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Charging users for subscriptions is Meta Platforms' latest bid to build a business outside advertising. The growing cost of AI means that Meta badly needs the plan to work, but its chances don’t look great.
(Bloomberg) -- The initial public offering for SpaceX is poised to generate billions of dollars in profits for the fortunate few investors who got in early on Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company.Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulUS Strikes Iran in Trump Escalation Over Stalled Peace TalksTech Stocks Sink as Oil Jumps on US-Iran Jitters: Markets WrapH-1B Visa Ru
Charging users is the latest idea to expand beyond ads—a pickle Meta isn’t likely to get out of soon.
As SpaceX prepares for its record-breaking $75 billion market debut with great fanfare, Wall Street traders, brokers and exchanges are working nonstop to make sure their trading systems can handle the blockbuster IPO and avoid the chaos that marred other highly anticipated launches. Weighing heavily is Facebook's infamous debut in 2012, which was upended by technical glitches that turned into hours of uncertainty over whether trades had been properly executed, ultimately costing market-makers hundreds of millions of dollars. Financial firms have undergone weeks of preparation to ensure SpaceX's Friday trading debut is a success, particularly ahead of other blockbusters expected later this year from Anthropic and OpenAI.
(Bloomberg) -- When Applied Digital Corp. first tapped the junk-bond market in November to fund a data center project tied to CoreWeave Inc., it had to stomach a hefty yield to get the deal done. Fast forward to this week, and borrowing costs for another portion of the same project tumbled.Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulUS Strikes Iran in Trump Escalation Over Stalled Peace TalksTech Sto
(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. has completed an operational split from Manus and halted data sharing between the two companies, taking a pivotal step toward unwinding a $2 billion acquisition opposed by Beijing.Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulUS Strikes Iran in Trump Escalation Over Stalled Peace TalksTech Stocks Sink as Oil Jumps on US-Iran Jitters: Markets WrapH-1B Visa Rules Have C
SpaceX enters the final stretch Thursday before its expected trading on Wall Street as part of the biggest initial public offering in history, which could propel co-founder Elon Musk to trillionaire status.If all goes as expected, the space and rocket company co-founded by Musk in 2002 will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Friday morning, with all eyes on how Wall Street will absorb the blockbuster IPO that could send tremors across global markets.
The law would likely apply to American tech companies like Meta and Snapchat, but would have exemptions if safety requirements are met.
June 10 (Reuters) - A California state court judge has denied motions by Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube seeking a new trial after a jury found the companies liable for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl ruled on the motions on Tuesday, according to court documents.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he expects top artificial intelligence companies to agree to "giving back" to the public, an apparent reference to a possible government stake in the firms. "I'm going to have meetings with the top 12 or 15 executives very shortly, and we're talking about giving back something to the public, and if we do that, the public will become very rich," Trump told reporters in the White House’s Oval Office. A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for more details about the president meeting with AI executives.
A California state court judge denied motions by Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube seeking a new trial after a jury found them liable for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, sources familiar with the ruling confirmed on Wednesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl ruled on the motions on Tuesday, according to court documents.
LinkedIn is aiming to burnish its position as a go-to platform for business advertisers with a new team of marketing experts that it expects to generate an annualized run rate of $100 million next fiscal year, a source familiar with the matter said. The Microsoft-owned platform on Wednesday unveiled BrandWorks, the newly assembled team that aims to deliver higher-performing ad campaigns for customers ranging from software giant SAP to privately held website hosting platform Webflow. "We're developing services that are designed to meet the marketer where they are," said Alex Josephson, VP of BrandWorks, who previously built a similar offering called Twitter Next.
As investments go, Beignet and Big Sky may not be household names. But that doesn’t mean households aren’t going to be exposed to their financial...
Morgan Stanley forecasts AI-related global debt issuance to more than double to nearly $570 billion in 2026, pointing to rising bond supply and credit market activity as hyperscalers turn to alternative funding sources to meet massive AI-driven capex needs. Here are some details: • Tech companies that have long relied on strong cash flows are increasingly turning to debt financing as investment needs surge • Morgan Stanley estimates AI-related global debt issuance stood at nearly $236 billion as of May 31, 2026, fourfold more than the same period last year • Hyperscalers Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are expected to spend $700 billion in outlays this year • Morgan Stanley ex...
(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 30% rise in its monthly sales, reflecting continued strength in demand spurred by a global rush to build AI infrastructure. Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’US Strikes Iran After Helicopter Downed, Testing Peace TalksUS Launches Strikes Against Iran After Helicopter Shot DownStocks Pare Tech-Led Drop as Rotation Gains Speed: Markets WrapSurface Naval Drone Rescued Downed US Apache
June 10 (Reuters) - Facebook-parent Meta said on Wednesday that it has tied up with Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries for an AI-enabled data center in India.
The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:SMH) closed Friday at $599, capping a stretch in which SMH has returned roughly 146% over the past year and tacked on nearly 20% in May alone. SMH is up about 66% year to date, and the rally has been driven less by NVIDIA than most holders assume. Because the fund ... SMH ETF Investors: Watch Hyperscaler Capex Guidance at July Earnings Calls
During this week of trading, with the heated anticipation of the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO), it’s particularly important for investors to remember the Facebook IPO. Investors were clamoring. It was the biggest event on Wall Street in decades. The stock was priced at $38. By August, it ...
When a Wall Street heavyweight tells you a $1.8 trillion company still looks cheap, it's worth slowing down to understand why. That's roughly the message coming out of JPMorgan (JPM) this month. Fresh off Broadcom's latest earnings, the bank didn't just nudge its outlook higher. It made a ...
Apollo and Blackstone are financing a $35 billion expansion of AI computing capacity for Anthropic using Broadcom's custom chips and networking solutions as part of a tie-up between the asset managers and the chipmaker. The initial commitment will expand the Claude Code creator's AI computing capacity by one gigawatt, the companies said on Tuesday. The capacity is expected to be deployed at Fluidstack-operated sites beginning mid-2026, with the cloud computing company providing the physical data-center infrastructure that will run Anthropic's AI systems.
The European Union told Meta Platforms to reverse a policy that effectively bans rival artificial intelligence chatbots from using a tool to communicate with users on WhatsApp as officials continue to probe the company’s messaging service.
Meta Platforms has been ordered by EU antitrust regulators to give rival AI chatbots such as OpenAI free access to WhatsApp while they continue to investigate whether the company abused its market power by blocking competitors from the messaging app. The European Commission's decision to issue an interim measure against Meta followed complaints from The Interaction Company of California, developer of the Poke.com AI assistant, French AI startup Agentik and a Spanish rival. Those complaints prompted the Commission, the EU's competition enforcer, to open an investigation in December.
Bernstein’s Stacy Rasgon spent years as a skeptic on Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD). On a recent episode of The Real Eisman Playbook, he flipped the script.”I’m looking at 2028 and I’m pretty close to $20 in earnings, which was their 2030 target.” Read that again. The 2030 number, pulled forward two years. Rasgon is not ... AMD Just Hit 2030’s Earnings Target Two Years Early. Here’s What Happens Next
The excitement is building around the SpaceX IPO, which is set to debut on the Nasdaq Composite on Friday.
Investing.com -- CoreWeave Inc. is holding calls with European high-yield investors on Tuesday as the AI infrastructure provider evaluates financing transactions that may include dollar and euro bonds, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
Investor Jim Chanos challenged the prevailing narrative comparing SpaceX‘s initial public offering (IPO) valuation to early tech giants like Amazon.com, Google, and Meta Platforms. Chanos took to X on Saturday to respond to a user, The_Real_Fly, stating SpaceX, OpenAI and...
(Bloomberg) -- China is preparing to spend around 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) over the next five years on building data centers across the country, fueling Beijing’s ambition to propel the domestic AI sector and surpass the US in a potentially game-changing technology. Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’LA Mayor Race Flips as Socialist Beats Reality TV Star PrattTrump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Application Fee Rejected by JudgeTrump Says He, Not Con
Such is life on Wall Street at the dawn of the artificial-intelligence build-out. Tech companies are hungry for cash to invest in data centers, and investors are forking it over through all possible means, in all parts of the globe—a flurry of fundraising that has mostly supported markets by powering technological advances, even as it tests their ability to absorb it all. Alphabet’s announcement that it would raise $85 billion of equity was just the latest example.
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