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There's been a lot of focus on the recent selloff in tech stocks. As Dan Ives at Wedbush Securities sees it, investors are growing frustrated that big spending by some companies on AI infrastructure has yet to produce a clearer growth payoff. "Microsoft and Meta are being treated by investors like they are wearing winter jackets to the beach in the summer," he wrote.

<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42% </p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>
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By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister said on Friday he was keen to make sure the country's social media ban for children was as strong as possible, as a new study found
Meta has hired the founding team of security startup Virtue AI to protect its upcoming autonomous software agents amid growing federal oversight.
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Micron Technology edged past the market valuation of Meta Platforms and briefly Tesla's for the first time on Thursday, after the memory chipmaker's solid forecast helped extend its AI-driven ascent. The company's shares were last up 18.4% at $1,236, giving it a market capitalization of $1.398 trillion, compared with Meta's $1.392 trillion. Tesla had a market value stood of $1.4 trillion.
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June 25 (Reuters) - Nasdaq futures jumped 2% on Thursday after upbeat forecasts from chipmakers Micron and Qualcomm pointed to strong demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, lifting
Shares were mostly higher Thursday in Asia, led by tech-driven gains in Japan and South Korea as major computer chipmakers’ stocks surged following upbeat earnings reports from U.S. giants like Qualcomm and Micron Technology. Oil prices fell more than $1, bringing them closer to where they were before the war with Iran started. Qualcomm’s share price surged 12% in afterhours trading after the company announced it had raised its forecast for revenue this year to $40 billion from $22 billion.
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. bond yields tumbled on Wednesday as oil's slide to a four-month low eased inflation fears, although the relief wasn't felt as much in
Investing.com - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU and secured Meta Platforms as its first major customer on Wednesday, announcing a strategic multi-generation supply agreement at its Investor Day 2026 in New York City. Despite the milestone announcements, Qualcomm shares are trading at $193.61, down 5.15% on the session, as investors weigh the near-term cost of a separate ~$4 billion acquisition against data center revenue that won’t arrive until th
Qualcomm is expected to use its investor day on Wednesday to lay out a push beyond its core smartphone business into the fast-growing, but highly competitive, market for AI data center chips. Analysts expect the San Diego-based company to name new customers for its AI chips as it tries to gain a foothold in a market dominated by Nvidia. The shift reflects mounting pressure in the smartphone market, where Qualcomm is one of the world’s largest chip suppliers to Android device makers.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal derivatives regulator, filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Kentucky on June 23, 2026, making it the ninth state the agency has sued in an accelerating battle over who gets to regulate prediction markets in the United States. Kentucky had moved the ...
The U.S. dollar has separated from the pack, rising to the highest levels in more than a year and building on gains again Wednesday, as investors use the greenback as a sanctuary from risks tied to the global tech selloff and calibrate the impact of expected Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes over the back half of the year. There also was little change in Fed forecasts with futures indicating a 60% chance of a rate hike in September. Charalampos Pissouros, senior market analyst at XM, thinks the dollar rally is extending beyond the Fed funds trade.
Amazon’s chief executive has said that power is the “single biggest constraint” in its cloud and artificial-intelligence business. Here, Amazon has an incumbent advantage. It is the world’s largest cloud provider and has been building a lot of data centers over the past two decades.
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By Diana Novak Jones June 23 (Reuters) - Google's YouTube has settled with a minor who claimed the platform caused mental health harms, the plaintiff’s lawyers said, ahead of a second California trial
Google's YouTube has settled a lawsuit brought by a minor who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, his lawyers said Tuesday, ahead of a second California trial over social media's role in the youth mental health crisis. The suit named four defendants — YouTube, Meta's Instagram, Snap Inc's Snapchat and ByteDance's TikTok — and the remaining three companies are still set to face trial in July. Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said in a statement that the lawsuit had been amicably resolved.
Retail investors have spent decades watching Bill Ackman make concentrated bets from the outside, The Motley Fool noted, piecing together his moves through quarterly filings that arrive months after the trades close. That dynamic changed when Pershing Square USA (PSUS) began trading on the New York ...
Technology companies are spending big to incorporate artificial intelligence into their businesses and to build huge data centers. Investors who had jumped on the bandwagon appear to be having second thoughts. Just four companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Microsoft — plan to spend up to $720 billion this year, primarily on AI data centers.