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Technology 10 Aug 2026

Alphabet Sells $25 Billion in Bonds to Fund AI Buildout

Alphabet priced $25 billion of bonds with $115 billion in demand, signaling a twice-yearly borrowing cadence to fund a $205 billion AI capital plan.

Google's AI Brain Trust Departs to Launch Discovery Loop, Automating Scientific Discovery

Google's four most senior AI researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le — have left to launch Discovery Loop, a startup building AI that automates scientific discovery loops across drug design, chip architecture, and materials science.

Databricks Reaches $188B Valuation in Coatue-Led Round as AI Reshapes Its Image

Databricks announced a $188 billion valuation on July 17 in a Coatue-led round, up 40% from $134 billion five months earlier, capping a 19-month period of repeated mega-rounds that has reshaped its identity from big-data analytics platform to AI infrastructure provider.