ChatGPT rival Bard and looming event from OpenAI backer Microsoft swing Alphabet stock as artificial intelligence race heats up

Tech Insider
google headquarters
Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California.

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

YouTube Music contractors staged protests in Texas over a return-to-office policy

Tech Insider
Protestors holding signs whilst on a strike outside Google's office
Cognizant contractors, working for YouTube Music, on strike outside Google's office in Austin, Texas.

SUZANNE CORDEIRO/ Getty Images

China's people shortage is a grim omen for the rest of the world

Tech Insider : Economy

Hi, I'm Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. An announcement: This newsletter will look a bit different next week. We're merging with our daily Insider Today newsletter, so we'll be known as the Insider Today: Sunday Edition moving forward.

Mass layoff exit packages at Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet will collectively cost the tech giants up to $4.7 billion

Tech Insider
The biggest tech stocks have lost $300 billion in value this past week.
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet posted earnings this week.

Rachel Mendelson/Insider

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says users will be able to interact directly with AI features in its search engine 'very soon'

Tech Insider
Sundar Pichai wears a grey jacket over a white t-shirt and smiles on stage.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Justin Sullivan via Getty Images

YouTube Shorts surpassed 50 billion daily views, a bright spot for Alphabet as it faces fierce competition from TikTok and declining ad revenue

Tech Insider
Hand holding phone with YouTube shorts logo and money flying around 2x1
YouTube Shorts logo.

YouTube; Rachel Mendelson/Insider

Google will bring generative AI to Gmail. It's trying to stem the threat of the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance.

Tech Insider
Google Gmail
Gmail will get some AI functionality, Google parent company Alphabet said Thursday.

Igor Golovniov/Getty Images

Google is on the tech cost-cutting bandwagon. Its CFO just flagged more cuts could come.

Tech Insider
A man walks through Google offices on January 25, 2023 in New York City.
Google parent Alphabet warns that more cuts are coming in its four-quarter earnings report.

Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress

Google is making a change to its earnings report next quarter that shows just how important AI has become

Tech Insider
CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022.
CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022.

Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Mark Zuckerberg just ushered in a new era of tech, where profitability and efficiency trump perks and culture

Tech Insider
Zuck F8
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said 2023 will be the "year of efficiency."

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Subscribe to alphabet