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Advanced Micro Devices has had a stellar year so far. AMD shares were down around 5% on Wednesday following its earnings the previous day. The big question hangs over AMD’s ability to take market share from Nvidia’s graphics-processing units.
Snap's stock has cratered while nearly a billion users keep scrolling, and that gap between price and audience has a handful of tech giants quietly doing the math. The catch is a pair of founders who may have no intention of answering the phone.
Superintelligence is a form of artificial intelligence that can surpass the cognitive abilities of humans.
Investors are increasingly concerned about Meta's AI spending and its impact on the company's cash flow.
When Meta announced a $50 billion data center in a Louisiana parish of 20,000 people, some landowners became overnight millionaires. For retirees living on Social Security and a monthly lease, the same project set off a very different kind of countdown.
Host Kenny Polcari joins Man Group Chief Market Strategist Kristina Hooper and Legato Financial CIO Ryan Kelly to debate the risks of massive AI CapEx spending and how a hawkish Federal Reserve could impact markets ahead of the midterms.
Investing.com - Chinese optical module makers control roughly two-thirds of global transceiver supply, and no Western alternative can absorb that volume within the next one to two years, Counterpoint Research warned — a finding that casts doubt on whether a proposed U.S. import ban can be executed without damaging the AI infrastructure buildout it is meant to protect.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:AMD, XETRA:AMD) delivered close to the quarter the bulls wanted, and the shares fell almost 9% anyway. Revenue of $11.5 billion was up 50% year on year and ahead of the $11.28 billion consensus, while adjusted earnings of $1.66 a share beat forecasts of...
Every dollar hyperscalers spend building alternatives to Nvidia has to go somewhere, and one company keeps collecting it across custom silicon, switch fabric, and AI networking without most investors noticing.
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said artificial intelligence (AI) may have entered a self-improvement cycle that could accelerate AI capabilities rapidly, predicting breakthroughs and falling model costs over the next 18 months. Chamath Sees AI Feedback Loop On Sunday, Palihapitiya, founder...
The new framework, completed in recent days, is seen as most likely to affect OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
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.
Arista Networks stock soared Tuesday after the network infrastructure company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings. The results provided further evidence that demand for artificial-intelligence services is accelerating, with hardware suppliers like Arista among the main beneficiaries. Arista reported adjusted earnings of $1.02 a share for the second quarter, up from 73 cents last year and above analysts’ call for 89 cents, per FactSet.
Following the demise of its ill-fated Libra experiment, the company is offering third-party cryptocurrency options for creators and advertisers.
Short sellers piled into Microsoft and Amazon at historically stretched levels before earnings, and the beats that followed set off a covering scramble that has powered both stocks for weeks. Now the question is whether the rally has legs or whether the easiest gains are already gone.
Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mostly for data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence boom. The commitments show that a substantial part of Big Tech's AI spending spree has already been locked in, without yet appearing as debt-like lease liabilities on company balance sheets. The total is nearly four times the roughly $285 billion of lease liabilities already recognised on the companies' balance sheets, according to company filings compiled by Reuters.
Meta Platforms (META) has moved back into focus after Q2 2026 earnings showed strong revenue growth alongside sharply higher AI infrastructure spending. Investors are weighing that combination against a lumpier share price over the past year. See our latest analysis for Meta Platforms. Meta Platforms' latest Q2 update and heavier AI data center spend have come after a choppy run for the stock. The share price is up 6.02% over one day but down 9.25% year to date, and the 1 year total...
Nvidia keeps smashing records while skeptics like Michael Burry stack up bearish bets against it, yet one top analyst sees a supply crunch so severe it could make the doubters regret sitting on the sidelines.
CoreWeave stock rose after the artificial intelligence data center builder said it will expand in Asia-Pacific markets.
Dan Ives thinks the AI spending wave has barely started, and the hyperscalers are finally proving the skeptics wrong. The question now is which stocks stand to benefit most before the rest of the market catches on.
Meta just posted 28% revenue growth and investors sold the stock hard anyway, spooked by soaring infrastructure spend and a murky AI strategy. Before you join the panic, consider what Wall Street may be getting badly wrong about where Meta is actually headed.
Every earnings season has a moment where a CEO says something that cuts through the noise. Not a guidance range or a revenue beat. Something that reframes how investors are supposed to think about the company. Meta's Q2 call on July 29 had one of those moments, and it didn't come from the income ...
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