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Alphabet

DeepMind Technologies Limited is a British artificial intelligence company founded in September 2010.  Acquired by Google in 2014, the company has created a neural network that learns how to play video games in a fashion similar to that of humans, as well as a Neural Turing machine, or a neural network that may be able to access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine, resulting in a computer that mimics the short-term memory of the human brain.

DeepMind

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

YouTube

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. In addition, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Wear OS for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used on game consoles, digital cameras, PCs and other electronics.

Android

Nest Labs is a home automation producer of programmable, self-learning, sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled thermostats, smoke detectors, security cameras, and other security systems. It introduced the Nest Learning Thermostat in 2011 as its first product. The Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector was then introduced in October 2013. After the acquisition of Dropcam, the rebranded Nest Cam was introduced in June 2015. Finally, in July 2016, the Nest Cam Outdoor was released.

Nest Labs

Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group. Boston Dynamics is best known for the development of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed for the U.S. military with funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and DI-Guy, software for realistic human simulation. Early in the company's history, it worked with the American Systems Corporation under a contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) to replace naval training videos for aircraft launch operations with interactive 3D computer simulations featuring DI-Guy characters. The company is a pioneer in the field of robotics and it is one of the most advanced in its domain. Marc Raibert is the company's president and project manager. He spun the company off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.

Boston Dynamics

Alphabet, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in software, health care, transportation, and other technologies. It operates through the following segments: Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets. The Google Services segment includes products and services such as ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Google Maps, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. The Google Cloud segment refers to infrastructure and platform services, collaboration tools, and other services for enterprise customers. The Other Bets segment relates to the sale of healthcare-related services and internet services. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on October 2, 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

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Alphabet (GOOGL) reports robust Q2 earnings, Cloud hits $10B revenue

Alphabet's Q2 performance reflects strong financials, particularly in Google Services and Cloud, while facing challenges in the Other Bets segment.
The company's strengths lie in AI-driven innovations across Search, Cloud, and autonomous driving, with opportunities in marketing and user experience enhancements.
Efforts to reengineer costs and address analyst inquiries on AI adoption and revenue mix present ongoing challenges and opportunities for Alphabet.
Overall, Alphabet's Q2 earnings call showcases a mix of solid performance, strategic strengths, challenges to address, and promising growth avenues.

Alphabet (GOOGL) excels in Q3 with AI-driven growth and cloud success

Alphabet's Q3 earnings call highlighted impressive revenue growth, particularly in Google Cloud and YouTube, driven by AI innovation. Executives emphasized the company's strong focus on AI, cloud services, and autonomous driving, while acknowledging challenges in cloud margins and user experience. With a solid financial performance and strategic initiatives in place, Alphabet is poised for continued success and growth in the tech sector.

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Microsoft

For every additional point in market share Microsoft's Bing gains in search, the company thinks it can earn $2 billion in ad dollars.

Microsoft and Google will duke it out over Silicon Valley's true financial driver: ads

Google's Bard feels like a knee-jerk reaction to Microsoft Bing's integration with ChatGPT. Plus, Twitter's massive outage.

Google is in a weird place right now

Google's panicked responses, including an inaccurate advert for their competitor, Bard, and a disappointing live event, have underwhelmed investors so far.

Here Comes The Bing Chatbot - Microsoft's ChatGPT For Search Has Arrived, Forcing Google's Hand

From layoffs to antitrust issues, Google's challenges are piling up, and AI competition looming over its Search business is its latest hurdle.

The walls are closing in on Google. Here's what it needs to do to survive.

Alphabet's stock is valued at a historic low.

2 Reasons Why Alphabet Is a Screaming Buy Right Now

Alphabet's shares plummeted after Bard gave incorrect answer in a demo

Why did Google's ChatGPT rival go wrong and are AI chatbots overhyped?

Google has stressed the need for "rigorous testing" of its highly-anticipated chatbot after it cost its parent company $100bn (£82.7bn) by providing an incorrect answer in an official advert.

New Google chatbot's costly error wipes $100bn off market value

Google and Microsoft are officially in a race to win the next generation of search. Publishers may once again complain about unfair treatment.

Google has long dominated search, and it's about to massively change it to meet the rising threat of ChatGPT. New AI features could intensify battles with content creators.

Weekly markets TL;DR: Google's AI fail, job numbers worry Fed, and relative calm ahead of CPI next week

Chatbot Bard incorrectly said James Webb Space Telescope was the first to take pictures of a planet outside the Earth's solar system

Google AI chatbot error sends shares plummeting in battle with Microsoft

Apple

Amazon

As big tech's growth and innovation slow, its market dominance endures

A handful of IBD's 197 industry groups rose 1% or more, bucking the stock market decline. The post Alphabet's Gaffe Sparks Stock Market Sell-Off; How To Handle This Hot AI Stock appeared first on Investor's Business Daily.

Alphabet's Gaffe Sparks Stock Market Sell-Off; How To Handle This Hot AI Stock

Could Google's advertisement segment start to encounter even more headwinds?

Alphabet Stock Dropped on Wednesday -- Is the AI Battle With Microsoft to Blame?

"AI is the most profound technology we are working on today," Alphabet's CEO said as he announced the new chatbot this week.

Alphabet Stock Plunge Erases $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad

Shares of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) fell almost 8% on Wednesday, crashing its valuation by about $100 billion, after a demonstration of its latest artificial intelligence (AI) features failed to impress investors.   Following the recent viral success of AI chatbot ChatGPT, launched by private company OpenAI, tech titans Google and Microsoft have been racing to integrate new AI features into their respective offerings.

Google loses $100B as AI chatbot disappoints investors

Investors and traders alike are being taken off guard by the action in Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL , NASDAQ: GOOG ) stock today. At Wednesday's low, GOOGL stock was down an astounding 8.9%.

Why Is Google (GOOG, GOOGL) Stock Down 7% Today?

Shares of Alphabet Inc.'s Google GOOGL, -7.43% GOOG, -7.40% dropped more than 7% Wednesday following news about its new AI chatbot, Bard — a day after Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.02% held its own event to demonstrate new AI technologies in its competing search engine, Bing. Some analysts suggested the decline in Google's stock indicated investors had hoped for more substantive news.

Google shares dip 7% on AI Bard announcement

Alphabet's AI presentation didn't exactly go as planned.

Why Alphabet Stock Plunged Today

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he sees tremendous potential for his company's AI technology to change the way people find information online.

ChatGPT's founder blasts Google as a 'lethargic search monopoly' as the tech giant's AI war with Microsoft heats up

Google published an online advert for its new AI chatbot Bard in which it delivered an inaccurate answer.

Google's new AI chatbot provides inaccurate answer in advert

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) just lost 9.0% after its live-streamed event that promoted “Bard” – its artificial intelligence chatbot it hopes will rival ChatGPT. Why are Google shares down?

Google stock loses 9.0% after it's A.I event: buy the dip?

Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks continued to gain traction on Wednesday as investors impressed by the capabilities of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT staked their positions in public companies developing other promising AI technologies. Shares of Guardforce AI Co Limited, an integrated security solutions provider, had added 36% at US$0.46, while Railtown AI Technologies Inc (CSE:RAIL), which uses AI to drive optimization and deliver insights at every stage of software development, gained 30% at C$0.13.

AI stocks soar on ChatGPT's success, Google shares fall 8% as its rival chatbot Bard AI makes error in demo

Reuters reported a Google ad for its AI Bard chatbot service had an inaccurate answer about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Alphabet slides 9% after a report the tech titan's ad for its new Google AI chatbot Bard had inaccurate information

Google's new AI chatbot Bard showed an inaccurate answer to a question about the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope in an online ad.

Whoops: Google's ad for new ChatGPT rival Bard shows the AI chatbot giving an inaccurate answer

Google/Alphabet's relatively weak performance in Q4 is not that big of a deal. Unlike its peers, the company was able to grow its sales Y/Y in a challenging environment which gives reasons to be optimistic about its long-term performance.

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