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Google employees question Gemini 4’s real-world coding ability

Alphabet is facing internal doubts about the performance of its forthcoming Gemini 4 artificial intelligence model, with employees reporting that the system struggles with real-world coding tasks despite strong results on industry benchmarks, according to a Bloomberg report published Wednesday.

Analysts raise Alphabet targets after 82% Cloud surge

Alphabet reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $119.8 billion, up 24% year-over-year, as Google Cloud emerged as the company's fastest-growing segment with an 82% revenue surge that has drawn fresh analyst upgrades and underscored the tech giant's expanding role in enterprise…

Google Cloud backlog hits $514B after 82% revenue growth

Alphabet's Google Cloud division has emerged as one of the fastest-growing segments in enterprise technology, posting 82% year-over-year revenue growth in the second quarter of 2026 and pushing its contracted backlog to $514 billion. The results, disclosed during Alphabet's July…

Meta shares surge after Muse AI agent launch

Meta Platforms shares jumped in premarket and early trading Wednesday after the company unveiled Muse, a personal AI agent with paid subscription tiers, giving investors the first direct consumer revenue line tied to the company's massive AI spending. Alphabet stock…

DeepMind’s share of top AI hires in Europe plunges to 19%

Google DeepMind Alphabet Inc., long the dominant employer of elite machine-learning researchers across Europe, has seen its share of top AI hires in the region collapse over the past three years, according to new data published by Fortune on Thursday.

Alphabet’s cloud backlog hits $514B as AI demand fuels Q2 beat

Alphabet Inc. delivered a dominant second-quarter 2026, reporting $119.8 billion in revenue — up 24% year over year — and earnings per share of $9.11, crushing the consensus estimate of roughly $2.87 to $2.89. The results, reported on July 23,…

Alphabet’s AI-powered search now reaches 2.5 billion users monthly

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai revealed at Google I/O 2026 in May that AI Overviews — the Gemini-powered summaries displayed atop Google Search results — now reaches more than 2.5 billion monthly users, making it the most widely distributed AI product…

Tech giants’ AI bond binge tops $223B, pushing global yields higher

A record wave of bond issuance by the technology companies building out artificial intelligence infrastructure is emerging as a force in global debt markets, competing directly with government bonds and adding to upward pressure on sovereign yields worldwide.

Alphabet raises A$5.5B in debut Australian bond sale

Alphabet raised A$5.5 billion ($3.89 billion) on Wednesday in its first-ever Australian dollar bond sale, a deal that attracted more than A$18 billion in investor demand and marks the largest corporate debt raising in the Australian market, as the Google…

Alphabet plans first Australian dollar bond to fund AI buildout

Alphabet has hired banks to arrange its first-ever Australian dollar bond offering, extending the Google parent's aggressive multi-currency borrowing campaign to yet another market as U.S. tech giants tap global debt to finance artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Alphabet’s $900M SpaceX bet has grown 100-fold to $94B

Alphabet has emerged as the largest single institutional holder of SpaceX following the rocket company's June IPO, with a decade-old investment of roughly $900 million now worth about $94.2 billion, according to quarterly filings analyzed by Reuters.

Hassabis pushed AI oversight plan before DeepMind exit

In the weeks before Alphabet announced a sweeping leadership overhaul at Google DeepMind on August 5, Demis Hassabis was quietly working on something beyond model development: a proposal for an independent body to police frontier artificial intelligence, according to The…

Hassabis steps back from DeepMind as four top AI scientists depart Google

Google DeepMind is entering a new era. Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning co-founder who built DeepMind into one of the world's foremost AI laboratories, is stepping back from day-to-day leadership to become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of…

Google reshuffles AI leadership as cloud growth outpaces rivals

Alphabet delivered a second-quarter earnings beat on July 22 that reinforced its position at the center of the AI infrastructure boom, posting revenue of $119.8 billion — up 24% year over year — while raising its full-year capital expenditure guidance…

Alphabet raises $25B in bonds, draws $115B in orders

Alphabet sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds on Thursday, drawing roughly $115 billion in investor orders for one of the year's largest debt offerings, as the Google parent taps credit markets to bankroll a sharp expansion in artificial intelligence spending.

Alphabet launches 10-part bond sale to fund AI buildout

Alphabet Inc. has begun marketing a sweeping 10-part U.S. investment-grade bond offering on Thursday, testing investor demand just weeks after its raised capital-expenditure forecast helped trigger a broader selloff in AI-related debt.

Alphabet’s century bond loses 10% as surging yields rattle tech debt

A sharp rise in long-term Treasury yields and a renewed surge in oil prices are rattling the corporate debt market for technology companies, exposing vulnerabilities in hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowing tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Alphabet, Tesla earnings spark global selloff over AI spending

Alphabet and Tesla delivered a one-two punch to technology stocks this week after both companies reported second-quarter earnings that spooked investors with ballooning AI spending and a sharp profit miss, triggering a broad sell-off across global markets.

Asian markets sell off on oil surge, AI spending fears

Stock markets across Asia sold off sharply on Friday, July 24, as surging oil prices and renewed anxiety over the returns on massive artificial intelligence spending triggered a broad retreat from risk assets, extending a steep overnight decline on Wall…

Bitcoin drops below $65K as Wall Street sell-off spreads

The cryptocurrency market fell on Thursday as a broad sell-off in U.S. equities, triggered by disappointing technology earnings and escalating Middle East tensions, dampened risk appetite across asset classes. Bitcoin slipped below $65,000, while major indexes posted their sharpest losses…

Alphabet posts first negative free cash flow since IPO

Alphabet shares fell roughly 7% on Thursday after the Google parent disclosed a massive increase in artificial intelligence infrastructure spending that produced its first negative free cash flow quarter since going public more than two decades ago.

Google begins selling TPU chips, becoming a semiconductor vendor

Alphabet has begun delivering its custom Tensor Processing Units to customer data centers for the first time, marking its entry as a semiconductor vendor, even as CEO Sundar Pichai made clear that the company's own pursuit of artificial general intelligence…

Barclays warns Gemini 4 costs could leave Google cash-flow negative for two years

Barclays issued a stark warning on July 22 that Alphabet could face two consecutive years of negative free cash flow as the company pours capital into training its next-generation Gemini 4 foundation model — even as the bank raised its…

Alphabet discloses $811B in future spending commitments

Alphabet revealed $811 billion in contracted purchase commitments as of June 30 in its quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a jump of roughly $500 billion from the $316 billion disclosed just three months earlier. The staggering figure,…

Alphabet’s century bond loses 7% as hyperscaler debt fears grow

Alphabet's landmark 100-year sterling bond has lost more than 7% of its face value since its issuance in February, as a combination of geopolitical turmoil, rising yields, and growing doubts about Big Tech's debt-fueled AI spending weigh on the instrument.

Asian chip stocks surge after Alphabet raises capex forecast

Asian semiconductor stocks rallied sharply on Thursday after Alphabet raised its full-year capital expenditure forecast, reinforcing expectations that demand for AI infrastructure will remain robust despite broader market volatility.

Google’s Gemini app hits 950M monthly users, closing in on ChatGPT

Alphabet reported its second-quarter 2026 earnings on Wednesday, revealing that the Google Gemini app has reached 950 million monthly active users — placing it within striking distance of OpenAI's ChatGPT, which crossed the 1 billion monthly user mark earlier this…

Alphabet raises capex forecast to $205B after cloud surges 82%

Alphabet boosted its full-year 2026 capital expenditure guidance on Wednesday after reporting second-quarter results that showed Google Cloud growing far faster than Wall Street expected. CFO Anat Ashkenazi announced the increased spending outlook during the company's earnings call, raising the…

Alphabet smashes Q2 earnings as Google Cloud surges 67%

Alphabet reported second-quarter 2026 earnings on Wednesday after the market close, delivering results that far exceeded Wall Street expectations across nearly every segment. Google Cloud posted revenue of roughly $22.8 billion, a 67% jump from a year earlier that beat…

YouTube drew 1.7B viewers for World Cup, Pichai says

Google Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday that the 2026 FIFA World Cup became YouTube's most-viewed World Cup ever, with more than 1.7 billion unique global viewers watching tournament-related videos on the platform during the competition.