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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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Major Alphabet investor TCI sent a letter to Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday urging the company to cut costs.

A top investor is now taking aim at Alphabet, saying it has too many employees, pays them too much, and it's burning money on bad bets.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) needs to get “aggressive” in cutting costs and maximising shareholder value, said TCI Fund Management on Tuesday in a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Activist investor pushes for cost cuts at Alphabet Inc

TCI Fund Management sends letter to Alphabet, saying the parent of Google needs to cut costs.

Alphabet Must Take Action to Cut Costs, Activist Says

Hedge fund owned by Christopher Hohn urges Alphabet to emulate cost-cutting measures of Silicon Valley rivals

Major investor calls on Google owner to ‘aggressively' cut staff and pay

Google parent Alphabet must cut both headcount and salary expenses, activist investor TCI Fund Management wrote in a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Alphabet must cut headcount and trim costs, activist investor TCI says

Alphabet and others have made large profits while buying back billions of dollars in shares in recent years as interest rates remained low in the developed world.

Activist investor TCI calls on Google parent Alphabet to slash costs

YouTube is adding shopping features to Shorts, its TikTok-like short-form video product, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday. The new shopping features allow users to purchase products as they scroll through Shorts.

YouTube Shorts begins testing shopping features and affiliate marketing

In a Tuesday letter, U.K. billionaire and Alphabet investor Chris Hohn urged the Google parent's CEO to "take aggressive action" to cut costs as he criticized the firm's headcount for being too high.

Billionaire Hedge Fund Investor Urges Alphabet To Cut Costs: 'No Justification' For Salaries That Are 'Too High'

Google parent Alphabet Inc. must “take aggressive action” to cut costs, according to an activist investor.

Google must ‘take aggressive action' to slash expenses, activist investor says

TCI Fund Management sends letter to Alphabet, saying the parent of Google needs to cut costs, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Alphabet Has Too Many Employees and Must Take 'Aggressive Action' to Cut Costs, Activist Says

British activist TCI Fund Management said on Tuesday that the cost base of Alphabet Inc is "too high" and the company's management needs to take action.

Hedge Fund TCI says Alphabet cost base 'too high'

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The tech stock is trading at a discount to the market.

Alphabet's Stock Has Reached a Once-in-a-Decade Buying Opportunity

This venture will empower a new vision for care delivery.

Google Cloud Is Launching Accelerators To Improve Health Equity, Efficiency, and Care Value

Google has agreed to a record $391.5 million settlement with 40 states for allegedly misleading consumers over its location tracking practices, a coalition of attorneys general announced Monday.

Google agrees to $392 million settlement with 40 states over location tracking practices

Google will make its largest-ever privacy payout after agreeing to hand over US$391.5mln to 40 US states to settle an action around location tracking. An investigation was launched after the US news service Associated Press found search giant, owned by Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), continued to track location data even after browser users disabled the location history function.

Google to pay US$392mln as part of largest-ever privacy settlement

Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorney generals announced on Monday. The states' investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people's location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called “location history.

Google agrees $392M privacy settlement with 40 states

It's the largest multi-state consumer privacy settlement ever.

Google Pays $391 Million To Settle Location-Tracking Lawsuits

The case is a historic win for consumers and the largest multi-state payout in US history dealing with privacy

Google to pay $391.5m settlement to 40 states for tracking users' locations

The $391.5 million settlement marks an end to a four-year investigation into allegations of misleading data collection practices.

Google will pay $391.5 million to a settle a lawsuit on accusations of misleading users on its location-tracking practices

Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 state attorneys general over its location tracking practices. The settlement outlines that Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking even as the company continued to collect their location information.

Google to pay $391.5 million in location-tracking settlement with 40 states

Google agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states over location tracking, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Monday.

Google settles with 40 states over location tracking practices

Google will change its location tracking disclosures in 2023.

Google Agrees to $391.5 Million Privacy Settlement With State AGs

Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday, calling it the largest multistate privacy settlement in U.S history.

40 states settle Google location-tracking charges for $392M

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