Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong speaks to supporters during an election night party in Madison, Aug. 11, 2026. Scott Olson | Getty Images Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist running for Wisconsin governor, this week narrowly lost her primary battle against David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, but that doesn’t mean the sheen has rubbed…
Gemini AI signage during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images DeepMind’s new boss is set to face intense pressure to close the AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic. OpenAI and Anthropic have released new systems in recent…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind Technologies Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Depending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent to leading AI labs and other startups on the frontline of innovation. It’s a contrast that’s…
Andy Jassy, President and CEO of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Noah Berger | Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters | Peerapon Boonyakiat | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Alphabet had long been Wall Street’s favorite hyperscaler due to its expertise in converting high capital expenditures into revenue….
Zhipu‘s GLM 5.2 artificial intelligence model landed last week with the kind of Silicon Valley buzz that followed DeepSeek‘s launch last year. The Chinese AI startup‘s new open source model has blown past every other open release and now sits within a percentage point of Anthropic‘s Opus 4.8 on one closely watched agentic benchmark, at…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images More than three years into the generative artificial intelligence boom, Google has defied the many skeptics who thought ChatGPT would be the search giant’s death knell. But cracks…
Artificial intelligence is turning out to be far more expensive than anyone expected, and CFOs at major U.S. companies are now facing a brutal new trade-off: tokens or humans. That was the picture two enterprise AI CEOs at the center of the buildout described to CNBC this week. Their accounts of what’s happening inside the…
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is rolling out its latest version of Gemini and a new artificial intelligence model designed to simulate the physical world, as the…
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaks at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images All three top cloud infrastructure providers surpassed analyst estimates in earnings reports late Wednesday, but Google was the standout, generating its fastest growth rate on record. Google is chasing Amazon…
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet. Source: Alphabet Meta and Alphabet both beat expectations in their earnings reports on Wednesday, each recording their fastest growth in years. They also lifted their guidance for capital expenditures for the year, telling investors that they’re going to keep pouring money into artificial intelligence infrastructure. But despite their similarly upbeat…
