Google said that it is adding Venmo as a payment option today on Google Play for purchases including games, apps, add-ons, and other digital content.
On a Bloomberg Businessweek segment that aired August 7, 2026, Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research and one of the more vocal AI skeptics in financial media, made a claim that reframes how investors should think about hyperscaler cloud growth.
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Meta (NASDAQ: META | META Price Prediction) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) both delivered Q2 2026 results that reshaped how investors think about big tech's AI spending race.
For more than a decade, the cybersecurity industry has been assigning names to different hacking groups. Some of them, like Fancy Bear, have crossed over into the mainstream because of their prominent hacks and memorable names.
Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG | GOOG Price Prediction) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) both dropped Q2 2026 results in late July, with sharply diverging results.
When the Q1 2026 13F filings were released in mid-May (Q2 filing are released later in August), three names kept surfacing across the sharpest institutional portfolios: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Uber (NYSE:UBER).
Google insiders view Demis Hassabis' move to chief scientist as a way to find the next leap in AI. Since the Google DeepMind merger, some of Hassabis' focus has been pulled away from research.
Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) both reported Q2 2026 results on July 22, exposing a widening gap.
Even in the age of AI-powered autonomous cyberattacks, the crude, tried and tested, hacking techniques of tricking victims into doing things they shouldn't are still producing great results.
The artificial-intelligence spending spree shows no sign of letting up as Alphabet prepares to raise tens of billions of dollars through an investment-grade bond offering.
Google Deepmind chief Demis Hassabis is stepping down from his day-to-day leadership role at the AI research unit as part of a leadership overhaul. Hassabis, who co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and became one of the most prominent figures in the development of artificial intelligence, will become chairman of DeepMind and take on a newly created role as chief scientist at Alphabet, Google's parent company.