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Alphabet

American international technology company

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent holding company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries.

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  • WikipediaSep 28, 2026

    “Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California.”

Named in 5 pieces

  1. Hiring & Talent

    The Signal Brief: Forty Founders and a Frontier Kill Switch

    Google DeepMind's own alumni have founded more startups than OpenAI, Anthropic or Meta, Gavin Newsom ordered frontier labs toward a kill switch, and Microsoft's stock jumped on a Copilot that finally writes code.

    Sep 26, 2026
  2. Hiring & Talent

    Forty Founders: How DeepMind Built the Rival It Fears

    Google DeepMind has produced more startup founders than any rival lab, and four of the newest ventures are raising billions to prospect for the technology that replaces the transformer it still sells.

    Sep 26, 2026
  3. Safety & Security

    The Signal Brief: A Council, a Confession, and a Five-Billion-Dollar Bet

    Three frontier-lab chief executives told the UN Security Council their industry needs oversight, and hours later a former Anthropic pair priced a self-improving AI startup at $5 billion anyway.

    Sep 24, 2026
  4. Consumer AI

    Paid by the Answer

    Google has quietly started paying a few dozen publishers when their work shapes an AI answer, a small and secret check for the very traffic its own AI summaries have been draining away.

    Sep 22, 2026
  5. Hiring & Talent

    Google DeepMind's Retention Playbook

    A $2.4 billion Windsurf acquihire, Koray Kavukcuoglu's promotion and Demis Hassabis's step-back from chief executive trace how Google answered an exodus that sent Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer toward rivals.

    Aug 27, 2026

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