How big tech got its way on Trump's AI executive order
The US president's reversal on calling for a safety review of new AI models is a green light for tech's unchecked power
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The US president's reversal on calling for a safety review of new AI models is a green light for tech's unchecked power
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Ackman's Pershing Square hedge fund largely exited from its massive Alphabet position in Q1 and initiated a stake in Microsoft.
Alphabet said recently that enterprise companies could save up to $1 billion annually by switching from frontier AI models to Gemini. The company is betting that its latest version of Gemini, which just received a price cut, will convince more companies to switch to its AI services.
Google Overview is responding to single-word searches like a chatbot. Instead of providing definitions for words, AI Overview is treating search terms as commands.
NVIDIA and Alphabet delivered some of the biggest highlights from the Mag 7 group in the Q1 earnings cycle, with Google Cloud sales showing bullish acceleration while NVIDIA's Data Center results again broke records.
At first glance, this information may look more like a reason not to invest in these companies.
Wall Street is buzzing over reports of SpaceX's supposedly imminent initial public offering. Market mavens point to a June, 2026 IPO, with the stock trading under the symbol SPCX on Nasdaq.
Alphabet's Google on Friday appealed a Washington federal judge's ruling that it holds illegal monopolies in online search and related advertising.
Google asked a federal appeals court on Friday to reverse a judge's ruling that it had violated antitrust laws, as well as a requirement it share some data with rivals.
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional “ten blue links” far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases that the company doesn't seem to have considered.
The data center buildout doesn't seem like it's about to slow down. As more firms look to step up and supply AI compute, some of which (unlike the cash-rich hyperscalers) are risking their shirts by going into debt, it feels like timing the peak in the AI boom or the beginning of an AI bubble (if there really is one) will get harder to do.
At Google's I/O developer conference this week, we had the opportunity for a brief hands-on with its upcoming AI-powered glasses — not the audio-only glasses that Google said will begin shipping this fall but rather the glasses that offer a combined audio and visual experience.
Whale Rock Capital Management, run by the very impressive Alex Sacerdote, is having its moment in the sun after yet another incredible quarter.
There's a bit of overlap between the world's largest and second-largest companies, and it's becoming a bit more striking over time.
“This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s latest AI-focused advertising and commerce announcements could help accelerate search monetization and deepen the company's role in online commerce, according to Bank of America analysts following Google's 2026 Marketing Live event. At the event, Google introduced a range of new AI-powered advertising products and shopping tools aimed at marketers, including conversational AI answer ads, Direct Offers, AI-powered Shopping Ads and retailer-connected commerce ads.
At Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled a bevy of new technologies aimed at streamlining pretty much everything you do. If it all works like Google wants, you'll use Google products and services for life.
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Google unveiled a new AI-powered search this week. It could ruin the internet.