Google CEO Pichai avoids AI discussion in Stanford speech (opens in new tab)

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered Stanford University’s 2026 commencement address on Sunday, June 14, without a substantive discussion of artificial intelligence, although Google remains a major AI company. Pichai told graduates he had received advice about “what not to say” and said his advice was “technology agnostic,” drawing on personal experience rather than discussing Google’s AI strategy. Students walked out during the ceremony in protest over Google’s work with the Israe...