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Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) both reported Q1 results on April 29, 2026, and the results frame a clear question. Both companies are pouring tens of billions into AI infrastructure, both ride enormous ad engines, yet only one is showing investors a second growth pillar already paying off. Ads Power Meta. Cloud ... Meta vs. Alphabet: Which Stock Is The Better Buy Today
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged an employee of Google parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: $GOOGL) with fr...
The IPO market is back in full force. After two years of sluggish dealmaking, investors are once again chasing the next mega-listing, and the bigger the valuation, the bigger the excitement seems to get. That enthusiasm is helping to push stock indexes to record highs as valuations across tech and AI expand with a rise ... SpaceX Is Headed for a $1.75 Trillion IPO. History Says the Stock Could Be Down 32% a Year From Now
Warren Buffett stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway on December 31, 2025, after six decades leading the conglomerate he transformed from a struggling textile mill into a $1 trillion empire. The “Oracle of Omaha” left his successor, Greg Abel, with a very concentrated portfolio: more than 65% of Berkshire’s $381 billion portfolio is invested ... Berkshire Hathaway Is Underperforming, but 4 of Warren Buffett’s Top Picks Are Up Big This Year
Prosecutors say a software engineer used confidential information to win $1.2 million.
The JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) is the most popular covered call ETF in the market for a reason. Most ETFs are trying to make covered calls work with tech ETFs, and while they do have significantly higher yields, JEPI does it in a way that is worth paying attention to for some investors. I ... Buy, Sell, or Hold JPMorgan’s Equity Premium Income ETF Today |JEPI
EQT has partnered with Alphabet's Google Cloud to help more than 300 companies in the Swedish private equity firm's portfolio accelerate the adoption of AI, the companies said on Thursday. Under the agreement, EQT's portfolio companies, spanning sectors from enterprise software to healthcare, will gain access to AI tools including the Gemini Enterprise Agent platform to build programs, as well as cybersecurity services. The companies will also get early access to selected Google Cloud AI products in the future, the companies said in a statement.
Alphabet, Apple and Micron lead Zacks analyst reports as AI demand and product cycles drive tech momentum.
Alphabet is expanding AI-powered Search ads with Gemini as Microsoft and Baidu intensify competition in AI search.
An Italian Google engineer has been charged with insider trading after he allegedly made $1.2m betting on prediction markets. The US Justice Department charged 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo after he allegedly placed bets tied to Google's most-searched list on Polymarket, according to documents unsealed on Wednesday. Spagnuolo made his money betting on long-shot candidates, like musician D4vd, who appeared on Google's most-searched list after it was reported that he was a suspect in the investigation into the death of a teenage girl, according to the complaint.
<body><p>STORY: Chinese tech giant ByteDance is developing its own central processing units (CPUs) to support its growing AI infrastructure needs, according to three sources.</p><p>The TikTok-parent's move comes as surging chip prices and prolonged supply shortages constrain its expansion plans.</p><p>It shows the industry's rapid shift towards autonomous AI models that demand more from CPUs.</p><p>Working in tandem with the dominant graphics chips made by Nvidia.</p><p>But it's created a shortage of CPUs in recent months.</p><p>A growing number of tech companies have concluded the economics of custom chips outweigh the complexity of designing them.</p><p>Global hyperscalers including Google, Amazon and Microsoft are also developing their own custom CPUs.</p><p>They aim to reduce costs and tailor to their specific workloads.</p><p>The first source said Bytedance is targeting deployment of its own CPU in its servers and data centers to support internal operations.</p><p>That's as it prepares a massive rollout of agent-based products.</p><p>The Beijing-based company has approached several external partners to assist with the effort, the sources claim.</p><p>ByteDance did not respond to Reuters' request for comment.</p></body>
(Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc. is the third-best performer in the S&P 500 Index this year and at the same time one of the least expensive stocks in the market. While that dichotomy looks bullish on the surface, it may be more of a warning sign than a green light for investors.Most Read from BloombergSingapore Hands Byju's Founder His First Ever Jail TermIran’s Khamenei Says No Going Back for Middle East Rocked by WarEx-President Biden Sues to Stop DOJ Sharing Interview TapesTwo More Oil S
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 ...
(Bloomberg) -- A Google software engineer was charged with insider trading on Polymarket, where he allegedly made more than $1 million betting on one of last year’s most popular Internet searches.Most Read from BloombergIran’s Khamenei Says No Going Back for Middle East Rocked by WarSingapore Hands Byju's Founder His First Ever Jail TermEx-President Biden Sues to Stop DOJ Sharing Interview TapesPutin Signs Law on Use of Army to Aid Russians Detained AbroadTwo More Oil Supertankers Exit Hormuz to
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.
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