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Alphabet Surges to All-Time High Amid Explosive Investor Demand

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Last week’s tech earnings put investors’ attention back on AI spending and whether it’s actually paying off. One megacap stands out, surging nearly 10% over the past five trading days, the best five-day performance among the Magnificent 7 stocks. That’s Alphabet. The stock is up 22% year to date as ...

Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) points to $502.88 over the next 12 months, which would take shares well past the $500 mark. With GOOGL trading at $383.25, that implies 31.21% upside. The model’s rating is buy with a high confidence reading of 90%. Cloud is compounding, Gemini usage is scaling ... Alphabet Stock: I See a Path to $500 by 2027

All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Tuesday, as oil prices slid despite

Uber stock and DoorDash stock have had a rough 2026. Can first-quarter earnings help turn the narrative around?

Jim Cramer on Sunday argued that the latest wave of Big Tech earnings proves aggressive artificial intelligence (AI) and data center spending is fueling competitive advantage rather than creating a dangerous market bubble. Cramer Rejects AI Bubble Narrative After Big Tech Earnings In a detailed analysis published on CNBC, Cramer pushed back against mounting concerns that hyperscaler spending on AI infrastructure is overheated, saying the latest quarterly results show the opposite. "I am growing

Alphabet is on the cusp of overtaking Nvidia as the world's most valuable company, riding on a record stock rally fueled by its artificial intelligence efforts and booming cloud business. The potential ‌reshuffling would put the Google parent at the No.1 spot for the first time in more than a decade. ‌It last held that position briefly in February 2016 before Apple reclaimed the spot. The move reflects a dramatic shift in sentiment as Alphabet emerges as both a ​major AI services provider with its cloud platform and a key rival to Nvidia in chips through custom processors that have won customers such as Anthropic.

Concentrated bets on a handful of mega-cap technology names drove most of the S&P 500’s returns over the past three years, and Roundhill built MAGS to deliver that exposure in one ticker without forcing investors to guess which name will lead next. The Single-Decision Mega-Cap Tech Sleeve The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (NYSEARCA:MAGS) holds seven ... MAGS Is Up 181% Since Launch, but 2026 Reveals Its Hidden Weakness

Shares of Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) are catapulting 14% in Tuesday morning trading, changing hands near $109.60 after Bloomberg reported that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is exploring Intel’s foundry services for future U.S. chip production. The move extends a stunning run. Intel stock is up 118% over the past month and up roughly 197% year to date (YTD), breaking ... Intel Rips 14% Higher: Apple Foundry Reports Crush Bears in Massive Short Squeeze

AI infrastructure leader CoreWeave has explosive revenue growth and a massive backlog.

ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE:NOW) is one of the best enterprise software stocks to buy right now. On April 22, ServiceNow and Google Cloud expanded their partnership to launch interoperable AI agents designed for autonomous enterprise operations. By uniting Google’s Gemini Enterprise with the ServiceNow AI Platform through open protocols like the Model Context Protocol/MCP, the two […]

The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) opened higher Tuesday, with the tech-heavy benchmark riding a familiar trio of tailwinds: a fresh wave of strong earnings, a sharp pullback in crude oil, and a pause in Middle East escalation. Risk appetite is back, and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) is riding the bullish wave. Google parent company Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL), ... Alphabet, Intel, Micron Lead Nasdaq Higher as Oil Drops on Paused Mideast Tensions

Alphabet is again tapping debt markets as AI infrastructure spending reshapes Big Tech financing strategies.

IonQ kicks off first quarter earnings reports for quantum computing stocks on Wednesday amid its acquisition spree.

Meta is building a 1-gigawatt data center campus in El Paso

The iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF (NYSEARCA:BAI) solves a problem that has tripped up most thematic funds: how to own the AI build-out without locking yourself into a static index that gets stale when the cycle shifts. Portfolio managers Tony Kim and Reid Menge run an active book of 40-60 holdings selected through ... The $500 Billion Capex Question That Will Make or Break BAI in 2026

IonQ CEO Peter Chapman frequently uses long-term commercialization timelines to anchor investor expectations. However, IonQ’s (IONQ) most critical metric is actually a specific hardware threshold: Algorithmic Qubit (AQ) capacity paired with two-qubit gate fidelity. While it is often obscured by quarterly cash burn figures, this underlying physics milestone is the primary driver of IonQ’s valuation. This analysis focuses on that specific metric.

The proposal was rejected in part because the new entities might still have needed to be consolidated on OpenAI's balance sheet

Krutrim's pivot to cloud after layoffs and limited product updates reflects the economic challenges of building AI models in India.

The agreement calls for AI developers to share models with reduced or removed safeguards to evaluate national security-related capabilities and risks.

DeepInfra has successfully closed a $107 million Series B funding round aimed at expanding its cloud platform designed for high-throughput AI inference. This development highlights the increasing shift in AI demand from model training to production-scale inference, as enterprises increasingly adopt open-source and agent-driven AI models for improved cost-effectiveness and performance. The funding will facilitate DeepInfra's global expansion and enhance its infrastructure, which optimizes AI...

Strong first-quarter results from five of the so-called Magnificent 7 technology giants have reinforced the bull case for artificial intelligence investment, according to UBS, which is maintaining its attractive rating on US equities and a year-end S&P 500 target of 7,500. Analysts at UBS...

Alphabet has reportedly signed a classified AI contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, enabling Gemini models to be used in sensitive military contexts. The contract has sparked internal protests, with hundreds of employees petitioning leadership to avoid military projects. UK based Google DeepMind staff have launched a unionization vote, citing concerns about the ethical implications of defense related AI work. For investors following NasdaqGS:GOOGL, this development arrives at a...

In late April 2026, Elastic announced a series of AI-focused product upgrades, deep Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped integrations, and new MCP Apps, alongside preparations to present its platform at the GEOINT Symposium 2026 in Colorado. Together, these moves push Elastic deeper into regulated, air-gapped, and observability-heavy deployments, positioning its search and security stack as critical infrastructure for data-sovereign, AI-driven workloads. Next, we’ll examine how Elastic’s...

Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK-B) cash position has become one of the defining financial stories of recent years, swelling to truly historic proportions. The company ended 2025 with $373.3 billion in cash and cash equivalents, representing the largest corporate cash hoard in American business history. The initial peak occurred in the third quarter of 2025, when ... We May Soon Find Out Why Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Have Almost $400 Billion in Cash

Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are working on the package

Debt heavy financing shows rising infrastructure costs

Alphabet on Tuesday disclosed that it was selling euro-denominated bonds across six tranches, months ‌after it raised about $32 billion in debt by ‌tapping the dollar, sterling and Swiss franc markets. The Google parent is selling ​at least 3 billion euro ($3.5 billion) in bonds, Bloomberg News reported, citing a person with knowledge of the matter. Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.