- Google parent Alphabet has pared back large positions in multiple publicly traded firms.
- The company sold off more than 4.3 million shares of the trading platform.
- Alphabet still held about 612,000 shares of Robinhood as of June 30.
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- Google said full-time employees can book a room at an on-campus hotel in Mountain View for $99 a night in what it’s deeming a “Summer Special.”
- “Just imagine no commute to the office in the morning and instead, you could have an extra hour of sleep and less friction,” the description reads.
- The company has been cracking down on office attendance in recent weeks.
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- Google is enlisting employees for a pilot program to work without internet access.
- The search giant, which is undergoing a companywide rollout of AI tools, says its employees are a frequent target of attacks.
- The company originally selected 2,500 employees to participate but then opened it up to volunteers. It will also allow select employees to opt out.
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- Last month, Adalytics suggested that Google broke its own rules on video ads by placing ads in small, muted video players on sites and letting them play on repeat.
- Google now claims Adalytics used faulty methodology, citing third-party data showing video ads mostly run on YouTube, as promised, and not outside sites.
- It also claims the report “ignores or is unaware” that even if an ad is shown on another site, that doesn’t mean the advertiser was charged for it.
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- Google said the chatbot now includes 40 languages and will include audio responses.
- The improvements come as Google tries to stay ahead of rapidly improving competition from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Anthropic, and others in the white-hot generative AI space.
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