People aren’t demanding AI features in their phones just yet, says Sheng Win Chow, an analyst at Canalys, which tracks smartphone sales. But Google is betting they soon will. The race continues and for now, Apple has a lot of catching up to do.

Alphabet unit Google said on Tuesday it will make it easier for app developers to steer customers to channels other than Google after the European Union competition watchdog charged it with breaching EU regulations.

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Google parent Alphabet is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday, with investors anticipating a sizable shift in the tech giant's share price.

Alphabet beat Q2 expectations with strong ad and cloud revenue, but stayed silent on crypto. Despite backing Web3 infrastructure, Google still holds no Bitcoin or digital assets.

A judge will soon decide if Google must sell Chrome to remedy its antitrust case. Competitors like Perplexity have already expressed interest.

Google parent Alphabet is scheduled to report second-quarter results after the closing bell Wednesday, with analysts largely bullish but cautiously eyeing a key antitrust ruling expected next month.

Google's move under the Alphabet umbrella won't affect traders. Google shares will convert into Alphabet shares, though they will continue to trade on NASDAQ as GOOGL and GOOG.

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, said Friday that it will cut about 12,000 jobs from its global workforce, affecting approximately 6% of the company's employees, ABC News reported.

Alphabet unit Google said on Tuesday it will make it easier for app developers to steer customers to channels other than Google after the European Union competition watchdog charged it with breaching EU regulations.

Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing (HPC) firm TeraWulf (Nasdaq: WULF) announced on Aug. 18 that Google, an Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL) unit, has increased its investment in the firm to approximately $3.2 billion in return for 32.5 million WULF shares. The latest deal raised the tech giant's ownership in TeraWulf to around 14%.