Summit. And he was candid in ways that structured settings rarely allow. Some of it was worth paying attention to. AlphaFold and the 32,000 African researchers Manyika mentioned a number […]
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The AI built into the new Slack understands your role, your priorities, your projects, even the way you work.
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