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Alphabet (Google) GOOGL stock: What to Know Before Markets Open on October 20, 2025

Alphabet (Google) GOOGL stock: What to Know Before Markets Open on October 20, 2025

The Google logo on the company’s Silicon Valley campus. Alphabet’s stock has been shining as well – recently flirting with all-time highs amid surging optimism. Alphabet Inc.’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, lately trading at record levels. On October 14, shares closed around $245, their highest in history or nearly sots2.tech. By October 16, GOOGL pushed even higher intraday – around $255–$256 – putting Alphabet’s market capitalization within a hair’s breadth of the elite $3 trillion clubts2.tech. The latest rally caps a year in which Alphabet’s stock has soared ~30–32% year-to-date, vastly outperforming the S&P 500 and even most Big Tech peersts2.tech. In fact, Q3 2025 alone saw GOOGL leap 38% – its best quarter in 20 yearsts2.tech – buoyed by booming business trends and investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence.
19 October 2025
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AGI Race Sparks ‘Alien Intelligence’ Fears as Experts Clash – Tech Stocks Soar Amid Superintelligence Hype

AGI Race Sparks ‘Alien Intelligence’ Fears as Experts Clash – Tech Stocks Soar Amid Superintelligence Hype

For decades, achieving artificial general intelligence – machines with human-level cognitive abilities across any task – has been the holy grail of AI research. In 2023, the stunning leap of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4 brought that distant dream much closer to mainstream plausibility. Now in late 2025, the world’s largest tech companies are locked in an “unprecedented” arms race, spending hundreds of billions to be the first to cross the AGI finish line ts2.tech. Together, firms like OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Amazon and more plan to invest over $325 billion by the end of 2025 in AI R&D ts2.tech. Executives describe this moment as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technological revolution that could be “worth trillions” and reinvent virtually every product and service ts2.tech. This fervor is driven by a belief that AGI will unlock unprecedented value – and by fear of missing out. “Not being a leader in AI [is] unacceptable,” Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told colleagues, after privately declaring that superintelligent AI is finally within reach ts2.tech. Indeed, top tech CEOs have been unabashed about their AGI ambitions. “Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence… benefits all of humanity,” OpenAI proclaims in its charter ts2.tech. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman
18 October 2025
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The $350B Shake-Up: How AI Summaries Rewire Publisher Traffic

Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock Soars on AI Boom & Ad Rebound – $3 Trillion Valuation in Sight?

The Google logo at the company’s headquarters. Alphabet’s stock has been flirting with record highs amid surging optimism in its core ads and AI businesses.Alphabet Inc.’s Class A shares have been on a tear this year, recently touching their highest levels in over a year. The stock closed at $251.03 on Oct. 16 – around a new 52-week peak of ~$256ts2.tech – after jumping about 2% that day. As of Oct. 17, GOOGL traded just above $251, holding near that high-water mark. At these prices, Alphabet’s market value is roughly $2.97 trillion, putting Google’s parent on the cusp of the elite $3 trillion clubts2.tech. For context, Alphabet’s stock has soared over 30% year-to-date, vastly outperforming the broader marketts2.tech. The rally accelerated in recent months – Alphabet leapt 38% in the third quarter alone, its best quarterly performance since 2005ts2.tech – and the share price is now about 57% higher than a year agots2.tech, reflecting robust investor confidence. Several factors have fueled Alphabet’s climb. In late September, a favorable court decision removed a major cloud over Google’s future: a U.S. judge ruled that Google will not be forced to break up its Chrome browser or Android business in an antitrust casets2.tech.
17 October 2025
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Google Pounces on Microsoft 365 Outages With Bold ‘Backup Plan’ to Lure Businesses

Google Pounces on Microsoft 365 Outages With Bold ‘Backup Plan’ to Lure Businesses

Google’s announcement comes at an opportune moment. In recent months, Microsoft 365 has suffered a string of outages and technical glitches that have frustrated corporate customers channelnews.com.au. Just last week on October 8, an authentication issue knocked out Exchange Online email access for many users, one of several incidents that have hit Microsoft’s cloud services this year. Such disruptions “underscore the dependence on Microsoft’s cloud – and the chaos when it hiccups,” as one report put it ts2.tech. Sensing an opening, Google is seizing the narrative: downtime isn’t an occasional blip but an ongoing risk with Microsoft – and Google wants to be the safety net, and ultimately the replacement. At the heart of Google’s play is the new Workspace Business Continuity plan. This offering essentially keeps a live backup of a company’s productivity tools running on Google’s cloud. “Workspace, with support from our partners, will sync emails, calendars, chat, and more with Microsoft 365, so customer data is right where organizations need it, without requiring migration,” Google explained in its announcement techbuzz.ai techbuzz.ai. In practice, that means a business can keep using Outlook, Exchange, Teams, etc. day-to-day – but if those go down, employees can immediately switch to Gmail
17 October 2025
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Google Stock Hits 52-Week High on AI Hype, Nears $3 Trillion Mark – What’s Next?

Google Stock Hits 52-Week High on AI Hype, Nears $3 Trillion Mark – What’s Next?

Alphabet’s share price has been on a tear, recently hitting a fresh 52-week high of $256.02 investing.com. At that level, Google’s parent company is worth roughly $2.97 trillion – nearly joining the exclusive club of $3 trillion market-cap companies ts2.tech. The stock has climbed about 30% year-to-date, vastly outpacing the broader market ts2.tech. Notably, Alphabet jumped 38% in the third quarter alone, its best quarterly performance since 2005 ts2.tech. This momentum reflects strong fundamentals: over the past year the stock is up ~57%, buoyed by Google’s continued innovation in cloud computing and digital advertising investing.com. The company boasts ~13% revenue growth with hefty ~59% gross margins, underlining solid execution investing.com. Investors have largely shrugged off recent market jitters. In early October, tech stocks briefly dipped on geopolitical and economic worries, but Alphabet quickly rebounded to near-record levels by mid-month ts2.tech. One catalyst was a favorable antitrust court ruling in September: a U.S. judge ruled Google would not be forced to break up Chrome or Android, removing a major overhang on the stock ts2.tech. Alphabet’s shares spiked 9% in one day on that news ts2.tech, and sentiment remains positive despite ongoing regulatory scrutiny. In short, AI euphoria and an ad rebound
17 October 2025
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The $350B Shake-Up: How AI Summaries Rewire Publisher Traffic

Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock Skyrockets on AI & Ad Revival – Could $300 Be Next?

Wall Street’s technical indicators and fundamentals have brightened. As one analyst noted, “Alphabet’s stock flirts with record highs” – shares closed around $245 on Oct. 14, near an all-time hights2.tech. Most brokerages now rate GOOGL a Buy. TS2.tech reports BMO Capital Markets citing Alphabet’s “AI leadership” in justifying its $294 targetts2.tech. Scotiabank similarly pointed to a “clear recovery” in advertising when boosting its target to $310za.investing.com. Even Morgan Stanley, UBS and other firms have raised targets modestly, noting that improving ad spending and AI gains warrant higher valuations. MarketBeat summarizes 35 analysts as a “Moderate Buy,” but notes the range of targets is widemarketbeat.com. TipRanks’ data is more uniformly positive: 38 analysts on its platform average a $258.81 targettipranks.com. In short, the consensus is bullish, though targets vary with some caution on valuation. Alphabet’s recent announcements underscore why investors are excited. The company is plowing tens of billions into AI data centers and chips. Just in the past week Alphabet unveiled a $15B AI data center project in India and a $9B U.S. data center expansionts2.tech. It also upgraded its AI tools – for example, Google announced Veo 3.1 and a 27B-parameter “Gemma” model for scientific researchza.investing.com. These efforts are
16 October 2025
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NuScale’s Stock Skyrockets on 6GW SMR Deal – Is GE Vernova Missing Out?

NuScale’s Stock Skyrockets on 6GW SMR Deal – Is GE Vernova Missing Out?

Analysts note that SMR’s recent rally reflects both real progress and speculative fervor. On one hand, NuScale’s NRC approvals and partnerships set it up as an industry leader Finviz ts2.tech. In early October, NuScale shares even spiked +5% when Italy’s government moved to reintroduce nuclear power with “modular” reactors Nasdaq Nasdaq. On the other hand, NuScale still loses money and faces stiff competition Nasdaq Finviz. The Zacks report notes NuScale has underperformed peers recently Finviz. It warns that the energy market is competitive and that SMR’s valuation is stretched Finviz Finviz. Indeed, metrics show SMR’s stock is expensive: a forward price/sales ratio ~85× Finviz and a Zacks Value Score of F Finviz. Wall Street consensus reflects caution: out of ~15 analysts, most rate SMR a “Hold” or “Buy” with a median 12-month target around $37–$40 ts2.tech – roughly 25–30% below today’s $55 price. TradingView’s aggregate target is similar ts2.tech. Zacks therefore assigns SMR a #3 rating Finviz and suggests waiting for a pullback. By contrast, GE Vernova is seen as cheaper but burdened by $300–$400M in 2025 tariffs and wind costs Nasdaq.
15 October 2025
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Google’s October 2025 Shockwave: AI Advancements, Big Bets & Alphabet’s Soaring Fortunes

Google Stock’s October Surge: Alphabet Nears Record Highs on AI Buzz and Analyst Upgrades

Alphabet’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, and as of October 14 it is trading around $245 per share, near its highest level everstockanalysis.com. At that price, Google’s parent company is worth roughly $2.97 trillion – nearly joining the exclusive club of $3 trillion market-cap companiesstockanalysis.com. The share price has climbed about 30–32% year-to-date, vastly outpacing the broader market. By comparison, the S&P 500 is up only around 12% in 2025 and even the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 has gained ~17% – making Alphabet one of the top-performing mega-cap tech stocks this yearts2.techts2.tech. This rally accelerated in the third quarter: Alphabet’s stock jumped 38% in Q3 alone, its best quarterly performance since 2005ts2.tech. The past couple of weeks have showcased that volatility cuts both ways. Markets hit fresh peaks in early October on AI euphoria, but then plunged on October 10 amid a resurgence of U.S.-China trade tensions. That day saw the Nasdaq Composite index nosedive 3.6%, its worst one-day drop in monthsts2.tech. Alphabet’s shares were not immune to the sell-off, briefly pulling back along with other tech giants. Yet the downturn proved short-lived – by October 14, Google’s stock had regained footing, buoyed by continued optimism around its
15 October 2025
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Google’s $15B India AI Bet: First-Ever AI Hub Launched in Vizag – Market Reacts & Experts Weigh In

Google’s $15B India AI Bet: First-Ever AI Hub Launched in Vizag – Market Reacts & Experts Weigh In

On Oct 14, 2025, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Indian officials unveiled Google’s first AI hub in India – a massive investment of about $15 billion over five years blog.google investing.com. Google calls it its “largest investment in India to date” blog.google. The centerpiece is a 1‑gigawatt data center campus in Visakhapatnam, planned to scale to multiple gigawatts. This will be backed by new power lines, clean energy plants, and a major subsea cable landing station. In Kurian’s words, this will be “the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing in anywhere in the world outside of the United States” investing.com economictimes.indiatimes.com. The project will deploy Google’s full AI stack – from custom TPU/GPU servers to cloud AI services – and aims to accelerate India’s AI mission investing.com blog.google. Google has teamed with local partners: Bharti Airtel will build high-speed fiber networks connecting the hub, and AdaniConneX will co-develop the campus ndtvprofit.com blog.google. Airtel’s Gopal Vittal praised the tie-up as “a defining moment in India’s digital future,” saying it lays “the foundation for India to become a leader in the AI-driven era” tribuneindia.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Thomas Kurian highlighted that working with Airtel and Adani will provide “the
14 October 2025
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Stocks Surge as Trump Eases China Tariff Threats – Fed Rate-Cut Hopes Ignite Rally

Stocks Surge as Trump Eases China Tariff Threats – Fed Rate-Cut Hopes Ignite Rally

U.S. stock futures roared higher Monday as traders seized on softer trade rhetoric. Trump had threatened on Friday “massive” new tariffs on China, briefly sparking the Nasdaq’s worst single-day drop in months investopedia.com. He warned of 100% levies and cutting a summit with China’s Xi Jinping, which sent Friday’s S&P 500 down 2.7% and Nasdaq down 3.6% investopedia.com. But over the weekend Trump posted on Truth Social that “it will all be fine” with China and the U.S. did not want to “hurt” its economy investopedia.com. This reprieve calmed markets. Dow futures added +1.0%, S&P futures +1.3%, Nasdaq +1.9% by mid-morning investing.com. “We think the bull market remains intact,” say UBS analysts, urging that pullbacks are buying opportunities reuters.com. Capital Economics concurs: “This latest dispute could still blow over if cool heads prevail,” they write investing.com. Indeed, chip titans AMD, Nvidia and ON Semiconductor all popped ~+4% premarket investopedia.com. As one Instinet strategist notes, hype around AI and bets on Fed easing have already driven stocks to new highs in recent weeks nasdaq.com reuters.com. The question is whether this week’s earnings will justify those levels now that economic data are muted by the shutdown.
13 October 2025
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Google’s $3B AI Bet Skyrockets TeraWulf (WULF) Stock – Latest News & Analysis

Google’s $3B AI Bet Skyrockets TeraWulf (WULF) Stock – Latest News & Analysis

TeraWulf Inc. is a digital infrastructure company specializing in green Bitcoin mining and AI/High-Performance Computing data centers. It describes itself as a “vertically integrated, predominantly zero-carbon” operator of large-scale compute facilities investors.terawulf.com. The company’s flagship Lake Mariner campus in New York is dual-purpose: it houses the company’s own crypto mining rigs and hosts third-party HPC clients. Its infrastructure is “purpose-built for high-performance computing hosting and bitcoin mining” investors.terawulf.com. In 2024–25, TeraWulf began pivoting toward the booming AI/data-center market while continuing Bitcoin mining. It has secured multi-year leases with AI-focused tenants and is deploying liquid-cooled, high-density compute buildings to meet that demand investors.terawulf.com investors.terawulf.com. Beyond Lake Mariner, TeraWulf is expanding to additional sites. Notably, it executed an 80-year lease on a 183-acre former coal plant site in Cayuga, NY investors.terawulf.com. This unlocks up to 400 MW of primarily zero-carbon power and further solidifies TeraWulf’s footprint as a low-cost, sustainable compute hub investors.terawulf.com investors.terawulf.com. Company executives tout these expansions as “scalable, sustainable infrastructure” and highlight New York’s clean grid as a strategic advantage for enterprise and hyperscale customers investors.terawulf.com investors.terawulf.com.
10 October 2025
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Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold Shakes Up the Smartphone Wars with AI Tricks, Durability & Bold Design

Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold Shakes Up the Smartphone Wars with AI Tricks, Durability & Bold Design

Google’s new Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the star of its 2025 lineup – a device that blends cutting-edge hardware with Google’s latest AI software. This foldable phone is branded as the “Pro Fold” variant of the Pixel 10 family, emphasizing that it shares the same core specs and AI features as the Pixel 10 Pro slab phonests2.tech. When closed, it looks like a typical premium smartphone with a 6.4″ OLED display; opened up, it reveals a spacious 8″ tablet-like screen – slightly larger than its predecessor and rival Galaxy foldsts2.tech. The design retains Pixel’s signature aesthetics, but with notable engineering upgrades: Google redesigned the hinge mechanism to a gearless system, which not only makes folding motion smoother but is rated for over 100,000 folds without failurets2.tech. In practical terms, Google says the hinge should last 10+ years of average use – addressing durability concerns that often plague foldables. Perhaps the Pixel 10 Pro Fold’s biggest selling point is its durability. It is the first foldable smartphone ever to achieve an IP68 rating, meaning it’s fully sealed against dust and waterts2.tech. This is a significant leap – even Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z Fold 7 is only IPX8ts2.tech. With the Pixel
8 October 2025
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Tech Turmoil: AI Mega-Deals, Big Tech Battles & Space Surprises Rock October 2025

Tech Turmoil: AI Mega-Deals, Big Tech Battles & Space Surprises Rock October 2025

AI Hardware Mega-Deal: A blockbuster partnership emerged as ChatGPT creator OpenAI agreed to buy AMD’s latest AI chips in bulk. The multi-year deal will see AMD supply hundreds of thousands of GPUs – an arrangement AMD expects will generate over $100 billion in new revenue over four years reuters.com reuters.com. In exchange, OpenAI secured an option to take up to a 10% stake in AMD for virtually pennies per share reuters.com. Investors cheered the news: AMD’s stock leaped 34% in a single day, its biggest jump in nine years, adding about $80 billion to AMD’s market value reuters.com reuters.com. “We view this deal as certainly transformative, not just for AMD, but for the dynamics of the industry,” AMD executive VP Forrest Norrod said reuters.com. Analysts likewise called it a major “vote of confidence” in AMD’s AI technology – though they noted it won’t quickly dethrone market-leader Nvidia’s dominance reuters.com. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman welcomed the pact, saying it will help OpenAI build the massive computing infrastructure it needs reuters.com. The deal comes on the heels of Nvidia’s own agreement to invest $100B in OpenAI and supply it with next-gen processors reuters.com, underscoring the insatiable demand for AI horsepower as companies
7 October 2025
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AI Models Are Scheming – Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Stop Deceptive AI Behavior

OpenAI’s Mega AMD Deal: How a 6‑Gigawatt AI Chip Alliance Could Reshape the Arms Race

OpenAI’s mission to build artificial general intelligence has become a capital‑intensive arms race. Training and running models like GPT‑5 or the video‑generating Sora require vast amounts of electricity and parallel compute. In March 2025, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman unveiled a plan for Stargate, a U.S.‑based supercomputer project initially expected to cost $100 billion and deliver one gigawatt of computing capacity by late 2026. Since then, OpenAI has pursued multiple hardware partnerships, including deals with Nvidia, Broadcom, Oracle, and now AMD, to ensure that capacity is not constrained by a single supplierreuters.com. The AMD alliance marks a strategic pivot. Nvidia’s dominance over the AI accelerator market has created supply shortages and high prices, while export controls limit shipments to countries like China. AMD CEO Lisa Su has aggressively positioned the company as a credible alternative by releasing faster chips, adopting open‑source software like ROCm, and courting cloud providers and model developers. For AMD, winning OpenAI’s business is validation that its architectures can compete with Nvidia’s for large‑scale deployments.
6 October 2025
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Quantum in Orbit, 100K-Qubit Ambitions & More – Quantum Computing Roundup (July 30–31, 2025)

Quantum Computing Stocks Set to Soar: 2025’s Next Tech Investment Boom

Quantum computing concept illustration. 2025 has seen quantum technology leap from labs toward commercial viability, fueling a wave of investor interest and stock gains. After the AI frenzy, quantum computing is emerging as the next big tech investment trendnasdaq.com. Quantum computers leverage bizarre physics to solve problems vastly faster than classical machines, promising breakthroughs in drug discovery, finance, AI, logistics, and cybersecurity. In 2025, this once-experimental field is rapidly moving from concept to reality – and Wall Street has taken notice. Many companies agree that around 2030 will be a turning point when quantum systems achieve useful scalenasdaq.com. But investors aren’t waiting; quantum stocks have soared in 2025, anticipating the technology’s transformative potential.
5 October 2025
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Google Home’s Gemini Revolution: Can AI Fix the Smart Home and Win Back Your Trust?

Google Home’s Gemini Revolution: Can AI Fix the Smart Home and Win Back Your Trust?

After nearly a decade, Google is pulling the plug on the original Google Assistant in its smart home products and swapping in something far more powerful. Gemini, Google’s latest conversational AI, will now handle voice interactions on Google Home speakers, displays, and other deviceswired.com. The trigger phrase “Hey Google” stays the same, but everything behind it is new – instead of the old scripted Assistant, you’ll be talking to a modern large language model that understands natural language and contextwired.com. Google Assistant debuted in 2016 as an answer to Amazon’s Alexa, sparking a “voice assistant war” in techwired.com. For a while, these assistants were hyped as the next big thing. But progress stalled; most people ended up using them for basic queries and simple commands, finding their capabilities limited. Now, thanks to advances in AI, LLMs have revived the category by enabling more fluid, human-like conversationswired.com. You no longer have to speak in stilted, preset phrases – you can talk to Gemini more like you’d talk to a person, and it will do a better job understanding your intent.
5 October 2025
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Google’s October 2025 Shockwave: AI Advancements, Big Bets & Alphabet’s Soaring Fortunes

Google’s October 2025 Shockwave: AI Advancements, Big Bets & Alphabet’s Soaring Fortunes

Early October saw Alphabet tightening its corporate belt and focus. The company initiated a fresh round of layoffs mainly in its Google Cloud division, eliminating over 100 positions in user experience research and design teamssfchronicle.com. These roles were responsible for analyzing user behavior to inform product design, but were deemed non-critical as Google reallocates resources toward AI development. Many affected employees were offered a chance to find other roles internally by year’s end, but the cuts reflect CEO Sundar Pichai’s drive to “be more efficient as we scale up so we don’t solve everything with headcount”sfchronicle.com. Notably, Google has also streamlined management layers this year and even offered voluntary exit packages in some unitssfchronicle.com – all part of what observers call a “leaner Google” strategy to rein in costs and keep pace in the AI race. Alphabet’s organizational shake-up also extends to its structure. In bombshell testimony on October 3, a Google executive confirmed plans to spin off Verily, the health-tech subsidiary under Alphabetmoneyweb.co.zamoneyweb.co.za. Verily has been part of Alphabet’s “Other Bets” portfolio, working on life sciences and healthcare projects. According to Heather Adkins, Google’s VP of Security Engineering, Verily spent the past two years untangling its operations from Google
5 October 2025
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AI Browser Wars: Perplexity Comet vs Google Chrome in the Race for the Web’s Future

AI Browser Wars: Perplexity Comet vs Google Chrome in the Race for the Web’s Future

The humble web browser has become the latest front in the AI revolution. Google Chrome, the long-reigning titan of internet browsing, is facing a new wave of challengers built around artificial intelligence. Chief among them is Perplexity’s Comet, a newly launched browser that bills itself as “the AI browser that acts as your personal assistant.” Unlike traditional browsers, Comet’s core is an AI agent ready to answer questions, automate web tasks, and transform how we interact with the internet Perplexity Rogerwong. This report provides an in-depth comparison of Perplexity Comet and Google Chrome – examining their browsing capabilities, search integrations, AI features, and the user experience – and evaluates how an AI-native upstart stacks up against a market-dominant incumbent. We’ll also survey the broader landscape: how competitors like Microsoft Edge, Arc/Dia, Brave, Opera, Firefox and even AI assistants are shaping the “browser wars” in the age of AI. Perplexity’s Comet is a web browser designed from the ground up to have a conversational AI built into every facet of the experience. Upon opening a new tab in Comet, users are greeted by a Comet AI assistant chat panel that’s aware of the current page and ready to help Perplexity. Rather
5 October 2025
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AI Browser Wars Ignite: Perplexity’s Comet Lands in India to Challenge Chrome & Co.

Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Goes Free – Can It Really Reinvent How We Browse?

Perplexity introduced Comet with grand ambitions. “The internet is broken,” the company declared in its launch blog post, arguing that traditional web browsing traps users in ad-driven click funnels and superficial contentperplexity.ai. Comet is positioned as the antidote: an AI-enhanced browser that encourages deeper curiosity by making it effortless to ask questions and dig for knowledge. According to the Perplexity team, early Comet users showed a 6–18x increase in the number of questions they asked online, indicating a surge in curiosity-fueled explorationperplexity.ai. Central to Comet’s appeal is the Comet Assistant – a GPT-4 powered AI agent that “browses the internet with you” in a sidebarperplexity.ai. Unlike using ChatGPT or Bing Chat in a separate window, Comet’s assistant is omnipresent as you navigate. Open a new tab, and a fresh assistant instance is ready to helpperplexity.ai. Visit a news article, and it can summarize key points or provide context. Land on a product page, and it can compare prices elsewhere. If you’re drafting an email or document in the browser, the assistant can offer writing tips or even generate text on command. In Perplexity’s vision, every new browser tab is the start of a conversation – a chance to ask something
5 October 2025
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    July 3, 2026, 10:23 PM EDT. Cocoa prices slid Thursday, with September ICE NY cocoa off 1.10% and London cocoa down 1.86%. Traders cited liquidation ahead of the weekend and a firmer pound denting cocoa priced in sterling. ICE inventories climbed, holding near 1.75-year highs above 3 million bags, and that kept a lid on prices even as weather stays a concern. Rains in Ivory Coast and Ghana have disrupted harvesting, raised disease worries and made farms hard to reach. Forecasters are flagging possible El Niño impacts that could cut yields, and early survey numbers point to Ivory Coast's 2026/27 crop dropping by 18%. Still, port arrival and production figures indicate supply is looking better than feared in the short term, tempering those weather-related price risks.
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