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In 2026, Google Is Focused on Making AI Actually Useful

Google executive Sameer Samat sees the past year as one of curiosity about AI. This year, he's focused on its utility.

Google Stock Surged 65% In 2025—Can It Continue In 2026?

Valuation expansion was responsible for 82% of the gain—the price-to-sales ratio escalated from 5.7x to 10.3x.

Google's corporate parent joins $4 trillion club as investors continue to bet on AI breakthroughs

Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly ...

Google Chrome Pushes Critical Security Update for 3B Users

Google patched high-severity CVE-2026-0628 in Chrome 143 and added Push API rate limits to curb notification spam, with ...

How brands can respond to misleading Google AI Overviews

AI-driven search can turn forum opinions into 'facts.' Here's your emerging ORM playbook for monitoring, response, and AI ...

Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot

Google said Sunday that it is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair ...

Google parent company Alphabet tops $4 trillion value

Alphabet, Google's parent company, became the fourth company to reach a $4 trillion value Monday after Apple said it will use ...

Google defends AI search summaries in Rolling Stone publisher's lawsuit

Google has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the publisher of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety magazines that ...

Google Chrome 143 Security Bypass — 3 Billion Users At Risk

This Google Chrome vulnerability could leave your apps exposed to attack. You have been warned. Update your browser now.

Google’s update for Veo 3.1 lets users create vertical videos through reference images

When you provide reference images, Veo 3.1 now generates videos with better character expressions and movements, even if your ...