We recently published a list of 15 AI News You Should Pay Attention To. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) stands against other AI news you should pay attention to.
AI themes have dominated stock markets around the world over the past few months. Investment titan Blackrock recently released an investor note on the subject, stressing that as the new year unfolds, AI advancements and diplomatic developments will continue to shape the top market trends. In the note, Jay Jacobs, the US Head of Thematic and Active ETFs at the firm, stated that these two themes stayed in the limelight for virtually all of 2024 and are likely to remain in primary focus for 2025. The note further detailed that 2025 could be a pivotal year for technological progress and adoption in AI tech, as GenAI advances and more sophisticated models were combining to drive meaningful growth in AI capabilities.
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However, the investment firm also addressed regulatory and geopolitical challenges that were hampering growth. Per the analysts at the firm, the rise and advancements in AI also added strains to the geopolitical map. The note highlighted that regulation and desire to control the technology may lead to divergence between US-focused AI names and those with more global exposure.
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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is a California-based technology company that owns and runs the internet search engine Google. On November 20, Varonis Systems, an Israeli software firm that offers AI products for data management and protection, announced that it would be expanding its IaaS security coverage to the Google Cloud. Per Brian Vecci, the CTO of the former, Varonis is a unified platform that identifies and classifies data across cloud environments and detects threats across the entire data estate at scale, in real time.