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(Bloomberg) -- The implosion of the once-hot market for cryptocurrency treasury stocks is prompting a number of firms to pivot to artificial intelligence in an attempt to win back investors. So far, it isn’t working. Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Hormuz TalksSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysChina Chipmaker CXMT Jumps 466% in Debut After Blockbuster IPOStocks and Bonds Rall
(Bloomberg) -- China warned it would take “all necessary measures” if the US moves to sanction Chinese artificial intelligence companies over allegations they improperly used American models to train their own systems.Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Hormuz TalksSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysChina Chipmaker CXMT Jumps 466% in Debut After Blockbuster IPOStocks and Bonds Ral
This year’s stock rally has withstood war, inflation and uncertainty surrounding the tech sector’s massive artificial-intelligence investments. The question now is: Have investors finally reached their limit? Major stock indexes have posted healthy gains this year.
Nvidia is in talks to provide a roughly $250 billion financing for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The guarantees from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank's energy subsidiary is developing in southern Ohio, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. Nvidia, OpenAI and U.S. Commerce Department did not respond to requests for comment outside regular business hours.
Every powerful technology eventually reaches the same argument. Somebody has to decide whether the thing gets handed out or locked up. Encryption had that fight in the 1990s, when the federal government classified strong cryptography as a munition and tried to keep it away from ordinary people. ...
This is a huge earnings week, with nearly a third of S&P 500 companies reporting. The Fed is expected to hold rates steady after its confab ends Wednesday, and we’ll see key inflation data on Thursday.
Hyperscaler cash levels will be a key focus in the coming week as Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft report.
Earnings reports from four of the world’s largest tech companies, a decision on interest rates, and key economic data releases will be in focus this week.
Jensen Huang has been one of the most prominent voices in technology for years, but he had never once posted on X (the former Twitter). On July 24, he did. What he chose to say with his first-ever post on the platform says a lot about the fight now underway over who controls the future of AI. Huang ...

Investors step into the busiest week of the quarter with hyperscaler earnings, the June Fed meeting, and escalations in the Middle East all in focus.
The earnings season has kicked off with a bang, though not the kind that investors have been hoping for. Two Magnificent 7 members turned in their disappointing earnings on the same day. Alphabet (GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) both reported earnings on July 22, and both stocks dropped the following day. ...
Drive past enough American commercial real estate and you start to notice the second acts. The bowling alley that became a church. The Sears that became a self-storage warehouse. Somebody put up the building for one reason, the reason expired, and the concrete found a new job. That pattern is not a ...
It’s peak earnings season, and investors could be forgiven for wanting an escape hatch. Corporate America is delivering solid results, but it’s not helping stocks. Last night, chip maker Intel’s quarterly results blew past Wall Street estimates.

Asking for a Trend Host Brooke DiPalma previews several of the biggest stories to come next week, including Mag 7 earnings from Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), as well as the Fed decision and the latest Consumer confidence data.
Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com headline a massive earnings wave. The Federal Reserve meets, with a rate hike a possibility.
Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech heavyweights made a public case to lawmakers on Friday in favor of open-source AI models, wading into a debate roiling the business and policy worlds over who controls the powerful technology. In a letter posted on X and also signed by two dozen companies and groups including Meta Platforms and IBM, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that lawmakers should avoid "premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." The letter adds to the growing debate about open-source models that are harder to regulate, such as Nvidia's own and those released in recent weeks by Chinese labs, and the closed-source models controlled by specific companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Alphabet just reported the strongest quarter in Google Cloud's history. Revenue came in at $119.8 billion, up 24% year over year. Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion and blew past analyst estimates. The Cloud backlog hit $514 billion. Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 is using Gemini Enterprise. By most ...
It makes sense for tech companies to work together in the age of AI, no?
7.4 % That is the expected swing, higher or lower, expected by options traders in Meta Platforms' stock for the session after the company reports earnings next week, according to data from Option Research & Technology Services.
July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. equity funds recorded outflows for a second consecutive week as caution ahead of earnings reports from major technology companies and a renewed rise in oil prices weighed on
Is AI causing inflation or will it combat it?
July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday after a tech-led selloff in the previous session, as investors weighed fresh earnings, escalating Middle East tensions and a new
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - A wobbly U.S. stock market will take its cues in the coming week from a Federal Reserve meeting set to shed light on the path for interest rates, and