TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceBitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boomGoogle really wanted pioneering AI researcher Noam Shazeer back. The longtime employee left to start his own company but in 2024, Google paid $2.7 billion for him to return to work on cutting-edge projects, including its most powerful AI technology, Gemini.Even that, though, couldn’t ensure that Shazeer got the computing resourc...