Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Alphabet returns to the debt market to fund its artificial intelligence buildout, the company is acknowledging new risks tied to the rise of AI…
The Google Midlothian Data Center in Texas, Nov. 14, 2025. Ron Jenkins | Getty Images Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon are expected to spend nearly $700 billion combined this year to fuel their AI build-outs. For investors who love cash above all else, some warning signs may be flashing. With the heart of tech earnings…
carbon removal startup teradot getting competitive eonBoth companies made the announcement today. The sales were largely driven by large investors such as sovereign wealth funds, who want to work with companies that can handle large contracts. Ion CEO Anastasia Pavlovich Hans says Ion was too young told Wall Street Journal. Both companies spread pulverized rocks…
Alphabet-owned YouTube’s subscription and advertising revenues are trending upward. The company said Wednesday it now has 325 million paying users on Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million three months ago. YouTube reported fourth-quarter advertising revenue rose 9% to $11.38 billion, but missed analysts’ average estimate of $11.84 billion. YouTube’s revenue, including advertising…
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google parent Alphabet beat Wall Street’s expectations for its fourth quarter but a new, high bar for expected spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure tempered enthusiasm….
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, attends the inauguration of a new hub in France dedicated to the artificial intelligence sector, at the Google France headquarters in Paris, France, on Feb. 15, 2024. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Alphabet is set to report its fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what analysts polled by…
A Waymo vehicle exits a charging lot on Jan. 15, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Alphabet‘s self-driving car unit Waymo on Monday said it raised a $16 billion funding round that values the company at $126 billion “post-money.” The new funding is the latest move by Alphabet to fund Waymo’s continued…
The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York, Nov. 17, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters A federal jury in San Francisco on Thursday convicted a former Google software engineer of stealing trade secrets related to the search company’s AI technology. The jury found 38 year-old Linwei Ding,…
Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims that its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things, deliver advertisements. Reuters report. Google did not admit wrongdoing in settlement of the class-action case, which accused the company “Unlawfully and knowingly intercepting and recording confidential communications of persons without their consent and subsequently…
We’re about to take our first real look at the results Recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Googleaccording to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman reports that Apple plans to announce a new version of Siri in the second half of February. Using Google’s Gemini AI model, this Siri update will reportedly be the first to…
