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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has urged his lieutenants to explore partnerships with the popular prediction markets ‌Polymarket and Kalshi as his company builds a similar ‌app, the New York Times said on Friday, citing three employees with knowledge ​of the matter. Meta and Kalshi did not immediately respond to requests for comment, while Polymarket declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. The social media company's executives ‌have said Arena, Meta's ⁠new prediction market app under development, will differ from Polymarket and Kalshi, which accept real-money wagers, because ⁠it will instead rely on video-game-like "points", the report said.

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.’s top executive in charge of the Vision Pro headset and the company’s smart glasses efforts is leaving for OpenAI, continuing a streak of high-profile defections to rivals in the artificial intelligence and hardware sectors.Most Read from BloombergLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsOman Tells Allies Ships Going Through Hormu

President Trump on Friday threatened to greatly increase tariffs on European nations if they follow through on plans to impose new taxes on U.S. tech companies. “Numerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.”

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods imported from countries that impose digital services taxes, escalating pressure on European nations that just ratified a trade pact with the US. Most Read from BloombergBond Traders Stunned as Losses on SpaceX’s New Debt Keep GrowingLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsMam

There's been a lot of focus on the recent selloff in tech stocks. As Dan Ives at Wedbush Securities sees it, investors are growing frustrated that big spending by some companies on AI infrastructure has yet to produce a clearer growth payoff. "Microsoft and Meta are being treated by investors like they are wearing winter jackets to the beach in the summer," he wrote.

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister vowed on Friday to bullet-proof laws supporting a social media ban for under-16s as the government prepares legal action against

On June 14, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a 1,200-word essay on X titled "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable." It got 28 million views. The essay drew a direct line between AI concentration and globalization and argued that the AI industry is heading toward the same kind of ...

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister said on Friday he was keen to make sure the country's social media ban for children was as strong as possible, as a new study found

Netflix stock sank to its lowest level in 20 months as the subscription streaming video leader deals with negative sentiment.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook policy executive, is suing Meta over its attempts to stop her from talking about her book, “Careless People,” a New York Times bestseller.

Micron Technology edged past the market valuation ‌of Meta Platforms and briefly ‌Tesla's for the first time on Thursday, ​after the memory chipmaker's solid forecast helped extend its AI-driven ascent. The company's shares were last up 18.4% ‌at $1,236, giving ⁠it a market capitalization of $1.398 trillion, compared with Meta's $1.392 ⁠trillion. Tesla had a market value stood of $1.4 trillion.

(Bloomberg) -- Revenue from artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point, showing that the hundreds of billions of dollars tech companies are spending on it may be economically sustainable, according to a report from research firm Exponential View. Most Read from BloombergInvestor Who Scored 900% Win in 2008 Crisis Has New Big Short BetGrand Ole Opry House Up For Sale by Owner Ryman HospitalityStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapStocks Climb Late After Micron’s B

By Ashwin Manikandan, Jaspreet Kalra and Haripriya Suresh MUMBAI, June 25 (Reuters) - Kunal Shah, an Indian fintech founder with no engineering degree or Silicon Valley pedigree, has spent two decades

Demand for memory chips is pushing prices higher. Will AI’s promise of increased productivity come in time to temper that inflation?

By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. bond yields tumbled on Wednesday as oil's slide to a four-month low eased inflation fears, although the relief wasn't felt as much in

Investing.com - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU and secured Meta Platforms as its first major customer on Wednesday, announcing a strategic multi-generation supply agreement at its Investor Day 2026 in New York City. Despite the milestone announcements, Qualcomm shares are trading at $193.61, down 5.15% on the session, as investors weigh the near-term cost of a separate ~$4 billion acquisition against data center revenue that won’t arrive until th

Reels came from TikTok's rise. Threads came from Twitter's implosion. Mark Zuckerberg has spent the better part of a decade identifying fast-growing categories, building Meta's version, and running it through a user base that no other company can match. He just found his next one. The New York ...

Alphabet's inclusion in the Dow gives the 130-year-old blue-chip index a dose of the same mega-cap tech trade already dominating the Nasdaq 100.

The U.S. dollar has separated from the pack, rising to the highest levels in more than a year and building on gains again Wednesday, as investors use the greenback as a sanctuary from risks tied to the global tech selloff and calibrate the impact of expected Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes over the back half of the year. There also was little change in Fed forecasts with futures indicating a 60% chance of a rate hike in September. Charalampos Pissouros, senior market analyst at XM, thinks the dollar rally is extending beyond the Fed funds trade.

Amazon’s chief executive has said that power is the “single biggest constraint” in its cloud and artificial-intelligence business. Here, Amazon has an incumbent advantage. It is the world’s largest cloud provider and has been building a lot of data centers over the past two decades.

(Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc.’s earnings report on Wednesday afternoon is shaping up to be one of the most important in months as investors find themselves suddenly on edge over the sustainability of the AI rally.Most Read from BloombergStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some Roles‘FOMO Really Got Me’: Taiwanese Go Deep Into Debt to Amp 100% Stock RallySpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Marke

(Bloomberg) -- ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, is in preliminary talks with banks for a borrowing of about $20 billion, people familiar with the matter said, in what would be the firm’s largest offshore loan yet at a time when it’s boosting investments in artificial intelligence.Most Read from BloombergStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some Roles‘FOMO Really Got Me’: Taiwanese Go Deep Into Debt to Amp 100%

By Diana Novak Jones June 23 (Reuters) - Google's YouTube has settled with a minor who claimed the platform caused mental health harms, the plaintiff’s lawyers said, ahead of a second California trial

Google's YouTube has settled a lawsuit brought by a minor who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, his lawyers said Tuesday, ahead of a second California trial over social media's role in the youth ‌mental health crisis. The suit named ‌four defendants — YouTube, Meta's Instagram, Snap Inc's Snapchat and ByteDance's TikTok — and the remaining three companies are still set to face trial in July. Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said in a ​statement that the lawsuit had been amicably resolved.

Retail investors have spent decades watching Bill Ackman make concentrated bets from the outside, The Motley Fool noted, piecing together his moves through quarterly filings that arrive months after the trades close. That dynamic changed when Pershing Square USA (PSUS) began trading on the New York ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar ‌to Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, ‌citing two employees with knowledge of the matter. Prediction markets surged ⁠in popularity during the 2024 U.S. presidential election and have evolved into an asset class that lets investors wager on ⁠a variety of events, from monetary policy to sports tournaments. Trading platforms such as Robinhood and Interactive Brokers have rolled out event contracts.

Stocks could be facing the end-of-quarter reckoning many investors feared when Elon Musk’s SpaceX unveiled plans for its multibillion-dollar initial public offering and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh took over the central bank’s policy reigns earlier this month. The early signs of a late June “tech wreck” started to formulate Monday, with Google parent Alphabet shedding more than $225 billion in market value, its biggest slump in more than a year, and SpaceX extending its three-day decline to more than $600 billion. Shares in SpaceX were falling 4.3% in premarket trading Tuesday, putting them below $150 a share.

Micron Technology's stock has risen by almost 9x over the past twelve months, taking its market capitalization above $1.2 trillion - among the largest single-year gains in the company's four-decade trading history. The rally is driven by surging demand and a shortage of high-bandwidth memory that is used alongside AI accelerators in data centers. Hyperscalers, including Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), and Meta (META), are projected to spend roughly $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year,

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms announced Tuesday a new line of AI smart glasses in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, marking the company's first entry into lower-priced models under its own brand.

Meta is launching a new line of AI-powered smart glasses called Meta Glasses.