@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet gives Sundar Pichai a new three-year pay deal worth up to $692M, with stock incentives worth as much as $350M linked to the growth of Waymo and Wing (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1d3fa4f9-ec94-49ff-b22f-bd69b92be8ce
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
@ginevra@hachyderm.ioI've been learning Persian/Farsi for the last couple of months. (I know, what timing!)
I'm still stuck in alphabet recognition drills, but I'm happy to take my time. I'm also amused by the number of French words I recognise.
What I didn't realise is I'll one day be able to understand Dari and also read things from Afghanistan!
#LanguageLearning
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukThis graffiti recently turned up near where I live, and I'm wondering if anyone can read it, or at least identify the language. Its not Arabic, Hebrew or Cyrillic. The alphabet appears related to Latin.
Its possible that this is just an unusually ornate tag, but it consists of 4 words, and it looks like they are repeated A-B, B-A, which suggests that it has a meaning beyond just identity, possibly a political slogan?
Please boost for reach.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated "other income" totaling $53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; $49B was due to equity stakes in private companies (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/be97df0a-76b1-4cb0-9ba4-d1117d8d1450
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its lowest full-year level since 2014 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b3dfaba9-17a2-4fac-90fe-4ab3ca7c9494
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-talks-blackstone-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/the-history-and-future-of-ai-at-google
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAlphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q1-2026-ad-revenu…
@cdarwin@c.imAlphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond,
stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year.
The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with the matter.
Alphabet was also selling $20 billion of dollar bonds on Monday
and lining up a Swiss franc bond sale, the people said.
The dollar portion of the deal was…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/alphabet-kicks-off-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDonnerstag: Googles KI-Suche als Umsatztreiber, Speicherkrise belastet Microsoft
Cloud-Wachstum bei Alphabet & Microsoft Anlagebetrug mit Deepfakes Banken-Mitschuld nach Phishing Nazi-Ermittlungen als bestes Computerspiel #heiseshow
@shriramk@mastodon.socialWTF, NATO, it's a *phonetic* alphabet!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/alphabet-meta-stock-ai-capex-spend.html
@paulwermer@sfba.socialSperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialSperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $109.9B, vs. $107.2B est., Google Cloud revenue up 63% to $20B, vs. $18.05B est., net income up 81% to $62.58B (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/alphabet-googl-q1-2026-earnings.html
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deI am late to the party, but up to now I just thought: well, search is getting worse all over the place, and at least since Google became Alphabet it is only about the money. But “The men who killed Google”¹ explains how this was deliberate, how driven by (short-term) shareholder value increase they actively made search worse. Ant that there was an internal fight – and now Google is far away from “don't be evil”.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet updates its 2026 capital expenditure guidance range to $180B to $190B, up from $175B to $185B, and expects capex to "significantly increase" in 2027 (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/alphabet-googl-q1-2026-earnings.html
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Blackalicious:
🎵 Alphabet Aerobics
#Blackalicious
https://releases.antiquiet.com/track/alphabet-aerobics
https://open.spotify.com/track/4z5L0qDduw3w1apQ4Qa6KV
@inthehands@hachyderm.io“The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Chef’s kiss.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/alphabet-selling-very-rare-100-year-bunds-to-help-fund-ai-investment/?comments=1&post=44240974
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialTech-Riesen wie Meta und Alphabet bauen bewusst „Dark Patterns“ in ihre Dienste — psychologisches Design, das Nutzer:innen süchtig macht und Daten absaugt. Das ist kein harmloses UX-Feature, sondern ein Geschäftsmodell auf Kosten unserer Selbstbestimmung. #ZDFheute
#DarkPatterns
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAs soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds"
#Whales #SpermWhales #Animals
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/alphabet-owned-r…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Weg von Google und Paypal — EU will digital unabhängiger werden:
Die gängigen digitalen Dienstleistungen kommen in der Regel von US-amerikanischen Big-Tech-Unternehmen wie Alphabet oder Meta. Unter Trump ist das ein Problem»
Ich wohne nicht in der EU und deswegen wird dies wahrscheinlich in meiner Umgebung nicht so schnell von den US-Konzerne lösen. BigTechs haben auch Standorte in der CH.
🔊
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The code points represent every letter of the US alphabet when fed to computers, but their output is completely invisible to humans. People reviewing code or using static analysis tools see only whitespace or blank lines. To a #JavaScript interpreter, the code points translate into executable code."
Sigh.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaLike trying to understand a language by studying its alphabet, our increasingly precise measurements of music's neural architecture may capture its grammar, but they still miss how such experience emerges from form.
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe A To Z Of Regional Footy Clubs Podcast
The podcast will take us from footy club to footy club as we work our way through the alphabet...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-a-to-z-of-regional-footy-clubs/
@heiseonline@social.heise.deWaymo: Expansionspläne erhalten Dämpfer in New York
Der US-Bundesstaat New York gibt die Pläne zur Legalisierung von Roboter-Taxis auf. Das ist ein herber Rückschlag, vor allem für die Alphabet-Tochter Waymo.
https://w…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@arXiv_nlinPS_bot@mastoxiv.pageTowards the complete description of stationary states of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice: A coding approach
G. L. Alfimov, A. P. Fedotov, Ya. A. Murenkov, D. A. Zezyulin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17172 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.17172 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.17172
arXiv:2602.17172v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider stationary states of an effectively one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate in a quasiperiodic lattice. We formulate sufficient conditions for a one-to-one correspondence between the stationary states with a fixed chemical potential and the set of bi-infinite sequences over a finite alphabet. These conditions can be checked numerically. A bi-infinite sequence can be interpreted as a code of the corresponding solution. A numerical example demonstrates the coding approach using an alphabet of three symbols.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialVerily raised $300M led by Series X Capital, giving it ~2 years of runway per a source; Alphabet remains an investor but no longer has a controlling stake (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/03/19/alphabet-sells-majority-sta…
@life_is@no-pony.farm@why_not@mastodon.social ich finde die vorstellung, dass, sagen wir 33,34% der Bevölkerung [Deutschlands|EU|Europas|des Westens|der Industrienationen|der demokratidchen Staaten|des globalen Nordens] bereit sein könnte wegen was-auch-immer Alphabet, Amazon und Microsoft zu boykottieren bizarr. Teilweise unmöglich. Alphabet bietet DNS 8.8.8.8 und 8.8.4.4 und das pandemie-traceing-network an. https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116034466199737167
@Life_is@no-pony.farm@why_not@mastodon.social ich finde die vorstellung, dass, sagen wir 33,34% der Bevölkerung [Deutschlands|EU|Europas|des Westens|der Industrienationen|der demokratidchen Staaten|des globalen Nordens] bereit sein könnte wegen was-auch-immer Alphabet, Amazon und Microsoft zu boykottieren bizarr. Teilweise unmöglich. Alphabet bietet DNS 8.8.8.8 und 8.8.4.4 und das pandemie-traceing-network an. https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116034466199737167
@galaxydinodragon@social.linux.pizzaAnyone made the phonetic alphabet but out of space missions haha? Sounds like a fun afternoon
#space
@cdarwin@c.imSergey Brin, a Google founder,
has more than doubled his financial contribution to the fight against a proposed wealth tax in California.
New filings with the state show that former Alphabet president Sergey Brin donated $25m to a Super Pac dedicated to blocking the tax
-- on top of $20m he had already given.
Brin is not alone among Google’s top brass in upping his financial stake in the campaign against the ballot proposal.
The company’s former CEO
Eric …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q1-2026-ad-revenu…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Prince:
🎵 Alphabet St.
#Prince
https://open.spotify.com/track/0kPFRDvfZbNYdyfDspF2bO
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDie #Grünen fordern eine wirksame #Digitalsteuer für US-#Techkonzerne.
Laut Angaben zahlen Unternehmen wie #Alphabet,
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record $130B in Q1 and is projected to reach $725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/6b9bc764-dc68-4f…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Alphabet aims to raise ~$15B from a US high-grade dollar bond sale, as it seeks to finance $185B in 2026 capex; Alphabet raised $17.5B in November 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/google-p…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Alphabet has attracted more than $100B of orders for a bond sale that's expected to be about $15B (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/alphabet-s-dollar-bond-sale-draws-over-1…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet raised $20B in its biggest ever US dollar bond sale, more than the $15B initially expected, after drawing more than $100B of orders (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/google-parent-alphabet-kicks…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/alph
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTech stocks suffer their worst week in almost a year, driven by the Iran war and Meta's legal defeats; Meta fell 11%, Alphabet fell ~9%, and Microsoft fell ~7% (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/27/tech-stocks-iran-war-meta-verdict.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet raised almost $32B in debt in less than 24 hours; it sold sterling- and Swiss franc-denominated offerings following Monday's $20B dollar debt sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialNew York pulls a proposal that would have allowed for robotaxi services outside NYC, a setback for Waymo, which wants to hit 1M paid weekly US rides by 2026 end (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth $100B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Alphabet plans to sell a rare 100-year sterling bond, as it steps up borrowing to fund its capex growth; IBM sold a 100-year bond back in 1996 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3260bc45-e09e-45a7-ae30-e55effbaf29b
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Prince:
🎵 Alphabet Street
#Prince
https://open.spotify.com/track/0kPFRDvfZbNYdyfDspF2bO
