
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Thursday after surprise key inflation data. Cisco and AI stock Cerebras plunge on earnings.
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Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Thursday after surprise key inflation data. Cisco and AI stock Cerebras plunge on earnings.

Two AI infrastructure stocks both erupted on earnings day, but the businesses behind those moves share almost nothing in common. Picking the right one means understanding which trade-off you can actually live with.

South Korean memory stocks just posted their biggest surge in months while U.S. premarket tells a far more complicated story, with Coherent falling despite a beat and Micron moving in the opposite direction from its Asian peers.
Morningstar analysts, however, said Nebius’ high valuation may hold, but a slowdown in AI spending could hinder its ability to attract new capital and sustain growth.

Nebius and CoreWeave led Nasdaq gains as AI demand and soft inflation lifted markets. Here are the full numbers.

CoreWeave (NasdaqGS:CRWV) announced a new collaboration with Leidos Holdings to provide secure, sovereign AI cloud services for U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of War missions. The agreement focuses on mission specific AI infrastructure tailored for highly sensitive federal workloads with specialized security and compliance requirements. CoreWeave also disclosed plans for three new data centers in Indonesia as part of a broader push into the Asia Pacific cloud market. The moves...

The market can see the demand just fine. The discount is about what delivering it will cost.

CoreWeave Chief Development Officer Brandon McBee discussed a newly signed A100 contract running through 2029, saying that pricing "has really held very well" over 12-18 months and had "actually increased…

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed mostly higher on Wednesday, with the Dow the only outlier, ending virtually flat, the S&P 500 gaining about a quarter of a percent, and the Nasdaq adding more than half a percent.</p><p>:: CoreWeave</p><p>Upbeat quarterly results from AI-related firms continued to soothe investor fears about massive capex spending.</p><p>:: CoreWeave</p><p>Shares of CoreWeave, for instance, surged 19% after the AI cloud company lifted its annual capital spending forecast and topped second-quarter earnings estimates.</p><p>Mike Mussio is president of FBB Capital Partners.</p><p>“We continue to see some of these names that sold off dramatically in June and part of July on just general AI over-investment, scare around that, they're actually reporting earnings, and the earnings are kind of saying, 'nothing really to see here.' So some of these same companies and sub-industries within the AI complex that sold off hard are bouncing dramatically. And that's helping lead the Nasdaq higher today.”</p><p>Data center operators also rose, with IREN gaining almost 10% and Applied Digital up nearly 5%.</p><p>:: Nebius Group</p><p>And shares of data center company Nebius Group jumped 34%, helped by second-quarter results that beat expectations.</p><p>Shares of Super Micro Computer surged 19% after the AI server maker forecast fiscal 2027 revenue above Wall Street expectations.</p><p>And chip makers gained, with Nvidia rising 3% and Micron Technology adding about 5%. </p><p>Meanwhile, data on Wednesday showed U.S. consumer prices barely increased in July as the cost of gasoline declined for a second straight month, further reducing expectations of an interest rate hike next month from the Federal Reserve.</p></body>

U.S. stocks advanced on Aug. 12 after fresh inflation data showed consumer prices rose 3.4% year over year in July, slightly below the previous month’s 3.5% reading, helping fuel gains across technology and AI-linked stocks. The Nasdaq Composite was up about 0.5% during the session. AI ...

Three AI infrastructure stocks are surging Wednesday after a blowout earnings report set off a chain reaction across GPU compute and onsite power names, raising serious questions about how much runway this trade still has.

The cloud-computing company’s stock jumped 19% and lifted other shares tied to the artificial-intelligence build-out.

Today’s earnings update is packed as we sift through Q2 earnings for CoreWeave, Nebius, and WhiteFiber. Plus, CoreWeave CDO Brannin McBee joins us to unpack the company’s banner Q2 beat.

Michael Burry bet against two of the hottest AI stocks on Wall Street, and this week their earnings reports delivered a direct challenge to the core of his short thesis.

AI stocks led the market Wednesday, fueled by Nebius, Lumentum, CoreWeave and Super Micro. Cisco and Coherent were earnings movers late.

The entire AI data center industry still appears to be firing on all cylinders after all, with more of the same in the cards.

Neocloud stocks just posted some of the wildest single-session gains of the AI buildout cycle, and the valuation math behind them is stranger and more compelling than it looks at first glance.
CoreWeave raised its revenue and spending forecasts as customers competed for scarce AI-computing capacity.

Oracle struck a partnership deal with Quantinuum. The tech giant is also considering additional layoffs as it invests in AI.

AI infrastructure stocks rose on Wednesday after strong quarterly financial reports from AI server hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) and neocloud providers CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) and Nebius Group NV (NASDAQ:NBIS). Big Tech companies have already signaled that spending on AI would not slow down. The combined outlays are set to surpass $730 billion […]
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Investors have been concerned about a potential slowdown in AI adoption, but results from these neocloud operators suggest otherwise.

CoreWeave's CEO just made a claim that challenges one of the biggest bear cases against the stock: that aging NVIDIA hardware will drag margins down as newer silicon arrives. The reality unfolding in CoreWeave's contracts tells a very different story.
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