Alphabet (Google)

Meta signs multi-billion-dollar deal to rent Google AI chips: report

The Facebook owner has also signed a deal with Nvidia to buy its current and future AI chips

The ratepayer protection pledge marks the latest step in Trump’s push to address a significant political challenge, mounting electricity prices, before the November midterm elections.

Trump summons Amazon, Google, Meta to sign power-cost pledge

Analysts say major tech firms behind the AI data centre boom are happy to pay more for the power they need

Google and unnamed partners terminated Google Cloud projects controlled by the hacking group, and identified and disabled the Internet infrastructure it was using.

Google disrupts Chinese-linked hackers that attacked 53 groups globally

The group has a nearly decade-long history of penetrating government bodies and telcos

Last month, Anthropic’s release of a legal plug-in ignited an US$830 billion global sell-off in software and services stocks.

Anthropic touts new AI tools weeks after legal plug-in spurred market rout

The new plug-ins target investment banking, HR and engineering tasks

The Sea-Google partnership builds on Sea's existing tie-ups with Google, such as the YouTube Shopping Affiliate Programme with Shopee, which runs in all its markets in South-east Asia, Taiwan and Brazil.

Sea and Google ink partnership to develop AI-powered tools

This involves all three of Sea’s business units – Garena, Shopee and Monee

Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica more than tripled sales of its Meta AI glasses in 2025, selling more than seven million units.
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On Feb 9, Google parent Alphabet raised US$20 billion in a seven-part US dollar debt sale, exceeding earlier expectations of a US$15 billion deal.

Alphabet seeks US$9.4 billion from sterling, Swiss franc bond sales

This is because its capex may reach US$185 billion in 2026 to finance its ambitions in artificial intelligence

The Google parent is set to raise US$20 billion from a US dollar bond offering on Monday.

Alphabet embarks on global bond spree to fund record spending

Other big tech companies are ramping up their spending too

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