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(Bloomberg) -- ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok and a leading force in artificial intelligence, is considering increasing its capital spending to more than double last year’s in a bid to lead the Chinese AI market and challenge the top US players abroad.Most Read from BloombergIran’s Khamenei Says No Going Back for Middle East Rocked by WarSingapore Hands Byju's Founder His First Ever Jail TermPutin Signs Law on Use of Army to Aid Russians Detained AbroadRussia Tells US to Evacuate Its Di

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile

European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum and limiting large multinationals' access to EU cloud tenders. On Tuesday, ‌Reuters reported Brussels was likely to leave an opening for Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit satellite business Leo to acquire lucrative European ‌mobile satellite spectrum next year as a result of a compromise that will reserve the bulk of frequencies for European firms. A separate decision on EU cloud tenders set for June 3 is expected to ​temper the influence of U.S. firms such as Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft, which dominate the global cloud market with a combined 63% share.

Amazon cited AI efficiency when it eliminated 16,000 corporate roles. Microsoft cited AI when it cut more than 15,000 positions. Across Big Tech, the explanation for layoffs has become almost predictable: we are doing more with less, and AI is why. Jensen Huang has a problem with that story. And he ...

The real threat to the tech sector isn't a lack of AI ideas, but a classic economic shock. The overproduction of computing power.

Microsoft stock appeared to be testing support at its 21-day moving average after an earnings sell-off in April. Is Microsoft stock a buy or sell now? The desktop software maker said it earned $4.27 a share on sales of $83 billion during the March quarter.

UBS raised its target on Micron to a Street-high $1,625 from $535, arguing AI has structurally changed the memory market

AI stocks rally amid SpaceX, OpenAI IPO buzz as investors eye surging demand for compute capacity and monetization.

The settlement resolves claims tied to Microsoft's 2023 acquisition of Activision.

(Bloomberg) -- A rally in Nokia Oyj is forcing investors to reconsider the company not as an old telecom-equipment stock, but as part of the infrastructure underpinning the artificial intelligence boom.Most Read from BloombergNvidia CEO Urges Super Micro to Tighten Up on ComplianceTrump Doctor Visit Renews Health Scrutiny as 80th Birthday NearsTrump Says He’ll Announce Negotiated Deal With Iran ShortlyRubio Sees Good News Coming on Hormuz as Iran Talks ContinueUS, Iran Inch Toward Deal as Gaps R

Actor Ashton Kutcher is best known to many for his role on TV shows like "That ‘70s Show" and "Two and a Half Men." To the finance world, Kutcher has built a reputation as a good investor with his Sound...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed earlier this year that the company now writes up to 30% of its code using generative AI. The company has invested $13 billion in OpenAI. It built GitHub Copilot. It has made AI central to every product in its portfolio. On May 14, Microsoft (MSFT) sent thousands ...

It may keep offering you advice based on information that may be dated—or wasn’t even about you in the first place.

The ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (NYSEARCA:XOVR) sits at an awkward crossroad heading into summer 2026. Shares trade near $19.08, down 5% year-to-date even as the public-side AI mega-caps it holds have ripped higher. That disconnect matters because XOVR is the rare ETF that pairs late-stage private growth (SpaceX is the publicly known anchor) with public ... XOVR ETF: Watch Hyperscaler AI Capex Before Summer 2026 Earnings Season

(Bloomberg) -- As big tech companies raise hundreds of billions of dollars to fund artificial intelligence investments, Wall Street banks are increasingly finding they have to trade more credit derivatives to keep doing business with the hyperscalers.Most Read from BloombergBungie Plans Layoffs After Ending ‘Destiny 2’ DevelopmentTrump’s 3,711 Trades Point to Multiple Stock-Market StrategiesTrump to Force Foreigners Seeking Green Cards to Go Home FirstUAE Joins Saudis, Qatar in Urging Trump Not

Paul Tudor Jones doesn’t appear to be locked into one stock. That may be the real story. The billionaire investor’s Tudor Investment Corp. reported a massive first-quarter options book that includes big stakes connected to Nvidia (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Meta Platforms ...

The economic gap between the U.S. and the U.K. has been widening for more than a decade. As a result, a new study has found that the U.K.'s GDP per capita is now lower than every single U.S. state.

Investing.com -- Strong U.S. macroeconomic performance continues to outpace other developed economies, powered by real GDP growth tracking at a 2% to 3% pace in recent quarters, according to institutional research released by Citi this week.

OpenAI is reportedly looking to file for an IPO. MSFT stock looks like a buy ahead of the AI startup's listing.

Alphabet's Google on Friday appealed a Washington federal judge's ruling ‌that it holds illegal monopolies in online search ‌and related advertising. • Google argued that U.S. ​Judge Amit Mehta made legal errors in his 2024 ruling, which found the company illegally blocked competitors by paying billions of dollars annually to firms including Apple ‌to be the ⁠default search engine on new devices. • The arrangements did not prevent the device ⁠makers and browser developers from promoting rival search services like Microsoft's Bing, Google argued.

By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, DEL., May 22 (Reuters) - Shareholders of Activision Blizzard reached a $250 million settlement over allegations that Microsoft and former executives of the maker of the "Call

Trillion dollar companies are typically profitable. SpaceX lost about $5 billion in 2025, according to its IPO registration statement.

Private markets are in focus, with initial public offerings (IPOs) from Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), and SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) on the horizon. Powers Advisory Group managing partner Matt Powers joins Yahoo Finance to explain why he says investors should wait to buy into these names.

Morningstar warned, “‘Financials Look Reckless’: Lifting xAI’s Hood in the SpaceX IPO”. Its AI division, xAI, lost $2.47 billion on $818 million in the first quarter of this year. “If you compare xAI to a traditional SaaS company, the financials look reckless,” Harrison Rolfes, a senior research analyst at PitchBook, wrote. That may be a ... Grok Could Undermine SpaceX IPO

What's better: paying $2 trillion for SpaceX, with under $20 billion in revenue, or $5 trillion for Google (GOOG), generating $400 billion in revenue and $100 billion in profits.

(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration has agreed to award $1 billion to International Business Machines Corp. to build a foundry for producing quantum computing chips, part of a broad strategy to bolster US leadership in an emerging industry.Most Read from BloombergSpot the Difference: Putin Gets Trump Treatment From Xi in ChinaIran Says the US’s Latest Proposal Has ‘Narrowed the Gaps’Modi’s Toffee Gift to Meloni Ignites Rally in Wrong Indian StockIran in Talks With Oman Over Permanent Hormuz

(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration has agreed to award $1 billion to International Business Machines Corp. to build a foundry for producing quantum computing chips, part of a broad strategy to bolster US leadership in an emerging industry.Most Read from BloombergSpot the Difference: Putin Gets Trump Treatment From Xi in ChinaIran Says the US's Latest Proposal Has 'Narrowed the Gaps'Modi's Toffee Gift to Meloni Ignites Rally in Wrong Indian StockIran in Talks With Oman Over Permanent Hormuz

(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration has agreed to award $1 billion to International Business Machines Corp. to build a foundry for producing quantum computing chips, part of a broad strategy to bolster US leadership in an emerging industry.Most Read from BloombergSpot the Difference: Putin Gets Trump Treatment From Xi in ChinaIran Says the US’s Latest Proposal Has ‘Narrowed the Gaps’Modi’s Toffee Gift to Meloni Ignites Rally in Wrong Indian StockIran in Talks With Oman Over Permanent Hormuz

May 21 () - Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries will partner with ‌Nvidia to develop solutions integrating ‌robotics with physical artificial intelligence, and will ​set up a joint development center in Silicon Valley, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday. The collaboration will ‌initially focus ⁠on medical and mobility fields, with Nvidia's simulation technology ⁠to be applied to Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Corleo, a four-legged personal ​mobility robot ​under development, ​Nikkei added.

Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries will partner with ‌Nvidia to develop solutions integrating ‌robotics with physical artificial intelligence, and will ​set up a joint development center in Silicon Valley, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday. The collaboration will ‌initially focus ⁠on medical and mobility fields, with Nvidia's simulation technology ⁠to be applied to Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Corleo, a four-legged personal ​mobility robot ​under development, ​Nikkei added. As part ‌of the effort, Kawasaki Heavy Industries will open the joint development center in San Jose, California.