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· 2 days ago

Marvell disclosed a binding agreement with Google to develop custom AI chips - and a warrant that could hand Google a $12 billion stake in the company. The deal reshuffles Google's custom silicon supply chain, and Broadcom, the incumbent supplier of Google's tensor processing units, dropped 3% on the news. The market is reading this as a zero-sum shift, not a rising tide.

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· 3 days ago

Alphabet is buying internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for $10 million - not customer records, but 100 million employee emails, 500 million Teams messages, and decades of operational data. Google plans to use it to train AI models on how real enterprises actually work. It's the clearest signal yet that corporate datasets are now assets worth fighting over in bankruptcy court.

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· 10 days ago

UBS upgraded Jabil to buy with a $430 price target, citing multiyear growth driven by AI investment from hyperscalers including Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon. The firm expects Jabil's AI-related revenue to grow at least 50% in fiscal 2027 to roughly $20.3 billion, supported by capacity expansion and strong cloud infrastructure demand.

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· 16 days ago

Google DeepMind underwent a major leadership restructuring with Nobel Prize-winning CEO Demis Hassabis transitioning to Alphabet chief scientist and DeepMind chairman. CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu assumed day-to-day management as senior vice president. Four senior AI leaders including Jeff Dean departed to launch Discovery Loop, an AI research startup. The changes come as Google's Gemini model faces delays and competitive pressure.

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· 18 days ago

Oracle announced a major 10-year, $7 billion contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, bolstering its cloud infrastructure business. The stock jumped 8% on the news during a broader AI-cloud rally, though shares remain 28% down year to date. The contract adds to Oracle's massive $638 billion cloud backlog as the company navigates heavy capital spending and negative free cash flow.

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· 20 days ago

European regulators hit Google with a €890 million fine under the Digital Markets Act for unfairly promoting its own services in search results and restricting app developers on Google Play. The penalty marks the first major enforcement under new EU digital rules and adds pressure on Alphabet to redesign core products in Europe or face further sanctions of up to 5% of global revenue.

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· 21 days ago

Amazon raised its 2025 capital expenditure guidance to $220 billion from $200 billion, with CEO Andy Jassy stating most spending will target AI. The move came alongside strong cloud computing results, with revenue accelerating for a fifth straight quarter, driving shares up as much as 16%-the largest single-day gain since February 2022.

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· 25 days ago

OpenAI plans to more than triple its Dublin headcount from 100 to 350 over the next two years, designating the Irish capital as its official European Union headquarters. The expansion includes leasing 8,000 square meters of office space and hiring across engineering and support operations as part of a broader EMEA growth strategy.

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· a month ago

First Digital Markets Act penalties against Google create compliance risk across search and app-store revenue streams in Europe. White House tariff threat and Trump administration criticism of EU tech enforcement add macro volatility ahead of Friday tariff announcement.

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· a month ago

New Flash models trail competitors on key benchmarks despite cost cuts, arriving as Chinese rivals gain ground and Google's flagship Pro model remains delayed. Enterprise push into cybersecurity may not offset underwhelming core performance.

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· a month ago

Alphabet delayed the release of its most powerful AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, beyond the originally planned June deadline due to underwhelming coding capabilities. Google updated the model's training data in late June to address these issues, but results fell short of internal standards. The company is now testing the model with partners and aims for a mid-July launch.

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· a month ago

A Common Sense Media investigation tested 652 prompts across mental health topics and found Google's AI Overview and AI Mode frequently failed to detect crisis signals from minors. The nonprofit rated both tools as unacceptable risks for children, citing inappropriate responses to suicidal ideation, eating disorders, and homework requests. Google disputed the methodology and said it could not replicate many findings.

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· 2 months ago

Alphabet faces one of Sweden's largest competition damages awards, adding to a string of costly European antitrust rulings. The court found Google's search manipulation continued years beyond the 2017 EU fine, extending liability and signaling persistent enforcement risk across major markets.

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· 2 months ago

Alphabet officially joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, replacing Verizon after its 22-year tenure. The change reflects the index's shift toward large-cap technology and AI exposure, with Alphabet joining Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia as a tech heavyweight in the 30-stock benchmark.

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· 2 months ago

Apple announced a major upgrade to Siri at its WWDC26 conference, introducing AI-powered features across its ecosystem. The new Siri AI integrates with Apple Music and other services, but requires specific hardware to run advanced features on-device. The updates arrive with iOS 27 this fall.

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· 2 months ago

Alphabet lost two prominent AI researchers in one week: Noam Shazeer, co-lead of its Gemini AI models, to OpenAI, and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper to Anthropic. The departures sparked investor concerns about the company's ability to retain top AI talent amid intense competition, leading to a $225 billion to $270 billion single-day market cap loss.

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· 3 months ago

Apple is partnering with Google and Nvidia to power a redesigned Siri assistant launching in September 2026. Complex queries will be processed on Nvidia Blackwell B200 chips via Google Cloud, using hardware-based encryption to maintain privacy. The move marks a departure from Apple's traditional self-reliant infrastructure strategy.

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· 3 months ago

OpenAI has made ZoomInfo natively available inside Codex for Work, allowing sales and marketing teams to access verified B2B data on 100 million companies and 500 million contacts without switching tools. The integration leverages ZoomInfo's GTM.AI context layer, which also powers AI agents across competing platforms including Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT.

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· 4 months ago

Alphabet reported Q1 earnings of $5.11 per share and revenue of $109.9 billion, both exceeding analyst expectations. The company's AI investments are showing strong returns, particularly in its Cloud division which grew 63% year-over-year. The stock jumped over 6% after hours, adding roughly $250 billion in market value.

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· 4 months ago

Italy's communications watchdog AGCOM has referred Google to the European Commission for investigation of its AI-powered search features under the Digital Services Act. Italian publishers argue the AI-generated summaries divert traffic from news sources and raise accuracy concerns.

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· 4 months ago

Alphabet reported first-quarter earnings of $5.11 per share on revenue of $109.9 billion, significantly exceeding analyst expectations. The company's AI investments drove growth across all business units, with Google Cloud revenue surging 63% and advertising revenue up 16%. Management raised capital expenditure guidance to as high as $190 billion for 2026.

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· 4 months ago

Alphabet delivered $402.8 billion in revenue for FY 2025, up 15%, with net income rising 32% to $132.2 billion. Google Cloud operating income more than doubled to $13.9 billion, while capital expenditures surged to $91.4 billion, with management signaling a significant further increase in 2026.

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· 5 hours ago

Marvell Technology's stock is rallying following a new deal that effectively confirmed what analysts had been anticipating for months: Google is now a custom AI accelerator customer for Marvell. The announcement provides another important piece of evidence supporting the company’s custom silicon opp…

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· 15 days ago

Anthropic told investors it expects revenue of $10.9 billion for the April to June quarter and an operating profit of $559 million. If it lands, it will be the first frontier AI lab to make money in a quarter. The Wall Street Journal reported the figures first, and CNBC and Bloomberg have since conf…

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· 21 days ago

Microsoft has had a rough year. The stock has struggled even though every quarter this fiscal year has come in ahead of expectations. The company’s shares fell around 24% in the first quarter of the calendar year alone, mainly after the launch of Claude Opus 4.6, which triggered a sell-off across th…