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Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the most enviable position in AI infrastructure: a healthy cloud business, its own custom chips, and supply […]

Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to formalise a set of announcements that Google began rolling out a week early […]
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- Forward-deployed engineers are one of tech's buzziest jobs.
- FDEs help companies integrate AI and build AI tools.
- Salaries can range from $170,000 to over $200,000, according to Indeed data.
Not all tech jobs are disappearing.
