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Alphabet on pace to hit $4 trillion market value as AI gains momentum https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabet-pace-hit-4-trillion-market-value-ai-gains-momentum-2025-11-25/ Alphabet was on track to hit a historic $4 trillion market valuation on Tuesday, powered by an impressive year-long rally fueled by the Google parent's sharpened focus on artificial intelligence tools. Shares of the company (GOOGL.O), opens new tab were up 4.1% at $331.7 in premarket trading, putting the company on course to breach the key milestone at the open.
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Google In Talks To Offer Its AI Chips To Meta; Nvidia, AMD Fall https://www.investors.com/news/technology/google-in-talks-ai-chips-meta-nvidia-amd/ Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) reportedly is in talks with Meta Platforms (META) and others to let them use its Tensor AI chips, expanding its Nvidia (NVDA) rivalry. Google and AI chip partner Broadcom (AVGO) rose late. Nvidia stock and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell. Google has traditionally used its customer tensor processing units (TPUs) to its own data centers, renting them out to customers. But The Information reported late Monday that Google is now offering to sell TPUs for use in customers' own data centers.
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Investors Rally Behind Alphabet Stock as Mark Benioff Endorses Gemini 3 Drivers in recent session have included a strong earnings report, a new bet on the tech giant from Warren Buffett, and the release of the Google parent's newest artificial intelligence model. The shares' runup kept rolling today, leading markets higher, with the stock recently up 6%, setting a record high above $318 earlier in the session, to kick off a holiday-shortened trading week.
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Revolut valued at $75 billion in latest share sale Britain's Revolut said on Monday it had completed a secondary share sale valuing it at $75 billion, a 66% jump from last year and underlining the rapid growth of Europe's most valuable financial technology ‌company.
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After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Found to Unexpectedly Affect The Brain Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works. A recent study suggests it works directly in the brain, which could lead to new types of treatment.
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Google cracked Apple’s AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones Google just announced some unexpected and welcome news: Pixel 10 owners can now send and receive files with Apple devices over AirDrop. And equally interestingly, the company engineered this interoperability without Apple’s involvement. Google says it works with iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices, and applies to the entire Pixel 10 series. While limited to Google’s latest phones for now, Google spokesperson Alex Moriconi says, “We’re bringing this new experience to Pixel 10 first before expanding to other devices.”
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Google’s Nano Banana AI image model goes Pro and is free to try Google just took the wraps off Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), its improved image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro that promises to “turn your visions into studio-quality designs with unprecedented control, flawless text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge.” That’s a step up from those hyperrealistic 3D figurines that caused the original image model to go viral in September, shortly after its launch.
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3 Bash scripting techniques every Linux user should know Have you been thinking about biting the bullet and learning Bash scripting? Or perhaps you're like me, and you're always looking for ways to improve. I have three tips that will improve every Bash script you write.
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Nvidia CEO sees AI transformation while skeptics count the risks https://www.reuters.com/business/tipping-point-or-bubble-nvidia-ceo-sees-ai-transformation-while-skeptics-count-2025-11-20/ Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab CEO Jensen Huang says he does not see an AI bubble, but rather a tipping point. In his view, the kind of computing his company specializes in will come to suffuse everything from writing code to running legions of robots in the everyday world, stoking investor optimism and sending Nvidia shares up nearly 5% in premarket trading on Thursday.
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Asia Morning Briefing: BTC Market Stress Reveals a New Crypto Order Bitcoin's recent slide under $90,000 did not trigger the usual deep correction behavior, indicating a shift from a liquidity-driven to a fundamentals-driven market. Tokens with clear utility, staking, or institutional demand are maintaining their value, while speculative assets face pressure. Asia-Pacific markets showed mixed results, with Japan's Nikkei 225 rising 0.5% despite Wall Street's tech-led declines.
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Kraken raises $200m from Ken Griffin's Citadel to notch $20 billion valuation One of the world’s largest crypto exchanges has raised a huge stash of capital from a blue chip financial titan. The Wyoming-based Kraken secured $200 million in a strategic investment from Citadel Securities, the nearly 25-year-old market maker, a Kraken spokesperson confirmed to Fortune. The investment valued the crypto exchange at $20 billion.
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Bitcoin briefly falls below $90,000 to lowest since April Bitcoin wavered as investors continued to shed their speculative technology holdings with the cryptocurrency first among them. Bitcoin was last trading up 1.6% at $93,236.00, but earlier Tuesday touched $89,259, its lowest since April 22. Bitcoin is up 2% over the past year, according to Coin Metrics.
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Microsoft launches tracker to manage autonomous AI in the workplace In Microsoft's view, humans are not the only ones to manage in a workplace. Artificial intelligence needs a manager, too. The software maker on Tuesday announced Microsoft ‌Agent 365, a program for its customers to track what it expects to be 1.3 billion ‌agents automating office work by 2028. Agents are AI-powered programs that perform tasks on humans' behalf.
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Bears Claw Control: Can Bitcoin Defy The Odds & Bounce To $160K Or Is $69K Next? Well, the hopes and dreams of the bulls have been dashed this week after Bitcoin closed the week out at $94.290, below the key $96,000 weekly support level. In the weeks ahead, we should expect more bearish price action as key support levels have been lost. Bounces back up may come, but they are unlikely to result in recapturing any meaningful price levels.