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Palantir, CrowdStrike, and Alphabet are powerhouses that show the potential for durable growth.

Rocket Lab and AST SpaceMobile have surged as investors bet on the next phase of the space economy. But aerospace giants including Boeing, Airbus, and Lockheed Martin could also benefit from growing enthusiasm around SpaceX.

Chinese technology giant ByteDance is developing its own central processing units (CPUs) to support its growing AI infrastructure needs, three people familiar with the matter said, as surging chip prices and prolonged supply ‌shortages constrain its expansion plans. The move underscores the industry's rapid shift toward "inference," where AI models are deployed to perform agentic tasks ‌that demand more from CPUs, working in tandem with the graphics chips made by Nvidia that have dominated the AI boom. The shift has created a shortage of CPUs in recent ​months, and global hyperscalers including Alphabet's Google, Amazon and Microsoft are also developing their own custom CPUs to reduce costs and tailor performance to their specific workloads.

Microsoft, ticker NasdaqGS:MSFT, is at the center of a new $9.7b, five year enterprise software consolidation contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. The company has also joined Amazon, Google, and Meta in launching the Data Center Innovation Initiative focused on clean energy and sustainable materials for data centers. These moves touch on U.S. government technology adoption, long term software standard setting, and the environmental profile of AI and cloud infrastructure. Microsoft...

Developing-world nations are offering billions of dollars in incentives for U.S. data centers, but locals say the cost is too high.

According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google's 2025 Year in Search campaign.

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK, May 27 (Reuters) - The U.S.

Federal prosecutors allege a software engineer made more than $1 million using nonpublic information to bet on who would be the most-searched people of 2025.

A Google software engineer allegedly earned $1.2 million by illegally trading contracts on Polymarket that allowed people to bet on who would be revealed as the most searched people of 2025, according to prosecutors. Michele Spagnuolo was charged with fraud and money laundering over bets he allegedly made last year that were based on nonpublic search data Google restricts to “only a limited number of employees,” according to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday. From October to December of last year, Spagnuolo allegedly wagered approximately $2.7 million on 25 bets tied to the Google Year in Search results.

Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley joins Josh Lipton on Market Domination to break down new data showing the steepest decline in smartphone sales on record, as soaring demand for AI memory chips reshapes the semiconductor market.

When the people building something stand next to the people warning about it, that usually means everyone in the room is worried about the same thing. For most of the past three years, the artificial intelligence conversation has split cleanly into two camps. The builders keep raising bigger ...

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Alphabet's AI-driven growth in Search, Cloud and subscriptions is boosting momentum, though spending and legal risks remain in focus.

Chip design software maker Synopsys has reached an ‌agreement with activist investor Elliott Investment Management ‌that will give one board seat to the activist investor's ​managing partner Jesse Cohn, the company said on Wednesday. Synopsys, which has a market valuation of about $100 billion and counts Tesla and Google parent Alphabet among ‌its customers, has ⁠held discussions with Elliott, one of the industry's most powerful activists, for roughly ⁠two months. Elliott pushed the company to improve its margins and Synopsys' stock price has climbed roughly 20% ​since Elliott's ​involvement became public.

Alphabet stock snapshot and recent performance Alphabet (GOOGL) stock has been drawing fresh attention after recent trading left it at a last close of US$388.88, with investors weighing its multi segment business and recent price performance. See our latest analysis for Alphabet. Alphabet’s recent 12.92% 1 month share price return and 24.28% 3 month share price return point to firming momentum, while the 125.70% 1 year total shareholder return highlights how strongly longer term holders have...

Investing.com -- Cybersecurity stocks faced a bruising session on Wednesday as a combination of new competition from Google and a disappointing corporate outlook triggered a broad sector selloff.

Krista LeRay turned a pandemic-era hobby into a roughly $10 million business built around needlepoint, the craft of stitching decorative designs onto canvas. Five years after launching Penny Linn Designs from her New York apartment, she told Business Insider in...

You can say anything you want about Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR), but one thing no one disagrees with is the fact that it is well-run. Management has kept the ship tight and agile, and its workforce is not bloated. CEO Alex Karp has relished this to a great extent, and he even mentioned trimming the company’s headcount while ... Palantir CEO: “Only Seven of Our Salespeople Actually Even Really Sell”

From Reddit's $60 million API deal to personal data worth "a few dollars," the new economics of AI training data are taking shape

The tech giant doesn't hit these valuation levels often.

In addition, IBD Arkadios hires a CFO with M&A background; Merit adds a CFO and a financial planning head; AC Family Office tees up Texas expansion; and Brighton Jones adds a Cleveland office.

First-quarter earnings have delivered strong results, and it's not just the Magnificent Seven hyping Wall Street. Kenny Polcari sits down with Gina Martin Adams, Chief Market Strategist at HB Wealth, and Adam Shapiro, Managing Editor of AInvest, to discuss the next evolution of this bull market.

First-quarter earnings have delivered strong results, and it's not just the Magnificent Seven hyping Wall Street. Kenny Polcari sits down with Gina Martin Adams, Chief Market Strategist at HB Wealth, and Adam Shapiro, Managing Editor of AInvest, to discuss the next evolution of this bull market.

Alphabet is testing Gemini-powered Search ads like Conversational Discovery and Highlighted Answers, adding AI explainers and contextual recommendations.

Nonprofit investor Elemental Impact will deploy up to $5 million per project in as many as 10 startups through 2027

It wasn’t long ago that crossing $1 trillion in market capitalization felt like a once-in-a-generation event. Today, 14 companies have already crossed that line, and the conversation has shifted to the next milestone: $10 trillion. Five mega-caps look like the most credible candidates to reach $10 trillion by 2030. Each combines massive scale, durable cash ... Prediction: These 5 Companies Will Be Worth More Than $10 Trillion By 2030

The e-commerce giant is turning its in-house AI shopping tech into a service for retailers, taking on OpenAI, Google and others in the race to own AI-driven commerce.

The biggest IPO conversation right now centers on SpaceX’s reported June 12 listing. Gavin Baker, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Atreides Management, thinks investors are watching the wrong name. On a recent episode of the Invest Like the Best YouTube channel, Baker argued that Anthropic, the private AI lab behind Claude, has a more ... An Upcoming IPO Could Soon Surpass NVIDIA As The World’s Most Valuable Company (It’s Not SpaceX)

(Bloomberg) -- Cognition AI Inc. has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $26 billion valuation, the latest sign of strong demand for companies using artificial intelligence for software development. Most Read from BloombergIran’s Khamenei Says No Going Back for Middle East Rocked by WarSingapore Hands Byju's Founder His First Ever Jail TermPutin Signs Law on Use of Army to Aid Russians Detained AbroadRussia Tells US to Evacuate Its Diplomats and Citizens From KyivTwo More Oil

As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.