Google was just named #1 on Fast Company's 2026 World’s Most Innovative Companies list. Google is also #1 in their Artificial Intelligence category.

In the story on Google's decade-long journey to becoming one of AI's biggest winners, Fast Company’s Harry McCracken writes: “Every tech CEO claims to think 10 years into the future. Many move onto new grand pronouncements within a couple of years, well before making the old ones a reality. But when Sundar Pichai says he’s taking a decade-long view of where the technology is going, it’s not just a platitude. That universal assistant that he wrote about in that 2016 shareholder letter? Google is on the cusp of creating it.”

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