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Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries will partner with Nvidia to develop solutions integrating robotics with physical artificial intelligence, and will set up a joint development center in Silicon Valley, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday. The collaboration will initially focus on medical and mobility fields, with Nvidia's simulation technology to be applied to Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Corleo, a four-legged personal mobility robot under development, Nikkei added. As part of the effort, Kawasaki Heavy Industries will open the joint development center in San Jose, California.
We just covered the 10 Best Pick and Shovel AI Stocks to Buy for the Long Term. Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) ranks #10 (see 5 Best Pick and Shovel AI Stocks to Buy for the Long Term). Short Interest: 1.7% Arista makes high-speed switches and routing systems used by major cloud players like Microsoft Azure, Meta […]
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Cummins —the dominant maker of diesel engine technology—finds itself, happily, caught up in the AI data-center boom. CEO Jennifer Rumsey’s company is no stranger to boom-bust business cycles, and she says it can navigate the swings in AI demand. Cummins’ AI-related business—supplying backup power for data centers—has sent the stock to levels not seen in a decade.
Pershing Square made Microsoft a core holding as Ackman argued investors may be underestimating 365 and Azure.
Both tech giants posted eight straight quarters of revenue growth, but their profit margins and business strategies reveal notable contrasts.
Income investors holding the VictoryShares US Large Cap High Div Volatility Wtd ETF (NYSEARCA:CDL) own a fund built around one premise: large American companies with stable share prices tend to pay reliable dividends. CDL distributes cash monthly and paid $2.29 per share in 2025 against a current share price of roughly $76. With Treasury yields ... CDL’s $2.29 annual dividend beats Treasury yields despite rising interest rates
Investing.com -- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) rose 2% Thursday after The Information reported that Anthropic is in talks to use the company’s custom AI server chips.
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NVDA topped Q1 fiscal 2027 estimates, boosted guidance, and expanded AI ambitions beyond GPUs with its new Vera Rubin AI superchip.
The Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:MGK) has 63 holdings, which sounds diversified until you check the weights. Five names carry almost 46% of the fund. The MGK pitch is straightforward exposure to U.S. mega-cap growth, and the math has worked. MGK returned 28% over the past year against 25% for the S&P 500. The ... MGK Holds 46 Percent in Just Five Stocks, And That Concentration Is Driving Most of Its Recent Gains
Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips to meet rising demand for its AI services, The Information reported on Thursday, in what would be a major boost for the tech giant's in-house chip efforts. The Claude creator's talks to rent the chips are still early and may not lead to an agreement, the report said, citing two people who spoke to executives involved in the discussions. Microsoft and Anthropic did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
The latest quarterly earnings from Big Tech companies have given investors ample reason to stay invested in the AI trade, helping lift equities despite the unprecedented disruption in the oil markets that has clouded the economic growth outlook. Nvidia rounded out the results from the so-called Magnificent Seven that includes Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Meta Platforms and Tesla. Revenue growth at the Magnificent Seven remains highly uneven, with Nvidia's blistering pace helping maintain its dominant lead.
You buy the iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:IWF) expecting broad growth exposure. The Russell 1000 Growth Index holds 391 names, and IWF tracks all of them. The catch is that roughly a third of every dollar in IWF now moves with three stocks, which means the fund’s results get decided by NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), and ... IWF Tracks the Russell 1000 Growth Index, But Three Names Now Drive a Third of Its Performance
The Magnificent Seven question facing investors in 2026 is how to own these names. Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (NYSEARCA:MAGS) answers with one ticker holding all seven mega caps at equal weight, rebalanced quarterly so no single name dominates. MAGS gathered roughly $4.7 billion in assets because retail investors wanted the basket without picking which AI ... MAGS Bundles the Magnificent Seven Into One Ticker, And That Concentration Cuts Both Ways
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and EY announced on Thursday a strategic partnership valued at more than US$1 billion aimed at helping corporate clients move artificial intelligence initiatives from experimental pilot programmes into large-scale deployment. According to a statement released by the companies, the collaboration will initially focus on AI implementation across finance, tax, human resources and supply chain operations within industries including financial services, industrials, energy, cons
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is having one of its strangest years in recent memory. The AI franchise is exploding, with CEO Satya Nadella telling investors “Our AI business surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $37 billion, up 123% year-over-year.” Yet shares trade at $421.06, down 12.74% year to date. Intelligent Cloud just reported $34.681 billion, up ... This Will Be Microsoft’s Stock Price in 2028
The pitch on the Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:VGT) is sector breadth. You pay nine basis points, you get the entire information technology sleeve of the U.S. market, roughly $125 billion in assets aggregated into one ticker. So a 50 year old tilting their 401(k) toward tech with VGT thinks they own a sector. They ... VGT Looks Like a Diversified Tech Bet Until You Realize Three Stocks Are 43 Percent of It
Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) and OneStream have agreed to expand their AI partnership to embed finance-focused AI agents and infrastructure into Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure. The collaboration centers on integrating OneStream’s SensibleAI agents and quantitative AI forecasting into everyday Microsoft finance workflows. The goal is to support AI driven forecasting, anomaly detection, and natural language queries for finance teams directly inside familiar Microsoft tools. For investors...
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Microsoft's U.S. AI diffusion report finds the technology spreading into college towns, Sun Belt suburbs, and small businesses that didn't exist years ago.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of Louis Navellier’s top long-term stock picks. On May 13, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) released a foundation model for solving power grid problems. GridSFM is the solution Microsoft is positioning to solve AC Optimal power flow problems in transmission power grids, thereby addressing $20 billion in annual congestion losses. GridSFM is […]
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the top tech stocks in billionaire Ken Fisher’s portfolio. On May 14, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Amdocs confirmed the continuation of their existing collaboration. As part of the new pact, Amdocs is to migrate one of Lumen Technologies’ enterprise billing platforms to Microsoft Azure. The migration affirms Lumen’s transition […]