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Yet beneath the surface, billions of microbes are hard at work decomposing leaves, wood, and other organic matter.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

The plan shows how quickly Alphabet has flipped from buying back billions of dollars of its shares in 2024 and 2025 to no repurchases in the first quarter and now selling stock.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

It also recently made huge cuts to its workforce amid billions of dollars of spending on AI.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Estonia’s project is one of the most high-profile showcases in a new commercial race for the educational AI market that some analysts predict will total tens of billions of dollars annually by 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

On some of the billions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy, life may never arise.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan