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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.

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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The recent Big Tech correction is a healthy reset, not a market crash. Big Tech capex remains the S&P 500's core engine. With falling gas prices driving down headline CPI and an impending dovish Fed pivot, current market levels offer an ideal entry point for a new historic rally.

On June 12, Amazon engineers handed a report to the U.S. Commerce Department. Within hours, two of Anthropic's newest AI models went offline for every user on the planet. Nineteen days later, Anthropic got them back. The return of Claude Fable 5 to global availability on July 1 is the result of two ...

Anthropic has opened early talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI chip, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Claude developer has never built its own silicon before. It has relied entirely on chips rented from Amazon, Google, and Nvidia, and that dependence is now colliding ...

Tesla said on Friday its robotaxi was available in Miami, ‌as the electric vehicle maker looks ‌to expand its autonomous ride-hailing operations. The expansion highlights ​Tesla's efforts to increase adoption of its self-driving software, a version of which it uses in the robotaxis and a key ‌part of CEO ⁠Elon Musk's shift from EVs to AI and robotics. Tesla's move comes ​as the ​robotaxi sector gains ​momentum, with competitors ‌such as Alphabet's Waymo and Amazon's Zoox accelerating their expansion efforts.

The judgment concludes a legal dispute that began after the European Commission fined Google in 2018 for abusing market dominance.

As Alphabet is gearing up to report its fiscal Q2 earnings report soon, analysts predict its EPS to rise by double digits.

The next major space company might not be building rockets It may not be launching satellites into space, flying tourists to the edge of the atmosphere, or competing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the next big thing in orbit. Instead, it might accomplish something a little less glamorous: helping ...

Wall Street does not punish companies for spending money. It punishes them for spending money without a story. Give investors a believable path from this year's bills to next year's profits and they will forgive almost any number on the capital expenditure line. Take that story away, and every ...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares traded about 1% lower on Thursday after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) upheld a €4.1 billion ($4.67 billion) antitrust fine against Google over its Android mobile operating system. The ruling marks the end of Google's legal challenge against the European...

EU court backs regulators in long-running case.

Ed Elson and tech reporter Alex Heath spent a recent segment of Prof G Markets arguing about the same set of facts and reaching almost opposite conclusions. Elson thinks OpenAI is a company drifting sideways while leaks about an IPO pile up. Heath thinks the leaks are the story, and most of them are being ... Is OpenAI’s IPO a Hot Mess or Just Media Noise? Two Reporters Can’t Agree

Europe's top court upheld findings that Google abused Android's market dominance.

On this episode of Stock Movers: - SoftBank (SFTBY) shares are responding to news that it is starting a new U.S. venture to rent out the computing power needed to build and run artificial-intelligence models, aiming to capitalize on strong American demand for AI computing resources. - Shares of Alphabet/Google (GOOG) are responding to the company losing its long-running fight against a 4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android's market power.

OpenAI already has a lineup of impressive investors ahead of its eagerly awaited initial public offering. OpenAI has talked about offering a 5% ownership stake to the U.S. government, potentially via a sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the talks. There would be a couple of potential benefits for OpenAI if the Trump administration were among its investors.

The U.S. innovation engine, from the Model T to SpaceX and AI, continues to be a rocket for America's economy. But China is a growing rival.

Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo on Thursday said it had completed the cloud migration of its ‌core IT systems, joining a handful of European banks that have ‌managed to move away from legacy technology. Replacing existing core IT infrastructure, known as ​mainframes, with cloud technology poses a major challenge to traditional banks. Legacy systems, often comprising multiple software stacks accumulated over time due to mergers, put high-street banks at a disadvantage versus cloud-native, challenger banks.

July 2 (Reuters) - European regulators have launched a series of antitrust, privacy and online safety investigations into major technology companies in recent years.

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Alphabet's Google lost a lengthy battle to overturn a fine of about $4.69 billion imposed by the European Union over its Android operating system. The bloc's top court today upheld the fine, settling a yearslong dispute over how Google utilizes its position to direct users to its own search engine on devices like smartphones.

Alphabet’s Google lost a lengthy battle to overturn the penalty—the largest the EU has handed the company in its efforts to curb Google’s online dominance.

Alphabet's Google on Thursday lost its fight against a record fine imposed by ‌EU antitrust regulators eight years ago for using its Android mobile operating ‌system to block rivals, a court ruling likely to boost Europe's crackdown on Big Tech. The European ​Commission had originally handed out a €4.34 billion fine to Google in 2018 for its agreements which forced phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search, the Chrome browser and the Google Play app store on their Android devices and prevented them from using rival ‌Android systems. Google then appealed ⁠to the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union, Europe's highest.

(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. and its telecom unit will start renting AI computing resources to US companies next fiscal year in a bid to capitalize on the company’s growing pipeline of data center projects.Most Read from BloombergMeta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing PowerExxon to Change Name for First Time in Decades After RedomicileKrafton Agrees to Pay ‘Subnautica 2’ Bonuses as Developer’s CEO ResignsUS Decides Against Renewing USMCA, Shifting to Rolling TalksSpaceX IP

The AI boom created a ton of winners on Wall Street. However, it also created an incredibly unforgettable story for workers. Tech behemoth Microsoft (MSFT) is reportedly preparing a fresh round of layoffs, according to Business Insider, in a move that could be announced as early as next ...

Stocks fell as Meta buzz hit SpaceX, Micron and many AI stocks. Tesla is near a buy point with deliveries due. The June jobs report also is on tap.