Alphabet Inc.’s Google is redesigning its iconic search box and adding new artificial intelligence coding tools, the latest steps in the company’s multibillion-dollar campaign to expand influence in the age of AI.
Sundar Pichai speaks during the 2026 Google I/O technology developer conference in Mountain View, California, on May 19. Photographer: KARL MONDON/AFP
In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has an enviable position: The company has a healthy cloud computing business, makes its own chips, and has struck deals to share them with companies like Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc.
Alphabet Inc. shares soared 10% to a record after the company reported strong demand for its cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, signaling that unprecedented investments in AI infrastructure are paying off.
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Hundreds of AI researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have signed onto a letter urging Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to refuse to make the company’s artificial intelligence systems available for classified workloads for US defense missions, according to organizers of the effort.
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during a visit to the Google for Startups campus in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. The EU has established a reputation globally for its aggressive regulation of major technology companies, including the likes of Apple and Google over antitrust concerns.
Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between two companies that are at once partners and rivals in the race to build artificial intelligence.
A Google logo at a data center exhibition in Hanau, Germany.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google unveiled a slew of tools to build AI agents aimed at helping companies automate tasks in the tech giant’s latest attempt to take on OpenAI and Anthropic PBC in the burgeoning market.
At Google, leaders are anxious about falling behind in the race to offer AI coding tools, especially as rivals like Anthropic PBC offer more effective and popular tools to businesses, according to people familiar with the matter. The search giant is now working to unite some of its coding initiatives under one banner to speed progress and take advantage of a surge in customer interest.
NEW DELHI, INDIA - FEBRUARY 18: Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc., addresses a special session at The Leela Palace on February 18, 2026 in New Delhi, India. Speaking on the sidelines of the India-AI Impact Summit, Pichai described AI as the "biggest platform shift of our lifetimes" and declared India a "full-stack player" in the global AI race. He underscored India's unique potential to lead in research, adoption, and governance, comparing the current AI revolution to the transformative "Digital India" movement of the previous decade. (Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite their policies prohibiting such content, according to a report published Wednesday by the Tech Transparency Project.
Close up of hands using smartphone and laptop computer.
Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai believes that the artificial intelligence models at big labs have the intelligence of a 3-year-old kid, at least when it comes to making sense of visual prompts.
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Once at the forefront of the fight against military AI, employees now are on the sidelines
Signage outside the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. Alphabet Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 4. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Alphabet Inc.’s drone delivery company Wing will begin delivering parcels to homes in the San Francisco Bay Area this year, marking its latest expansion in a small but fast-growing market.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is moving ahead with plans for a major data center in Michigan that features a 20-year electricity contract requiring it to cover the full expense of adding a haul of new clean power.
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