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Microsoft's custom processors could reduce AI costs, but they also require substantial investment before delivering meaningful scale.

Palantir slid 1.2% and Microsoft dipped 1.1%. Salesforce ServiceNow and Workday were among the other software stocks trading in the red. The moves came as shares of chip and optical networking companies rallied, following a strong batch of earnings reports that signaled to the market that demand for AI remains robust.

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Tim Cook recently acknowledged that consumers should expect to pay higher prices for Apple products in the near-future as the company can no longer absorb surging costs for memory and storage components. This situation, the CEO noted, has become unsustainable even though the company is doing its best to mitigate it. This pricing pressure has […]

The company has been in talks with TSMC to secure manufacturing capacity for more than 300,000 units for delivery in 2027

Adobe has deliberately traded near-term recurring revenue for free users, and the option chain is charging for the uncertainty that leaves behind.

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Why LegalZoom.com Stock Is Back In Focus LegalZoom.com (LZ) is drawing fresh attention after launching an agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot while cutting its full year revenue outlook, a combination that has sharpened investor focus on the stock. See our latest analysis for LegalZoom.com. LegalZoom.com’s launch inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and interest in M&A comes after a period of weak momentum. The stock’s 7 day share price return is down 30.06% and its 1 year total shareholder return is...

VGT has quietly turned into a three-stock concentration problem for long-term holders, and selling to fix it means handing the IRS a check. There is a pairing strategy that rebalances the exposure without triggering a single taxable event.

White House Science and Technology Advisor Michael Kratsios said some companies are blaming artificial intelligence (AI) for layoffs they likely would have carried out anyway, arguing the explanation "plays better in the press." Kratsios Questions AI Layoff Narrative On Tuesday,...

The Dow’s winning streak was in jeopardy after a broad rally evaporated on Thursday. The blue-chip index was down 377 points, or 0.7%, after opening higher. The S&P 500 was down 0.3%. The Nasdaq Composite was off 0.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down in late-morning trading Thursday, while the the S&P 500 an

Sandisk shattered Wall Street estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter as relentless hyperscaler demand for AI data storage triggered severe capacity bottlenecks and surging memory chip prices.

NOW's 23% YTD drop reflects AI competition and valuation concerns, even as subscription growth and AI monetization remain strong.

The storage and memory maker is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter financials after the stock market closes on Wednesday.

Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow continue to see strong demand, despite the sell-off in their share prices.

On the latest episode of the AI Investor Podcast, 24/7 Wall St. Analyst Austin Smith opens with a puzzle: two companies are being treated in opposite ways for the same underlying behavior. Microsoft is up roughly 16% after Azure growth accelerated from 38% to 43%, with guidance pointing to 45–46%, vindicating a capex program the market had criticized. Meta, meanwhile, is down about 10% at roughly 20x earnings despite 28% top-line growth — and is being punished for the same infrastructure spending, even after Zuckerberg argued that Meta rents out compute at a markup over its cost. Co-host Eric Bleeker's answer is that both moves are likely overreactions, and that the real variable is what each company said versus what Wall Street wanted to hear. Microsoft delivered on message: Azure at a $124 billion run rate, 90% of cloud demand coming from outside the frontier labs, and no capex increase. He frames Microsoft's position as a prisoner's dilemma, since compute routed to Azure is compute unavailable for its own AI products, and argues Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella relented under pressure from prior quarters. He compares the market's discomfort with capex growth to Apple's mid-decade smartphone choppiness versus Google's steadier trajectory. Meta hit every wrong note: an EPS miss on one-time costs, decelerating guidance, Zuckerberg walking back the cloud-capacity revenue opportunity, and incremental compute directed toward Meta Superintelligence rather than the core ad business. Eric estimates the justified moves were only a few percent in either direction, with the rest attributable to PR and positioning. He credits Microsoft's software exposure as valuable diversification, but concludes the share-price gap doesn't reflect any real difference in business trajectory.

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Apple (AAPL) asked a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring ChatGPT maker OpenAI and two form

Supply shortages and below-consensus guidance continued separating Apple from the broader mega-cap technology rally.

US equity indexes ended higher Monday as crude oil prices fell after President Donald Trump said the

Chip stocks have taken it on the chin lately, but worries about the AI trade don’t have to bring down the entire market. The S&P 500’s information technology and communications sectors fell 15% from June 1 through July 29, when the Federal Reserve announced it was holding the fed-funds rate steady, strategist Jim Paulsen wrote Monday on Substack. The overall S&P 500 ended up down less than 4%.

UK, Australian, and Italian regulators have opened investigations into Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) regarding Microsoft 365 subscription changes and the integration of Copilot features. The probes focus on whether Microsoft clearly informed customers about product changes, Copilot rollout, and related pricing. Authorities are examining potential misleading practices and the impact on consumer rights in key international markets. Microsoft sits at the center of cloud software and productivity...

Higher interest rates and profit-taking outweighed evidence that cloud and device companies need increasing quantities of memory chips.

Apple earnings growth is picking up while largely avoiding the AI spending spree by other tech giants.

Microsoft faces an August 11 Copilot lawsuit deadline, days after the biggest one-day market cap gain in US history.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) fell 20% since July 15th, even though FQ2 2026 revenue beat estimates. Sales rose 28% year over year to $60.8 billion, ahead of the $60.3 billion Wall Street wanted, and ad impressions climbed 14%. Investors aren’t punishing Meta’s ad business, they’re punishing what it costs to run. Why Did it Tank? What […]