India, June 17 -- Cognitive warmup. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, went to deliver the 2026 Commencement Address at Stanford University. If I am to look beyond the excitement of the speech and the official blog post that followed with the speech in its entirety, turns out Pichai faced a mass student walkout and roundly booed during Stanford University's 135th commencement ceremony at Stanford Stadium on June 14. The reason? AI.

In part, Pichai's complete avoidance of even mentioning AI during his address is the biggest hint possible-the audience is no longer buying the pitch. Secondly, Google's involvement in Project Nimbus doesn't have as many admirers as the tech giant may have hoped. The Project Nimbus is a $1.2 billion cl...