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Google is a multinational technology company specializing in internet-related products and services, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Its core businesses include search, advertising and cloud computing, but it also has divisions in hardware and software development. Sundar Pichai currently serves as CEO. Its primary competitors include other major tech companies such as Amazon, Apple and Facebook. Google is making forays into artificial intelligence with Gemini, its conversational AI that aims to compete with OpenAI.

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China Is Slowly but Surely Breaking Free From Nvidia

By Qianer Liu · Nov 26, 2025 4:00am PST
ByteDance bought more Nvidia chips than any other Chinese company in 2025, according to three people with direct knowledge of its purchases. Racing to secure computing power for its billion-plus users and fearing Washington might suddenly cut off supply, the TikTok parent hoarded its stock of the chips. ByteDance’s fears about a supply crunch... ByteDance bought more Nvidia chips than any other Chinese company in 2025, according to three...
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OpenAI Forecasts Nearly as Many ChatGPT Subscribers as Spotify by 2030

By Sri Muppidi · Nov 25, 2025 4:55pm PST
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its  users—which now number more than 800 million—with the free version of the chatbot and then trying to convince their employers to sign enterprisewide subscriptions, said a... To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used...
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AI Infrastructure

As AI Data Centers Face Delays, the Blame Game Begins

By Anissa Gardizy · Nov 24, 2025 10:11am PST · 1 comment
The mood is shifting in AI data center circles. The euphoria of record-setting, multi-gigawatt deals has given way to finger pointing as deadlines to get AI servers online slip or get dangerously close to falling behind.For months, data center builders have told me many of the gigawatt-size AI server facilities are running behind schedule... The mood is shifting in AI data center circles. The euphoria of record-setting, multi-gigawatt...
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The Briefing

Google’s Meta Talks Put the Ball in Nvidia’s Court

By Martin Peers · Nov 25, 2025 5:00pm PST
We’re getting close to the year’s end, when reporters’ minds turn to predictions for the new year. So here’s one: I predict sometime soon Nvidia will announce it is investing billions of dollars into Meta Platforms, in exchange for Meta committing to continue using Nvidia’s AI chips. This is just a wild guess, to be clear, but it’s based on how... We’re getting close to the year’s end, when reporters’ minds turn to predictions for the new...
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Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push

By Amir Efrati, Erin Woo and Anissa Gardizy · Nov 24, 2025 2:43pm PST · 14 comments
Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business. For years, the search giant has rented its own AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to cloud customers who use them in its Google Cloud data centers. Now, though, Google has begun pitching some of those customers—including Meta... Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip...
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AI Agenda

Why OpenAI Should Worry About Google’s Pretraining Prowess

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Nov 24, 2025 7:00am PST · 2 comments
Google’s breakthrough with Gemini 3, its latest AI model, has lit a fire under OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, who told thousands of his researchers to buckle down and prepare for “rough vibes” and “temporary economic headwinds,” Erin and I reported.What might particularly worry Altman about Google’s latest model is how the tech company got... Google’s breakthrough with Gemini 3, its latest AI model, has lit a fire under OpenAI and its CEO...