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Google is a multinational technology company specializing in internet-related products and services, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Its core businesses include search, advertising and cloud computing, but it also has divisions in hardware and software development. Sundar Pichai currently serves as CEO. Its primary competitors include other major tech companies such as Amazon, Apple and Facebook. Google is making forays into artificial intelligence with Gemini, its conversational AI that aims to compete with OpenAI.
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What Google’s AI Shake-Up Means for Pichai Succession

By Martin Peers · Aug 5, 2026 5:01pm PDT
A flood of June-quarter earnings updates—from the likes of Uber, DoorDash, Shopify and Disney—was interrupted on Thursday by Google’s announcement that its AI guru, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, had been elevated to chair of the AI unit and chief scientist of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. That news coincided with the revelation that... A flood of June-quarter earnings updates—from the likes of Uber, DoorDash, Shopify and Disney—was...
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Wall Street Sends Google a Message

By Martin Peers · Jul 23, 2026 5:00pm PDT · 1 comment
Maybe, just maybe, big tech firms need to do a better job of explaining their AI investment strategies. Shares of Google parent Alphabet fell 7% on Thursday after the company disclosed a further increase in capital expenditures this year—money it will spend on new AI chips, servers and data centers. The drop all but wiped out the gains the stock... Maybe, just maybe, big tech firms need to do a better job of explaining their AI investment...
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Google Cloud’s Revenue Is Rocketing—but Costs of AI Expansion Are as Well

By Martin Peers · Jul 22, 2026 5:01pm PDT
Wow. Google Cloud’s business exploded in the second quarter, with revenue soaring 82%, nearly 20 percentage points faster than for the previous quarter. Rapid demand for AI services—and in this quarter, the impact of AI chip sales—has lifted Google Cloud’s growth rate by nearly 50 percentage points in the past four quarters. But while cloud... Wow. Google Cloud’s business exploded in the second quarter, with revenue soaring 82%, nearly 20...
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Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers

By Kevin McLaughlin · Aug 18, 2026 2:19pm PDT · 1 comment
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises. Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do. While Google Cloud recently said it plans to hire... Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing...
How to Prepare for Trademark Filing Using Google Gemini
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How to Prepare for Trademark Filing Using Google Gemini

By The Information Partnerships · Aug 18, 2026 12:59pm PDT
Starting a new business requires founders to make important decisions and tackle complex processes in areas where they typically lack expertise, such as human resources and accounting. One of the most important early steps is filing for a trademark to protect your brand name, logo, and other identifying assets from unauthorized use. Trademark... Starting a new business requires founders to make important decisions and tackle complex...