GOOGLE AND PAYPAL SAY AI COMMERCE WILL RUN ON CRYPTOExecutives from Google Cloud and PayPal say crypto rails are becoming essential for AI driven commerce.Google said autonomous agents cannot access traditional bank accounts. The company launched the Agentic Payments Protocol with over 120 partners including PayPal.PayPal also positioned PYUSD as a programmable payments layer for AI commerce.Source: CoinDesk Consensus Miami ...

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Alphabet was an AI afterthought a year ago. Now it's on the verge of overtaking Nvidia as the most valuable company in the world. https://t.co/w4H6sRUTUl ...

Google actually launched a sort of AI e-gadget this week. It's called the Fitbit Air, and it is a screenless Fitbit. It connects to a bunch of Google's AI stuff.They've rebranded the Fitbit app as Google Health, which I think is just a horrifically bad idea. And the idea is it's it's this Gemini-powered health and fitness thing that can collect all of this data and give it back to you in a sort of AI coach kind of way. Uh the thing is $99.I will say personally, I am very enthusiastic about the idea of a pre ...

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Smart glasses. Smart glasses. Google smart glasses.There are so many smart glasses already and Google's releasing a whole bunch of them this year. These are not Google smart glasses, but they're very similar to ones that I already know they're going to make and that I've tried. So, I'm going to talk to you about what we know about Google's plans for smart glasses in 2026.And they're pretty big. And a lot of that news is going to come at Google IO. Google's developer conference, Google IO, is starting very s ...

Google updates AI search to include ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and other web forums https://t.co/rhsjbIyXwT ...

Alphabet's debt issuance in Europe and Canada underscores Big Tech’s relentless drive to find funds anywhere to pay for the industry’s stampede into AI, according to Matt Brill at Invesco. https://t.co/lAt7VMxfle ...

Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, all reporting quarterly earnings in a 71 second window. And they're all telling the same story. AI demand is exploding and it's driving a massive spending race.Capex, that's the money going into data centers and chips. Microsoft's capex around $190 billion this year. Alphabet planning $180 to $190 billion.Meta raising its guide for capex to a range of 125 billion to 145 billion. and Amazon spending $44 billion in just one quarter and 151 billion over the past year on infrast ...