Alphabet’s Q1 profit beats expectations with Google’s big AI bets paying off

Strategy CEO Phong Le says Q1 software growth and AI work support the company’s Bitcoin treasury model.

Alphabet's strategic AI advancements and custom chip development could reshape tech industry dynamics, challenging Nvidia's market position. The post Alphabet poised to overtake Nvidia as world’s most valuable company appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error Developers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian. The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres – one 52-hectare (130 acre) project in Thurrock and another at an airfield in North Weald, both in Essex. To do so, developers are required to submit planning documents calculating how much carbon these projects will emit as a proportion of the UK’s total carbon footprint. Continue reading...

Pay.sh shows x402 moving from unauthorized API wrappers toward native integrations, with Google Cloud anchoring Solana's gateway to agentic payments.

Oracle’s abrupt termination of an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 employees via email on March 31 has sparked significant employee pushback over what many regarded as inadequate severance. The company offered four weeks of base pay plus one additional week per year of service, capped at 26 weeks, but crucially did not accelerate unvested stock grants — meaning […]

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner and data center operator TeraWulf reported a hefty net loss in Q1 as its AI revenue took over from BTC.

Google's AI search will start citing its sources in several new ways.

You can stop Chrome from taking up 4GB of storage for local AI, but that shouldn't be your problem.