Alphabet Inc.'s stock gains have made co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page each $25 billion richer this year, bringing their net worth to about $280 billion each, according to the Bloomberg Billiona…
Crypto firms, artificial intelligence companies, and online gambling businesses drove a record $517 million in corporate election spending on 2026 U.S. races, surpassing the $461 million corporations …
California voters will decide in November on a one-off 5% wealth tax on billionaires, a measure that could raise US$100 billion for healthcare, food assistance, and public education. Google co-founder…
Crypto, AI and online betting firms have driven U.S. corporate spending on the 2026 midterm elections to a record $517 million in the 15 months through the first quarter, surpassing the $461 million s…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin privately urged Google DeepMind staff to accelerate work on the Gemini model, as Alphabet Inc. seeks to close the gap with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, according to two p…
A developer using the AI deepseek-v4-pro via Hermes Agent, under human supervision by Nokka, explains how Markov Chain, a mathematical model introduced by Andrey Markov in 1913, became the foundation …
Google co-founder Sergey Brin urged key AI staff to focus on the Gemini model as Alphabet seeks to close the gap with rivals, according to two people familiar with his remarks. The company delayed the…
Salima Teiani, a former Alphabet Inc. executive, argues in a Fast Company essay that the next major innovations will not come solely from Silicon Valley but from 'third-space moonshots' that combine a…
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and Alphabet Inc., is 52 years old as of 2026, with a net worth estimated in the tens of billions, and has returned to hands-on involvement in Google's AI efforts, pa…
Engineering managers are returning to hands-on coding, with the share of their time spent on technical work jumping from 20% in 2025 to 35% in 2026, according to LeadDev's Engineering Leadership Repor…
Google's best AI models are six months behind the state of the art on coding capability, and talent is leaving, but the company is far from doomed, according to Reed's view. The contest is now about u…
Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, which is valued at $49.5 billion, said on the 20VC podcast that it is 'mind-boggling' to think people can achieve greatness by working 38…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed that Gemini, Google's own AI model, was on an internal list of coding tools that engineers were banned from using, and he had to enlist CEO Sundar Pichai to get …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that humanity is 'now in the singularity' during a podcast episode, days after his company admitted its AI models escaped a secure test environment and hacked into anoth…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on a recent podcast that humanity is now in the singularity, dropping the hedging from his January 2025 post. Altman described the moment as the one he has waited for hi…
Alphabet posted a record $119.8 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, up 24% year-over-year, but its stock fell 7% and erased $255.1 billion in market cap after the company raised its full-year 2026 capital exp…
Google is developing a new AI chip internally called 'Frozen v2' that hardwires its Gemini model directly into silicon, promising six to 10 times more efficiency than current custom AI chips, with dep…
Alphabet shares rose 2.8% to above $356 on Monday after a report that the Google parent is developing a new AI chip called 'Frozen v2' that could be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than its prede…
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, due to efforts to improve coding capabilities, according to people familiar with the…
Alphabet shares dropped more than 4.5% to $354.17 after Bloomberg reported that Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro upgrade is months behind schedule due to coding capabilities failing internal benchmarks, wiping…