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The latest quarterly earnings from Big Tech companies have given investors ample reason to stay invested in the AI trade, helping lift equities despite the unprecedented disruption in ‌the oil markets that has clouded the economic growth outlook. Nvidia rounded out the results from the so-called ‌Magnificent Seven that includes Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Meta Platforms and Tesla. Revenue ​growth at the Magnificent Seven remains highly uneven, with Nvidia's blistering pace helping maintain its dominant lead.

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Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms and TikTok were hit with complaints from European Union consumer groups ‌on Thursday for allegedly failing to protect users from financial scams ‌on their platforms. The move highlights growing pressure worldwide on Big Tech to do more to address ​the negative impacts of social media, particularly for children and vulnerable users. The complaints, filed by the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and 29 of its members in 27 European countries, were submitted to the European Commission and national regulators under the Digital Services ‌Act, which requires large ⁠online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content.

Competition is growing, but the AI chip maker’s sluggish stock doesn’t give enough credit for its strong position.

U.S. energy storage developers installed 9.7 gigawatt-hours of new capacity in the first quarter of 2026, marking a record ‌high for the quarter, an industry report showed on Thursday. Energy storage ‌capacity grew 32% in the quarter from a year ago despite federal actions the industry ​says are slowing clean energy development, the report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence said. The SEIA said the demand is being driven by data centers, volatile electricity prices and disruptions to global gas and gas ‌turbine supplies.

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Jensen Huang is betting on a new AI lab that thinks the current chatbot frenzy is just the beginning. Nvidia (NVDA) has already emerged as one of the greatest winners of the artificial intelligence boom. Its chips now make up the backbone of most of the infrastructure powering modern AI, helping ...

Google held its annual developer conference last week and unveiled Gemini 3.5 Pro, new AI search integrations, and a product lineup that BofA called evidence of "accelerating velocity of AI innovation." The stock barely moved. That is the strange position Google finds itself in heading into the ...

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In addition to the earnings release, Nvidia's CFO Colette Kress shared commentary that revealed four key developments in its business, beyond the company's first quarter earnings-per-share beat.

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Nvidia’s latest quarterly sales are projected to rise 79%. Investors have grown complacent about the growth.

LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Google said it had rejected a request from two British unions for voluntary recognition but would negotiate with ‌them via a state-backed conciliation service, delaying a potential statutory process that ‌could force recognition. Under UK rules, the move opens a 20-working-day window, extendable by agreement, for talks on ​recognition.

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LONDON, May 20 () - Google < GOOGL.O> said it had rejected a request from two British unions for voluntary recognition but ‌would negotiate with them via a state-backed conciliation service, ‌delaying a potential statutory process that could force recognition.

LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Google < GOOGL.O>  said it had rejected a request from two British unions for voluntary recognition but would negotiate with them via a state-backed conciliation service,

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May 20 (Reuters) - French defence group Thales and Alphabet's Google Cloud have signed a deal to launch a new European cloud service in Germany that will be operationally and legally independent from

French ‌defence group ‌Thales and ​Alphabet's Google Cloud have signed ‌a ⁠deal to launch ⁠a new ​European ​cloud solution ​in ‌Germany that will be operationally and legally ‌independent ​from ​Google, ​the ‌companies said on ​Wednesday. (Reporting ​by Gianluca ​Lo ‌Nostro; Editing ​by Matt ​Scuffham)

AI’s big bucks go mostly toward computing gear like chips and servers in data centers. Should that trend persist, it could come to bite suppliers including chip giant Nvidia which reports quarterly results after the bell today. Nvidia can insulate itself from cost inflation by expanding offerings that don’t require as much in-demand memory, by passing on higher prices to customers and by inking longer-term deals with its own suppliers at lower prices.

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Google and Blackstone have formed a joint venture to offer AI data center capacity, networking and computer hardware as a “compute-as-a-service product,” the asset manager said. The tie-up opens a new avenue in the rush of private equity into AI infrastructure, moving it beyond data centers and into the business of financing compute itself. Blackstone is making an initial $5 billion equity commitment, with the first 500 megawatts of capacity expected online in 2027, the firm said in a statement.

U.S. stocks retreated as investors debate tech valuations and worry that a prolonged Iran conflict will keep oil prices rising, pushing up inflation. The global bond selloff is intensifying, putting pressure on government finances and market valuations. Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes rose for a third straight day, hitting their highest closing level since January 2025.

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Alphabet's AI research subsidiary, Google DeepMind, has finalized a deal to recruit more than 20 researchers from AI ‌startup Contextual AI and license its technology, Bloomberg News reported ‌on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. DeepMind has agreed to pay about $100 million to ​Contextual as part of the agreement, while Contextual's co-founder and CEO Douwe Kiela is among those joining DeepMind, according to the report. Google and Contextual did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

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The tech firm highlights both Spark and Omni, a video-creation tool, at its annual developer conference.