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Meta stock fell more than 6% Friday following a report that it will sell new stock to raise cash for its AI buildout.
Goldman Sachs models $765 billion in annual AI capital spending for 2026, climbing toward $1.6 trillion by 2031. That kind of multi-year buildout is the backdrop for three actively managed (or active-leaning) AI funds that have separated themselves from the passive crowd: the iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF (NYSEARCA:BAI), the iShares Future AI ... After Months of Watching AI Innovation ETFs Run These 3 Active Funds Stand Out and the Revolution Has Barely Started
A $10,000 stake in Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF (NASDAQ:GTEK) on the last trading day of 2025 was worth about $15,200 at Monday’s close, with the fund up 52% year to date through June 1, 2026. The same $10,000 dropped into the S&P 500 via the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) over ... Goldman’s Future Tech ETF Turned $10k Into $15.2k While the S&P 500 Made $1.1k
Microsoft remains one of the most influential stocks in software. Recent technical weakness in Microsoft shares could have broader implications for the sector’s rally.
Technology stocks tumbled sharply Friday as the Nasdaq headed for its worst week in a year. Nasdaq Inc. shed nearly 2% in afternoon trades, as Nvidia, Micron and Sandisk fell. Tech behemoths like Amazon and Google edged lower.
Investing.com -- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily stop processing applications for tax breaks offered to data centers seeking to build in the state, according to a report by NBC News on Friday. The pause will begin July 1 and is part of an effort to develop new rules for how these facilities should operate.
Ten years ago, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) was the database company everyone respected but few investors loved. It had missed the first wave of cloud, ceded ground to Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), and seemed destined to be a slow-growth dividend payer. A decade later, it is one of the most aggressive AI infrastructure ... The Tech Stock Everyone Wrote Off Just Quietly Built a $553 Billion Backlog
Tech stocks were lower Friday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XL
LinkedIn Co-Founder Will Not Seek Reelection In 2026
Here are three companies with deep AI runways and the cash flow to keep investing through whatever the next decade brings.
If you put $10,000 into Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXQ) on the last trading day of 2025, you are sitting on about $19,400 this morning. The same $10,000 in the S&P 500 (via SPY) is worth roughly $11,140. SOXQ is up 94% year to date through June 2, 2026, against 11% for SPY. The headline ... The Chip ETF That Turned a $10k Bet Into Nearly $20k This Year
The pitch for Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG) sits at the cheap end of a long-running debate about whether active stock pickers can beat an index dominated by mega-cap growth names. VUG charges 0.03% and currently holds about $234 billion in assets, tracking the CRSP US Large Cap Growth Index via full replication. For a 52-year-old ... Vanguard’s $223 Billion Growth ETF VUG Is Quietly Beating Most Large Cap Active Funds at One Tenth the Cost
The four largest technology companies in the world are collectively making approximately $725 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, the overwhelming majority on AI infrastructure. In the same period, those same companies have laid off tens of thousands of workers. Meta's CEO told staff directly ...
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square has laid out one of the more provocative big-cap calls of this AI cycle. On the All-In Podcast, he argued that today’s mega-cap incumbents are being treated the way the market treated Warren Buffett’s empire, Berkshire Hathaway, at the peak of the dot-com bubble: as yesterday’s story while ... Billionaire Investor Bill Ackman: Buying Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon Today Could Be Like Adding Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway 25 Years Ago
Elon Musk used a JPMorgan-hosted investor event this week to pitch SpaceX as entering a new chapter, telling Jamie Dimon that the company is “embarking on a massive new growth phase, and we need capital for that.” The IPO is scheduled to price on NASDAQ on June 12, 2026. S&P Global declined to change its ... The S&P 500 Snubs SpaceX as Elon Musk Describes a Coming ‘Massive Growth Phase’
The European stock markets closed mixed Friday as the Stoxx Europe declined 0.2%, Germany's DAX was
Reid Hoffman, billionaire co-founder of networking website LinkedIn, has decided not to stand for re-election to Microsoft's board of directors at its 2026 annual shareholder meeting, the software giant said in a filing on Friday. Hoffman, who has served on the board since 2017, will stay on till the meeting. In 2016, he sold LinkedIn to Microsoft for $26.2 billion in what was at the time the tech giant's largest-ever deal.
Not all of the market is near all-time highs.
Oracle (ORCL) is expected to provide clarity on the pace of its data center buildout to show whether
(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI would likely have unraveled if Sam Altman hadn’t returned as chief executive officer following his brief ouster in 2023, former tech chief Mira Murati said, offering her clearest account yet of one of Silicon Valley’s most dramatic boardroom battles.Most Read from BloombergBecerra Advances in California’s $300 Million Governor RaceSpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&PSaylor’s Bitcoin Machine Is Misfiring on Every Cylinder‘Sell Indonesia’ Sweeps Trading Desk
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The stocks featured in this article are seeing some big returns. Over the past month, they’ve outpaced the market due to some combination of positive news, upbeat results, or supportive macro developments. As such, investors are taking notice and bidding up shares.
NOW falls nearly 30% in six months as acquisition integration costs, deal delays and competition pressure its near-term outlook.
Devenex has introduced a new governance infrastructure intended to manage the execution of AI agents within enterprises, highlighting a key development in the Cloud AI sector. As AI agents increasingly perform critical tasks such as modifying financial records and approving workflows, there is a growing need for robust oversight mechanisms. This infrastructure, launched at Google Cloud Next 2026, provides enterprises with a control layer that ensures all AI-initiated actions are governed...
On CNBC’s Squawk Box on June 4, 2026, Andrew Yang, CEO of Noble Mobile and founder of the Forward Party, made a candid admission about how AI is reshaping his own company and called for a sweeping change to how the U.S. taxes automation. When he was asked whether companies are cutting entry-level hiring because ... AI CEO On CNBC: ‘We Are Replacing Junior Employees with AI.’ The Only Solution is a Tax on AI and Robots