South Korea led losses in the region, after heavyweight chip maker Samsung Electronics tumbled despite projecting a 19-fold surge in its second-quarter operating profit.
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Syntiant Corp, an artificial intelligence software and semiconductor company, filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Monday, joining a growing list of AI companies seeking to tap public markets amid strong investor demand for the sector. Building AI Chips for Everyday Devices Founded in 2017 by semiconductor industry veterans, including CEO Kurt Busch, Syntiant develops low-power AI processors and software that enable devices to perform tasks locally rather than relying on cloud data center
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Amazon delivered a blowout first quarter in April, with net income nearly doubling and earnings per share crushing Wall Street forecasts by a wide margin, The Motley Fool reported. A closer look at the results reveals an unusual driver behind much of that outperformance, one that has nothing to do ...
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) is giving Wall Street a familiar problem. Investors admire the company's stance on artificial intelligence, government software, national security, and enterprise automation. They also ask how much they should pay for that growth. That tension has haunted Palantir for ...
(Bloomberg) -- President Xi Jinping’s agreement to free an imprisoned Christian pastor at President Donald Trump’s request showcased an improved state of US-China relations ahead of challenging negotiations looming in the run-up to their next summit in September.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaMicrosoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major OverhaulTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthSaudis Slash M
Hans Ibarra, a founder building an AI-voice startup, has found himself on the receiving end of a big opportunity: Top artificial-intelligence companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and others desperate to win his business are ramping up discounts. Across Silicon Valley, startup founders like Ibarra are enjoying a wave of computing credits and fielding competing offers from AI-model makers racing to land new enterprise customers. The offers from growing AI-sales armies at companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic are so rich that some early-stage startup founders say they won’t need to raise money as soon as they expected, and others have been able to play AI companies off one another.

Yahoo Finance's Brooke DiPalma and Josh Lipton discuss 7-Eleven's federal trademark infringement lawsuit against Nike, which aims to block the unapproved release of an upcoming Air Max 95 sneaker featuring the convenience store's signature tri-color palette on July 11.
Wall Street's biggest banks reportedly held preliminary talks to acquire a Fiserv network that could help them bypass federal debit-card fee caps.
Oil was at $107 a barrel in May. Tankers were sailing thousands of miles out of their way. Refiners in Asia were bidding up whatever crude they could find that did not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. None of that is true anymore. Brent settled near $68 on July 6. The Strait is open. And ...
The strong results from the world’s largest memory chip maker are likely to help ease recent market concerns about the sustainability of AI computing-capacity spending.
Walt Disney World visitors planning a trip to Epcot later this year will soon lose access to one of the park's most iconic dining experiences. The restaurant is unlike any other at Disney World, allowing guests to dine beside a massive living coral reef aquarium through floor-to-ceiling windows ...
Tesla (TSLA) finally gave investors a delivery rebound. But BYD nevertheless claimed the crown back. That’s the painful part of the new worldwide electric-vehicle numbers. Tesla produced 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, easily beating Wall Street estimates and indicating demand had bounced ...
Samsung Electronics on Tuesday forecast a 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, its third consecutive quarter of record operating profit, as AI-driven demand continued to boost memory chip prices. The world's largest memory chipmaker estimated April-June operating profit at 89.4 trillion won ($58.44 billion), beating an LSEG SmartEstimate of 87.3 trillion won, according to a regulatory filing. It reported a profit of 4.7 trillion won a year earlier.
Walmart is cutting prices on thousands of items to help customers with affordability after years of inflation. The largest U.S. grocer said Monday it is lowering the price of ground beef by 12%. A 24-pack of Coca-Cola is falling by one-third to $9.97.
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Semiconductor and AI-linked stocks led the advance, while earnings, Treasury yields, and inflation data will test whether the rally can move beyond a narrow group of technology leaders.
Nvidia (NVDA) investors were more or less expecting another clean step forward in the AI upgrade cycle. Rubin was expected to continue pushing the roadmap ahead, customers would keep chasing capacity, and rivals would remain stuck trying to close an insurmountable lead. That confidence, though, has ...
By Stephen Culp NEW YORK, July 6 (Reuters) - Wall Street advanced on Monday as a rebound in semiconductors put the Nasdaq on top.
Alibaba’s reported ban on Anthropic’s Claude Code looks, on the surface, like an IT decision at a company. It’s probably bigger than that. A Chinese tech giant has warned staff not to use Anthropic’s AI coding helper at work and has directed them toward its own coding platform, Qoder, Reuters ...
The acquisition would add to Vertex’s pipeline and potentially grow its annual revenue by $5 billion with the addition of Crinetics-developed drugs Palsonify and Atumelnant, the company said.
US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, discusses the design and benefits of the Trump Accounts site and app on "Bloomberg The Close."
SK Hynix lowered its target for its huge U.S. share offering. The South Korean chip-maker now plans on raising $28 billion in a U.S. listing in the coming days. That is slightly less than originally sought, due to a recent share-price decline.
The listing will make it easier to invest in one of the world’s biggest chip companies. The sector helped the Nasdaq composite rise 1.1%.
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Coca-Cola (KO) just gave its fans something new, but it’s not making it easy to get. The beverage giant just rolled out five new flavors, doubling down on a strategy that looks far from being a typical soda launch and more of a scarcity play. So it’s not looking to flood grocery aisles or ...