Tesla and Alphabet both burned cash in Q2, but one company is spending from strength while the other is spending while its margins collapse. Which is which depends entirely on what you think happens next.
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Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) delivered a Q2 revenue and earnings per share beat backed by big upside from

RBC Capital Markets lead equity analyst on global autos, Tom Narayan, sits down with Julie Hyman on Market Catalysts to expand more on his takeaways from Tesla's (TSLA) latest earnings and where it may be facing the biggest problems in expanding its robotaxi business.
Celestica is reporting Q2 earnings on July 27, and the setup heading into that print raises a question most investors have not asked yet: what happens when a pick-and-shovel AI play trades at a discount to its own growth rate with 20 of 21 analysts already bullish?

IBM (IBM) lowered its full-year sales out after falling short of second quarter earnings and revenue estimates. The stock is down nearly 30% year-to-date in 2026. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company CIO Brent Schutte joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi on Opening Bid to discuss the latest round of AI volatility that the chipmaker may be caught up in.
Alphabet shares are down, despite reporting 24% revenue growth in the second quarter.
Hyperscalers are pouring hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure with no signs of slowing, but one quiet threat has nothing to do with CapEx budgets and could quietly hollow out the foundation supporting Nvidia and AMD.
Google's $94 billion SpaceX stake came from a 2015 bet, not a new deal, and most of the shares stay locked up.
Wonder CEO Marc Lore joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss the company's $650 million Series D funding round, which values the food delivery startup at a $9 billion pre-money valuation. The round includes new investors such as funds managed by AllianceBernstein and ARK Invest. Lore also discusses what's next for Wonder.

US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are selling off on Thursday as shares of Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) sink lower after reporting negative cash flow on top of massive AI investments. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company CIO Brent Schutte and Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma comment on these post-earnings moves by both companies' stock.
July 23 (Reuters) - European regulators have launched a series of antitrust, privacy and online-safety investigations into major technology companies in recent years.Below are some of the most
Second-quarter earnings results from Alphabet and Tesla kicked off a crucial test for the AI trade yesterday. The initial verdict? Oof. Both companies reported soaring revenue, but investors these days care much more about the AI spending bill.
Alphabet Class A (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares are down 6% in Thursday morning trading, with GOOGL stock at $321.65 and GOOG stock at $320.76. The slide follows Alphabet’s Q2 2026 report, released after Wednesday’s close. The drop caps a rough week for Alphabet (GOOGL) stock after a 79% one-year run. The broader tape ... Alphabet Drops 6% on Soaring AI Capex Despite 82% Cloud Surge; Meta Platforms, Snap Follow
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Goldman Sachs Trust holds 724 positions worth $2.4 billion, and its mega-cap tech bets are sitting on analyst price targets that tower above where those stocks trade today. The question is whether retail investors are reading the same signal Wall Street is.
By Ragini Mathur and Avinash P July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes were on track to open lower on Thursday as concerns over heavy AI spending resurfaced after the first batch of Big Tech earnings,
Alphabet just posted its first quarterly negative free cash flow as a public company, and that was somehow not the most alarming number in its earnings report. The real story is what the company has committed to spending next.
Google has 60 days to comply or face further penalties.
The European Commission fined Google the equivalent of about $1 billion Thursday for manipulating its search results to hurt competitors and blocking app developers from directing customers to cheaper deals outside its Play store.

Alphabet's stock price was the best-performing "Magnificent Seven" stock this year. Then earnings hit.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped 300 points Thursday as Alphabet and Tesla stock dived on earnings. Oil prices jumped.
Alphabet's first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending strains one of the world's most profitable companies, and the pain is only expected to increase. The Google parent burned $5.9 billion in the second quarter, even as the cloud unit that rents out AI computing power notched a record 82% growth. With Alphabet now expected to spend $15 billion more in 2026 and predicting another increase next year, the outlays behind the cash burn will only rise.
IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co and General Motors, the company said on Thursday, adding a second pillar to IBM's quantum computing efforts. IBM has been racing against Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and others to create practical quantum machines that can crack problems that would take conventional computers thousands of years to solve. In May, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it would award $1 billion to IBM to set up a new company called Anderon in New Albany, New York, to serve as a chip factory for U.S. quantum computing firms.