Google has added a new top-tier payout to its Cloud Vulnerability Reward Program, offering $250,000 for bugs that let attackers gain full administrative control over arbitrary Google Cloud organizations or projects without prior access. Qualifying flaws include tenant-isolation bypasses and complex cross-service logic errors, and reports showing remote code execution on Google's internal Borg infrastructure will also be reviewed for eligibility under this top reward tier.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-11-03
Alphabet reported 25% revenue growth to $127.6bn and a 103% jump in Google Cloud revenue, but quarterly profit fell 25% and free cash flow turned negative by more than $9bn, roughly double the prior quarter's shortfall. The company's market value dropped from $3.97tn to $3.46tn as its stock fell nearly 13% on Thursday, one of its worst single-day showings this year.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-10-29
Amazon Web Services reported third-quarter revenue of $45.98 billion, a 39% year-over-year increase that topped the $45.29 billion analysts had expected, according to the company's statement. Operating income for the segment rose 55% to $17.77 billion, also exceeding forecasts, and AWS now represents nearly 23% of Amazon's total revenue, a record share.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-29
In the quarter ending September 2026, Google Search generated $63.4 billion of Alphabet's $128 billion total revenue, or 49.7%. This marks the first time Search has fallen below 50% of revenue since Alphabet began breaking out the figure separately, down from a range of 52.8% to 62.0% over the prior 31 quarters.
kadoa.com
· 2026-10-29
Google introduced Multi-Party Compute, a custody system that splits crypto private keys across multiple parties, at its first digital assets symposium in New York on October 28, 2026. Banks could hold one key share, with others distributed across Google Cloud and rival providers, requiring a threshold of shares to sign any transaction. Google says a commercial launch is planned for early 2027, though pricing and partners have not been disclosed.
techreport.com
· 2026-10-29
Alphabet's third-quarter revenue rose nearly 25% year-over-year to $127.6 billion but fell short of the $128.2 billion analysts expected, while adjusted earnings per share dropped 7% to $2.67 versus the $3.02 consensus. Google Cloud was a bright spot, with revenue doubling to $30.71 billion and operating income more than tripling to $11.12 billion, and the Gemini app surpassed 1 billion monthly active users. Shares fell nearly 10% in after-hours trading following the report.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-29
In its latest quarterly earnings, Microsoft broke with longstanding practice and disclosed Azure's actual dollar revenue for the July-September quarter: $33.2 billion, up 48% year-over-year. That figure beat analyst expectations of $32.3 billion and exceeded CFO Amy Hood's earlier guidance of 44-45% growth, edging out Google Cloud's reported $30.7 billion for the same period.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-28
Alphabet reports third-quarter earnings after market close, with analysts polled by LSEG expecting EPS of $3.02 and revenue of $128.2 billion, up 25% year-over-year. Capital expenditures are projected to jump 130% to $55.2 billion, continuing a trend that has already pushed free cash flow negative for the first time, while cloud revenue is expected to grow 90% to $28.7 billion.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-28
Alphabet reported Q3 earnings showing consolidated revenue of $127.6 billion, up 25% year-over-year, with Google Search & other revenue rising 12%. CEO Sundar Pichai said AI investments are driving query growth, including commercial queries, at the fastest rate in five years. Google Cloud revenue jumped 103% to $30.7 billion, and YouTube Music and Premium subscriptions topped 150 million including trials.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
Alphabet announced that Oracle will offer Google's tensor processing units through its own data centers, marking the first time the custom AI chips are available outside Google's own infrastructure. The move extends a shift that began last quarter when Google opened TPUs to outside data centers, and comes a day before Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-28
OpenAI and Google have struck a deal bringing OpenAI's GPT 6.1 models—Astra, Sol, and Luna—to Google Cloud's Model Garden and to Antigravity, Google's agent-based coding tool. The models will be purchasable through Google Cloud Marketplace and run on Google's infrastructure, joining existing access to Gemini, Claude, and various open-source models.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-21
OpenAI's models have been made accessible through all three major US cloud platforms—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud—according to the report's headline. This expands the channels through which enterprise customers can access OpenAI's technology beyond its direct API and Microsoft's existing partnership.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-21
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