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Kroger said it would acquire privately held Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion. Kroger’s potential merger with Albertsons was blocked by a federal judge halted the deal in late 2024.
Neon secured rights to Artificial, a Sam Altman-focused OpenAI film previously tied to Amazon MGM.
US lifts export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after Anthropic addresses safety concerns.
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc. has had a remarkable 12 months by just about any measure you can imagine.Most Read from BloombergSpaceX IPO Left Mirae With No Shares on MisunderstandingSupreme Court Backs Birthright Citizenship in Blow to TrumpTrump Reports at Least $1.4 Billion in 2025 Crypto EarningsWhatsApp Opens Username Reservations to 3 Billion UsersYen Hits Four-Decade Low in Historic Slide That’s Rattled JapanThe stock price has more than doubled, raising its market capitalization by more t
(Bloomberg) -- On the southwest coast of County Cork, where the lush green landscape gives way to the paler green of the Atlantic Ocean, Ireland is about to make its mark in the tech world again. A subsea cable is due to make landfall here, a high-capacity fiber-optic link designed to handle artificial intelligence loads for Amazon Web Services customers across Europe.Most Read from BloombergSpaceX IPO Left Mirae With No Shares on MisunderstandingSupreme Court Backs Birthright Citizenship in Blo
The market might be all-in on the AI trade, but a growing chorus of traders and analysts is changing strategies. Mega-cap tech companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon have been hit particularly hard in recent weeks as their plans to spend billions on AI infrastructure have attracted growing ...
(Bloomberg) -- CIA Director John Ratcliffe vowed to step up the agency’s efforts to deploy artificial intelligence and quantum computing, stressing that rapid developments in emerging technologies are changing the nature of geopolitics.Most Read from BloombergSpaceX IPO Left Mirae With No Shares on MisunderstandingSupreme Court Backs Birthright Citizenship in Blow to TrumpYen Hits Four-Decade Low in Historic Slide That’s Rattled JapanWhatsApp Opens Username Reservations to 3 Billion UsersTrump’s
Amazon said on Tuesday it is creating a new division under its Amazon Web Services cloud unit employing so-called forward-deployed engineers who embed with customers to help them more quickly and efficiently adopt artificial intelligence software. The company is committing an initial $1 billion to the initiative with the goal of sending five to six pods of engineers to customers for 45-day periods, said Francessca Vasquez, AWS vice president of frontier AI engineering and services. Forward-deployed engineers are versatile workers who embed directly alongside clients, navigate internal politics and write production-grade code to help make models deliver results.
Investing.com -- The "Magnificent 7" group of technology companies lost approximately $2.3 trillion in market value this month as investors increased scrutiny of large infrastructure spending by these firms.
(Bloomberg) -- Chip stocks are heading for their best quarter ever, extending an extraordinary start to the year driven by insatiable demand for artificial intelligence equipment. But after recent jitters sent the stocks tumbling, investors are wondering how much further the rally can go. Most Read from BloombergYen Hits Four-Decade Low in Historic Slide That’s Rattled JapanTrump’s U-Turn on Iran Sanctions Would Unravel Decades of CurbsWhatsApp Opens Username Reservations to 3 Billion UsersUS St
Australia’s consumer watchdog is alleging that Amazon relied on unfair contract terms to introduce advertising to more than 850,000 local streaming customers.
The Magnificent Seven group of megacap tech stocks has shed more than $2.3tn of value this month, in a violent rotation away from companies spending...
Australia's competition regulator said on Tuesday it has taken Amazon's Australian unit to court, alleging its Prime subscription contracts contained unfair terms that allowed the company to add advertising to Prime Video. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged that between November 2023 and August 2025, Amazon Australia used unfair Prime contract terms to make negative changes for over 1 million annual subscribers without offering compensation. After July 2024, subscribers who wanted to maintain ad-free streaming had to pay an additional A$2.99 per month.
Henry Schwartz, Cboe VP of Derivatives Market Intelligence joins Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton to discuss how SpaceX (SPCX) options volume exploded on day one, shattering Meta’s (META) previous record with 1.8 million contracts traded.
It was a good day for the Magnificent Seven—at least some of them. Tesla stock ended Monday's session up 8.5%, perhaps riding the coat tails of SpaceX, which was up 7.1%. The two Elon Musk companies are tightly linked, jointly developing a chip fabrication complex in Texas.
Investors are entering the second-quarter earnings season focused on whether heavy artificial intelligence spending by major technology companies will begin translating into stronger revenue growth, according to Wedbush Securities analysts. Wedbush wrote that recent weakness in large-cap...
Alphabet shares climbed on Monday as the Google parent made its debut in the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon Communications, and immediately ranking among its most influential members. • Its shares rose 3.7% to $350.24, offering one of the biggest boosts to the 30-member Dow. • The company replaced Verizon on the index, S&P Dow Jones Indices said in an announcement on June 23.
The fight between Walmart and Amazon is no longer just about who can deliver groceries faster or offer the lowest price on household essentials. That rivalry has moved into nearly every part of retail. The two companies compete for shoppers, marketplace sellers, delivery speed, memberships, ...
Technology stocks were trading higher in premarket trading Monday as the looked set to finally snap its five-day losing streak. Semiconductor companies, other artificial-intelligence stocks, and the Magnificent Seven were among those rebounding to start the week. Microsoft jumped 2% ahead of the open, while Amazon Alphabet Nvidia Meta and Tesla were all up around 1%.
(Bloomberg) -- Eternal Ltd. and Swiggy Ltd. got the 10-minute delivery party going in India. Now, e-commerce titans Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc.’s Flipkart are looking to crash it.Most Read from BloombergTrump’s U-Turn on Iran Sanctions Would Unravel Decades of CurbsAramco Helicopter Crash in Ras Tanura Kills All 14 on BoardOil Pares Early Gains as US, Iran Halt Attacks After Flare-UpUS and Iran Agree to Halt Attacking Each Other Ahead of TalksAnthropic’s Mythos 5 AI Model Cleared by US for
(Bloomberg) -- Even as prediction platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi surged into the global mainstream in recent years, Japan — like its Asian neighbors China and South Korea — remained a no-go zone due to strict anti-gambling regulations. That may be starting to change, thanks to enterprising new startups that are finding ways to skirt regulations.Leading the charge are homegrown platforms launched by Gen Z entrepreneurs. Spearheaded by seven-month-old Miraima, the apps allow users to wager o
Amazon (AMZN) is telling investors that the artificial intelligence boom comes with a very real price tag. And Wall Street needs to take note. Amazon Web Services quietly posted an update to the pricing for Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, a reservation product that allows customers to lock in ...
(Bloomberg) -- The artificial intelligence boom has a power problem, and Wall Street is betting billions on companies that promise to solve it — even if some of the technology hasn’t been fully developed yet. Most Read from BloombergLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansOman Tells Allies Ships Going Through Hormuz May Have to PayApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsAn Analyst’s Missed Rema
Oil prices are tumbling now that the Strait of Hormuz is open, potentially averting a continued rise that could have led to broader, more persistent inflation. But as energy prices plunge, the Federal Reserve may have a new inflation hurdle: artificial intelligence.
Some Amazon customers eligible for money from a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission have just a little longer to submit a claim.
Amazon’s Prime Day is off to a solid start, but the main news may not be how much shoppers are shelling out. It may be what they’re buying. U.S. online spending on the first day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day event jumped 5.3% to $8.3 billion across merchants from a year ago, Adobe Analytics said. ...
GameStop pledged on Friday to pursue its proposed takeover of eBay, even after the e-commerce firm rejected an unsolicited cash-and-stock offer of about $56 billion from the videogame retailer. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen had surprised Wall Street with the offer to buy eBay in May to turn it into a bigger competitor to Amazon. GameStop also expects to generate adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of more than $600 million in fiscal 2026, compared with $345.4 million reported in fiscal 2025, it said in a regulatory filing.
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