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After a terrible first half, MSFT stock shows fresh signs of life, and traders expect upside before its July 29 earnings report.

Coursera has announced new job cuts as part of a restructuring after its merger with Udemy.

Analysts expect Alphabet’s second-quarter capital expenditures to reach $44.9 billion, a 100% increase from the prior year period.

Csquare, a data center operator backed by Brookfield, is going public as investors are growing skeptical about AI and IPOs.

About 8,750 Microsoft employees recently had roughly 30 days to decide whether their savings could support walking away from their careers for good. The company's first-ever Voluntary Retirement Program offered eligible workers cash severance, years of healthcare coverage, and continued stock ...

Investing.com -- Investors are reassessing artificial intelligence investments as surging infrastructure spending could weigh on earnings growth and valuation multiples, even as demand for AI services remains robust, according to ING.

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Ten months ago, in September 2025, Starbucks walked into 11,000 stores with NomadGo’s inventory Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that promised 99% accuracy and counted up to eight times faster than a human. After 9 months, in May 2026, according to Reuters, an internal newsletter retired the ...

Jim Cramer says the SK Hynix mega-listing clears the biggest threat hanging over AI stocks in 2026, but one scenario could blow that thesis apart before summer ends.

The task force will "survey the pace, the reach [and] the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including AI."

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Friday, while the Nasdaq dropped ahead of the debut of SK Hynix stock.

LONDON, July 10 () - Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as ‌critical third-party suppliers to its financial sector, bringing them ‌under direct regulatory oversight. The move is aimed at strengthening the resilience ​of financial firms by reducing the risk of widespread disruption from cyber attacks or technology outages.

(Bloomberg) -- The largest builders of artificial intelligence data centers have doubled their debt load in the last five years, turning to borrowing to finance an unprecedented spending spree they claim is needed to transform the economy. Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameNvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsZuckerberg Pledges ‘Aggressive’ Pricing With Meta’s First Pay-to-Use AITrump Vents Anger With Iran and

Three days after announcing the gaming industry's biggest layoff of 2026, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma accepted a new role shaping how the Federal Reserve thinks about AI and jobs for the next decade.

Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton previews several of the biggest stories to come tomorrow, Friday, July 10, including SK Hynix (000660.KS) making its debut on the Nasdaq, Delta Air Lines (DAL) earnings, monthly sales results from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM), and the pending approval of Congress' housing affordability bill.

Tech layoff announcements follow a predictable script. A company memo goes out. The number of jobs cut makes the headlines. Executives talk about realigning for the future. Then the story moves on, and the people who just lost their income are left sorting through the details on their own. ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has revealed the leadership of the US central bank's new task forces to review monetary policy and even communication on the Fed's interest rate messaging. Yahoo Finance Senior Fed Reporter Jennifer Schonberger breaks down who the new task force leaders are.

The task forces will study Fed communications, the balance sheet, economic data usage, productivity and jobs, and inflation.

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. said its carbon emissions climbed 25% in 2025, making it the latest technology company to report a setback in its efforts to erase emissions amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence data centers. Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameNvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsTrump Vents Anger With Iran and Warns Ceasefire May Be ‘Over’US Military Launches Strikes on Iran for Second S

T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund portfolio manager Tony Wang examines the back-and-forth activity appearing in semiconductor stocks, especially as the bar remains high for memory chip makers and SK Hynix's (000660.KS) US IPO listing is seven-times oversubscribed.

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee returned to CNBC’s Morning Call Sheet on Thursday, July 9, alongside JonesTrading’s Mike O’Rourke and Vital Knowledge’s Adam Crisafulli, to discuss a market that is simultaneously celebrating the AI build-out while rotating into value and defensive names. Lee argued: “AI is probably one of the most important structural stories in our lifetime.” ... Fundstrat’s Tom Lee: AI Is a Once in a Lifetime Story – Why Easing Inflation in H2 2026 Could Fuel the Next Rally

Investing.com -- Citi's second-quarter 2026 survey of 100 IT decision makers found Microsoft remained the top vendor CIOs are considering increasing spend with for artificial intelligence, followed by Amazon and Google.

Shares in software companies are among the biggest losers in premarket trading: Salesforce (CRM), IBM (IBM) and ServiceNow (NOW) are down around 4.5% Adobe (ADBE) and Workday (WDAY) fall over 3% ...

The Federal Reserve’s first policy meeting under Chairman Kevin Warsh highlighted a big focus on artificial intelligence spending. Bond markets are listening. Minutes of the Fed’s June meeting, where interest rates were kept unchanged at between 3.5% and 3.75% but communication was sharply pared back under Warsh’s new leadership, suggested a hawkish stance among Fed governors, many of whom remained focused on inflation pressures in the world’s biggest economy.

(Bloomberg) -- After losing roughly $1 trillion in market value in less than two months, Nvidia Corp.’s stock is the cheapest it’s been since before the AI boom kicked off and sent the shares into the stratosphere.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Sink After Blistering Run as Oil Jumps: Markets WrapUS Strikes Iran and Blocks Oil Sales in New Test of TruceTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthChina Sentences

Second-quarter reports coming later this month will likely show another period of blowout AI investments. Wall Street analysts estimate that combined capital spending by Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms surged 74% year over year to hit $168 billion in the June-ending quarter, according to consensus estimates from Visible Alpha.

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Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley discusses Anthropic's expansion of its Claude Cowork agentic AI platform to mobile devices and how the company is shifting its narrative to focus on eliminating busywork rather than replacing human workers.

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace OpenAI and Anthropic with its own models in software products like Excel and Outlook. Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthNasdaq 100 Falls 2% in Chip-Led Rout as Oil Climbs: Markets WrapMicrosoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major OverhaulChina Sentences Official to Death Over $325

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox spent nearly $80 billion in the last decade on deals that would give it popular video game titles like Call of Duty and Skyrim, betting that gamers would flock to its Netflix-like subscription service offering hundreds of options for endless play.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthNasdaq 100 Falls 2% in Chip-Led Rout as Oil Climbs: Markets WrapM