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Dividends are one way for profitable companies to reward their shareholders, while also signaling financial strength and confidence in their future cash flow. Tech stocks, however, have traditionally prioritized stock buybacks over dividends as a way to reinvest excess cash and return value to ...

T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund portfolio manager Tony Wang examines the back-and-forth activity appearing in semiconductor stocks, especially as the bar remains high for memory chip makers and SK Hynix's (000660.KS) US IPO listing is seven-times oversubscribed.

July 9 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Thursday released long-awaited developer access to its Muse Spark AI model alongside an upgraded version, pitting it directly against the business models of

Meta Platforms plans to start manufacturing an artificial intelligence chip from September as part of its plan to boost overall ‌computing power to 14 gigawatts next year, showed an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. The tech firm's data center ‌chip, code-named "Iris", is part of a four-generation project for Meta Training and Inference Accelerators (MTIA) that it will design in-house. Meta tailored the chip for its own needs and is working with Broadcom ‌to help design it and Taiwan Semiconductor ⁠Manufacturing Co to manufacture it.

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than US$9.1 billion to build its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada and its largest outside the United States. The facility will be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and powered by a natural gas-fired plant being developed by a consortium that includes Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Ltd. Technology and Innovation Minister Nate Glubish called the project “a big deal for Alberta,” saying the province had created a regulatory framework to attract data center investment.

Meta says it will build its first data center in Canada.

Tech giant Meta announced Wednesday it will build a massive data center in central Alberta, the company's first in Canada, as it rapidly ‌builds out computing capacity to support the global AI boom. The 1-gigawatt data center will ‌be located in Sturgeon County and represents a total investment of C$13 billion, or $9.17 billion, Meta said. Meta has doubled down on ​AI, pledging hundreds of billions of dollars to build large AI data centers in the U.S. The Alberta announcement represents the company's 33rd data center globally.

PARIS, July 8 (Reuters) - France's competition authority on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to resume talks with French media groups over payments for publishing content, after the publishers

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Europe's second-highest court on Wednesday dismissed Apple's challenge against landmark ‌EU rules labelling its app stores and ‌operating system iOS as gatekeepers subject to strict obligations. "The General ​Court dismisses Apple's actions regarding its designation as a gatekeeper in relation to the App Store and iOS," the Luxembourg-based tribunal said. It also said ‌that Apple's actions ⁠regarding the iMessage service are inadmissible.

The flood of new bonds to fund the artificial-intelligence build-out seems to finally be getting a little bit much for investors. The extra yield, or spread, investors demand to hold bonds backed by AI hyperscalers moved broadly higher on Tuesday as Amazon issued $25 billion of bonds, returning to the U.S. debt market just four months after it completed a $37 billion bond sale. The spread on Amazon’s 5.8% notes due in 2036 jumped to 0.7 percentage point from 0.63 percentage point on Monday, according to MarketAxess.

Shares of CoreWeave took a hard hit after news broke that Meta Platforms is building a cloud business to sell spare AI computing power. The tech stock fell sharply over two trading sessions last week, and is currently valued at a market cap of $64.4 billion. Notably, Meta (META) is one of ...

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Shares of the veteran handset maker have surged roughly 90% this year as it pivots to become a heavyweight infrastructure supplier.

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July 7 (Reuters) - The world's largest technology companies are tapping debt markets and raising equity to bolster AI infrastructure, marking a shift for Silicon Valley firms that typically relied on

Another day, another massive bond sale from a company borrowing heavily to invest in artificial-intelligence infrastructure. Amazon is expected to issue at least $25 billion of new U.S.-dollar bonds today, just four months after it issued $37 billion of bonds in the U.

Amazon.com is looking to raise at least $25 billion through a U.S. dollar bond sale, Bloomberg ‌News reported on Tuesday, in the company's latest push ‌to fund its hefty AI investments. Tech companies have been tapping debt markets and ​launching equity sales to fund their costly AI infrastructure build-out. Big Tech, including Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta, are expected to spend more than $700 billion on AI this year.

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On a recent episode of Barron’s Streetwise, host Jack Hough answered a listener named William who was nervous about how much money he had made in AI-adjacent names like Dell (NYSE:DELL) and HPE (NYSE:HPE). Hough’s answer had a number in it that should probably make everyone else nervous too. “You can look at the S&P 500 right now ... The S&P 500 Looks Pricey at 22x Earnings. On Cash Flow, It’s a Terrifying 32x.

Microsoft is cutting about 2.1% of its workforce, or roughly 4,800 jobs, the latest in a wave of tech layoffs as the Windows maker spends heavily ‌on AI infrastructure and uses the technology to improve efficiency across its business. Big Tech's ‌historic AI outlays, set to top $700 billion this year, are piling pressure on companies to show returns from the technology and ​offset the rising cost of rolling it out across their businesses. Microsoft announced the cuts on Monday following a rough stretch, with its shares falling nearly 23% in the first six months of 2026, their worst first-half performance since 2022.

Morgan Stanley said the recent weakness in U.S. semiconductor stocks is a sign that the market ‌gains are broadening, with investors likely to turn toward ‌AI "hyperscalers" as well as consumer discretionary, transport and biotechnology shares. In a note dated ​Monday, the brokerage said hyperscalers — an industry term for tech companies that are spending big on data centers — could benefit from a rotation away from semiconductor stocks as the AI cycle shifts. Although the ‌likes of Alphabet ⁠and Amazon have committed billions to scale up their AI infrastructure, skyrocketing the share prices of semiconductor ⁠companies, clear evidence that AI products can generate returns that justify the spending is yet to be seen.

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Wall Street just picked a new favorite in the AI chip race, and it isn't the company most investors expect. According to Investing.com, Cantor Fitzgerald analyst C.J. Muse raised his price target on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to $700 from $500 on June 29, keeping his Overweight rating. That ...

Meta Platform's entry into the compute-as-a-service business could have big implications for CoreWeave.

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Meta Platforms (META) has spent much of the artificial intelligence boom asking investors to trust the bill. But now Wall Street might finally be getting a clearer answer on how Mark Zuckerberg plans to turn that spending into revenue. Meta is establishing a cloud business to sell spare AI ...