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Alphabet’s Google Cloud Rises in Prominence in AI Era

Bloomberg Technology Thursday 29 October 2026, 11:02 UTC By Julia Love 1 min read
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Google’s Kurian Pushes Cloud Unit Into Greater Prominence Insatiable AI demand has elevated the importance of this unit This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Julia Love reports on the greater role Google Cloud is playing at Alphabet.

Google’s Kurian Pushes Cloud Unit Into Greater Prominence Insatiable AI demand has elevated the importance of this unit This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Julia Love reports on the greater role Google Cloud is playing at Alphabet. Testy relationship: Anthropic’s IPO filing exposed the AI company’s tensions with the Trump administration. It’s a risk to the business.
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