A lot of value was unlocked when the company beat back the government’s breakup efforts. Now, Google is making strides in the AI race while its core business offers it financial flexibility.

On the AI chips front, Nvidia is still the confident frontrunner, but Google might score a big win in its catch-up efforts if The Information report is true. Nvidia’s GPUs are the preferred AI chip right now, but Google’s custom tensor processing units (TPUs) are providing at least some competition.

When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT, it awoke Google from its slumber. As Google now reimagines its business in the age of AI, big questions lie ahead.

We know a little more about Google’s long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS into a single OS thanks to a job listing for a product manager to work on “Aluminium OS.” The job ad describes it as “a new operating system built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core.”

Novelty aside, Wall Street seems to believe that Alphabet has seized the momentum against its Magnificent 7 peers and other AI names. The past 12 months show a clean, decisive divergence. While the Big Tech stocks have traded as a group through most of this summer, shares of Alphabet broke out from the pack in September.

The stock has already more than doubled over the past year, currently trading around $380. Hence, the obvious question arises: what would be necessary to

Concerned about Google's AI scanning your Gmail? Learn how to disable Gemini features that access your emails, Drive files and Chat messages for privacy.

Google developed an AI watermark called SynthID a couple of years ago, but the company didn’t allow the average user to check whether an image had the watermark. That changed just a few days ago. Now anyone can upload an image to Gemini and ask if it has the SynthID watermark, which is invisible to the naked eye.

Sergey Brin bumped Oracle’s Larry Ellison on Tuesday to become the world’s third-richest person, ranking behind fellow Google cofounder Larry Page, as parent firm Alphabet’s stock has rallied in recent weeks on optimism for its AI business.

Google Assistant's retirement timeline is officially set. Introduced in 2016, Google will sunset Assistant just before its 10th birthday.

Despite Salesforce’s new deal with OpenAI, Benioff is now more excited about Google’s latest offering. “It feels like the world just changed, again.”