Amazon’s chief executive has said that power is the “single biggest constraint” in its cloud and artificial-intelligence business. Here, Amazon has an incumbent advantage. It is the world’s largest cloud provider and has been building a lot of data centers over the past two decades.
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(Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc.’s earnings report on Wednesday afternoon is shaping up to be one of the most important in months as investors find themselves suddenly on edge over the sustainability of the AI rally.Most Read from BloombergStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some Roles‘FOMO Really Got Me’: Taiwanese Go Deep Into Debt to Amp 100% Stock RallySpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Marke
(Bloomberg) -- ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, is in preliminary talks with banks for a borrowing of about $20 billion, people familiar with the matter said, in what would be the firm’s largest offshore loan yet at a time when it’s boosting investments in artificial intelligence.Most Read from BloombergStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some Roles‘FOMO Really Got Me’: Taiwanese Go Deep Into Debt to Amp 100%
By Diana Novak Jones June 23 (Reuters) - Google's YouTube has settled with a minor who claimed the platform caused mental health harms, the plaintiff’s lawyers said, ahead of a second California trial
Google's YouTube has settled a lawsuit brought by a minor who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, his lawyers said Tuesday, ahead of a second California trial over social media's role in the youth mental health crisis. The suit named four defendants — YouTube, Meta's Instagram, Snap Inc's Snapchat and ByteDance's TikTok — and the remaining three companies are still set to face trial in July. Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said in a statement that the lawsuit had been amicably resolved.
Retail investors have spent decades watching Bill Ackman make concentrated bets from the outside, The Motley Fool noted, piecing together his moves through quarterly filings that arrive months after the trades close. That dynamic changed when Pershing Square USA (PSUS) began trading on the New York ...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar to Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two employees with knowledge of the matter. Prediction markets surged in popularity during the 2024 U.S. presidential election and have evolved into an asset class that lets investors wager on a variety of events, from monetary policy to sports tournaments. Trading platforms such as Robinhood and Interactive Brokers have rolled out event contracts.
Stocks could be facing the end-of-quarter reckoning many investors feared when Elon Musk’s SpaceX unveiled plans for its multibillion-dollar initial public offering and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh took over the central bank’s policy reigns earlier this month. The early signs of a late June “tech wreck” started to formulate Monday, with Google parent Alphabet shedding more than $225 billion in market value, its biggest slump in more than a year, and SpaceX extending its three-day decline to more than $600 billion. Shares in SpaceX were falling 4.3% in premarket trading Tuesday, putting them below $150 a share.
Micron Technology's stock has risen by almost 9x over the past twelve months, taking its market capitalization above $1.2 trillion - among the largest single-year gains in the company's four-decade trading history. The rally is driven by surging demand and a shortage of high-bandwidth memory that is used alongside AI accelerators in data centers. Hyperscalers, including Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), and Meta (META), are projected to spend roughly $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year,
Investing.com -- Meta Platforms announced Tuesday a new line of AI smart glasses in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, marking the company's first entry into lower-priced models under its own brand.

Meta is launching a new line of AI-powered smart glasses called Meta Glasses.
Stocks could be facing the end-of-quarter reckoning many investors feared when Elon Musk’s SpaceX unveiled plans for its multibillion-dollar initial public offering and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh took over the central bank’s policy reigns earlier this month. The early signs of a late June “tech wreck” started to formulate Monday, with Google parent Alphabet shedding more than $225 billion in market value, its biggest slump in more than a year, and SpaceX extending its three-day decline to more than $600 billion. Shares in SpaceX were falling 4.3% in premarket trading Tuesday, putting them below $150 a share.
(Bloomberg) -- SpaceX shares extended declines in premarket trading, a day after the company saw the second-largest single-session drop in market value on record. Most Read from BloombergSpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Market ValueOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some RolesKorean Stocks Tumble 10% as Extreme Volatility Rattles InvestorsStocks Fall as SpaceX’s Rout Offsets US-Iran Hopes: Markets WrapMeta Invests $900 Million in Cred, Taps Founder to Head Wh
OpenAI debuted its ChatGPT ad pitch at Cannes Lions, but top executives and users alike are pushing back hard.
The tech company’s head count shrank by roughly 13% in its previous fiscal year, as it continued to invest in artificial intelligence.
The rocket company’s shares fell 16% amid reports it plans to sell at least $20 billion in bonds. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite fell 1.3%, while the Dow rose 0.3%.
(Bloomberg) -- House lawmakers have reached a bipartisan deal on a legislative package intended to strengthen online safety and privacy protections for children and teenagers—a key sign of progress on a major policy priority.Most Read from BloombergIran Says Hormuz Closed Again as Talks With US Set to OpenUS and Iran Make ‘Progress’ in Talks, Aim to Keep Hormuz OpenMeta Taps New WhatsApp Boss as Part of $900 Million InvestmentIranian Negotiators Said to Still Be Engaged in Talks With USStocks Fa
BANGALORE, June 22 - Indian fintech firm CRED's founder Kunal Shah will become Meta-owned WhatsApp's new leader, the messaging app's current head Will Cathcart said on Monday in a post on X.
Indian fintech firm CRED said on Monday it will raise about $900 million from Meta Platforms at a post-money valuation of $4.5 billion, as it seeks to accelerate growth and prepare for an eventual stock market listing. (Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Diti Pujara)
(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. is investing $900 million into Indian fintech startup Cred, with plans to appoint its founder, Kunal Shah, the new leader of WhatsApp.Most Read from BloombergIran Says Hormuz Closed Again as Talks With US Set to OpenUS and Iran Make ‘Progress’ in Talks, Aim to Keep Hormuz OpenIranian Negotiators Said to Still Be Engaged in Talks With USDOJ Rejects Judge Request to Certify $1.8 Billion Fund NixedThe ‘Mass Affluent’ Are Losing Their Allure for Wealth Managers Nav
June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures started the week on a subdued note, after Friday's public holiday, with investors monitoring developments in U.S.-Iran talks following a tense start.
To look for ways to eradicate online listings, including through AI-enabled detection and prevention. Represent a fifth of the global e-commerce market and 90% of the world's social media users. Vodafone, Vodacom, Safaricom to use AI in anti-money-laundering and transaction monitoring systems across mobile money platform M-Pesa.
Ohio's law requiring children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps must be restored, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The decision comes as a blow to NetChoice, which had won court victories against similar laws in other states, including California and Arkansas. The trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech companies brought suit against Ohio's law in 2024, arguing that it was overly broad, vague and represented an unconstitutional impediment to free speech.
Meta Platforms has secured new agreements to get AI computing power from data center developer Crusoe, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, as it strengthens infrastructure required to support its AI expansion. Meta and Crusoe did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment on the report, which cited people familiar with the situation. • Meta is under contract to buy computing capacity from Crusoe at two data centers, which are located in Childress, Texas, and Warrenton, Missouri, according to the report.
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OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.