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Alphabet said on Monday it aims ‌to raise $80 billion ‌in equity offerings, which will include ​an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway. The Google parent has agreed to sell $10 billion ‌worth of ⁠shares to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in a ⁠private placement, comprising $5 billion in Class A common ​stock at $351.81 ​per ​share and $5 billion ‌in Class C capital stock at for $348.20 per share. "The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions ‌and services from ​enterprises and ​consumers, at ​levels that are ‌exceeding the company's ​available supply," ​Alphabet said.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise posted record second-quarter results on Monday, prompting the company to accelerate its long-term financial goals by ‌two years, as expansion of AI data centers boosts demand for its servers ‌and networking products. HPE, which competes with Dell and Super Micro Computer, is benefiting as customers increasingly buy server and data center equipment to power AI applications such as ChatGPT amid a memory chip crunch. U.S. tech giants including Alphabet and Amazon plan to spend over $700 billion on ‌AI infrastructure this year, which would ⁠bolster demand for suppliers such as HPE.

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BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM, June 1 (Reuters) - The European Union plans to propose strict criteria for cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could exclude Amazon, Microsoft and Google from such ‌projects, according to documents seen by Reuters. The proposal is part of the European Commission's Cloud and AI Development ‌Act, which EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen will unveil on Wednesday as part of a package aimed at reducing the bloc's dependence on U.

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By Foo Yun Chee and Toby Sterling BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM, June 1 (Reuters) - Europe plans to propose strict criteria for cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could exclude Amazon

By Foo Yun Chee and Toby Sterling BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM, June 1 (Reuters) - Europe plans to propose strict criteria for cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could exclude Amazon

This week, tech investors will be watching chip and cybersecurity earnings, the impact of AI on labor market data, and the Computex annual chip summit.

This week, tech investors will be watching chip and cybersecurity earnings, the impact of AI on labor market data, and the Computex annual chip summit.

From Europe to Japan and Switzerland, huge bond issues by Big Tech companies are proving that smaller markets, often overshadowed by the U.S., can punch above their weight in the $40 trillion world of corporate debt. Google-parent Alphabet is already one of the biggest ‌outstanding borrowers in the sterling and Swiss franc corporate bond markets, while Amazon raised 14.5 billion euros ($16.88 billion) in March from an eight-part deal, the ‌largest ever in the euro corporate bond market, according to LSEG. Debt issues by so-called "hyperscalers" - or Big Tech companies - outside the United States are part of a push to diversify their funding early on, bankers said, as ​they look to finance trillions of dollars of investment in AI infrastructure, especially data centers, in the years ahead.

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Apple (AAPL) doesn’t have to win the artificial intelligence model competition to win the next phase of AI. That's the bet underlying Bank of America's latest Apple call. Wamsi Mohan, an analyst at BofA, increased his price target on Apple to $380 from $330 and reiterated a Buy rating on May 26. ...

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Investing.com -- Meta Platforms, TikTok parent ByteDance, Snap, and Alphabet’s YouTube have agreed to pay roughly $27 million to settle claims brought by a Kentucky school district alleging their platforms contributed to a student mental health crisis, Reuters reported on Friday.

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Over Mother’s Day weekend, Andy Milheizler’s quiet Atlanta cul-de-sac was overrun with empty Waymo vehicles. Empty Waymo vehicles recently clogged an Atlanta cul-de-sac. The passengers in two Waymo vehicles in Atlanta last week were in a less-humorous predicament.

By Diana Novak Jones May 29 (Reuters) - A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million in settlements from social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental‑health crisis,

A Kentucky school district secured roughly $27 million in settlements from Meta Platforms and other social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental‑health crisis, according to records seen by Reuters on Friday. Meta agreed to pay ‌the most at $9 million in the bellwether case for school districts, according to documents that reveal financial terms for the first time as ‌terms of the deals had not been disclosed in court. The operator of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp settled the case brought by Breathitt County School District on May 21, a few weeks ​before a planned June trial, following settlements by co-defendants Snap Inc, YouTube parent Alphabet and TikTok parent ByteDance.

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New Texas DMV registration data reveals Tesla has just 42 autonomous vehicles in the state, versus 577 for Alphabet's Waymo

NEW DELHI, May 29 (Reuters) - An Indian court ruling that Google infringed the trademark rights of a bathroom fittings maker by allowing rivals to use its name as an advertising keyword could reshape

Taiwan chip designer MediaTek said on Friday it supports both TSMC's and Intel's ‌advanced packaging technologies, allowing customers to choose between the ‌two approaches. CoWoS, or Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate, is TSMC's advanced packaging technology widely used for artificial intelligence chips, including those designed ‌by Nvidia.