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The Magnificent Seven will again reign supreme over S&P 500 earnings, but their dominance is fading. As second-quarter earnings reports start to flow in, analysts expect the Magnificent Seven companies to grow earnings by a combined 31.1%. The other 493 S&P 500 companies are expected to increase earnings 22.8%, FactSet Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters wrote in a report.
The parabolic AI trade has sent many chip stocks to the moon, as investors have bet that hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will continue to aggressively expand AI capital expenditures. However, the rally now faces significant headwinds, with valuation and revenue sustainability concerns resurfacing amid rising competition from cheaper Chinese models. The […]
AMD stock rose more than 3% on Monday.
BlackRock is leading a debt sale targeting at least $12 billion for its massive new El Paso data-center project backed by Meta Platforms people familiar with the matter said. The world’s largest investment firm, along with its infrastructure and private-credit arms, owns an 80% stake in the Texas data-center project, while Meta Platforms, which will use the data centers, owns the other 20%. BlackRock has been plowing tens of billions of dollars into data-center investments over the past year, including a $40 billion deal to buy Aligned Data Centers.
<body><p>STORY: Tennessee state claims Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis.</p><p>Meta Platforms goes to court on Monday – one of several trials in the coming weeks...</p><p>testing allegations that the company's social media platforms were intentionally built to be addictive.</p><p>Tennessee accuses the company of violating the state's consumer protection law...</p><p>by knowingly designing a product that drives teens to compulsive use...</p><p>and misleading the public about its safety.</p><p>The lawsuit, filed by the attorney general's office, claims Meta failed to disclose extensive internal research..</p><p>showing Instagram could harm teens.</p><p>And that it continued offering features it knew were dangerous without warning users.</p><p>A Meta spokesperson said in a statement on Friday that the company already has built-in controls...</p><p>to protect the hundreds of thousands of Tennessee teens who use social media every day.</p><p>The company has argued the state's claims are based on the content posted on Instagram by its users...</p><p>and that a federal law shields the company from liability for third-party content.</p><p>The trial is slated to last for seven weeks.</p><p>It's scheduled to overlap with at least two other trials against the company in courts in California.</p><p>Meta faces thousands of lawsuits over similar claims in both state and federal court.</p><p>Nearly every state in the country has filed claims against Meta over its platforms’ alleged impact on children.</p></body>
(Bloomberg) -- Crowds rushed to an obscure corner of China’s premier tech summit, moving past monumental booths from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to catch a glimpse of the hottest name in domestic AI.Most Read from BloombergUS Strikes Iran in Escalating Campaign After Troops KilledThousands of Trucks Haul Iraq’s Oil Through Syria in Sign of Hormuz LegacyUS Strikes Iran to ‘Punish’ It for Attack That Killed 2 TroopsTrump Silent So Far on Iran Plans as US Death Toll Hits 17
By Diana Novak Jones July 20 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state's claims that Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several
By Diana Novak Jones July 20 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state's claims that Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several
(Bloomberg) -- The popular Magnificent Seven stocks moniker is “no longer relevant” in assessing how to play the US artificial intelligence trade, according to Citigroup Inc. strategists.Most Read from BloombergUS Strikes Iran in Escalating Campaign After Troops KilledThousands of Trucks Haul Iraq’s Oil Through Syria in Sign of Hormuz LegacyUS Strikes Iran to ‘Punish’ It for Attack That Killed 2 TroopsTrump Silent So Far on Iran Plans as US Death Toll Hits 17FCC Near Rulings Against Disney Over
(Bloomberg) -- Producing the world’s most in-demand semiconductors requires enormous amounts of energy and access to rare minerals. CuspAI, a two-year-old British startup, has raised nearly half a billion dollars on its bet that artificial intelligence can improve that process. Most Read from BloombergUS Strikes Iran in Escalating Campaign After Troops KilledThousands of Trucks Haul Iraq’s Oil Through Syria in Sign of Hormuz LegacyUS Strikes Iran to ‘Punish’ It for Attack That Killed 2 TroopsFCC
Morgan Stanley has emerged as Wall Street’s chief architect of the financing structures underpinning the AI boom, devising new debt and equity...
(Bloomberg) -- After last week’s wipeout in chips and the broader selloff in technology stocks, pressure is building for the biggest spenders on artificial intelligence to justify their expenditures to beleaguered traders with increasingly itchy fingers hovering over their sell buttons.Most Read from BloombergUS Strikes Iran to ‘Punish’ It for Attack That Killed 2 TroopsFCC Near Rulings Against Disney Over ‘The View,’ TV LicensesThousands of Trucks Haul Iraq’s Oil Through Syria in Sign of Hormuz
(Bloomberg) -- Moonshot AI has told investors it’s preparing to list in as early as six months, seizing the opportunity to tap capital markets after its latest model upended industry perceptions of China’s burgeoning capabilities and sent global tech stocks reeling.Most Read from BloombergFCC Near Rulings Against Disney Over ‘The View,’ TV LicensesUS Strikes Iran to ‘Punish’ It for Attack That Killed 2 TroopsThousands of Trucks Haul Iraq’s Oil Through Syria in Sign of Hormuz LegacyTaylor Farms P
The Trump Administration announced a 25% tariff on most Brazilian imports late Wednesday, effective July 22. The U.S. has invoked Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, targeting certain Brazilian practices, which include directives to American tech giants like...
Last October, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned almost in passing that companies kept asking Meta if they could buy computing capacity from it, at a premium. It sounded like a hypothetical. On July 17, the New York Times turned it into a very real story. Meta and Anthropic are in early talks for a ...
Meta is in early talks to rent its computing power to Anthropic in what could be a multibillion-dollar deal, as the social media company plans...
By Daniel Wiessner July 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a bid by 26 employees of Meta Platforms to block the tech giant from laying them off while they pursue claims that they were
Three numbers on Meta's income statement keep pulling my money back before the July 29 earnings call, and one of them proves something no other hyperscaler has managed to pull off yet.
Meta Platforms is in talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential deal worth as much as $10 billion over two years, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the discussions. Such a deal would help Meta diversify beyond its core advertising business by generating new revenue from its infrastructure investments and directly pitting it against CoreWeave and Nebius, as growing adoption of advanced tools drive up the need for computing capacity. Anthropic had proposed the deal in June and Meta is considering it, the report said.
Analysts say Netflix is losing control of its own story, and a single line buried in Friday's earnings report about future disclosures is making Wall Street more nervous than the guidance miss itself.
(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. was upgraded to buy at HSBC Holdings Plc on Friday, in the latest reflection of how Wall Street is increasingly positive on the iPhone maker’s position in a market where many trades related to artificial intelligence have been faltering.Most Read from BloombergGoogle Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal GoalsThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthNasdaq Futures Tumble
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) has been hit with a federal lawsuit filed by employees over AI-assisted layoffs. The suit alleges that Meta's use of AI in personnel decisions discriminated against protected groups, including workers with disabilities and pregnant employees. Plaintiffs are seeking to halt further layoffs and are calling for an independent audit of Meta's AI systems used in workforce management. Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other...
(Bloomberg) -- The bonds sold by hyperscalers to fuel their artificial intelligence ambitions have become a drag on investor portfolios from London to Tokyo.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsGoogle Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal GoalsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthNasdaq Futures Tumble 1.5% as Chip Rout Deepens: Markets WrapUS Cyclospora Outbreak Tied to Taco Bell Lettuce From MexicoFrom fa
Dave Brown, one of the most senior executives at Amazon Web Services, will bring his nearly two decades of experience to the social-media giant.
(Bloomberg) -- President Xi Jinping hailed China’s progress in developing low-cost artificial intelligence, pressing his personal imprint on the country’s rapidly expanding global influence to call for a more open technological order.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthGoogle Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal GoalsCIA Says AI Drones Give Russian Troops Only 30 Minu
(Bloomberg) -- On a video conference call from Hangzhou earlier this year, one of China’s hottest startups held a four-hour pitch meeting with potential venture investors that was unusual by almost any measure. Only two representatives per institution were allowed. The majority of those present were getting a glimpse of the company’s leader for the very first time.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Cat
Investing.com -- Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) shares fell 2.3% Thursday afternoon following a Bloomberg report that the company’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model.
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthCIA Says AI Drones Give Russian Troops Only 30 Minutes to LiveOpenAI’s Fir
Recordings sent over Meta’s messaging app are supercharging falsehoods, leading to attacks on Ebola treatment centers and assaults of health workers and volunteers.
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