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Wielding its war chest to win data-center customers for its silicon, the world’s second-biggest company is taking a page from No. 1.

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OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.

$1.3 trillion S&P 500 companies reported that level of capex for 2025, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. That figure includes $412 billion for just five large hyperscalers: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle.

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The stock market is salivating over big increases in corporate earnings, but there’s a catch. Analysts expect S&P 500 companies’ earnings growth to top 20% for a second consecutive quarter in the current period, in part because of soaring profits by semiconductor makers and other AI-infrastructure companies. This combination has worked wonders for corporate earnings broadly.

SpaceX's record-setting IPO has investors rushing into space stocks. From Rocket Lab to AST SpaceMobile, here's how to separate the durable winners from the hype in a fast-growing $1 trillion market.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Wednesday closed down -1.21%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.98%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.99%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) fell -1.19%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

The succession will mark the end of an era for the derivatives exchange, which transformed under Duffy’s long run.

AI lab Odyssey on Wednesday said it has raised $310 million in a Series B round valuing it at $1.45 ‌billion, and struck a deal with Amazon Web Services that gives ‌it access to specialized chips designed for high‑performance machine-learning workloads. The round, led by Natural Capital, ​saw participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google Ventures, EQT and In-Q-Tel, alongside prominent individual investors including Google’s chief scientist Jeff Dean and Garry Tan, president and CEO of Y Combinator. Odyssey is building models that can ⁠simulate the real world and act without human input.

Elon Musk just made his biggest bet yet on artificial intelligence. Days after SpaceX's record-breaking stock market debut, the company confirmed it would acquire Anysphere, the San Francisco-based startup behind the popular AI coding tool Cursor, in a deal valued at $60 billion. The move puts ...

By Susanna Twidale LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - A coalition backed by Big Tech companies for carbon removal technology, said on Wednesday it would inject an additional $915 million into the sector, and

The U.S. company should provide advance notice of any significant changes to its search services, U.K. officials said, giving it six months to act under the country’s digital markets competition rules.

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Adoption of artificial intelligence has reached a "tipping point" in Britain, as companies move from experimentation ‌to large-scale deployment and start seeing returns, a Google Cloud executive ‌said on Wednesday. Businesses and government bodies that were testing AI tools a year ago are now ​using them to run more complex processes and improve productivity, Maureen Costello, Google Cloud's vice president for the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa, told Reuters in an interview.

June 17 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures edged higher on Wednesday, as chip stocks rebounded ahead of the first interest rate decision under new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh.

Britain's competition watchdog ‌set out two ‌conduct requirements for Google's ​search services under its regulatory regime to secure "a fairer deal" ‌for businesses ⁠and improve Google search services ⁠in the country. The first requires Google ​to improve ​transparency ​and fairness ‌in how search results are ranked, while the second requires Google to allow users ‌to move ​their search ​data ​to authorised ‌third parties, the ​Competition ​and Markets Authority said in a statement ​on ‌Wednesday.

Buying AI coding agent Cursor in a $60 billion deal and renting out data-center capacity gives the company a launchpad to land more enterprise customers.

HSBC on Wednesday announced a multi-year partnership with Alphabet Inc-owned Google Cloud focused on building ‌the British bank's artificial intelligence capabilities. The tie-up marks the ‌latest step in HSBC CEO Georges Elhedery's drive to embrace the revenue-generating and cost-savings ​power of AI which can process vast amounts of data, automating tasks previously done by people. The partnership, which HSBC said will focus on areas such as advice for wealth management clients and financial ‌crime risk management, shows ⁠how banks worldwide are accelerating their adoption of AI as they compete in a technology arms race ⁠with each other.

The Dow Jones hit a new high and SpaceX kept rising. But chips and most AI stocks fell. Fed chief Kevin Warsh's comments will be in focus Wednesday.

Amazon.com may face a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit ‌that could result in civil ‌penalties, following allegations that the e-commerce giant misled ​advertisers, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The FTC has a possible complaint against Amazon as part of an ongoing probe, ‌Bloomberg reported, ⁠citing people familiar with the matter. The agency has been investigating whether Amazon and Alphabet's Google ​misled advertisers ​that place ads ​on their websites, ‌Reuters reported last year.

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has spent years trying to convince Wall Street that it can become one of the most important software companies in the artificial intelligence boom. Its most recent action does just that. Palantir said on June 4 its software is available through the Google Cloud ...

SpaceX is one of the fastest new entrants ever into the top tier of the US market.

After SpaceX’s (NASDAQ: SPCX) IPO, Elon Musk’s net worth rose to $1.27 billion, making him the first trillionaire in world history (at least as far as most people know, based on inflation-adjusted dollars). His net worth has risen to $653 billion this year. That increase alone is larger than the net worth of the second-richest ... Who Is The World’s Second Richest Person?

CNBC’s Leslie Picker walked viewers through the mechanics of last week’s blockbuster listing on June 15. She framed SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) as more than the biggest IPO ever priced. “Friday’s debut went off really smoothly. There were no technology glitches in the 19% day one gain meant that those who received allocation generated a pretty ... SpaceX’s 20% IPO Pop Signals Strong Demand Ahead of Megacap Listings

Genesis AI, the French robotics startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, unveiled ‌its first general-purpose robot on Tuesday, as AI capabilities expand beyond chatbots and ‌into physical machines. The robot, named Eno, breaks from the humanoid design usually favoured by leading manufacturers, featuring ​a wheeled base rather than legs, a foldable tower and hands that the company says match the form of a human hand. Founded in early 2025, Genesis AI has raised $105 million (€90.6 million), one of France's largest and matching the record seed round of Mistral AI - Europe's leading AI company.

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Nvidia is the latest company to tap Wall Street for the AI boom it helped create.

Space-X pulled off a Goldilocks IPO on Friday, and for good measure today is adding another gain to its initial 19% rise. Here's how other high-profile IPOs did on their first day of trading, according to Dow Jones Market Data: ‘Magnificent Seven’ growth stocks Nvidia, up 64%.