Sources: internal competition among Google staff and researchers for TPUs intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/google-s-own-ai-researchers-jockey-for-access-to-its-computing"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260518/i20.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260518/p20#a260518p20" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Julia Love / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/google-s-own-ai-researchers-jockey-for-access-to-its-computing">Sources: internal competition among Google staff and researchers for TPUs intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.'s Google has an enviable position &hellip; </p>