Google’s parent company, Alphabet, earned more than $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time. The company announced the milestone as part of its Q4 2025 earnings report released Wednesday, which highlighted a 15 percent year-over-year increase as its cloud business and YouTube continue to grow. As noted in the earnings report, Google’s cloud … Read more
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing Google for more information about its plans to build a checkout function into its Gemini AI chatbot. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Warren expresses concerns that the integration could allow Google and retailers to “exploit sensitive user data” or “manipulate consumers into spending more and paying … Read more
On Tuesday, the Justice Department and plaintiffs in the antitrust case against Google filed cross-appeals, the DOJ’s antitrust division announced in a post on Just a few weeks ago, Google itself filed an appeal seeking a stay of remedies ordered last year by DC District Court Judge Amit Mehta. These remedies included requiring Google to … Read more