LIVE Trump Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent's confirmation hearing Santiago • USD Alphabet Inc. (GOOG.SN) Follow Compare 195.65 0.00 (0.00%) As of December 23 at 3:32:35 PM GMT-3. Market Open. All News Press Releases SEC Filings All SEC Filings Corporate Changes & Voting Matters Periodic Financial Reports Proxy Statements Tender Offer/Acquisition Reports Offering Registrations Google Thinks It Has the Best AI Tech. Now It Needs More Users. Tired of trailing OpenAI, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai wants his Gemini chatbot to be used by 500 million people. Is It Time to Turn Bullish on IONQ Stock after the Quantum Freefall? IonQ (IONQ) stock has slumped along with other names in the quantum computing sector following comments made by Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang in early January. However, despite the free-falling share price and cheapening valuation, I’m bearish. 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Trump tariffs, Google UK probe, TikTok and Elon Musk: 3 Things US stock futures (ES=F, NQ=F, YM=F) are moving on up Tuesday morning as the incoming Trump administration is considering gradual tariff hikes while trying to balance inflation. Alphabet's Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is facing a UK probe over allegations of distortions in the search engine market. Lastly, Chinese officials are reportedly floating the idea of selling TikTok to billionaire Elon Musk — who owns the social media platform X — ahead of the January 20 deadline for parent company ByteDance to divest from the app. Watch O'Leary Ventures Chairman and Shark Tank judge Kevin O'Leary discuss his current bid to acquire TikTok. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan. Latest News In Cloud AI - Applied Digital Expands AI Infrastructure with $5 Billion Partnership Applied Digital Corporation has announced a substantial investment partnership with Macquarie Asset Management to enhance its high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities, with funding commitments reaching up to $5 billion. This strategic initiative involves an initial investment of up to $900 million to develop the Ellendale HPC Campus, with provisions for additional investments totaling $4.1 billion across future projects. The partnership aims to solidify Applied Digital's position in the... Stock Market Today: Dow Jones Up, Donald Trump Stock Rockets; Mark Zuckerberg Says This, Rocks Quantum Stocks (Live Coverage) The Dow Jones rose and other indexes were mixed on the stock market today. A Donald Trump stock soared. Bill Ackman made an offer. 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TikTok Ban Heard By Supreme Court. What It Means For Meta, Snap, Oracle Stock. As TikTok heads to Supreme Court, analysts see Meta stock and Google as likely beneficiaries of a ban on the app. What does a TikTok ban mean for users? TikTok argues its case against a nationwide ban in front of the US Supreme Court, saying a ban threatens the First Amendment. The social media platform pleads its case before the January 19 deadline for the divest-or-ban to take effect. CNET technology reporter Abrar Al-Heeti joins Brad Smith on Wealth to discuss what users should expect as a TikTok ban looms. "Come January 19th, if TikTok gets banned, it's not going to magically disappear from your device," Al-Heeti explains. "Instead, you won't be getting updates, which means that over time, it becomes more laggy and then eventually unusable." She notes that Apple (AAPL) and Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google will be fined if TikTok and updates are available on their app stores. Al-Heeti suggests saving videos on your that you want to keep, whether you posted them or another user, from the platform. She adds that Meta's (META) Instagram Reels have been a "strong TikTok competitor" and could be an alternate platform for users to shift to, while Snapchat (SNAP) could be another option. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Wealth here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan. Informatica announces expanded Google Cloud partnership Informatica (INFA) announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud (GOOGL) through the availability of its Cloud Data Governance and Catalog on Google Cloud, available as a transactable offering on Google Cloud Marketplace. 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