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Google's current place on one leaderboard says little about sales or profit by itself. The company has not yet reported the quarter discussed here, so this story adds no new business results. Alphabet says it may give up possible cloud sales to focus on AI and expects $195 billion to $205 billion in capital spending this year. Those costs and the chance Anthropic may take the lead weigh against Google's current ranking, leaving the story balanced.