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Bloomberg
OpenAI Unveils More Advanced Reasoning Model in Race With Google
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence model that it said is capable of more advanced human-like reasoning than its current offerings, ratcheting up the competition with rivals ...
ARPU
Putin Blames YouTube for Slowdowns in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Alphabet's YouTube of deliberately slowing down its video hosting service in Russia, reports Reuters. Putin, speaking on Thursday, claimed that Google, YouTube's parent company, must comply with Russian law to continue operating within the country.

Critics in Russia allege that

Reuters
AI's energy hunger fuels geothermal startups but natgas rivalry clouds future
Geothermal energy startups are on the upswing with Big Tech companies looking to feed their power-intensive AI data centers, but long-term investments remain uncertain as oil majors double down on ...
CRN
MFA Mandatory For Google Cloud, Android And Workspace Users In 2025
Google Cloud requires multi-factor authentication for GCP, Android phones, Google Workspace, Gmail, and Meet users in 2025 for MFA security.
The Verge
Alphabet’s Wing will deliver DoorDash by drone in Dallas-Fort Worth
Wing says the company has now completed more than 400,000 commercial deliveries worldwide following its first US pilot in 2019. The Alphabet drone service trialed similar DoorDash partnerships in ...
Bloomberg
Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring
A group of Google Help staffers reached a union contract with their employer, Accenture Plc, securing protections on remote work and workplace surveillance that could be a template for others in ...
CRN
The 10 Biggest Google Cloud News Stories Of 2024: Gemini, AI And $45B Run Rate
Google Cloud news in 2024 focused on Gemini, generative AI, Chrome, Google Workspace, acquisitions, innovation and cloud news stories.
TechCrunch
Code Assist, Google’s enterprise-focused coding assistant, gets third-party tools
Google has announced support for third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist, its enterprise-focused AI code completion service.
VentureBeat
Google: AI agents, multimodal AI, enterprise search will dominate in 2025
Google used NotebookLM, Google Trends and third-party insights to identify AI agents, multimodal AI and enterprise search as top 2025 trends.
Fortune
Google DeepMind’s new Veo 2 AI video generator trounces OpenAI’s Sora with 4K resolution
Google claims Veo 2 has a "better understanding of real-world physics"—an issue that often trips up such tools.
Reuters
Trump vows to pursue more defamation claims after ABC News settlement
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday stepped up his legal threats against news outlets and said he would also consider suing social media influencers and others for defamation, two days after ABC ...
Reuters
Trump sues Iowa newspaper and top pollster, Fox News reports
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and its top pollster over their poll earlier this year that showed him trailing in the state, Fox News said on ...
Fortune
It’s ‘Fast and Furious’ meets ‘Groundhog Day’ in AI
AI product launches are coming at a frenetic pace, but product differentiation proves elusive ...
ARPU
Google's Biggest Bet: AI-Powered Search

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is doubling down on its core business of online search by integrating artificial intelligence, according to remarks made by Ruth Porat, Alphabet's president and chief investment officer, at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York on Tuesday.

Porat, in an interview with

Reuters
Google-parent Alphabet hits record high after Trump taps Andrew Ferguson as FTC chair
Alphabet led a Big Tech rally on Wednesday, with its stock hitting a record high after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump picked Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to lead the consumer ...
SiliconANGLE
Google Cloud moves its AI-focused Trillium chips into general availability
In Google’s data centers, Trillium processors are deployed as part of server clusters called pods that each feature 256 of the AI chips. Pods’ hardware resources are provided to AI workloads in the form of so-called slices. Each slice corresponds to a subset of the AI chips in a pod.
ARPU
Google Claims Quantum Leap, Solves Septillion-Year Task in Minutes

Google claims its new quantum chip, "Willow," has achieved a groundbreaking feat, performing a calculation in just five minutes that would take the world's most powerful supercomputers ten septillion years. In a Bloomberg interview, Hartmut Neven, VP of Engineering at Google and founder of Quantum Artificial

Reuters
Google asks FTC to break up Microsoft's cloud deal with OpenAI, the Information says
Google has asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers, the Information reported on Tuesday. The conversation happened after ...
Kiplinger
Alphabet Stock Jumps on Google's Quantum Computing Chip
Google's parent company, Alphabet, is up Tuesday after the company unveiled Willow, its new chip that powers quantum computing. Here's what you need to know.
Reuters
Google puts AI agents at the center of Gemini update
Alphabet's Google on Wednesday released the second generation of its artificial intelligence model Gemini and teased a slate of new ways to use AI beyond chatbots, including through a pair of ...
Reuters
Google's biggest bet is AI for search, investment chief says
Alphabet , the Google parent that has pioneered self-driving cars and quantum computing, is making its biggest bet much closer to home: online search.
Wall Street Journal
Google Claims Quantum Computing Breakthrough With Willow Chip; Alphabet Stock Rises
Alphabet shares rose a day after Google said it developed a new chip that moves a step forward in the tech industry’s longtime dream of developing commercially relevant quantum computing. The chip, ...
Inc
Here’s How Google’s New AI Weather Tool Could Help Business Forecasts, Too
Predicting the weather isn’t easy, but a new AI tool turns out to be very good at the job. There are surprising implications for many businesses if the Google product goes mainstream.
Fortune
Founders must embrace ‘design with a capital D’ if they want to convince investors, says partner at Alphabet’s GV
Design is critical for a successful company,” said Vanessa Cho, design partner at GV, at Fortune's Brainstorm Design conference on Dec. 5 ...
Bloomberg
Alphabet Climbs Following Breakthrough With Willow Quantum Chip
Alphabet Inc. shares jumped the most since October as analysts applauded the Google parent’s announcement Monday of a major development in quantum computing through the use of its Willow quantum chip.
Reuters
Google parent Alphabet jumps on quantum chip breakthrough
Shares of Google parent Alphabet rose about 5% on Tuesday after it unveiled a new generation chip that the company said helped overcome a key challenge in quantum computing.
Reuters
Google invests in Intersect Power in over $800 mln funding round amid AI race
Alphabet's Google, along with TPG Rise Climate and other investors, is backing clean energy developer Intersect Power as part more than $800 million funding round, the company said on Tuesday.
CRN
The 10 Hottest Cloud And AI Security Startups Of 2024
CRN’s list of the hottest cloud and AI security startups of 2024 includes startups focused on securing data, identities and AI systems in cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google ...
ARPU
Waymo Expands Robotaxi Service to Miami

Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company, announced Thursday that it will launch its robotaxi service in Miami, Florida, marking a significant expansion of its operations, reports CNBC. This will be Waymo's fourth major metropolitan area launch, following Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

The company will initially

Bloomberg
Traders Game Out TikTok Scenarios for Meta, Alphabet, Oracle
Tech investors are girding for the latest development in TikTok’s legal saga. Social media and search companies like Meta Platforms Inc. have a lot at stake, as does Oracle Corp., which counts TikTok ...
Inc
With 4 Words, Google’s CEO Just Fired the Company’s Biggest Shot Yet at Microsoft Over AI
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 04: New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and Sundar Pichai, C.E.O. of Google and Alphabet, speak during the New ... much of the technology used today in generative ...
Reuters
Alphabet's Waymo to expand ride-hailing services to Miami
(Reuters) - Alphabet's Waymo said on Thursday it will expand its autonomous ride-hailing services to Miami, Florida, adding another city to its operations as it seeks to gain an edge in an ...
Inc
With 4 Words, Google’s CEO Just Fired a Shot at Microsoft Over AI
Sundar Pichai says Google’s AI models are competitive, but it’s the product that is the problem.
ARPU
Google Search Under Siege

Google is synonymous with searching the internet. But these days, the search giant's throne is feeling a little less secure. A report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that several big trends are converging to challenge Google's dominance, and the future of online search might look

Reuters
Google Cloud partners with Air France-KLM on AI technology
Google Cloud said on Wednesday it had partnered with Air France-KLM to deploy generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology on the airline group's data. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Google Cloud said in a ...
The Verge
Internal Google documents reveal concerns about its cloud contract with Israel
Dubbed Project Nimbus, the contract gives the Israeli government access to cloud services from Google and Amazon. Project Nimbus enabled the use of AI tools to analyze and identify objects in images ...
The Verge
Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
When the model was first announced these generated clips could be vaguely “beyond a minute” in length, but Google doesn’t specify length restrictions for the preview release. Some new example clips in ...
VentureBeat
Google Cloud launches Veo AI video generator model on Vertex
Unveiled at Google’s I/O developer conference, Veo is Google DeepMind’s response to competitors like Runway’s Gen-3 and OpenAI's Sora.
TechCrunch
UK antitrust suit hits Microsoft with claim for $1.25B in cloud fees damages
Microsoft is in the crosshairs of a U.K. competition class action-style lawsuit that's seeking £1 billion (around $1.25 billion at current exchange rates) ...
Wired
This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos
Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020, he ...
Bloomberg
Canada Sues Alphabet, Mexico Denies Border Closure, More
Bloomberg News Now is a comprehensive audio report on today's top stories. Listen for the latest news, whenever you want it, covering global business stories around the world.
Fortune
How Carrier is delivering more for shareholders than Microsoft, Alphabet, and Apple
Carrier Global Corporation, a giant in the manufacturing industry, has been in business for more than 100 years. But the company is showing no signs of slowing down—it's excelling in growth. In a new ...
ARPU
Google Faces Billions in Losses if DOJ Antitrust Case Succeeds

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit against Google could cost the tech giant hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis. This potential loss extends far beyond Google's core search business, significantly impacting revenue streams from Android, Chrome, and YouTube. The stakes

Bloomberg
Google Seeks to Undo Epic Games’ Antitrust Win Over Play Store
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a ruling in an antitrust case brought by Fortnite-maker Epic Games that would force the search giant to overhaul its Play mobile ...
The Register
Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft
El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive Exclusive Google Cloud dangled hundreds of million of euros worth of financial ...
TechCrunch
Google Developer Program gains new features, but you’ll have to pay for them
Google's recently launched Google Developer Program has gained new features — but you'll have to pay for them as part of a new premium plan.
CRN
5 Huge Google Cloud Partner Benefits In New AI Agent Program: Kevin Ichhpurani
Google Cloud AI agentic program sees Google sales reps rewarded for selling Google partner AI offerings and co-selling new AI products, Kevin Ichhpurani says.
CRN
Security Teams Have ‘Window Of Opportunity’ On GenAI: Google Cloud Expert
GenAI capabilities appear to be giving defenders an edge over threat actors for now, suggesting there’s a major opportunity right now to double down on the technology, according to Google Cloud’s Nick ...
Bloomberg
Google Arguments Draw Skepticism From Judge in Ad Tech Case
A federal judge threw cold water on one of Alphabet Inc.’s key arguments in a Department of Justice lawsuit over allegations that Google monopolized advertising technology.