• Why has Alphabet hit the panic button? Only Google can answer that question | John Naughton

    Why has Alphabet hit the panic button? Only Google can answer that question | John Naughton
    The economic downturn, US lawsuits and the fear of rising tech rivals could be reasons for the firm’s 'code red” alert, but it still has an AI ace up its sleeveIn a strange way, the best thing that could have happened to Google (now masquerading as Alphabet, its parent company) was Facebook. Why? Because although Google invented surveillance capitalism, arguably the most toxic business model since the opium trade, it was Facebook that got into the most trouble for its abuses of it. T