The Latest Breaking News from Alphabet

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares closed at $306.36 on March 2, 2026, down 1.63% or $5.07 from the prior session, reflecting broader market pressure from escalating Middle East conflict and investor caution over the company's aggressive capital expenditure plans for artificial intelligence infrastructure.

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Alphabet entered 2026 with AI at the center of its growth strategy, driving performance across Search and Cloud businesses.

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Beyond Search and Cloud, Alphabet’s 14% stake in Anthropic provides both equity upside and infrastructure revenue exposure tied to the rise of Claude.

Michael Burry has claimed that major US tech firms are using accounting tricks to conceal AI infrastructure costs and are 'understating depreciation' to protect their bottom lines.

“The accounting liability is unlikely to reflect certain plausible future scenarios,” Moody’s said of Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Oracle, and Microsoft.

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, saw its shares close at $311.69 on Monday, February 23, 2026, down 1.02% from the previous session but remaining resilient in a volatile tech sector.

March S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESH26) are down -0.48%, and March Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQH26) are down -0.65% this morning, pointing to a lower open on Wall Street as heightened uncertainty about U.S. trade policy dampened sentiment.