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Intel spent the second half of last week, between June 4 and 5, getting hammered alongside the rest of the chip sector. Then things changed on Monday, June 8. Shares of Intel (INTC) jumped about 13% to roughly $112 in early trading, one of the stock’s sharpest single-day moves of the year, after ...
Such is life on Wall Street at the dawn of the artificial-intelligence build-out. Tech companies are hungry for cash to invest in data centers, and investors are forking it over through all possible means, in all parts of the globe—a flurry of fundraising that has mostly supported markets by powering technological advances, even as it tests their ability to absorb it all. Alphabet’s announcement that it would raise $85 billion of equity was just the latest example.
Every company gets one shot to redefine what it is. Most never take it. The ones that do tend to look unrecognizable a few years later, and the market either rewards the reinvention or punishes the nerve. The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has turned raw computing power into the most valuable ...
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mostly higher Monday boosted by shares of chip companies.</p><p>While the Dow fell slightly, the S&P 500 added three tenths of one percent and the Nasdaq climbed about nine tenths.</p><p>:: Intel</p><p>Intel shares jumped 11% after news website The Information reported that Alphabet's Google had placed an order to manufacture more than 3 million tensor processing units in 2028.</p><p>:: Marvell Technology</p><p>And shares of Marvell Tech rose 9.5% after S&P announced that the company would be added to the S&P 500 index later this month.</p><p>Also, Iran and Israel said they had halted attacks on each other.</p><p>This came after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that they immediately "stop shooting." </p><p>The attacks over 24 hours were the most direct confrontation between Iran and Israel since an April ceasefire in the war.</p><p>Justin Livengood, senior portfolio manager with Invesco, says he thinks regardless of when there is an end to the conflict in the Middle East, energy prices could stay higher, which could lead the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.</p><p>“Inflation's been drifting up in general the last six to nine months, not just for oil prices but even for core elements. And that's a concern. I think that concern persists as oil and natural gas prices linger higher. And the longer that persists, the more likely we are to have a Fed feel they need to raise rates late this year. I certainly feel that right now the base case for the Fed is a hike, not a cut, as their next move. And I think with each week and month that this Middle East conflict continues. The odds of that hike get pulled forward.” </p><p>:: Apple</p><p>Other stocks on the move included Apple which dropped almost 2% after announcing a Siri revamp at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.</p><p>:: AWS</p><p>And shares of Corning gained 5.5% after Amazon announced a multi-year multi-billion-dollar deal to buy the company's optical fiber and cables for its data centers. </p></body>
Bitcoin miners are emerging as an important part of the artificial intelligence buildout, according to a new research note from Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani. The firm initiated coverage of two mining companies, TeraWulf and Cipher Digital, with "Outperform" ratings, calling them "the power ...
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Apple on Monday will test its standing in the AI race, with analysts expecting the iPhone maker to open its developer conference with a long-awaited Siri overhaul and tools to tap the computing power of its 2.5 billion devices. Apple has been seeking to close a gap with rivals such as Microsoft and Alphabet's Google, which have moved faster to embed “agentic” AI — software that can carry out complex tasks — into everyday computing. The question is how far Apple is willing to go.
Jim Cramer used his June 8, 2026, Squawk on the Street appearance to deliver a direct warning to anyone riding the AI chip rally. His line, after a brutal Friday that saw the Philadelphia semiconductor index post its fourth-worst decline ever: “Unless you have accelerated earnings, your stock is pretty much done. Got to go ... Jim Cramer Warns: AI Stocks Face 50% Crash Without Earnings Growth
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Apple is getting another crack at AI. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, which kicks off Monday, represents the company’s third attempt to make its mark in artificial intelligence. It’s widely expected that Apple will unveil a much-enhanced Siri.
Europe's push to cut its reliance on U.S. Big Tech with EU-made technologies and chips could shut out other non-EU players from the European market, trade bodies representing tech companies in Australia, Canada and Japan warned on Monday. The warning by the Tech Council of Australia, the Canada EU Trade and Investment Association, the Japan Association of New Economy and tech lobbying group CCIA came a week after the European Commission proposed laws to boost homegrown cloud, AI and chip industries and cut dependence on U.S. tech giants such as Google and Microsoft.
Alphabet's Google has placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than three million tensor processing units in 2028, The Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Nvidia is also evaluating whether Intel's technology can be used to make a processor that combines four graphics chips into a single unit, although it has not placed an order with the company yet, the report said. Intel's shares rose more than 9% in early trading, set to add to the nearly 169% gain so far this year, on the back of signs of steady turnaround progress at the company since Lip-Bu Tan took the helm.
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I've watched plenty of companies chase a hot trend and spend their way into trouble. The story usually looks thrilling on the way up and painful on the way down. Oracle is the latest name testing that thesis. The software giant is pouring tens of billions of dollars into data centers to grab a ...
Stock market investors could be facing a specter they haven’t had to navigate since early April, when the bull market in tech caught fire and powered domestic indices out of their early year torpor and tensions between Washington and Tehran simmered into a fragile truce effort. The two-day surge in volatility follows a series of events that have tested the strength of the current tech market wave, pushed the Federal Reserve into a challenging position of moving toward rate hikes while defying President Donald Trump’s public call for easier policy, and unsettled investors hoping for an extended cease-fire agreement between the U.S. and Iran. “At the same time, growing expectations of Fed tightening have caught an investor base overweight equities and overweight emerging markets,” said ING’s Chris Turner, the bank’s global head of markets.
June 8 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures climbed on Monday, as chip stocks steadied after plunging to over two-week lows, though renewed strikes in the Middle East kept investors largely at bay.
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For most of its time in the public markets, Reddit (RDDT) has been a story of artificial intelligence data. That story still holds. The company’s user-generated discussions have grown increasingly useful for AI developers seeking real-world conversations, queries, and opinions. But there's a second ...
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Markets face a pivotal week marked by a significant structural shift away from richly valued AI and technology stocks toward lagging sectors, evident in Friday's steep Nasdaq and S&P 500 plunges that signal investor rotation and risk reassessment.
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Google has signed a $30 billion deal to lease computing power from SpaceX, paying $920 million per month through June 2029. The move came after SpaceX acquired xAI in February 2026, gaining massive data centres. The deal precedes SpaceX’s highly anticipated IPO next week.View on euronews
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