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Shares of Meta Platforms (META) have struggled in 2026, despite the company's aggressive push into artificial intelligence. The stock is down 11.7% year to date through July 2, trailing the S&P 500's roughly 9% gain over the same period. On July 2, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that ...
Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data centers themselves.
An AI spending blitz is demolishing new Fed chair Kevin Warsh's argument for interest rate cuts with more price increases about to ripple through the economy
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked changes to a world-first social media ban for children, saying tech giants would use the delay to destroy incriminating documents that could be used as evidence against them. The government this week introduced to Parliament amendments aimed at increasing powers of the eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s online safety watchdog, to enforce the ban on Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube that has been in place since December. The amendments would have given Inman Grant power to demand documents as well as information from platforms about their efforts to exclude young children.
AI data center startup Crusoe is in talks to raise about $3 billion in a funding round that may triple its valuation, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation. The startup has contracts to supply AI computing power for the likes of Meta and Oracle, the report said, as technology giants spend billions of dollars on data centers to meet the massive computing requirements for GenAI. The startup, which builds and operates the type of large data centers that power AI systems, is still in active talks on the round, and a final valuation has not been set, according to the Bloomberg report.
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an internal town hall on Thursday that AI agent development over the last four months had not "accelerated in the way we expected," according to a recording heard by Reuters. Zuckerberg added that a company reorganization that included major job cuts was not as "clean" as it could have been and that executives had miscalculated on the timing of the changes. Conversations he was having "with our top people" when they started planning the restructuring in January and February "were that they were worried that we weren't going to move fast enough to adapt," Zuckerberg said.
Wall Street does not punish companies for spending money. It punishes them for spending money without a story. Give investors a believable path from this year's bills to next year's profits and they will forgive almost any number on the capital expenditure line. Take that story away, and every ...
Mark Zuckerberg just dodged a bullet. Zuckerberg, whom speculators give 32% odds of becoming the next trillionaire, came eerily close to steering Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) into one of the most legally and ethically fraught corners of consumer tech. According to NPR reporting from June 30, Zuckerberg personally floated an acquisition of prediction market platform Kalshi. ... Mark Zuckerberg Almost Made a Disastrous Acquisition. Walking Away From Kalshi May Have Been His Best Bet of 2026.
On CNBC’s Squawk on the Street this morning, Jim Cramer looked at the June jobs data and told Carl Quintanilla he cannot square what he is reading with what he is seeing. June payrolls printed +57,000, roughly half of consensus, while the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2%, a one-year low. For Cramer, the location ... Jim Cramer Says He ‘Doesn’t Know How to Trust’ the Jobs Report. He Has a Point
Asian semiconductor stocks tumbled on Thursday, tracking tech losses on Wall Street after Meta Platforms Inc.'s plan to develop a business that would sell access to AI computing power raised worries about overcapacity. Brian Belski, CEO and founder at Humilis Investments, discusses the recent tech sector rout and what stocks he is keeping an eye on.
OpenAI already has a lineup of impressive investors ahead of its eagerly awaited initial public offering. OpenAI has talked about offering a 5% ownership stake to the U.S. government, potentially via a sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the talks. There would be a couple of potential benefits for OpenAI if the Trump administration were among its investors.
The past few months have seen frenetic buying and selling by individual stock traders. Leading market maker Citadel Securities says that retail cash equity volumes in May hit a record, doubling in two years. Then that accelerated in June with nine of the 10 busiest days the market maker has ever experienced coming in a month, according to a mid-June report by strategist Scott Rubner.
(Bloomberg) -- Investors in SpaceX have been largely flying blind since the company’s record-breaking IPO last month, with few financial projections to help determine what the stock is actually worth. Most Read from BloombergExxon to Change Name for First Time in Decades After RedomicileMeta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing PowerKrafton Agrees to Pay ‘Subnautica 2’ Bonuses as Developer’s CEO ResignsUS Decides Against Renewing USMCA, Shifting to Rolling TalksSpaceX IPO Left Mirae
U.S. stock futures were lower as AI-related stocks fell across the globe ahead of Thursday’s crucial jobs data.
(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. and its telecom unit will start renting AI computing resources to US companies next fiscal year in a bid to capitalize on the company’s growing pipeline of data center projects.Most Read from BloombergMeta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing PowerExxon to Change Name for First Time in Decades After RedomicileKrafton Agrees to Pay ‘Subnautica 2’ Bonuses as Developer’s CEO ResignsUS Decides Against Renewing USMCA, Shifting to Rolling TalksSpaceX IP
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, July 2 (Reuters) - Asian shares extended declines on Thursday as investors rotated out of chipmakers after a stellar quarter, while currency and bond markets braced for U.S. jobs
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Global shares are pulling back after a bumper quarter.
The AI boom created a ton of winners on Wall Street. However, it also created an incredibly unforgettable story for workers. Tech behemoth Microsoft (MSFT) is reportedly preparing a fresh round of layoffs, according to Business Insider, in a move that could be announced as early as next ...
Meta Platforms shares had their best day since January after Bloomberg reported that the Facebook parent will sell access to AI computing power and models similar to those offered by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Stocks fell as Meta buzz hit SpaceX, Micron and many AI stocks. Tesla is near a buy point with deliveries due. The June jobs report also is on tap.
Meta shares soared nearly 9% Wednesday on a report that the company is wading into the business of selling cloud computing services and access to AI models.
By Caroline Valetkevitch and Niket Nishant July 1 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks finished slightly lower on Wednesday with falling technology shares, but gains in Meta Platforms provided some support along
Alphabet (GOOGL) just got one of the most renowned promotions in the stock market. Google parent Alphabet officially entered the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, replacing Verizon Communications (VZ) and giving the 30-stock blue-chip index a stronger stake in the artificial intelligence ...
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