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Alphabet's YouTube and Snap have reached settlements in the first case set for trial in litigation seeking to force ‌social media platforms to cover the costs school districts incur to combat a youth ‌mental health crisis they say the companies fueled. The settlements were detailed in court filings on Friday in federal court in Oakland, ​California, and resolve claims by a Kentucky school district that is still due to take Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms and TikTok to trial on June 15. Terms of the settlements with Breathitt County School District in rural Eastern Kentucky were not disclosed.

Meta posted record profits in the first quarter of 2026. Its revenue hit $56.31 billion, and its net income came in at $26.8 billion. Three weeks after those results, the company is set to hand out roughly 8,000 pink slips. For employees watching that math unfold in real time, the message from the ...

Aptos is not a typical crypto startup. It was built by former Meta engineers who spent three years working on the Diem blockchain (formerly Libra) before spinning out as an independent network. Co-founders Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching took the Move programming language, the parallel execution engine, ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has gained more than 100% year to date, according to Yahoo Finance at the time of writing, Friday morning, May 15. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up slightly below 10% in the same period. AMD has outpaced the S&P 500 by a huge margin. That is ...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Investing.com -- Pershing Square disclosed a new position in Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) on Friday, with billionaire investor Bill Ackman citing the recent market volatility as an opportunity to acquire what he described as a dominant franchise at an attractive valuation.

Wall Street braces for what could be the largest stock market debut in history, but the most cited academic on US IPO performance is warning buyers to sit on their hands. SpaceX is reportedly targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion in its planned offering, and Reuters this morning lined the deal up against three ... The Professor Who Tracks Every US IPO Just Issued a Warning on SpaceX: “Most of the Time, Things Don’t Go According to Plan.”

SpaceX is targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion in its upcoming ‌initial public offering, in what could be the ‌biggest-ever stock market debut by a U.S. company on Wall Street. The ​listing of Elon Musk-led SpaceX could easily dwarf many of the biggest U.S. IPOs on record, including those of Alibaba, Visa and Facebook, now Meta Platforms, which analysts ‌say reflects high growth ⁠expectations from the rocket and satellite company that it may struggle to meet. Analysts ‌say SpaceX's proposed valuation reflects in part how much investors are being asked to pay for future growth.

By Laurie Chen and Casey Hall BEIJING/SHANGHAI, May 15 (Reuters) - With red-carpet treatment, selfies and culinary diplomacy, America's richest and most powerful executives - from Tesla's Elon Musk to

Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square will disclose a ‌new position in Microsoft later in ‌the day, the billionaire investor said on Friday, arguing ​that the tech giant sits at a "highly compelling valuation". Ackman's new closed-end fund Pershing Square USA, which debuted on the NYSE ‌last month, has ⁠also recently made Microsoft a core holding, he said in a ⁠post on social media platform X. Pershing's bet on Microsoft comes amid Ackman's growing ​appetite for ​tech holdings.

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he made a slew of stock and bond purchases with major American companies in the first quarter of the year totaling in the tens of millions of dollars and possibly more. Most Read from BloombergHormuz Oil Flows Creep Higher as More Supertankers ExitIran’s Kharg Island Oil Jetties Empty Again Yesterday, Satellite ShowsWhat Is The Thucydides Trap and Why Did Xi Raise It With Trump?Xi Tells US CEOs on Trump Visit That Chi

More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weakened retention incentives.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told a delegation of American executives traveling with President Trump in Beijing that China will open wider to foreign business. “U.S. companies are deeply involved in China’s reform and opening up, and both sides have benefited from this,” said Xi after Trump introduced the entrepreneurs to him one by one, according to Chinese state media. Elon Musk was seen at the summit venue with his 6-year-old son and Tom Zhu, a senior vice-president of Tesla who oversees the carmaker’s operations in China.

By Giselda Vagnoni ROME, May 14 (Reuters) - An Italian parents' group and a number of families faced off against Meta and TikTok on Thursday in the first hearing of a lawsuit that seeks to restrict

Cerebras’ IPO comes at a dramatic time, with chip stocks surging and many at or near all-time highs.

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump became the first US leader in almost a decade to visit China when he landed in Beijing on Wednesday. His much-anticipated two-day summit with President Xi Jinping — delayed from March due to the Iran war — offers the leaders of the world’s two largest economies a chance to reset personal ties and look for common ground on trade, technology and a range of other contentious topics. Most Read from BloombergIran’s Kharg Island Oil Jetties Empty Again Yesterday,

Doximity (NYSE:DOCS) reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue above the high end of its guidance and said it is entering what management called an “AI investment year,” with higher spending planned for artificial intelligence products even as near-term growth in the digital pharma advertising market r

More Chinese nationals who return home after working in the U.S., called ‘sea turtles,’ are fueling Beijing’s efforts to take on Silicon Valley

The overall earnings picture continues to be of all-around strength and a steadily improving outlook, with Q1 results showing nice momentum while expectations for Q2 also trend higher.

The overall earnings picture continues to be of all-around strength and a steadily improving outlook, with Q1 results showing nice momentum while expectations for Q2 also trend higher.

Cerebras’s IPO comes at a dramatic time, with chip stocks surging and many at or near all-time highs.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) reported a sharply higher first quarter for 2026 as demand for AI computing capacity continued to outpace supply, prompting management to raise its capital spending plans and expand its long-term power commitments. Co-founder and CEO Arkady Volozh said the company is buil

The best likely outcome for investors: Symbolic gestures aimed at stabilizing the relationship to preserve the current detente.

Cisco earnings are coming after the close. Memory costs have been surging, and that’s hurt tech hardware companies’ margins.

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) may not command the same attention as Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), but its latest quarter is suddenly giving Nvidia bulls another reason for confidence ahead of Nvidia earnings next week. Nebius stock surged after the company posted explosive first quarter results, with AI cloud revenue soaring 841% year over year. The company also highlighted multibillion-dollar AI compute agreements tied to Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), reinf

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Nuclear reactor startup Oklo updated investors across its three businesses. A July 4 criticality target looms for Oklo and other nuclear stocks.

Nebius stock soars after quarterly results.