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Shares of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) were among the winners last month after the tech giant unveiled a breakthrough with its new quantum chip, Willow. The news set off a surge in quantum computing stocks, and Alphabet jumped over a two-day span after the announcement, as it was the latest evidence that the company is on the cutting edge in the AI race. As you can see from the chart below, the gains came largely following the quantum computing announcement on Dec. 9...

Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks — one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google's AI research lab, Google DeepMind, in October — will lead the new team, he announced in a post on X. It'll be a part of Google DeepMind. "DeepMind has ambitious plans to make massive generative models that simulate the world," Brooks wrote Monday morning. "I'm hiring for a new team with this mission." According to job lis...

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Alphabet's Google is facing a second complaint from a U.S. labor board claiming that it is the employer of contract workers and must bargain with their union, the agency said on Monday. The complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board last week claims that Google is a "joint employer" of about 50 San Francisco-based content creation workers employed by IT firm Accenture Flex who voted to join the Alphabet Workers Union in 2023, according to board spokeswoman Kayla Blado...

Long gone are the days of simply watching the news. Google unveiled the latest version of its TV operating system at CES 2025 on Monday. It uses the company's Gemini AI assistant to summarize the biggest news of the day for you. By asking Gemini to play your "News Brief," the AI assistant will scrape news stories from across the internet and YouTube video headlines posted by trusted news channels, and will produce a brief summary to catch you up on the day's events. A demo of Google's news brief...

Lots of technology names rallied today on the back of strong numbers out of Hon Hai Precision, which released very strong artificial intelligence (AI) server numbers for the month of December. On Monday, sell-side analyst Doug Anmuth at J.P. Morgan issued a positive note on Alphabet while retaining his buy rating on shares, with a $232 price target. Alphabet entered the day just over $193 per share, so Anmuth's target would amount to roughly 20% upside...