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Berkshire Hathaway Drops $10 Billion on Alphabet's AI Infrastructure Gamble
Alphabet is raising $80 billion to expand its AI infrastructure, with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway contributing $10 billion through a private placement, alongside public share offerings backed by Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. The company, which reported 22% revenue growth and a 63% surge in Google Cloud revenue in Q1 2026, plans capital spending of $180–190 billion in 2026 to meet what it describes as "unprecedented customer demand." Critics note, however, that much of the AI cloud boom is being driven by OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which remain unprofitable.
NVIDIA and Google Cloud Are Arming 100,000 Developers With AI Tools — Here's What's Actually New
NVIDIA and Google Cloud are expanding their joint developer community—now over 100,000 strong—by introducing new learning resources such as a JAX-on-NVIDIA-GPUs learning path, an NVIDIA Dynamo inference codelab, and monthly developer livestreams. Together, they are equipping developers with tools and frameworks to build and deploy production-ready AI applications, including multi-agent systems using Google DeepMind's Gemma models, NVIDIA Nemotron, and optimized inference on Google Kubernetes Engine. The partnership also prioritizes responsible AI development through collaboration on Google DeepMind's SynthID watermarking technology integrated with NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models.