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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Alphabet Joins the $4 Trillion Club

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Apple has selected Google’s Gemini to power a new Siri. And a former Trump advisor joins Meta. Anthony Bansie hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6

Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Monday, January 12th. I'm Anthony Bansy for the Wall Street

0:36.8

Journal. Google's

0:38.3

parent company Alphabet's value topped $4 trillion in intradate trading. It's the latest tech

0:44.1

company to cross the threshold as investors continue to reward the internet search leader for

0:49.3

its artificial intelligence gains. Google pulled well ahead in the race to develop AI with the recent launch of

0:55.6

its Gemini 3 model, which earned praise for its speed, intelligence, and creative capabilities,

1:01.5

and outperformed competing models on more than a dozen benchmark tests. Only three other tech

1:07.2

companies have traded at market capitalizations of $4 trillion, Apple, Microsoft, and

1:12.9

Nvidia. Only Nvidia is still trading above that mark.

1:17.0

Sticking with Google, Apple announced today that it selected Google's Gemini to power a more

1:22.1

personalized version of its Siri chatbot. Apple has struggled to develop AI tools of its

1:27.4

own,

1:27.9

and series capabilities badly lag behind other chatbots available from competitors.

1:33.3

Apple said it had entered a multi-year collaboration with Google

1:36.6

to use Gemini as its foundation of its own AI models.

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