Lawmakers questioned #Google#'s CEO #SundarPichai# for over three hours, looking for answers on alleged anti-conservative bias, plans for a censored #searchengine# for #China#, and #data# collection #dataprotection# #dataprivacy# #Censorship# #accountability#

On our Q2 2026 earnings call, Google and Alphabet CEO @SundarPichai recapped an amazing quarter, with our AI investments redefining what’s possible across every part of our business. Read his full remarks:

Google ($GOOGL) unveiled Genie 4, an AI world model that lets users explore and reshape photorealistic environments in real time, complete with native sound and interactive dialogue. Research preview rolling out to trusted testers. (Via @sundarpichai)

Looking forward to a very insightful day on Oct 1 at Stanford on one of the most critical issues in tech— AI Trust & Safety and 3rd party independent attestation @DarioAmodei @sama @elonmusk @satyanadella @sundarpichai

Here is the X account for the current CEOs of the top 10 largest American 🇺🇸 companies Nvidia $NVDA - @JensenHuang Apple $AAPL - @tim_cook Google $GOOGL - @sundarpichai Microsoft $MSFT - @satyanadella Amazon $AMZN - @ajassy Broadcom $AVGO - ??? Meta Platforms $META - @finkd SpaceX $SPCX - @elonmusk Tesla $TSLA - @elonmusk Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.B - ???

I’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by the fact that 99% of the reactions to our intent to join forces have been positive. ❤️ Prominent tech figures, including some you could see as having a competitive relationship with NVIDIA, have been vocally supportive: • @satyanadella: “this ecosystem with open models continuing to flourish and grow” • @sundarpichai: “this will strengthen the open model ecosystem!” • @miramurati: “A great home for Hugging Face to continue expanding access to open models and the tools that let people build with them.” • @alighodsi: “This will be great for the industry and open source.” • @AravSrinivas: “absolutely necessary for AI to remain accessible and useful to the public.” He added that he was glad NVIDIA was supporting Hugging Face and the open-source community. • @MichaelDell: “a big win for the whole ecosystem.” • @levie: “Another huge moment for open weights AI.” • @adcock_brett: “This is good for everyone building and open source.” • @elonmusk: “Congrats!” • @osanseviero: “The impact of HF in the AI ecosystem has been massive” Even more importantly, the community has been leaning into the announcement. Now we’ll get to demonstrate through our actions in the coming months/years that we will keep up the good work 🔥 This is a chance to make open-source AI so much bigger.

When Larry Page and Eric Schmidt asked me to create a new effort to win developers to Google’s platform efforts in 2007, I laughed out loud. What platform? Android hadn’t been released or disclosed, and Google Search wasn’t a developer platform at all. Eric and Larry were far-sighted in their thinking - and at the heart of their mental model was open source. When we launched Google I/O, we named the conference “I/O” because input/output was the first thing a young programmer learns (think “hello world”), and we loved the double play of the terms I/O also to encapsulate our Google way of open-source thinking. I/O would also stand for Innovation in the Open. I never thought back then that only a few years into the future, humanity would develop software that would provide reasoning and intelligence available to all. We are truly at the foothills of the singularity, as Demis likes to say. Never before has it been so important for us to innovate in the open so all of humanity benefits from this extraordinary technological breakthrough. I could say, “the sky is the limit”. An ancient text, however, says it better: Gen 11:6 “Then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them” @sundarpichai @DavidSacks @Eric_Schmitt