Google employees criticize executives for AI obsession and CEO's leadership style.

Google employees praised the company's engineers for their work on AI technology showcased at the annual developer conference, while poking fun at executives who they felt were more focused on cost-cutting and stock buybacks. The event featured updates to Google's AI-powered search and chatbot technology, including a new large language model called PaLM 2. The company has been under pressure to compete in the generative AI market since the release of Open AI's ChatGPT. Alphabet's shares rose 11% for the week following the conference.