The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

The parent of Google reported better-than-expected Q2 results. Revenue rose 4% to $96.4 billion and EPS climbed 22% to $2.31 per share. As the demand for its cloud products and services rises, Alphabet said it will invest about $85 billion this year,

Alphabet shares rose more than 3% in early trading on Thursday as the Google parent's earnings underscored a key message to investors: AI spending is climbing, but so are the returns.

Google parent company Alphabet’s strong Q2 2025 results were driven by double-digit growth in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AI infrastructure, and generative AI offerings, according to the company’s executives.

Enterprises in Asia Pacific are adopting Google Cloud solutions to remain competitive by modernizing complex IT infrastructure and making better use of data, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group ( ISG) (Nasdaq: III ), a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm.

Collaboration between government and industry has made Singapore a competitive player in AI—and a "digital Switzerland" in the superpower rivalry.

This will especially help developers build for regulated industries like healthcare, banking and finance, and for the public sector, where data residency and low-latency processing are critical,” the company added.

Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, says this approach to AI robotics could make robots more reliable in challenging situations. This is also the first version of Google's robotics model that developers can tune for their specific uses.

Generative AI Leader certification Last week, Google Cloud announced a "first-of-its-kind" generative AI certification geared toward non-technical learners, such as managers and business leaders ...