{"id":1022922,"date":"2026-07-23T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022922"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:42:00","slug":"sundar-pichai-pushes-back-on-claims-google-is-losing-ground-in-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/23\/sundar-pichai-pushes-back-on-claims-google-is-losing-ground-in-ai-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundar Pichai pushes back on claims Google is losing ground in AI race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai used Wednesday&#8217;s earnings call to mount a robust defence of Google&#8217;s AI strategy, pushing back on concerns that the company has fallen behind rivals after delaying a flagship model and ceding ground in AI coding. <\/p>\n<p>Investors have become increasingly uneasy over Google delaying the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro, a model originally slated for June that was expected to bolster the company&#8217;s standing in AI coding and autonomous &#8220;agent&#8221; tasks, two of the industry&#8217;s most fiercely contested areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai used Wednesday&#8217;s earnings call to mount a robust defence of Google&#8217;s AI strategy, pushing back on concerns that the company has fallen behind rivals after delaying a flagship model and ceding ground in AI coding. Investors have become increasingly uneasy over Google delaying the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro, a model originally slated for June that was expected to bolster the company&#8217;s standing in AI coding and autonomous &#8220;agent&#8221; tasks, two of the industry&#8217;s most fiercely contested areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022943,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022922\/revisions\/1022943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}