Berkshire Hathaway sharply increased its Alphabet stake during its biggest quarter for stock buying in years. Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett as CEO at the turn of the year, oversaw an 83% increase in Berkshire’s Alphabet holdings to about 106 million shares, worth nearly $38 billion at the end of June. Berkshire
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with
Investors don’t appear to be thrilled with the shakeup in the ranks of Alphabet’s top AI minds. The stock dropped as much as 6% on Wednesday after news broke that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will assume an expanded role at Alphabet. It’s a momentous shift for the trajectory of an exec who had recently been
SpaceX has been on a slide since hitting a $2 trillion valuation milestone at its June IPO, shedding close to $500 billion in market cap from its peak. Tuesday was its first-ever earnings report as a publicly listed company and a fresh chance for CEO Elon Musk to hype the stock and turn that frown
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Midway through the 2026 season, the league enters the 22nd edition of the WNBA All-Star Game. The best and brightest players, including Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, Allisha Gray, Olivia Miles, Angel Reese, Breanna Stewart,
Alphabet investors have publicly worried that the company’s huge AI spending isn’t worth it. With the company’s latest earnings report, those investors should be able to relax a bit. The bottom line: Google’s cloud business, driven largely by the adoption of enterprise AI, is booming. The search giant saw Google Cloud revenue increase 82% from