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EU court backs regulators in long-running case.

Ed Elson and tech reporter Alex Heath spent a recent segment of Prof G Markets arguing about the same set of facts and reaching almost opposite conclusions. Elson thinks OpenAI is a company drifting sideways while leaks about an IPO pile up. Heath thinks the leaks are the story, and most of them are being ... Is OpenAI’s IPO a Hot Mess or Just Media Noise? Two Reporters Can’t Agree

Alphabet's Google Cloud is gaining traction in enterprise AI as its Jack Henry deal expands AI and cybersecurity use among financial institutions.

Europe's top court upheld findings that Google abused Android's market dominance.

Washington quietly reversed course on one of the more consequential AI export restrictions of the year, and the beneficiary happens to be the one U.S. lab most aggressively courting overseas customers. Bloomberg senior strategist Neil Campling flagged the shift on July 1. He called it a green light for Anthropic’s global push at the exact ... Trump Just Cleared Anthropic to Go Global, and Google DeepMind Should Be Sweating

The Magnificent 7 erased $2.3 trillion in market cap in June alone, the largest monthly loss ever for the group, even as the Nasdaq heads for its best quarter since 2020. CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos framed the split neatly on June 30: “the mag-7 erased 2.3 trillion in June alone, the largest monthly market cap loss ... The Mag 7 Just Lost $2.3 Trillion in a Single Month. Here’s the AI Fear Behind It

Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) is dominating AI infrastructure headlines again this week, pitched as the cheap hardware proxy for the next leg of the datacenter buildout. The underlying data tells a different story. The rotation is already underway. Super Micro is down 14.79% over the past week and 41.02% over the past month, while capital ... Forget Super Micro Computer: Google Wins as AI Infrastructure Rotation Gains Momentum in July

On this episode of Stock Movers: - SoftBank (SFTBY) shares are responding to news that it is starting a new U.S. venture to rent out the computing power needed to build and run artificial-intelligence models, aiming to capitalize on strong American demand for AI computing resources. - Shares of Alphabet/Google (GOOG) are responding to the company losing its long-running fight against a 4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android's market power.

OpenAI (Unlisted:OPAI) has proposed giving the US government a 5% equity stake in the company as part of early discussions with the Trump administration, according to a Financial Times report citing people familiar with the matter. The reported proposal comes as leading artificial...

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NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) still wears the crown as the world’s most valuable company at roughly $4.78 trillion, and every AI headline runs through it. But look at what has been happening while everyone else stares at the headline. NVIDIA fell 12% in the past month, while Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) at a market cap of $4.38 trillion keeps ... Forget Nvidia: Is Google Quietly About to Steal the Crown as the World’s Most Valuable Company?

OpenAI already has a lineup of impressive investors ahead of its eagerly awaited initial public offering. OpenAI has talked about offering a 5% ownership stake to the U.S. government, potentially via a sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the talks. There would be a couple of potential benefits for OpenAI if the Trump administration were among its investors.

The U.S. innovation engine, from the Model T to SpaceX and AI, continues to be a rocket for America's economy. But China is a growing rival.

Venu Krishna went on CNBC’s Closing Bell Overtime on June 30 and argued that the money fleeing Big Tech is running the wrong direction. His pitch: a PEG ratio below 1 for the Mag 7 excluding Tesla, roughly 30% earnings growth in Q1, and multiples that have already been marked down. “Everybody, when they think ... A Strategist Says Big Tech Is ‘Completely Underappreciated’ With a PEG Under 1 as Everyone Bails

Europe's top court upheld the penalty, which was originally imposed in 2018 for anti-competitive practices tied to the Android operating system

AI infrastructure spending is still the defining trade of 2026, but the leadership inside the trade keeps rotating. June reminded investors of that NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) slid nearly 12% over the past month, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) dropped nearly 17% and Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) gave back nearly 20%. That pullback is the setup. Three names continue to compound the ... 3 Top AI Stocks to Buy in July

The time-tested Dow has had companies added or removed 54 times since its inception in May 1896.

Technology stocks were advancing premarket Thursday, with the State Street Technology Select Sector

Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo on Thursday said it had completed the cloud migration of its ‌core IT systems, joining a handful of European banks that have ‌managed to move away from legacy technology. Replacing existing core IT infrastructure, known as ​mainframes, with cloud technology poses a major challenge to traditional banks. Legacy systems, often comprising multiple software stacks accumulated over time due to mergers, put high-street banks at a disadvantage versus cloud-native, challenger banks.

July 2 (Reuters) - European regulators have launched a series of antitrust, privacy and online safety investigations into major technology companies in recent years.

Swedish court awarded Pricerunner nearly $2 billion over Google's comparison shopping practices.

The AI infrastructure darling was flying high until a report surfaced that one of the world's biggest companies might be moving into its neighborhood.

Judges at the European Union's top court dismissed an appeal by Google over a landmark, 4.1 billion euro ($4.5 billion) antitrust fine imposed for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The case has been tangled up in courts since the European Commission announced the fine in 2018. “The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General Court is dismissed, thereby confirming the penalty imposed for Google Search’s abuse of a dominant position in the context of the Android operating system,” the Luxembourg-based judges wrote in their ruling.

Investors weigh Alphabet's $85 billion capital raise against rising AI investment and expected free cash flow pressure.

No retail love for the "Magnificent Seven" is persisting.

Boasting multiyear partnerships with Google, Disney and more, intellectual property licensing firm Adeia tests new buy zone.

A 5% holding in OpenAI would be worth roughly $42.6 billion based on the company's $852 billion March valuation

Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith sits down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to explore the company's wild evolution from a scrappy garage startup into a $40 billion public safety tech empire driven by tasers, AI, and drones, all united under a moonshot mission to make the bullet obsolete.

<body><p>STORY: Google on Thursday lost its fight against a record fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators eight years ago.</p><p>It was fined for using its Android mobile operating system to block rivals...</p><p>Thursday's court ruling is likely to boost Europe's crackdown on Big Tech.</p><p>The European Commission had originally handed out a $4.95 billion fine to Google...</p><p>for its agreements which forced phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search, the Chrome browser and the Google Play app store on their Android devices.</p><p>And prevented them from using rival Android systems.</p><p>A lower tribunal reduced the fine in 2022.</p><p>Google then appealed to the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union, Europe's highest.</p><p>But the court sided with the EU antitrust enforcer.</p><p>A Google spokesperson said the judgment failed to take into account its efforts to ensure Android is open, interoperable and free.</p><p>Google has racked up close to $12.6 billion in EU fines in the last decades for various antitrust infringements.</p></body>

↘️ Alphabet Inc. Cl A (GOOGL): Shares slipped premarket after Google lost a lengthy legal battle to overturn an EU fine of about $4.69 billion over its Android operating system. ↘️ Samsung Electronics (KR:005930), SK Hynix (KR:000660), Kioxia (JP:285A): The Asian memory-chip makers slumped, dragging down South Korea's Kospi and Japan's Nikkei 225 indexes.