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Back to EpisodesPivot News AI Briefing — Jul 23, 2026
Episode 204
Published 1 month ago
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Hosts: James & Maya
In this episode:
• Welcome to the Pivot 5 daily briefing. Hi, I'm James. Today we're tracking earnings, export fights, health on your wrist, and driverless cabs headed f...
• Hi, I'm Maya. Let's start with Alphabet, where the second-quarter numbers finally put a hard figure to all that AI spending.
• Right. Alphabet's cloud revenue came in far above Wall Street's expectations, and the company also reported strong growth in users of its Gemini syste...
• The data tells a different story than the pure-spending worry we've heard for a year. The cloud beat shows Google converting its technology into real ...
• And the Gemini growth signals product traction beyond the data center. The consequence: pressure now shifts to rivals to show their own AI investments...
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