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A company doesn’t reach a $5 trillion market cap just by standing still. Alphabet is nearing that milestone and it’s making an aggressive play to challenge Nvidia AI chip dominance—and potentially its status as the world’s most valuable company. Google and Blackstone announced plans to create a new AI cloud company using the tech giant’s chips.
The stock market has climbed a wall of worry since President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025. Tariff fights rattled investors. Treasury yields spiked. Recession fears surfaced more than once. Yet the benchmark S&P 500 has still surged roughly 23.5% since Inauguration Day. That kind of resilience usually feels bullish. ... The Trump Bull Market Has a Very Dark Side That Could End Badly for Investors
Nvidia is expected to deliver another blockbuster earnings report on Wednesday, but a shift in how artificial intelligence is used is raising doubts on how long its dominance in AI chips can last. After years of near-monopoly in chips used to train AI systems, Nvidia is facing competition from tech giants building their own chips to capture demand that is shifting toward processors that run AI systems, respond to queries and carry out tasks in real time. This so-called inference market is much larger, but also more contested.
Artificial intelligence has become Wall Street’s favorite growth story. Investors have poured money into companies tied to AI chips, cloud infrastructure, utilities, and data centers as businesses race to build the computing backbone needed for the next generation of software. The opportunity is massive — and so is the spending. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alphabet ... The $1 Trillion AI Data Center Buildout Is Fueling a Cost Consumers Can’t Escape
President Trump made 94 different trades of 'Magnificent 7' stocks in the first quarter of 2026, a new ethics disclosure shows, executing millions of dollars in transactions even as he was meeting with and often promoting these top tech companies.
Duquesne's billionaire boss jettisoned the hottest member of the "Magnificent Seven" in favor of an unstoppable trio profiting from the insatiable demand for AI hardware.
↗️ ServiceNow (NOW): Bank of America analysts said ServiceNow would benefit from AI, and gave the stock a buy rating yesterday, sending it up 8%. The business-software company's shares are up again premarket; they were still down about a third year to date as of yesterday's close.
Buffett is no longer CEO, but he was almost certainly involved with Berkshire's stock purchases in Q1.
Apple, ticker NasdaqGS:AAPL, is preparing a major Siri overhaul for iOS 27 that uses new AI capabilities and tighter privacy controls. The update is set to integrate Google Gemini AI within Apple’s ecosystem while emphasizing user control and automatic data minimization. This move marks a shift in how Apple approaches AI partnerships, virtual assistants and on-device privacy. For Apple, the company behind the iPhone, iPad and Mac, this kind of AI refresh is about more than a new software...
Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management has flagged what he calls “one of the biggest trends that I’ve seen in the wealth management space in the last 5 years”: clients walking in the door already asking for tax-aware diversification, rather than advisors having to sell it to them. The two archetypes he cited on The ... I Have 90% of My Net Worth in One Stock. How Do I Diversify Without a Massive Tax Bill?
The two giants are launching an AI compute supplier as the demand for AI infrastructure continues to grow.
Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: The fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis.
May 18 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google and Blackstone plan to launch an artificial-intelligence cloud company using Google's specialized chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources
(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. is reassigning 7,000 workers to new jobs related to artificial intelligence, according to an internal memo, part of a broad corporate restructuring that includes planned staff reductions later this week. Most Read from BloombergStocks and Oil Whipsaw on Mixed US-Iran Signals: Markets WrapUS Lawmakers Plan New $130 Fee for Electric Vehicle OwnersBillionaire Rinehart Bets $100 Million on US Defense StocksIranian Media Said US Offered Interim Waiver on Oil Sanctio
On Monday, Florida-based NextEra Energy, North America’s largest investor-owned electric utility, announced it had entered an agreement to combine with Dominion Energy, creating the world’s largest regulated electric utility business. The $66.8 billion all-stock transaction is the latest evidence of growing consolidation in the US public energy and utilities sector to meet the exponential demand for power to fuel the AI buildout. Goldman Sachs estimates in a February report that global data cent
Both Bitcoin and Ethereum face a quantum computing threat, but Citi says the gap between them comes down to governance, not just technology.
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square slashed its stake in Google-parent Alphabet last quarter, while Berkshire Hathaway tripled its stake before shares took flight last month.
<body><p>STORY: "I just continue to question whether or not the 'Mag 7' has as big an influence on the stock market returns as they did in previous years," Mahn said.</p><p>He therefore turned his focus to the "AIR 7," which Mahn said stands for "AI Revolution 7," a "stock basket" that spans memory and chip production, as well as data center owners, coolers and power providers. </p><p>Mahn's "AIR 7" stocks include Taiwan Semiconductor, Micron Technology, Digital Realty, Vertiv Holdings and American Electric Power. Two of the Magnificent 7 stocks, Nvidia and Alphabet, round out his "AIR 7" picks.</p></body>
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of the Best Stocks to Invest in For 5 Years According to Billionaires. On May 15, Reuters reported that Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has issued 576.5 billion yen, around $3.6 billion in yen-denominated bonds, marking the largest such issuance ever by a foreign company. The report noted that this is the […]
Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.
Two of the largest names in digital advertising have moved in opposite directions over the past month, and the gap is striking. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) stock is down 11% over the trailing month, while Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) stock is up 16% in the same time frame. Both reported their financial results on April 29, and the ... Meta Platforms Is Down 11% in a Month While Alphabet Is Up 16%. What’s Going On?
<body><p>STORY: :: Amazon Web Service</p><p>Two powerhouse utility companies are merging as the AI boom fuels data center demand.</p><p>:: NextEra Energy</p><p>NextEra Energy on Monday said it will buy Dominion Energy in an all-stock transaction valued at nearly $67 billion.</p><p>:: Dominion Energy</p><p>The deal is one of the biggest in the U.S. power industry, and will create the world's largest regulated electric utility company by market value.</p><p>:: NextEra Energy</p><p>:: Amazon Web Service</p><p>The transaction gives NextEra greater reach into supplying electricity to Big Tech's burgeoning data centers, with Dominion's customers including Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and CoreWeave.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>It also follows an agreement NextEra made last year with Google to reopen a nuclear power plant in Iowa.</p><p>The energy sector has seen a wave of consolidation recently as rapid data-center buildout lifts power demand for the first time in two decades, opening up a lucrative revenue stream and boosting profit prospects.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>This year, AES Corp agreed to be acquired by a consortium led by Global Infrastructure Partners and Swedish private-equity firm EQT. That followed Constellation Energy's deal for Calpine and Blackstone's purchase of TXNM Energy last year.</p><p>Monday's announcement sent shares of NextEra lower by as much as five-and-a-half percent, while Dominion's stock rose as much as eleven-and-a-half percent to its highest level since November of 2022.</p></body>
Apple (AAPL) is preparing new AI features for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 as it looks to narrow the gap wit
After selling off significantly, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) looks compelling on the numbers, and Bill Ackman appears to agree. Pershing Square has reportedly been loading up on Microsoft while trimming its Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) position, a rotation worth examining because Microsoft has lagged the rest of mega-cap tech this year even as its AI business compounds at triple-digit rates. ... Bill Ackman Is Going All in on Microsoft. Should You Do the Same?
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