A man walks through Google offices on January 25, 2023 in New York City.
Alphabet's stock has pushed higher since 2023 kicked off.
  • Google's parent company Alphabet is slated to report fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. 
  • Analysts will likely fire off competition questions about the buzzy ChatGPT tool alongside those about the company's traditional search business. 
  • Alphabet's report arrives after the company announced layoffs of 12,000 employees. 

From massive layoffs to competition prospects from the buzzy ChatGPT bot, Wall Street has questions for Alphabet about these issues when the tech heavyweight rolls out its latest quarterly earnings report Thursday.