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Broadcom shares climbed Tuesday, July 14, 2026, after Morgan Stanley published one of its most forceful defenses yet of the company’s position in artificial intelligence chips. The relief looks fragile. The stock is still down sharply from the record high it set barely six weeks earlier, and this ...
Apple is looking to buy chip companies to bolster its efforts to make server processors for running AI, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. • Apple's interest comes as it faces challenges with the performance of its in-house AI servers, which currently run on internally designed M2 Ultra chips, according to The Information. • It had originally planned to ship a future version of its AI server chip, known internally as "Baltra", this year, but the project has been pushed back, people familiar with the matter told The Information.
Apple is officially shopping. The iPhone maker is quietly exploring acquisitions of semiconductor startups to supercharge its artificial intelligence server capabilities, moving aggressively to close the gap in the high-stakes AI arms race. According to a report from The Information, Apple has been in active talks with investment bankers and semiconductor startups over the past few months to gauge potential buyouts. The driving force behind this push? A pressing need for more horsepower. Current
(Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett said he initiated Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s bet on Google parent Alphabet Inc., a sign of the billionaire’s support for the technology company’s spending on artificial intelligence.The Berkshire chairman’s successor as chief executive officer, Greg Abel, doesn’t make any decision Buffett doesn’t approve of, and vice versa, Buffett said in a CNBC interview Wednesday. Buffett said he made a mistake overlooking Alphabet when it was still asset-light and a markets darli
Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday urged Europe's top court to dismiss EU antitrust regulators' appeal against a lower court ruling that scrapped a €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) fine, saying the regulators' arguments were flawed. The dispute reached the Court of Justice of the European Union after regulators appealed a 2024 General Court ruling that annulled the fine imposed on Google in 2019. The lower court cited errors in the European Commission's assessment of the case.
(Bloomberg) -- ASML Holding NV lifted its annual sales forecast for the second time this year as a surge in artificial intelligence spending drives demand for the Dutch company’s chip-making machines. Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeTrump Drops 20% Fee for Hormuz Cargo After Gulf Pressure‘We Faltered’: IBM Plunges Most Since at Least 1968 on MissOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Mov
The rush for cash by some of the world’s largest companies is putting the long bull market at risk. SpaceX’s record $75 billion public offering. Investors have been cheering the raging bull market for years—three years and nine months, to be precise—with the S&P 500 having more than doubled during that period.

Chinese large language model (LLM) developer DeepSeek is reportedly preparing for an IPO later this year or in 2027. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley outlines what we know so far.
(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era, according to people familiar with the matter.Most Read from BloombergUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeTrump Shelves 20% Fee for Hormuz Cargo After Gulf PressureA Cocaine Bust in Spain Leads All the Way to Wall StreetUS CPI Falls for the First Time Since 2020, Core Gauge Flat‘We Fal
Netflix is facing a host of challenges as it prepares to report its second-quarter results late Thursday.
(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trounced its own Wall Street stock-trading records, posting $7.42 billion for a quarter that saw indexes rip higher and ongoing market volatility around artificial intelligence and war in the Middle East.Most Read from BloombergUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Trump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Le
MARKETS AM NEWSLETTER Oil prices surged Monday, erasing a month of declines, amid renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran. But investors’ attention will likely drift Tuesday, at least temporarily, to a flood of bank earnings and the latest reading of U.
(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said that in the not-so-distant future, nuclear fusion technology will offer the most realistic solution for powering AI data centers’ ballooning needs. Most Read from BloombergUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Trump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleHormuz Route

Big banks are kicking off second quarter earnings season on Tuesday, with reports from JPMorgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Wells Fargo (WFC), Bank of America (BAC), and Citigroup (C). Morgan Stanley (MS) posts its results on Wednesday. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter David Hollerith explains what investors need to know.
(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street’s trading bonanza is poised to keep rolling. Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Hormuz Route Open Despite Iran Declaration, Maritime Group SaysTrump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleUS Renews Iran Strikes as Both Sides Dispute Hormuz StatusThe biggest US banks — set to kick off a marathon Tuesday with five of those firms reporting se
July 13 (Reuters) - More than 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, have called for governments and technology leaders to
(Bloomberg) -- Investors are flocking back to Apple Inc. as nervousness about artificial intelligence spending weighs on the stocks of chipmakers and cloud-computing giants. Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Hormuz Route Open Despite Iran Declaration, Maritime Group SaysOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleTrump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkUS Renews Iran Strikes as Both Sides Dispute Hormuz
(Bloomberg) -- The European Union will propose a law to restrict children’s access to social media, according to the bloc’s top official, as part of a growing global consensus about the harm it causes. Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Hormuz Route Open Despite Iran Declaration, Maritime Group SaysOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleTrump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkUS Renews Iran Strikes
Investing.com -- Investors are reassessing artificial intelligence investments as surging infrastructure spending could weigh on earnings growth and valuation multiples, even as demand for AI services remains robust, according to ING.
Jim Cramer says the SK Hynix mega-listing clears the biggest threat hanging over AI stocks in 2026, but one scenario could blow that thesis apart before summer ends.
The project pipeline for data centers in North America increased by 4% in June from May, with hyperscalers driving the growth.
Police officers across the country are learning how to direct, corral, and when necessary, punish autonomous taxis.