That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn it less money than it earns by serving ads with its old-school search engine.

  • csh83669@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Sure. I could also just not have a phone, or ever leave the house. But being able to pay for things with ones phone is convenient, and I miss the convenience daily. I wish there were privacy respecting alternatives, but there are not.