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Waymo, Toyota strike partnership to bring self-driving tech to personal vehicles
A Waymo self-driving car, seen with a driver, stops at a red light outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Friday, March 31, 2025. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Alphabet-owned Waymo and Toyota on Tuesday announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi tech to personally-owned vehicles. “The companies will […]
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Google increased CEO Sundar Pichai’s security costs by 22% in 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Google paid $8.27 million for CEO Sundar Pichai’s personal […]
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Meta’s AI spending comes into focus amid Trump’s tariff policies
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before the luncheon on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second Presidential term in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Mark Zuckerberg’s plan is to make Meta the market leader in artificial intelligence. Investors will want to know how President Donald Trump’s tariffs-heavy trade […]
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Alphabet to report Q1 earnings results after the bell
Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, is set to report first-quarter earnings after the bell Thursday. Here’s what analysts are expecting. Revenue: $89.2 billion, according to LSEG Earnings per share: $2.02, according to LSEG YouTube advertising revenue: $8.97 billion, according to StreetAccount Google Cloud revenue: $12.27 billion, according to StreetAccount Traffic acquisition costs (TAC): $13.66 billion, according to […]
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Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week or lose their jobs
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc., speaks at the inaugural 2024 Business, Government, and Society Forum at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Stanford, California, on April 3, 2024. Carlos Barria | Reuters Five years removed from the onset of the Covid pandemic, Google is demanding that some remote employees return to […]
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Google says DOJ’s proposal for breakup would harm U.S. in ‘global race with China’
CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai meets Polish Prime Minister at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022. Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty Images As Google heads back to the courtroom Monday, the company is arguing that the U.S. needs the company in its full form to take on chief adversary […]
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FTC sues Uber, says company charged for Uber One without consent
Travelers walk past a sign pointing toward the Uber rideshare vehicle pickup area at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on February 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber, accusing the ride-hailing and delivery company of deceptive billing and cancellation practices tied to its […]
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Google hit with second antitrust blow, adding to concerns about future of ads business
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Google’s antitrust woes are continuing to mount, just as the company tries to brace for a future dominated by artificial intelligence. On Thursday, a federal judge ruled […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Eli Lilly, Alphabet, Hertz, UnitedHealth and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Alphabet — Shares of the megacap technology name pulled back 1.2% after a federal judge ruled that Google has illegally monopolized online advertising technology , namely the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges. Hertz — The rental car company surged 50% to a 52-week […]
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Chip stocks fall as Nvidia, AMD warn of higher costs from China export controls
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote for the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2025. Brittany Hosea-small | Reuters Technology stocks declined Wednesday, led by a 8% drop in Nvidia, as the chipmaking sector signaled that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans could hamper demand […]
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