News

(Bloomberg) -- Fireworks AI, a startup that helps companies run artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise a new round of funding that would value the company at $15 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.Most Read from BloombergIran’s Khamenei Says No Going Back for Middle East Rocked by WarRussia Tells US to Evacuate Its Diplomats and Citizens From KyivPutin Signs Law on Use of Army to Aid Russians Detained AbroadUS Strikes Targets in Iran Even as Trump Hails Progress

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

Meta said Vermont had not alleged the company designed Instagram or its features in the state, nor that any claims about the app’s safety or addictiveness were made there.

The pitch for ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (NYSEARCA:XOVR) is simple. You cannot buy SpaceX shares on your brokerage app, but XOVR can, and the fund packages that exposure inside a normal ticker you trade like any other ETF. XOVR now holds ~$281 million in SpaceX, which works out to about 23% of the fund. Yet ... XOVR Promised Pre IPO SpaceX Upside, But It Is Down 2% YTD While the S&P 500 Is Up 9%

ARM stock is climbing to fresh highs after Jefferies argued Nvidia’s Vera CPU momentum could dramatically accelerate Arm’s long-term royalty growth in AI infrastructure.

A bid by Meta Platforms (META) to avoid a lawsuit by Vermont's attorney general accusing the company

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

Dropbox said on Tuesday that CEO and co-founder Andrew Houston will step down after a ‌transition period, promoting insider Ashraf Alkarmi to co-CEO ‌ahead of his succession as the sole chief executive. The file hosting service ​provider's shares fell more than 1% in early trading. They have fallen over 3% this year.

Money has a way of finding the people building tomorrow's tools before the rest of us notice. That was true in the dotcom boom, in the smartphone era, and again in the social media land grab a decade later. The AI boom looks different, at least so far. For the last three years, almost every story ...

Most executives announcing layoffs lean on a familiar script. They talk about efficiency, strategic alignment, and the need to position the company for long-term growth. The language is careful. The emotion is managed. What Mark Zuckerberg wrote to employees on May 20 was something different. In a ...

Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s outspoken chief technology officer, has a new mission: transforming the company’s workforce using AI.

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

Earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called for federal investigations into the environmental impact of data center construction after residents near Meta Platforms, Inc.'s Georgia facility reported discolored well water, declining water pressure and appliance damage. AOC Raises Concerns...

The AI chip race has produced a handful of clear winners. Broadcom is one of them. But the question heading into its next earnings report is no longer about whether it is a top AI stock to own. The real debate now is: Can a company already pulling in billions from artificial intelligence keep ...

(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.

Solid earnings and a resilient economy could keep the rally going—even if the Fed starts thinking about interest rate hikes.

When you see huge tech companies like Meta and Intuit lay off thousands of people making top-tier salaries, it makes many Americans worry about their own jobs. Even if you're making a good living and have discretionary income, it's reasonable to think that maybe you should cut back a little, or ...

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

Meta resolves a major school district case, but roughly 1,200 related lawsuits remain pending.

Elon Musk's private space operator, SpaceX (SPAX.PVT), released its S-1 filing this week as it plans to go public via IPO in June. The Wall Street Journal has reported that AI developer OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) is preparing to file for its own mega-IPO. As investors anticipate this mega-IPO, should they be equally cautious as they are bullish on these companies ? Portfolio Wealth Advisors president and CIO Lee Munson, Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre, and Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré weigh in on the wave of upcoming IPOs.

(Bloomberg) -- Mega IPOs like those eyed by SpaceX and OpenAI threaten to push the weighting of tech in equity benchmarks beyond market-bubble levels of concentration, according to Bank of America Corp. strategist Michael Hartnett.Most Read from BloombergBungie Plans Layoffs After Ending ‘Destiny 2’ DevelopmentSpot the Difference: Putin Gets Trump Treatment From Xi in ChinaIran Says the US’s Latest Proposal Has ‘Narrowed the Gaps’Iran in Talks With Oman Over Permanent Hormuz Toll SystemModi’s To

Layoff notifications have long included wording about tough decisions in challenging times. Now, they're also increasingly nodding at how automation is reshaping workforces and companies' priorities.

SpaceX accounts for 16.2% of DXYZ’s portfolio, while VCX holds Anthropic at 20.7%, OpenAI at 9.9% and SpaceX at 5%.

The largest U.S. IPOs tend to underperform the market, with a not-insignificant share of those stocks delivering negative returns..

<body><p>STORY: Texas is suing WhatsApp and parent firm Meta.</p><p>The state says they misled consumers over the messaging app’s encryption and privacy standards.</p><p>In a statement Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said “WhatsApp markets its services as secure and encrypted, but it does not deliver on those promises”.</p><p>The lawsuit says users are given false assurance that their messages are encrypted, even though Meta and WhatsApp have access to “virtually all” private communications on the app.</p><p>A Meta spokesman called the allegations “false”, and said that WhatsApp cannot access people’s encrypted messages.</p><p>The suit seeks a court order barring access to Texans’ communications without their consent.</p><p>It also demands monetary penalties.</p><p>The legal action cites reports about a federal probe into claims that Meta had access to unencrypted WhatsApp messages.</p><p>It also refers to a whistleblower report to U.S. financial watchdogs.</p><p>Paxton’s office has previously filed similar claims against big companies, including one against Google.</p><p>Last year the search giant agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle claims that it violated users’ data privacy.</p></body>

The Texas Attorney General’s Office on Thursday sued WhatsApp and its parent company Meta ‌Platforms Inc alleging they misled consumers about the strength and ‌scope of WhatsApp's encryption measures, which a Meta spokesman denied. The lawsuit in Harrison County ​court says WhatsApp and Meta falsely assure users that WhatsApp messages are encrypted despite having access to “virtually all” private communications on the messaging app. “WhatsApp markets its services as secure and encrypted, but it does not ‌deliver on those promises,” ⁠Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.

(Bloomberg) -- Intuit Inc. suffered its worst stock decline in more than two decades after announcing plans to cut about 17% of its staff and reporting slower TurboTax sales than anticipated.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 Toll SystemDow Average Climbs to Record on US-Iran De

(Bloomberg) -- Intuit Inc. suffered its worst stock decline in more than two decades after announcing plans to cut about 17% of its staff and reporting slower TurboTax sales than anticipated.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 Toll SystemDow Average Climbs to Record on US-Iran De