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How TIME Chose the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2026

TIME says narrative and influence guided its largest list yet, with 205 companies across 20 sectors and Google highlighted for its AI gains.

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In 2016, Sundar Pichai told his employees that Google was going to be an “AI-first company.” At the time, the statement struck some as a nonevent and others as premature: the investments in and attention to artificial intelligence seemed out of step with the company’s core business of internet search and advertising. Then in 2022, when OpenAI launched a splashy chatbot and Anthropic soon followed, Google again looked out of step. The early resul…

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TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026: How Sundar Pichai Pushed Google To the Front of the AI Race

Find out why How Sundar Pichai Pushed Google To the Front of the AI Race was selected for TIME‘s list of the most influential companies of 2026.

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Time Magazine broke the news in United States on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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