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(Bloomberg) -- A judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp is able to access users’ encrypted messages and has made false claims about the privacy and security of its chat service.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesUS to Begin Work on New Car

Wall Street’s concerns about capex and free cash flow for big tech now outweigh optimism regarding cloud performance.

Intel's stock is surging while the rest of the chip sector sits flat, and the reasons behind that split tell a much bigger story about where the semiconductor race is actually headed.

(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. began marketing $12.3 billion of high-grade bonds to fund a Meta Platforms Inc. data center project, testing investor appetite amid growing concerns about excessive AI infrastructure spending. Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesAlphabet Fall

Meta Platforms is launching a dedicated app for sellers on Facebook Marketplace. Meta stock was a fraction lower early Friday while the news appeared to weigh on eBay shares. The new app will be called Seller, according to an announcement from Meta on Friday morning.

Meta's AI strategy has quietly shifted from playing catch-up to raising the stakes in ways most analysts have yet to price in, and the CapEx fears dominating headlines may be obscuring something much bigger building beneath the surface.

Short sellers gained about $4.3 billion in one session.

(Bloomberg) -- Corporate earnings strong enough to beat the highest expectations in years have failed to impress investors fretting about AI spending and economic growth.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesAlphabet Falls as $205 Billion Spending Plan Fuels AI Cost FearAbo

Tesla Bears Score $9 Billion Windfall After Brutal Earnings Selloff

Shares of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) fell 3.7% Friday morning as investors reacted to Meta’s launch of a dedicated Seller app for Facebook Marketplace. While Meta’s product rollout was public, the stock decline underscores growing concern on Wall Street that Meta is making a direct play for eBay’s core seller base. Historically viewed as an informal, local yard-sale platform, Facebook Marketplace’s standalone "Seller" app introduces tools specifically engineered to siphon professional, high-margin power

Apple stock is holding up the best out of the Magnificent Seven stocks as the company has proceeded cautiously with its AI investments.

The Mag-7 erased nearly $800 billion in value as AI spending worries resurfaced. Here are the ETF themes that could benefit from the shift.

Shares of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) declined 3. 7% on Friday after Meta (NASDAQ:META) introduced a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace, prompting fresh concerns that the social media giant is targeting the online marketplace’s professional merchant base.

The companies have sent their concerns in a letter to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

According to a Financial Times report, investors want yields above 7%, roughly 0.4 percentage points higher than Meta paid during its previous record $27 billion financing.

Intel beats expectations, Alphabet feels the sting of SpaceX’s stock drop, and more news to start your day.

July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday after a tech-led selloff in the previous session, as investors weighed fresh earnings, escalating Middle East tensions and a new

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - A wobbly U.S. stock market will take its cues in the coming week from a Federal Reserve meeting set to shed light on the path for interest rates, and

A wobbly U.S. stock market will take its cues in the coming week from a Federal Reserve meeting set to shed light on the path for interest rates, and from a packed slate of corporate earnings led by technology companies and heavyweights in artificial intelligence. Major equity ‌indexes were on track for weekly declines, dragged down on Thursday by steep slides in Alphabet and Tesla following their quarterly reports. The fallout for Google parent Alphabet, ‌sparked in part by an increase in its already massive AI spending plans, set a negative tone ahead of results next week from other AI "hyperscalers": Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms.

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment is weak, with a shift toward ‘extremely bearish’ on SPY and QQQ.

Wall Street’s concerns about capex and free cash flow for big tech now outweigh optimism regarding cloud performance.

Many investors feel like the AI trend has peaked, but the recent performances of Taiwan Semiconductor and Meta Platform suggest the AI build-out is still on.

Concerns about artificial-intelligence spending shaved roughly $890 billion in market value from the Magnificent Seven on Thursday.

Bond investors are looking for significantly higher yields on the latest $12bn Meta-backed data centre deal compared with the terms secured just...

Today, July 23, 2026, investors punished the search giant after it raised capital spending forecasts again, signaling aggressive AI investment ahead.

Dozens of data center developers and utilities pledged with President Donald Trump that AI data centers won’t raise consumer electricity bills. The opposition won’t back down.

(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. launched products this week allowing investors to quickly cut — or ramp up — exposure to tech industry debt, as concerns mount over hyperscalers’ huge future bond sales for artificial intelligence investments.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandAlphabet Falls a

Meta Platforms' (META) new Ray-Ban smart glasses are one of the fastest-selling products at eyeglass retailer National Vision (EYE). National Vision CEO Alex Wilkes comes on Market Domination to discuss the latest consumer buying trends around the new generation of wearable technology.

The "Magnificent Seven" group of stocks suffered its steepest one-day decline since the tariff-driven market sell-off in April 2025.

D.A. Davidson's Gil Luria joins Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton to explain why Microsoft (MSFT) is a top AI stock, arguing that its multi-year access to OpenAI’s technology and the rise of open-source models make owning a proprietary frontier model unnecessary.