Brin believes that, with the right resources, the company can win the AI race, but that means workers are being urged not only to return to the office but to consider doing longer 60-hour weeks (which works out to be 12 hours a day over five days).

But now that the tech giant is the No. 5 biggest company in the world (as of press time), the bosses want employees at their desks, not carports. In a memo viewed by The New York Times and posted internally to employees working on Google's Gemini AI,