Google launches the Pixel 10, another perfectly forgettable phone in an ocean of boring devices. The big difference here is the continued pushing of AI into every crevice imaginable. Nothing says product success like force feeding it to your existing customers.
https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-p...
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Alphabet is a multinational conglomerate that creates a vast array of products and services primarily through its Google subsidiary, including search, advertising, Android, YouTube, and cloud computing, while also developing innovative technologies in areas like autonomous driving (Waymo) and life sciences (Verily) through its "Other Bets" segments. GOOGL represents Class A shares, which give the holder one vote per share.
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| stock | $232.20 | $235.76 | $231.90 | $2.81T | 46.58M |
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| +$2.33 | 25.73 | 29.72 | 32.43% | 29.24% | 0.36% |
Waymo plans to bring robotaxi service to Dallas next year.
Weirdly though, they're working with Avis Budget Group to manage the Waymo fleet, and make use of Waymo's first party app for doing reservations. Seems like a strange changeup from the partnership with Uber that Waymo has down the road, in Austin.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/waymo-plans...
OpenAI claims to be working on a new web browser to compete with Google Chrome. Coming from the premier AI company, the broswer will of course "use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web." What is would really do is open up access to user's data to OpenAI, something that Google has had a lock on for the past couple of decades.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/openai-to-r...
Seems like they trying to out-google google, but in a shorter time span, then it took google.. Now they just need their own phone and the circle of life will be completed.
OpenAI admits they do not have any current plans to make use of Google's tensor processing units (TPUs), despite ongoing rumors in the media to the contrary. An OpenAI spokesperson says OpenAI is in early testing of the TPUs but currently has no plans to deploy them at scale.
Last month though, OpenAI allegedly signed a significant deal with Google Cloud to handle the company's general compute needs. This is a surprising move considering Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI and offers their own Azure platform.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business...
Google likely to lose appeal against amazing $4.7 billion fine in the EU, related to a long-running antitrust case involving the Android operating system.
Waymo is coming to New York, but with drivers behind the wheel.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/waymo-cars-...
Should be the first real test of Waymo in snowy / icy conditions. Every other city so far has been a rather warm climate without much inclimate weather to deal with.
Google suffers major outage of its Google Cloud Platform offering today, taking down hundreds of dependent websites and services along with it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/google-clou...
Couldn't even log into YouTube this afternoon...
Google offering buyouts to Search division employees. As if Google search hadn't degraded enough already...
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/google-buyo...
YouTube shuts down ad-blocker loophole, tightens restrictions
https://www.techspot.com/news/108232-youtub...
Can testify that with AdGuard on Safari YouTube is now showing popups about blocking ads not being allowed. At least for now it still lets you watch videos without disabling ad-block. Maybe it's time to finally start paying for YouTube Premium ...
FWIW premium seems like a pretty good deal, if you spend as much time watching videos as I do - where videos are kind of playing all throughout the day
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/sam...
Crazy to me these phone manufactures are still trying to shove AI down your throat. Only a matter of time before Google starts paying Samsung to set the default AI agent to Gemini instead of Perplexity or anything else, just like they do with Google Search on iPhones.
And for what? There is still no profit to be made in AI. It's all a massive money loser when it takes a billion dollars to update each model.
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/com...
JFC Imagine thinking any of this A.I. garbage is actually leading to anything.
> I feel as if google’s entire business was perfectly crafted to take advantage of this AI revolution.
The only thing revolutionary is the realization that so many VC firms do less research than a college football player earning a two year degree in sports science.
Maybe Waymo is going to be great, but the machine learning that powers it is completely different from the AI slop generators being peddled at Google IO and all the other mega tech companies with no ideas for actual products.
Waymo gets the green-light to expand their robotaxi service into more communities south of San Francisco.
As someone who lives in Downtown Austin and sees the driverless Waymo's everyday... I gotta say it's actually like living in the future. Seeing the cars drive by with nobody in the driver seat never gets old.
And it's pretty crazy this company has a P/E below $20, with actual driverless cars, while Tesla's P/E is over $200 with basically nothing to show for it.