Our colleague, Miles Crupa, covers Google.

And this week, he sat down for a rare interview with the company's CEO, Sundar Pachai.

Well, thanks again, Sundar.

It's great to be sitting down with you right now.

It's a pleasure, Miles.

Thanks for doing this.

Great.

I kind of want to start with the question that I think is...

Miles had one main thing he wanted to talk with Pachai about.

AI.

Artificial intelligence.

This year, tech has been all about it.

And Google has been caught flat-footed.

But even as Google is rushing to catch up, the company is also cutting costs and laying

off workers.

First, Google, like all the other big tech companies, is grappling with a business downturn

and a lot of economic uncertainty.

At the same time, it's also trying to meet this boom in artificial intelligence and trying

to remain competitive with startups like OpenAI, which released ChatGPT, the viral Chatbot.

I was really trying to learn how he's leading the company through these dual challenges,

because in some ways, they seem at odds with each other.

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