The European Commission set out Thursday how it wants Google to make a wide range of data accessible to rival search engines in order to comply with the bloc's digital rules.

Microsoft's cloud business doesn't have the same advantages as Alphabet and Amazon's cloud units. Alphabet has the most complete stack of products and services of any AI company.

CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos reports on news regarding Google.

Google announced "personalized" image generation that allows users to connect their photos to Nano Banana. The company said users can ask Gemini to “create a claymation image of me and my family enjoying our favorite activity,” and it will generate that specific image automatically.

Alphabet (GOOG) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos reports the latest news surrounding Google.

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The European Union (EU) wants Google to make its data available to rival search engines. Proposed measures announced Thursday (April 16) by the European Commission, the EU's competition regulator, would let other search engines see the tech giant's search data, including ranking, query, click and view data.