Alphabet is raising $80B in equity to address infrastructure bottlenecks amid unprecedented AI-driven demand, despite investor dilution concerns. Its Search business remains robust, funding aggressive AI investments, with Q1 Search revenue up 19% to $60.4B and query volumes at all-time highs. Cloud is showing where the future is headed, with revenue up 63% and backlog above $460B, signaling sustained AI demand.
Elon Musk's rocket company said Google would pay it $920 million a month, as it prepared for its initial public offering.
SpaceX secured a $920M monthly deal with Google for compute power. SpaceX's S-1 recently revealed Anthropic was paying it $1.25 billion a month for compute.
Stock investors may not love it — but bond investors already heavily engaged in funding the AI buildout are pleased.
Alphabet Inc. shares can be a viable indirect way to gain exposure to SpaceX shares. Unprecedented retail investor access and anticipation around the SPCX IPO raise the likelihood of extreme post-IPO price volatility. By guaranteeing pre-IPO ownership, GOOG shares shield investors from such volatility.
Researchers at Forum AI conducted an audit of four-leading chatbots: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok.
Ahead of a planned IPO, SpaceX has inked a deal to rent compute capacity to Google at $920 million per month for 32 months. SpaceX announced a similar arrangement with Anthropic in May.
SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday
A ransomware gang has escalated its attacks on law firms by sometimes sending fake IT workers in person to the victims' offices, where the imposters steal data directly from the victims' computers using USB drives or help other gang members connect to the computers remotely, according to Google and the FBI.
Alphabet is rated Buy with 15–25% upside, driven by underappreciated ad business and backlog revenue potential. GOOGL's valuation concerns over AI CapEx are overblown, as the company is positioned for post-AI steady-state growth. An 18.2% implied upside is supported by a $449.92 target, using a 16x EV/EBITDA exit multiple and 9.67% WACC.
Two megacap pullbacks, one decision: should a retirement-focused investor add Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) or Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) on this dip?
Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) earns a Buy rating under the Quality Growth framework, driven by robust fundamentals, accelerating EPS, and a deepening competitive moat. GOOG's proprietary TPU chip stack reduces dependence on NVIDIA, widens its infrastructure moat, and enables cost and performance advantages in both AI training and inference. Google Cloud's $460 billion backlog, 63% revenue growth, and 32.9% operating margin provide a visible and substantial catalyst for future EPS compounding.