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Alphabet has closed what may be the largest single stock sale in corporate history — eighty-five billion dollars raised for Google's AI operations. The sheer scale of that number tells you something about where institutional money is placing its bets right now. Investors aren't hedging on AI; they're doubling down, hard.
Shifting from Wall Street to your laptop — Perplexity is rolling out a hybrid inference system that splits AI processing between your device and the cloud, routing tasks automatically depending on what makes sense. The pitch is privacy and lower costs for users, though it's worth noting Perplexity also benefits by trimming its own server bills. A smart trade-off, if the performance holds.
And over in the legal arena, a British Member of Parliament is taking xAI to court to test whether Elon Musk's company bears legal responsibility for the images Grok generates. The case lands as xAI faces simultaneous investigations in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and California — making this one of the more legally exposed AI products in the world right now.
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