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Europe's top ‌court on ‌Thursday sided with Italy's ​communication authority which fined Alphabet unit Google €750,000 ($854,250) four ‌years ago ⁠over gambling advertising on its ⁠YouTube video platform. "Google may ​be held ​liable ​for the ‌YouTube videos of a content creator with whom it has a ‌commercial partnership," ​the Luxembourg-based ​Court ​of Justice ‌of the European ​Union ​said. The case is C-421/24AGCOM (Online gambling).

Despite rising debt levels, Oracle’s large backlog, lower valuation compared to peers, and a sector-wide increase amid lower inflation have boosted investor sentiment.

Ever since ChatGPT exploded in popularity, investors have worried that artificial intelligence could weaken Google’s most important business. Instead of searching for information and clicking through Google’s advertising-heavy results, consumers can increasingly ask an AI chatbot for a direct ...

Dell, Sandisk and Micron led an AI sell-off, masked by megacaps such as Apple. SpaceX undercut its IPO price. Taiwan Semi, GE Aerospace earnings are due.

(Updates with market moves at the end of the day.) US equities rose Wednesday, driving major inde

FINANCE U.S. stocks edged higher Wednesday as gains in megacap technology names offset weakness in chip stocks. PayPal surged on reports of a takeover offer and another round of strong bank earnings kept Wall Street in an upbeat mood.

Broadcom shares climbed Tuesday, July 14, 2026, after Morgan Stanley published one of its most forceful defenses yet of the company’s position in artificial intelligence chips. The relief looks fragile. The stock is still down sharply from the record high it set barely six weeks earlier, and this ...

Apple is looking to buy chip companies to bolster its efforts to make server processors for ‌running AI, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar ‌with the matter. • Apple's interest comes as it faces challenges with the performance of its in-house AI servers, which currently ‌run on internally designed ⁠M2 Ultra chips, according to The Information. • It had originally planned to ship a future version of ⁠its AI server chip, known internally as "Baltra", this year, but the project has been pushed back, people familiar with the matter told The ​Information.

Apple is officially shopping. The iPhone maker is quietly exploring acquisitions of semiconductor startups to supercharge its artificial intelligence server capabilities, moving aggressively to close the gap in the high-stakes AI arms race. According to a report from The Information, Apple has been in active talks with investment bankers and semiconductor startups over the past few months to gauge potential buyouts. The driving force behind this push? A pressing need for more horsepower. Current

The hyperscalers are under pressure to show results from their AI spending.

(Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett said he initiated Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s bet on Google parent Alphabet Inc., a sign of the billionaire’s support for the technology company’s spending on artificial intelligence.The Berkshire chairman’s successor as chief executive officer, Greg Abel, doesn’t make any decision Buffett doesn’t approve of, and vice versa, Buffett said in a CNBC interview Wednesday. Buffett said he made a mistake overlooking Alphabet when it was still asset-light and a markets darli

Just one day after glowing reviews, a surprise revenue warning sent the stock into a tailspin and brought lawyers to the door.

Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday urged Europe's top court to dismiss EU antitrust regulators' appeal ‌against a lower court ruling that scrapped a €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) fine, saying ‌the regulators' arguments were flawed. The dispute reached the Court of Justice of the European Union ​after regulators appealed a 2024 General Court ruling that annulled the fine imposed on Google in 2019. The lower court cited errors in the European Commission's assessment of the case.

Wall Street digests a cooler than expected inflation read and ASML's bullish outlook on the AI bo

U.S. stock futures were largely higher in early European trade, as positive market sentiment following lower-than-expected inflation data buoyed risk assets.

(Bloomberg) -- ASML Holding NV lifted its annual sales forecast for the second time this year as a surge in artificial intelligence spending drives demand for the Dutch company’s chip-making machines. Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeTrump Drops 20% Fee for Hormuz Cargo After Gulf Pressure‘We Faltered’: IBM Plunges Most Since at Least 1968 on MissOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Mov

The rush for cash by some of the world’s largest companies is putting the long bull market at risk. SpaceX’s record $75 billion public offering. Investors have been cheering the raging bull market for years—three years and nine months, to be precise—with the S&P 500 having more than doubled during that period.

Chinese large language model (LLM) developer DeepSeek is reportedly preparing for an IPO later this year or in 2027. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley outlines what we know so far.

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Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.

Netflix is facing a host of challenges as it prepares to report its second-quarter results late Thursday.

Regulators are reviewing whether Android users were unfairly steered toward Google Search.

Goldman Sachs, investment banker to SpaceX and Alphabet, rode the AI investment boom to a huge Q2 earnings beat. The Stock Of The Day soared.

Tarbert also highlighted Circle's newly approved national trust charter, which allows the firm to manage USDC reserves under federal oversight.

The Swiss competition authority announced Tuesday it had opened a preliminary investigation into Google's removal of the "choice screen" feature on Android devices in Switzerland."Recently, Google removed this feature in Switzerland," the Secretariat of the Competition Commission (COMCO) said in a statement.

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(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trounced its own Wall Street stock-trading records, posting $7.42 billion for a quarter that saw indexes rip higher and ongoing market volatility around artificial intelligence and war in the Middle East.Most Read from BloombergUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Trump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Le

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Switzerland's Competition Commission (COMCO) has launched a preliminary investigation into Google's removal of a ‌feature that allows mobile phone users to opt out ‌of using its search engine as default, the authority said on Tuesday. The "Choice ​Screen" feature allows users to choose their default search engines during the initial set up of their new Android device. COMCO said Google had removed this feature in Switzerland, even though ‌it remained available in ⁠other countries in Europe.

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