Google's Gemini firestorm shows the risks of the company's race to catch up with its AI rivals

• Google is still dealing with the backlash sparked by the inaccurate answers given by its Gemini AI.
• Sergey Brin blamed a lack of testing amid reports that workers felt rushed to ship the product.
• The mishap demonstrates the danger of rushing out products amid an escalating AI arms race. 

Google hasn't managed to put out its Gemini fire quite yet.

The company has been defending itself against fierce backlash sparked by its AI chatbot's image-generating feature. The feature, which was creating historically inaccurate images of people of color, was later paused by the company and senior execs apologized for the incident.