The Latest Breaking News from Alphabet

Tech giants are pivoting to a 'Year of Efficiency'

The year ahead will be all about refocusing on priorities for tech giants.

Fortune · Feb 3, 2023

Google poised to release chatbot technology after ChatGPT success

Alphabet CEO says company well positioned in AI field, as analysts say ChatGPT has reached 100m users

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2023

Tech earnings reveal a powerful industry taking some licks

A new generation of tech workers and investors is seeing its first slowdown.

Axios · Feb 3, 2023

Google shares slip after sales miss as advertising demand slows

Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported fourth-quarter results that narrowly missed analysts’ expectations, signaling lower demand for its search advertising during a slowing economy.

Tribune News Service · Feb 2, 2023

Brian Merchant: How Big Tech is using mass layoffs to bring workers to heel

In Silicon Valley, the new year began as the last one ended — with tens of thousands of tech workers losing their jobs. Just a few days into 2023, Amazon Chief Executive Andrew Jassy announced that there would be 18,000 layoffs across the company. Within weeks, Microsoft revealed it was…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 1, 2023

A Google worker on maternity leave says she found out she’d been laid off while she was up feeding her newborn at 4:30 a.m.

Google parent company Alphabet recently announced it would be laying off around 12,000 people.

Fortune · Jan 31, 2023

Why has Alphabet hit the panic button? Only Google can answer that question

The economic downturn, US lawsuits and the fear of rising tech rivals could be reasons for the firm’s 'code red” alert, but it still has an AI ace up its sleeve

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2023

'There was no humanity': The cruelty of tech layoffs leaves employees emotionally devastated

In an industry that thrives on cold efficiency, a little humanity can go a long way.

Fortune · Jan 27, 2023

Editorial: We’re feeling lucky: Google antitrust lawsuit can set precedent for tech monopolies

It’s not every day that the federal government and states as varied as Tennessee and New York find themselves on the same side of a legal dispute, but these were joined by New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, California, Rhode Island and Connecticut yesterday in filing suit against Google parent company Alphabet…

Tribune News Service · Jan 26, 2023

The government is ganging up on Google. Why it might finally win this time

Federal and state officials from both sides of the aisle are taking aim at the Alphabet unit’s power over the ad market.

Fortune · Jan 25, 2023