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Anthropic officially started its IPO clock yesterday, filing a confidential registration statement with the SEC.

In AI, money talks. The ability to tap stock market capital is important again, after a quarter of a century of being all but irrelevant.

The gargantuan funding requirements of developing artificial intelligence has already set records for the funding rounds in private markets. Now the list of largest-ever equity issues on the stock market is set to be rewritten too. The largest component of Alphabet’s proposed $80 billion equity issue—$40 billion, to be sold into the market—will be roughly on par with the size of Saudi oil giant Aramco’s 2019 initial public offering, adjusted for inflation.

It is a golden rule of finance that what goes out must, at some point, come in. That’s why AI’s biggest spenders are starting to seek new ways...

Shares in Alphabet are down premarket after the Google parent unveiled a giant equity issue plan that underscored the epic bill for the AI buildout. The stock is down 2.5% premarket, enough to wipe more than $100 billion off the company’s market value.

Investing.com -- Broadcom shares gained over 6% in premarket trading Tuesday after Alphabet unveiled plans to raise $80 billion in equity, a massive fundraise aimed at accelerating its AI infrastructure buildout.

June 2 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 futures edged lower on Tuesday after hitting a series of record highs, while blowout results from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a funding commitment

The firm behind the Claude chatbot revealed on Monday it had filed paperwork for an expected 1.0 trillion US dollar IPO.

It's been a busy few days for Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel, who took over for Warren Buffett Jan 1. On Sunday night Berkshire announced it would buy home builder Taylor Morrison Home Corp. for $6.

Alphabet said on Monday it aims ‌to raise $80 billion ‌in equity offerings, which will include ​an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway. The Google parent has agreed to sell $10 billion ‌worth of ⁠shares to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in a ⁠private placement, comprising $5 billion in Class A common ​stock at $351.81 ​per ​share and $5 billion ‌in Class C capital stock at for $348.20 per share. "The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions ‌and services from ​enterprises and ​consumers, at ​levels that are ‌exceeding the company's ​available supply," ​Alphabet said.

Anthropic has taken its first formal step toward a public listing, confidentially submitting a draft S-1 registrati...

Alphabet is seeking federal approval to release up to 32 million treated mosquitoes across California and Florida to curb the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Here’s why — and what to consider.

The filing follows a $965 billion Series H valuation.

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BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM, June 1 (Reuters) - The European Union plans to propose strict criteria for cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could exclude Amazon, Microsoft and Google from such ‌projects, according to documents seen by Reuters. The proposal is part of the European Commission's Cloud and AI Development ‌Act, which EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen will unveil on Wednesday as part of a package aimed at reducing the bloc's dependence on U.

Broadcom's quarterly results and earnings calls are worth following for AI growth stock investors.

By Foo Yun Chee and Toby Sterling BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM, June 1 (Reuters) - Europe plans to propose strict criteria for cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could exclude Amazon

By Foo Yun Chee and Toby Sterling BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM, June 1 (Reuters) - Europe plans to propose strict criteria for cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could exclude Amazon

This week, tech investors will be watching chip and cybersecurity earnings, the impact of AI on labor market data, and the Computex annual chip summit.

This week, tech investors will be watching chip and cybersecurity earnings, the impact of AI on labor market data, and the Computex annual chip summit.

From Europe to Japan and Switzerland, huge bond issues by Big Tech companies are proving that smaller markets, often overshadowed by the U.S., can punch above their weight in the $40 trillion world of corporate debt. Google-parent Alphabet is already one of the biggest ‌outstanding borrowers in the sterling and Swiss franc corporate bond markets, while Amazon raised 14.5 billion euros ($16.88 billion) in March from an eight-part deal, the ‌largest ever in the euro corporate bond market, according to LSEG. Debt issues by so-called "hyperscalers" - or Big Tech companies - outside the United States are part of a push to diversify their funding early on, bankers said, as ​they look to finance trillions of dollars of investment in AI infrastructure, especially data centers, in the years ahead.

Wall Street used to get the growth story early. Now it often only gets the receipt.

Every technology that mints a new fortune tends to make an enemy somewhere else. The railroads did it. The factory floor did it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is doing it now, and the backlash is showing up in places Wall Street doesn't usually watch. For two years, the only AI story most investors ...

Apple (AAPL) doesn’t have to win the artificial intelligence model competition to win the next phase of AI. That's the bet underlying Bank of America's latest Apple call. Wamsi Mohan, an analyst at BofA, increased his price target on Apple to $380 from $330 and reiterated a Buy rating on May 26. ...

Wondering how to invest in this AI-fueled power trend? Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Isaac Newton offer guidelines.

Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer accused of using company data to bet on Polymarket, had a long list of enviable accomplishments

Over Mother’s Day weekend, Andy Milheizler’s quiet Atlanta cul-de-sac was overrun with empty Waymo vehicles. Empty Waymo vehicles recently clogged an Atlanta cul-de-sac. The passengers in two Waymo vehicles in Atlanta last week were in a less-humorous predicament.

Alphabet is a major SpaceX shareholder.

Alphabet (GOOGL) reported earnings 30 days ago. What's next for the stock? We take a look at earnings estimates for some clues.

New Texas DMV registration data reveals Tesla has just 42 autonomous vehicles in the state, versus 577 for Alphabet's Waymo