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Amazon delivered blockbuster results across the board.

Federal court clears Reddit to advance anti-circumvention claims against Perplexity AI and SerpApi, even as the platform navigates Google search traffic fluctuations following robust Q2 2026 earnings.

Amazon.com’s strong earnings are providing a boost to battered AI hyperscaler bonds. Amazon shares jumped 15% Friday after the company reported accelerating cloud-computing sales. The momentum carried over to its bonds: the extra yield, or spread, investors demand to hold its 6.

Over the past two days, four of the trillion-dollar tech giants have reported earnings. Each day, there's been one clear winner and one clear loser. Today, Amazon stock is winning while Apple is down.

Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) said it delivered second-quarter 2026 GAAP earnings of $0.65 per share and reaffirmed its full-year earnings guidance, with management saying results are trending in the upper half of the company’s range despite milder weather during the first half of the year. President

Amazon's (AMZN) AWS business saw 37% revenue growth this most recent quarter. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley chats with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi about the results and future growth.

July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. equity funds drew inflows in the week to July 29, snapping a two-week streak of outflows, as investors added exposure to mega-cap technology funds during a recent selloff on

Cook, who steps down as CEO on Sept. 1, said Apple's hybrid AI approach is an advantage as rivals rely on massive cloud infrastructure

Morningstar maintained an $850 fair value estimate for META, implying a 58% upside from current levels.

Plus, banks are in talks to lend $15 billion for a Google-backed Anthropic data center, and Spider-Man’s youngest fans might help make the new movie a hit.

Data-center developer Nexus Data Centers is in advanced talks to raise $15 billion for a Texas campus ‌tied to Anthropic, with Alphabet's Google offering financial guarantees ‌and supplying chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with ​the matter. • A bank group led by Morgan Stanley is discussing ‌financing for the project ⁠in Hubbard, Texas, which includes a natural-gas-fired power plant capable of producing 1.6 gigawatts of electricity, the ⁠report said. • Google has agreed to guarantee billions of dollars of Anthropic's lease and power-payment commitments if the startup defaults, according to WSJ.

Google’s guarantees of power and lease obligations would help the developer secure financing for the 1.6-gigawatt Texas project.

You pay less than the market for Adobe on earnings and cash flow, and what comes with the discount is a growth engine management is deliberately rebuilding.

DoorDash just secured federal clearance to fly its own delivery drones commercially, but a persistent trust gap with the American public may prove harder to clear than any regulatory hurdle.

Vertiv (VRT) stock is rebounding after the company reported quarterly earnings. Vertiv CEO Giordano "Gio" Albertazzi sits down with Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman to discuss Vertiv's demand from AI hyperscalers, data center backlash, and more.

Meta (META) stock continues to plunge after the company reported its second quarter earnings results on Wednesday. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley and BD8 Capital Partners CEO and CIO Barbara Doran chat with Morning Brief host Julie Hyman about the results, the stock reaction, and their outlook for Meta.

K2 Space said on Thursday it raised $500 million in a new funding round that valued the company at $6.8 billion, ‌more than twice the valuation at its December round, as the ‌company prepares to increase production of large, high-power satellites. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, ​and were new investors in the satellite maker along with Alphabet's venture fund CapitalG. • The funding brings K2's total capital raised to more than $1 billion, ​the company ​said.

Microsoft has accomplished something that eluded both Alphabet and Tesla.

Alphabet's huge earnings beat is sending S&P 500 earnings growth soaring.

SEOUL—One of the world’s biggest memory-chip makers reported a record $64 billion quarterly profit on Wednesday—and its stock price still fell nearly 10%. Welcome to the most fickle of stock markets, where earnings that would have been unthinkable a year or two ago are now treated as a disappointment. SK Group, which controls SK Hynix, announced a $500 billion partnership with Nvidia for next-generation memory supply and AI data centers, giving details about an agreement reached earlier.

South Korea’s SK Hynix shares fell nearly 10% despite record results powered by the AI boom.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) reported record first-quarter fiscal 2027 results, with revenue rising 22% year over year to $1.29 billion as demand for its computing platform expanded across cloud AI infrastructure, edge devices and physical AI applications. Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas said the company del

Arm Holdings forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling strong demand for ‌its energy-efficient chip designs for AI data centers. Demand for Arm's chip architecture has ‌surged as companies like Alphabet and Amazon.com build custom AI chips, boosting the company's licensing revenue and ​royalties as more complex chips are shipped to data centers. Revenue from royalties, which Arm collects on each chip shipped using its technology, rose 22% to $715 million in the first quarter, while licensing revenue grew 23% to $574 million.

The Facebook parent now expects 2026 capital expenditure to be ‌between $130 billion and $145 billion, compared with its prior forecast of $125 billion to $145 billion. Meta said it now expects full-year 2026 total expenses to be in the range of $165 billion to $169 billion, compared with its prior forecast of $162 billion to $169 billion.

Moby summary of Fiverr International Ltd.'s Q2 2026 earnings call

When two storm clouds hung over Alphabet, a Columbia-trained value investor saw a rare window to buy one of history's greatest businesses at a discount. Now a third cloud is forming, and the stakes are far higher than the first two.

Reddit has become the voice of the internet. Why the future of AI could depend on the company’s success.

Here is what investors will be looking for when Meta Platforms reports its earnings after markets close today: One big question is whether Meta will increase its capital expenditure estimate for the year, like Alphabet did last week.

DoorDash on Wednesday launched its in-house drone-delivery program, DoorDash Air, after ‌securing a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration certification ‌to operate commercial drone deliveries in the U.S. The move marks ​the food-delivery company's push into autonomous delivery as it looks to reduce reliance on human couriers and expand its logistics network. • ‌The program was ⁠developed by DoorDash Labs, its robotics and autonomy unit, and will eventually be ⁠integrated into its delivery app, according to a TechCrunch report.

Major U.S. technology companies are borrowing heavily as they ramp up spending on their artificial intelligence buildout, and at steadily higher yields as investors become more selective about absorbing the growing supply. Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Oracle issued about $194 ‌billion of bonds in 2026 through July 7, up 79% from roughly $108 billion in all of 2025, according to a Reuters analysis ‌of LSEG data. Goldman Sachs expects bond issuance by the five hyperscalers, including Microsoft Corp, to reach roughly $250 billion this year and $400 billion in 2027.