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Anthropic officially started its IPO clock yesterday, filing a confidential registration statement with the SEC.

In AI, money talks. The ability to tap stock market capital is important again, after a quarter of a century of being all but irrelevant.

Zoom (ZM) is actively shedding its reputation as a single-use utility. Following a robust Q1 FY27 earnings beat and a speculative surge tied to Anthropic's IPO plans, shares have rallied to $112. As the stock trades at a notable premium, investors must determine if Zoom's AI-driven enterprise pivot truly justifies this momentum.

The gargantuan funding requirements of developing artificial intelligence has already set records for the funding rounds in private markets. Now the list of largest-ever equity issues on the stock market is set to be rewritten too. The largest component of Alphabet’s proposed $80 billion equity issue—$40 billion, to be sold into the market—will be roughly on par with the size of Saudi oil giant Aramco’s 2019 initial public offering, adjusted for inflation.

It is a golden rule of finance that what goes out must, at some point, come in. That’s why AI’s biggest spenders are starting to seek new ways...

Shares in Alphabet are down premarket after the Google parent unveiled a giant equity issue plan that underscored the epic bill for the AI buildout. The stock is down 2.5% premarket, enough to wipe more than $100 billion off the company’s market value.

The S&P 500's rebound looks a lot thinner once AI enablers are stripped out.

Investing.com -- Broadcom shares gained over 6% in premarket trading Tuesday after Alphabet unveiled plans to raise $80 billion in equity, a massive fundraise aimed at accelerating its AI infrastructure buildout.

June 2 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 futures edged lower on Tuesday after hitting a series of record highs, while blowout results from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a funding commitment

By Amanda Cooper LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) - Global stocks rallied on Tuesday, buoyed by fresh AI optimism after Anthropic moved towards a U.S. stock market listing, while oil prices and bond yields

The firm behind the Claude chatbot revealed on Monday it had filed paperwork for an expected 1.0 trillion US dollar IPO.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares rallied nearly 29% in premarket trade on Tuesday, as investors cheered ‌the AI server maker pulling forward its long-term financial ‌targets by two years, buoyed by strong AI infrastructure demand. HPE, which competes with ​Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer in enterprise servers, is seeing sustained demand as large enterprises bring forward purchases to avoid supply risks amid surging memory chip prices. Hyperscalers including Alphabet and Amazon ‌are set to spend ⁠more than $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year, likely boosting demand for HPE's server and networking ⁠products.

The company says it has reached an agreement to sell $10 billion of stock to Berkshire Hathaway as part of the plan.

It's been a busy few days for Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel, who took over for Warren Buffett Jan 1. On Sunday night Berkshire announced it would buy home builder Taylor Morrison Home Corp. for $6.

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.

Anthropic has taken its first formal step toward a public listing, confidentially submitting a draft S-1 registrati...

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The filing follows a $965 billion Series H valuation.

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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.

Broadcom's quarterly results and earnings calls are worth following for AI growth stock investors.

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

Europe 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 announce on Wednesday as part of a package of measures aimed at reducing Europe's dependence on U.S. tech and promoting ‌European businesses. The drive for ⁠sovereignty requirements in sensitive sectors such as banking, energy, healthcare and comes amid fears of surveillance by the ⁠United States and that it may get unlawful access to Europeans' data on the basis of its laws such as the Cloud Act which ​requires U.S.-based ​providers to grant authorities access to ​data even if it is ‌stored abroad.

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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Wall Street used to get the growth story early. Now it often only gets the receipt.