Gerrit De Vynck

San Francisco

Tech reporter covering Google, algorithms and artificial intelligence

Education: Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics

Gerrit De Vynck is a tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google, artificial intelligence and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News.
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Google just fired 28 employees who protested its contract with Israel

After employees held sit-ins at Google offices in New York City and California, nine were arrested, and 28 were fired.

April 18, 2024
A protest at Google’s New York City office.

The AI hype bubble is deflating. Now comes the hard part.

The tech industry got the world’s attention with AI. Now it’s busy convincing people to pay for it.

April 18, 2024

Google will provide AI to the military for disaster response

The National Guard will soon use the tech giant’s image-recognition AI to scan images of disaster zones and help prioritize its response.

April 17, 2024
The aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, in August 2023.

Google workers arrested after protesting company’s work with Israel

Tech workers are escalating their protests against sales to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.

April 16, 2024
A banner is displayed against Project Nimbus at Google’s New York City office.

U.S. gives Samsung $6.4 billion to build chip factories in Texas

The subsidy is the latest wave of funding in the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to bring advanced computer chip-making capacity back to the U.S.

April 15, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.S. President Biden during a visit to a semiconductor factory at the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek Campus in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, May 20, 2022. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

The future of AI will run on Amazon, company CEO says

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company is positioned to dominate generative AI despite its recent pullback on ambitious cashierless checkout technology and widespread views that it is behind in the next great tech race.

April 11, 2024
The Amazon campus outside the company headquarters in 2020 in Seattle.

The AI deepfake apocalypse is here. These are the ideas for fighting it.

A growing group of researchers and start-ups are building tools to identify and track deepfake images before they take over the internet completely.

April 5, 2024

Big Tech usually dismisses fears that AI kills jobs. Now it’s studying them.

Microsoft, Google, IBM, Cisco and others will produce a report on how AI might change tech jobs.

April 4, 2024
Long-held concerns about artificial intelligence taking away jobs from humans have grown more urgent as lawmakers debate how to legislate the tech.

Google to delete some data it collected on ‘private’ web browsers

The agreement is part of a class-action settlement brought by people who were tracked while using Google’s “Incognito: mode on Chrome.

April 1, 2024

Nvidia fever is here. Why the chipmaker is the world’s hottest stock.

Nvidia used to be a gaming company. Now it’s getting rich selling the picks and shovels of the AI gold rush.

March 18, 2024
A billboard advertising a start-up that sells access to Nvidia GPU computer chips to companies that need them to train AI models overlooks a highway off-ramp in San Francisco.