Julia Love

Alphabet’s third-quarter sales fell short of estimates as its AI search tool brought in less ad revenue. Google Cloud sales beat expectations, but the company faces rising costs to build AI infrastructure.

Alphabet shares plunged more than 13%, wiping out $511 billion in market value after search and advertising sales missed forecasts, intensifying concerns that AI is weakening Google’s core business.

Alphabet Inc.'s shares fell more than 13%, erasing more than $500 billion in its biggest-ever market plunge, after the company reported disappointing

The Google parent reported sales, excluding partner payouts, of $111.2 billion for the third quarter, falling short of analysts' projections.

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The core businesses of America’s technology giants — the advertising, consumer and retail machines propping up a collective $750 billion in AI spending this year — are starting to show signs of slowing. In some cases, they’re being cannibalized by the very technology the firms are betting the house on.

Investors fled the stock this week, sending shares down 13%.

(Bloomberg) -- Parents in North Carolina sued Google after their 13-year-old daughter spent months discussing suicidal thoughts with the company's

Parents in North Carolina sued Google after their 13-year-old daughter spent months discussing suicidal thoughts with the company’s artificial intelligence tools on her school-issued Chromebook, underscoring the potential risks of the technology as parents and educators debate AI’s place in schools.

A US Senator on Monday asked Alphabet Inc. to let schools block artificial intelligence without losing access to Google search, adding to mounting concern about how the tech giant has brought AI to schoolchildren.