Nico Grant

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Nico Grant

The acquisition could make the Silicon Valley giant a bigger force in cybersecurity, and arrives months after an earlier round of talks collapsed.

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Nico Grant

Google has agreed to buy Wiz, a fast-growing cybersecurity start-up, for $32 billion in the company’s biggest push to strengthen its cloud-computing business and expand beyond the search engine and consumer internet services that made it a household name. The all-cash deal, announced on Tuesday, would be Google’s largest, easily surpassing its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2012.

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Cade Metz |Nico Grant |David McCabe

To win the artificial intelligence race, Google not only has developed its own technologies, but has also pumped money into prominent A.I. start-ups. And to preserve its competitive edge, Google has kept its ownership stakes in those start-ups a secret. Court documents recently obtained by The New York Times reveal Google’s stake in one of those start-ups, Anthropic, as well as how its investment in the young company is set to change.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Cade Metz |Nico Grant |David McCabe

Court documents recently obtained by The New York Times reveal Google's stake in one of those start-ups, Anthropic, as well as how its investment in the young company is set to change. Google owns 14 percent of Anthropic, according to legal filings that the A.I. start-up submitted as part of a Google antitrust case. But that investment gives Google little control over the company.

Mar 3, 2025 | estadao.com.br | Nico Grant

Desde que o lançamento do ChatGPT em 2022 desencadeou uma febre de inteligência artificial (IA), o Google tem tentado reafirmar seu papel como pioneiro em IA. Na quarta-feira, 26, Sergey Brin, cofundador do Google, disse que a empresa poderia liderar o avanço da inteligência artificial geral (AGI) — quando as máquinas igualam ou superam a inteligência humana — se os funcionários se esforçassem mais.