Big tech stocks have started 2023 on a tear. Now they face a moment of truth.

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Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft will all report their first-quarter earnings this week.

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai earned $226 million last year, making him one of the world's best-paid bosses

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Sundar Pichai became Alphabet CEO in 2019.

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US-China tensions pose big economic risks because the 2 superpowers are more codependent than ever before, former SEC chief Jay Clayton says

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Jay Clayton.

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Here's how Apple could benefit from Samsung's threat to ditch Google on its phones in favor of Microsoft's Bing

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Google recently announced further cutbacks to employee perks, but staff say the company has been pulling back on freebies for years

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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Sundar Pichai says ethicists and philosophers need to be involved in the development of AI to make sure it is moral, and doesn't do things like lie

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CHART: We analyzed Apple's revenue per employee to show how it's avoided tech bloat and delayed layoffs

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Apple CEO Tim Cook.

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Google CEO says he used the company's Bard AI chatbot to plan his father's 80th birthday party

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he sometimes uses Google Bard as a search engine.

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Read the memo Google CFO Ruth Porat sent to staff about new cost-cutting, including paring back worker perks

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Google recently announced it would cut 12,000 jobs earlier this year as part of its cost-cutting measures. CFO Ruth Porat and other company leaders sent a note to employees last week detailing some of the cuts.

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Big tech companies continue cost cutting

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It's Monday, readers. I'm Paayal Zaveri, and welcome to the first week of April.

We're now officially a quarter of the way through the year. That's a good reminder to make sure you plan some vacation time this year. Nearly half of all American workers don't take their PTO, according to the Pew Research Center. 

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