In the past 5 years, Alphabet has authorized about $33 billion in buyback programs for its Class C capital stock. This started with a $5 billion program in October 2015, $7 billion in October 2016 ...

In this sense, Alphabet's job-training program should be viewed as both a charitable endeavor, and a planting of the seed for its future growth in the space. Similarly, Alphabet's and Facebook's ...

The researchers hope their open source PolyCoder can democratize research into the field of AI code generation, which so far is dominated by well-funded companies like Alphabet-owned DeepMind and ...