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57 min Alphabet reported a strong first quarter led by Search, YouTube and Cloud, with CEO Sundar Pichai positioning the company “for the next wave of AI innovation.”
Google Services revenue reached $70 billion, up 14% year over year, while Google Cloud grew 28% to $9.6 billion, lifted by demand for AI infrastructure. YouTube advertising rose 21%.
CFO Ruth Porat said the company was “very pleased” with the results, “driven in particular by strength in Search and Cloud,” and pointed to ongoing efforts to “durably reengineer” its cost base. Alphabet also announced its first quarterly dividend and a new share-repurchase authorization.
“We’ve been an AI-first company since 2016, pioneering many of the modern breakthroughs that power AI progress for us and for the industry.”
“We are very pleased with our financial results for the first quarter, driven in particular by strength in Search and Cloud.”
“AI innovation across our ads ecosystem is core to every aspect of our product portfolio.”
Google Services revenue: $70B (+14% YoY)
Google Cloud: $9.6B (+28% YoY)
YouTube ads: +21% YoY
Q1 CapEx: ~$12B, mostly AI infrastructure
1B+ hours of YouTube watched on TVs daily
First quarterly dividend + buyback announced
Alphabet leans into AI as Search and Cloud power Q1
Google Cloud jumps 28% on AI demand
Pichai: Alphabet “AI-first since 2016” — now monetizing it
Alphabet declares its first-ever dividend
00:00 Q1 results; YouTube + Cloud toward $100B run-rate
06:04 AI overviews roll into Search
14:13 Google Services revenue +14%
23:58 Q1 costs and expenses
31:03 $12B CapEx; dividend + buyback
46:43 Outlook on AI and Search
🧵 Alphabet Q1: Search + Cloud carry the quarter.
• Services $70B (+14%)
• Cloud $9.6B (+28%)
• YouTube ads +21%
• First-ever dividend + buyback
• Pichai: “AI-first since 2016”
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Build a template for every format you publish — press release, breaking-news brief, feature, Q&A, explainer — that matches your newsroom’s tone, voice, and structure. Castmagic turns any recording into that format on demand, so the first draft already reads like your copy.
Give each beat or desk its own space, add reporters and editors with the right access, and take a story from raw recording to filed copy together — no shared logins, no version chaos.
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Minutes, not hours. A 60-minute interview or press call comes back transcribed and ready to pull quotes from before you’ve finished your notes — fast enough for the news cycle.
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Give each beat or desk its own space, add reporters and editors with the right access, and collaborate from raw recording to filed copy in one place.
Castmagic — it returns accurate, speaker-labeled transcripts in minutes and turns any interview or press call into pull quotes and a first-draft story, fast enough for the news cycle and accurate enough to publish.
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