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S&P 500 member United Rentals soared on stronger-than-forecast Q2 results after Wednesday's close as Google got a late-day haircut. AI data center construction has helped supercharge earnings for URI, which provides a one-stop shop for large construction projects. Google's plan to keep boosting capital spending suggests the demand environment for heavy machinery will keep shining, even as it may slow the pay-off for AI hyperscalers.

Yahoo Finance brings you inside Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) earnings call, led by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Key takeaways include a 24% year-over-year increase in Alphabet's revenue, 17% growth in Search revenue, and a 13% rise in YouTube advertising revenue.

The Nasdaq slowly sold off throughout the day as the market awaited new information from Alphabet and Tesla after hours, today, July 22, 2026.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) executives said the company’s second-quarter 2026 results were driven by broad demand for artificial intelligence across Search, YouTube and Google Cloud, while also signaling that heavy infrastructure spending will continue as capacity remains constrained. Chief Executive Su

Google's cloud business grew by more than 80 percent, the company said on Wednesday, which exceeded investor expectations who are looking for signs that the company's AI investments are paying off. "Our AI investments are redefining what’s possible across every part of our business," Pichai said.

Alphabet stock slid 4.7% in after-hours trading following the company’s disclosure in its mostly rosy second-quarter earnings report that its free cash flow had turned negative. The Google parent continues to spend heavily on data centers for artificial-intelligence computing.

Google and Tesla headlined earnings late after stocks largely retreated Wednesday amid rising oil prices and Treasury yields.

Google reported Q2 earnings and revenue that topped estimates, driven by stellar cloud computing growth.

Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) second-quarter revenue beat Wall Street's estimates amid demand for artific

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been a painful holding for retail investors on Reddit. The stock is down about 17% so far this year. But they remain bullish on long-term recovery. They are optimistic about MSFT because the company’s fundamentals haven’t deteriorated—it’s simply been caught in a speculative AI downturn. MSFT is becoming a popular buy-the-dip […]

Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) is out with its second quarter results, reporting revenue (excluding Traffic Acquisition Costs) of $103.62 billion and adjusted earnings of $9.11 per share. All segments of the Google-parent company's businesses — Search nearly came in line with estimates — outpaced Wall Street's revenue forecasts. Roth Capital Partners managing director and senior research analyst Rohit Kulkarni comes on Market Domination Overtime to share his reaction to Alphabet's latest earnings release.

Market Domination Overtime Host Josh Lipton welcomes Senior Business Reporter Brooke DiPalma and Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre to share breaking news of Alphabet's (GOOGL, GOOG) latest earnings results, highlighting the key numbers and what the report means for the tech giant's outlook.

Alphabet topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly cloud revenue growth on Wednesday, as the Google parent benefited from strong demand for its cloud computing services from ‌enterprises worldwide thanks to the AI boom. Revenue at Google Cloud rose 82% to $24.8 billion ‌during the quarter ended June, accelerating from the 63% jump reported in the preceding three months. The third-largest cloud services provider behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, Google has seen demand surge as companies race to secure the cloud capacity needed to develop, train and run AI models, helping it land ‌major deals with firms, including Anthropic.

All-Star Charts chief options strategist Sean McLaughlin joins Josh Lipton on Market Domination to share how he's looking at the earnings, specifically Alphabet (GOOGL), with options in mind.

A majority of US residents object to artificial intelligence data centers being built near their hom

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A Florida teen suing social-media platforms over claims their design led to mental health issues dropped his lawsuit against Meta Platforms ahead of a trial slated to begin next week in Los Angeles.

Reddit slides as $60 million Google AI content deal comes under review

Shares of online community and discussion platform Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) fell 5.9% in the pre-market session after reports revealed the company is reconsidering its AI data-licensing agreement with Google. The Wall Street Journal reported that Reddit executives are reevaluating their $60 million-a-year licensing deal with Google, which was signed in 2024. While the agreement allows Google to train its models on Reddit's vast library of human-generated content, the integration of Google's "AI Overvi

AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic, contingent on milestones

Google is doing a great job of converting AI Overview and AI Mode traffic into Search revenue, Gene Munster said in a post on X.

Microsoft sits 20% below its peak, and one analyst keeps loading up, convinced three specific relationships make it untouchable by any other mega-cap tech name. The question is whether the market is missing something hiding in plain sight.

Morgan Stanley‘s (NYSE: MS) economics team just took its projection for artificial intelligence capital spending significantly higher, and the leakage math behind the headline number has become the more important story for US investors. On a recent episode of the firm’s Thoughts on the Market podcast titled “AI Spending: A New Engine for the Global ... Morgan Stanley: AI Spending Could Hit $1.4 Trillion by 2028, But 60% Leaves the US

Alphabet’s Google pays Reddit around $60 million a year to scrape conversation data from the social media site. That could change.

The company is intentionally slowing a key growth metric, and it might just be the smartest thing it has done in years.

Evercore's top internet analyst just set a bar for Alphabet's Q2 earnings that would require the company to outpace nearly every rival in both search and cloud at the same time, and falling even slightly short could punish a stock already trading near historic highs.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) reports second-quarter results after Wednesday's close, with Wall Street bracing for a print that could either validate the company's AI spending spree or intensify investor unease about it. Bank of America is firmly in the bullish camp, reiterating its Buy rating...

The tech giant is showing strength in a weak market, but a closer look reveals it may be adding more of the same risk you already own.

Reddit is threatening to pull the plug on Google's access to its massive trove of human conversation data, and the market reaction has been swift and brutal. Whether this standoff becomes a goldmine or a catastrophe for Reddit depends on a negotiation that could reshape how AI companies pay for the content fueling their models.

Cathie Wood just called SpaceX the most important company in history and started buying a 38% dip that has a $116 billion share unlock waiting on the other side. Her actual thesis has almost nothing to do with rockets.