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1. Why Berkshire’s Investment Matters to Markets Even though Berkshire’s stake in Google isn’t large relative to Alphabet’s massive market cap, it carries powerful signalling value: Buffett’s “Quality Signal” → Higher Perceived Moat When Berkshire adds a company to its portfolio, markets generally interpret it as: The business has durable competitive advantages Long-term earnings power is strong Management quality is high Shareholder returns are likely to compound predictably For Alphabet, Berkshire’s move reinforces the idea that Google’s moat in AI, Search, YouTube, Android, Maps, and Cloud is still wide, durable, and undervalued relative to long-term earnings.

Anthropic and Google Cloud strike big AI chips deal Executive Summary Good news first: Alphabet Inc. (ticker: GOOGL/GOOG) has just struck a big deal with Anthropic, their cloud division (Google Cloud) will provide Anthropic with “tens of billions of dollars” of computing capability.