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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Alphabet investors have very publicly worried that the company’s massive AI spending isn’t worth the money. With the…
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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more…
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Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
Sundar Pichai’s new pay package could be worth $692 million. Per a filing first spied by the FT,…
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Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google
Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing. Alphabet-owned…
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Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors
Alphabet declined to answer one of its investors during questions about Google’s AI deal with Apple on Wednesday’s…
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Waymo raises $16B to scale robotaxi fleet internationally
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company, has raised $16 billion as it plans to grow its fleet of…
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Waymo reportedly raising a $16B funding round
Waymo has nearly finalized a new $16 billion funding round that will value the robotaxi company at $110…
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US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet, and others on sexualized deepfakes
The tech world’s nonconsensual, sexualized deepfake problem is now bigger than just X. In a letter to the…
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Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks
Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75…
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Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout
After a two-week blackout, YouTube TV and Disney announced Friday that they have reached a deal. In addition…