SAN FRANCISCO — Google Ideas, the Internet giant's think tank, is changing its name to Jigsaw and will become a technology incubator under the Alphabet umbrella.
Jigsaw will invest in and build technology to address humanity's most intractable problems, from countering violent extremism to online censorship, to "expand access to information for the world’s most vulnerable populations and to defend against the world’s most challenging security threats," Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt said Tuesday