Alphabet Stock News

A Spanish consumer rights association on Friday said it had launched preliminary legal action against Google for allegedly collecting sensitive personal data and violating their right to privacy.

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Alphabet's ability to grow earnings at a double-digit pace will drive the share price higher over time. Management is focused on leveraging AI capabilities to support customers and users, which will help increase ad sales.

Alphabet's odds on Polymarket of being the world's largest company at the end of next year are nearly neck-and-neck with Nvidia's.

Some 20% of Google's software AI engineer hires this year were so-called boomerang employees, an increase from prior years. Google is engaged in a war for AI talent with companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.

Google's Veo and Nano Banana and OpenAI's Sora are tough competition.

Palo Alto Networks will migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement. The agreement is an expansion of the companies' existing strategic partnership.

Alphabet's cloud computing unit and cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks on Friday announced an expanded partnership that one source told Reuters was by far Google Cloud's largest security services deal.