↑ Alphabet Class A Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages - Three days after blackouts in San Francisco brought down Waymo's service, the company said it's implementing changes for when "infrastructure fails."Motive, an Alphabet-backed fleet management software company, files for IPO - Motive says its products, including a dashboard camera for tracking truckers, have saved over 1,000 lives.H-1B visa applicants face more disruptions amid social media checks and wage protection rules - The U.S. administration has lined up a slew of actions to restrict the use of H-1B visas by businesses. Waymo pauses robotaxi service in San Francisco after blackout chaos — Musk says Tesla car service unaffected - As power outages spread Saturday, videos shared on social media appeared to show multiple Waymo vehicles stalled in traffic in different parts of San Francisco.Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive - Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market. Palo Alto Networks announces multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud - The agreement is an expansion of the companies' existing strategic partnership.Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees - As competition heats up for AI talent, Google turned to hiring more so-called boomerang employees in 2025.Wall Street banked on a flurry of deals under Trump in 2025. It wasn't that simple - Dealmakers expected a flood of M&A to take place in 2025 following the election of President Trump. The number of transactions didn't live up to the hype. Data center deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors - Hyperscalers are increasingly turning to outside capital in the form of debt to fund the energy-intensive infrastructure.The Oscars are heading to YouTube in 2029 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences signed a multi-year deal with Google-owned YouTube to stream the Oscars globally starting in 2029.