The scaling back of Project Wing’s efforts is reportedly part of wider budget cuts being made to X, the experimental unit of Alphabet that focuses on so-called “moonshot” projects.

Just like Waymo, Project Loon started out as a small part of Google and currently operates inside X, Alphabet’s semi-secret research and development facility.

The agreement keeps Alphabet’s project alive. Alphabet’s goal to build a model neighborhood for the digital age has been controversial since it was announced in October 2017.

Google parent company Alphabet's internet-delivering balloon service and its drone delivery project have graduated from X programs to full-fledged businesses at Alphabet. From here, Alphabet says ...

Alphabet has announced it’s ending its association with Makani on a project that aimed to use giant kites to unlock wind energy. Makani started life in California in 2006 before Alphabet (then ...

Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous vehicle technology will be a big part of its Toronto project to make urban life more Googley. Sidewalk Labs LLC, a unit of Google parent Alphabet, and Waterfront ...

An Alphabet X innovation lab project has been working on a high-speed wireless optical communications network that uses beams of light instead of cables or radio waves, and folks in Kenya will be ...