Google-parent said it would buy Intersect’s data-center projects that are in development, plus multiple gigawatts of energy and the Intersect team as part of the deal.

News reports indicate Apple is going to license Alphabet's Gemini AI model to power its Siri voice assistant at a cost of $1 billion annually. This would be a win for Alphabet, whose stock has been a boon for shareholders as the share price soared nearly 60% in 2025 through Dec. 18. In that time, Apple stock was up about 9%.

Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are worth a combined $511 billion after jointly adding $185 billion to their fortunes this year.

Alphabet’s odds on Polymarket of being the world’s largest company at the end of next year are nearly neck-and-neck with Nvidia’s.

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) has done extremely well for its shareholders this year, and the stock hit a new all-time high of $329 in November. However, after a recent pullback, shares briefly moved below $300 and are still close to that level as of Dec. 19.

Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) have quietly become the two most dominant forces inside the Magnificent Seven, riding different paths to the same destination: artificial intelligence supremacy.