Market news

Detailed price information for Alphabet Cl C (GOOG-Q) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

META's Muse is reshaping the agentic AI race with massive distribution, user data and a free offering.

Business is stronger than I anticipated for Alphabet.

Alphabet remains well positioned in the agentic AI race, leveraging its ecosystem, infrastructure, and diversified revenue streams. Click for this GOOGL update.

Alphabet is well-positioned in AI due to its existing customer base, but current valuation leaves little room for upside. Click to read more on GOOG.

Okta (NasdaqGS:OKTA) partner Aembit announced support for Okta's Cross App Access protocol to manage enterprise AI agent access. The XAA integration is intended to streamline authorization and oversight for automated agent workflows used by corporate customers. Aembit also revealed that Helen Riley, an executive at Alphabet's X, is joining its board of directors. The XAA integration and Helen Riley's board role are only part of the broader story around Okta's identity platform. We have also...

Motley Fool Press Release.

Alphabet turns about 42 cents of every sales dollar into operating cash, yet only about 12 cents is left as free cash flow. That's less than any of its big-tech peers except Amazon, and lower vs its own three-year average. The gap is capital spending, mostly on AI. Even so, Alphabet (GOOGL) stock returned 40% over the past twelve months, against 17.7% for the S&P 500. The price appears to assume that the spending will pay for itself. With Google Cloud growing fast, that looks reasonable. But man

Will hyperscalers' massive AI spending pay off for them?

Alphabet shares are dipping Tuesday. Investors weigh reports of Google's challenge to two EU orders on AI access and search data sharing.

The litigation protects platform control while prolonging uncertainty over rival access to Android and search data.

Will hyperscalers' massive AI spending pay off for them?

Bank of America just flagged a Meta shopping agent that could quietly drain the most profitable part of Apple's business, and the gap between Apple's stock drop and the broader tech market suggests investors are taking the warning seriously.

Alphabet is running multiple growth engines at once, from a cloud business expanding at breakneck speed to an AI platform already reaching nearly a billion users, yet the stock still trades at a discount to slower-growing rivals. The real question is whether record capital spending buries those gains before they materialize.

Alphabet Buy rating: AI-driven ads and a cost-advantaged TPU cloud strategy could drive 25% upside by 2027. Click for more on GOOG stock.

A dual-industry leader and a foundational artificial intelligence (AI) hardware company are among the top holdings of at least five billionaire investors each.

(Updates with statements from Google and the European Commission throughout) Alphabet's (GOOG, GO

Google Cloud's accelerating growth, Gemini adoption, and $514B backlog provide substantial AI-driven revenue visibility for Alphabet. Read why GOOGL stock is a Buy.

Detailed price information for Berkshire Hathaway Cl B (BRK-B-N) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

The legendary investor and his successor have transitioned Berkshire Hathaway's public equities portfolio toward a willingness to bet on tech companies.

Alphabet's AI-led cycle is strengthening Search, Cloud and subscriptions, while rising investment and regulatory risks create uncertainty around returns.

Alphabet's management has changed what it talks about on its earnings calls. In April 2024, managing its own cost base was a major strategic focus. By July 2026, spending on AI infrastructure had taken center stage. Management plans 2026 capital spending of $195 billion to $205 billion. The plan exceeds the $185.7 billion of cash its operations made over the past year. How did Alphabet shift so rapidly from cost discipline to record-breaking capital spending.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Google has been hit with another major European regulatory penalty, this time over how it historically processed users’ location data. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the lead EU privacy regulator for many of the largest U.S. technology companies, fined Google €403 million ($463 million) after finding that the company infringed the European […]

Analysts raised targets for Vertex and Okta, while cutting targets for McDonald’s, AutoZone, Vaxcyte and Camping World.

Warnings about artificial intelligence don’t get much more extreme than this. Bilal Chughtai, a former Google DeepMind research engineer who worked on AGI safety and alignment research, said he believes AI has the potential to “kill us all” and that time may be running out to prevent such an outcome. For Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), the […]

This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities. Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner. Traders will

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares are slipping Monday. A new research paper from AI industry leaders calls for greater regulatory oversight of AI research automation. Here's what you should know.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has outperformed the market over the past 15 years by 10.98% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 24.62%. Currently, Alphabet has a market capitalization of $4.17

Oracle shares fell after ShinyHunters renewed PeopleSoft attacks, hitting dozens of global organizations despite firewall defenses.

Detailed price information for Nvidia Corp (NVDA-Q) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

Nvidia, Micron and Alphabet headline a broad-based Q3 earnings outlook, while Oracle and Adobe kick off the season with early results.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is approaching another important milestone in its artificial intelligence push. On September 23, Google DeepMind division head Koray Kavukcuoglu confirmed that the company is nearing the launch of Gemini 4. The new model is expected to feature more advanced artificial intelligence capabilities as the company seeks to strengthen its position in an […]

Don't assume the conglomerate's Alphabet stake is "Apple 2.0"

Key Stats for GOOGL StockPast week performance: -3. 1%52-week range: $236 to $409Valuation model target price: $504Implied upside: 46.

Nvidia and Alphabet are two of the largest players in the AI race.

Nine of the past 10 times this happened, the stock was up a year later. Is this one different?

The best-performing Magnificent Seven stocks are AI leaders.

The "Magnificent" description makes sense given what these tickers were doing at the time. As the old adage goes, though, nothing lasts forever.

On September 18, 2026, Reuters reported that Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Gemini model autonomously hacked into three companies during a May 2026 cybersecurity test conducted by independent evaluator Irregular. It is the first known instance of Google’s AI systems committing such an act on its own. Gemini found public information online and guessed or discovered credentials […]

On September 18, 2026, Reuters reported that Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Waymo will launch an autonomous, all-electric ride-hailing service in Singapore by 2028. It marks the company’s first entry into Southeast Asia. An initial fleet of Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will arrive in the coming months, with trained specialists conducting manual driving through 2027 to train the […]

That massive backlog offers meaningful revenue visibility as demand continues to heat up for Google Cloud's AI solutions and infrastructure.

GOOGL's Gemini scale, expanding AI monetization and strong Search and Cloud growth give it an edge over AAPL in consumer AI.

Oppenheimer just raised its Microsoft target and investors are cheering, but the company's dramatic Copilot overhaul trades predictable subscription revenue for a usage meter that rises and falls with customer behavior. Whether that bet pays off depends on a question Microsoft has not yet answered.

It's too good a value to pass up on right now.