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YouTube chief Neal Mohan bets on AI and ‘creators’ to supercharge growth

Veteran executive seen as a potential Google CEO must tackle threats from Trump to tech rivals

Musk leads race to be world’s first trillionaire

Lesson of the 20th century was that when a critical mass of citizens feel the system is rigged against them, we encourage radical politics

Google boggles minds as it says quantum chip ‘lends credence’ to the existence of a multiverse

Planet Business: Ancient Rome auction update, the Murdoch ‘Succession memo’ and people/muppets who have rung the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell

Central Bank governor more cautious on large ECB rate cuts

Gabriel Makhlouf raises prospect of ‘sharp’ fall in stocks prices amid heightened technology sector valuations

AI bubble: fact or fiction?

JP Morgan sanguine as rising share prices are accompanied by increased earnings among dominant ‘magnificent seven’

Why a Donald Trump election win could signal the end of Ireland’s golden years

A Trump victory in the US presidential election would constitute a seismic shift in our overall international strategy

As Google faces possible break-up, investors bet on business as usual

The last big tech antitrust case, against Microsoft in 2001, did not result in a break-up of the company

US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case

Justice department could seek ‘structural remedies’ such as forced product sales after judge’s ruling of illegal monopoly in search

Investors look beyond Nvidia and the magnificent seven

Increasingly confident investors looking beyond tech giants, suggesting reign may be over — for now at least

Is all the investment pumped into AI really worth it?

With humans outperforming the technology in a recent exploratory trial, equipping such systems with the autonomy to carry out their own actions raises questions of practicality, ethics and philosophy

UK regulators accuse Google of anti-competitive behaviour in advertising

Competition and Markets Authority’s findings are another blow to the tech giant and come days before a parallel lawsuit starts in the US

Google considering large data centre in Vietnam, source says

Investment would by first by big US tech company in nation

Google turns 20: shareholders celebrate growth of more than 7,500%

Many critics saw Google as a hyped-up, expensive stock when it went public in 2004

Kamala Harris campaign proves good for ‘legacy’ ad business

Global advertising spend set to reach $1tn this year, with even traditional media managing an increase thanks to impact of US presidential election

Irish shares rise after volatile week

Global markets recover much of ground lost in previous few days

Google loses landmark US antitrust case over search dominance

Court’s decision is a significant victory for US department of justice in its litigation over power of Big Tech

Markets hit a wall amid fears of US economic slowdown

Financials and tech stocks worst hit as indices show a sea of red

Google-parent Alphabet cut stake in Crowdstrike before July global outage

Crowdstrike shares have lost nearly 35 per cent of their value since the outage

Investors await decisions from key central banks and earnings reports from big tech companies

Irish market ends the day down, with Dalata and Glanbia the big fallers

Markets at the mercy of the not-so-magnificent seven

Outsized influence meant poorly-received results can drag markets down disproportionately

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