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Alphabet is back in focus after a Bloomberg report indicated rising investor confidence in its in-house semiconductor strategy. Interest in the company’s tensor processing units (TPUs) is reshaping expectations for future revenue and altering market sentiment. Many investors now see the chip program as a potential long-term growth driver, not just a tool used within Google Cloud.

Google hides its spy in your dashboard: Gemini, a talkative, geolocated, multitasking AI that guides you... and maybe watches you. Soon a driving license for robots?

Valuations of artificial intelligence are soaring, sometimes without profitability to support them. Voices are rising, recalling the excesses of the 2000 Internet bubble. Disproportionate weight of sector giants in indices, massive investments, widespread enthusiasm: signs of a possible overheating are accumulating. In this climate of euphoria, a question reemerges: is AI the engine of a new economic era or that of a speculative bubble ready to burst?

At Google, they are serious: an AI that talks, films, and directs? Veo 3.1 arrives with sound, style... and a little desire to dethrone Sora.

When equations shipwreck, a Google AI comes to the rescue. Result: stunned mathematicians and a scientific future that looks like science fiction.

While OpenAI blazes at 500 billion, the start-up Mistral inflates its sails to 11.7 billion. Cocorico or European mirage? AI has found its Gaulish rooster.

And what if the next big battle for AI was not played out on a language model, but rather on the browser that billions of internet users use every day? OpenAI is preparing to launch a web browser powered by artificial intelligence, designed to directly compete with Google Chrome. This still discreet initiative aims to divert usage from Google's historic engine, a cornerstone of its advertising ecosystem. By transforming browsing into a conversational interface, OpenAI could redefine the rules of a market that has been locked down for years by Alphabet.

As the planet burns, 16 billion logins waltz through cyberspace. Radio silence from the giants. They're hiding everything from you, even your own passwords.

Bitcoin dethrones Google, taunts Wall Street in a sweat, and climbs like a digital goat on amphetamines while the dollar stumbles and the stock markets take a tax nap.

While Trump plays the customs officer, Tesla wavers, Alphabet holds firm, and Wall Street takes on water. The markets, on the other hand, brace for the next presidential tweet.

While Google drowns AI in a rain of dollars, a small Chinese genius tinkers in his garage and shakes Silicon Valley. Butterfly effect or storm to come?

While the American economy soars like a star, Europe gets lost in a maze of rules and bitter regrets.

Quantum computing is back in the news and rekindles concerns that give us the opportunity to dive deep into the cryptographic underpinnings of Bitcoin.

In crypto, Vitalik Buterin proposes a marriage with Google… and buries the deadly duels with panache.

Stock Market: Alphabet and Amazon Could Follow Meta's Lead and Announce Their First Dividends This Year, According to Goldman Sachs.

The artistic and intellectual production of man must take precedence above all? French publishers are taking a stand.