Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd at Google’s annual I/O developer conference held in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025.
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alphabet I joined a $3 trillion club.
The search giant’s stocks jumped over 4% on Monday, pushing the company into territory nvidia, Microsoft and apple.
The stock received a major lift from an antitrust ruling by a judge in early September. The US Department of Justice hopes Google will be forced to sell its Chrome browser, and last year a district court ruled that the company has an illegal monopoly in searches and related advertising.
However, Judge Amit Mehta opposed the most serious consequences proposed by the DOJ, with stocks surged to the record. After a big rally, President Donald Trump congratulated the company and called it a “very good day.”
Alphabet’s shares have risen by more than 30% this year, compared to Nasdaq’s 15% increase.
The $3 trillion milestone is about 20 years after Google’s IPO and more than a decade after the creation of Alphabet as Holdge Company, with Google serving as a major subsidiary.
CEO Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Alphabet in 2019 and replaced co-founder Larry Page. Pichai’s latest challenge is a new rise in competition due to the rise of artificial intelligence, which had to dodge and manage a series of aggressive US and Europe regulators.
The confusion and the rise of Openai have led to help Google land a recently favourable antitrust law. We hope to become a leading artificial intelligence player with Gemini, the flagship suite of Google’s AI models.
