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On Thursday, former Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google software engineer Linwei Ding received a major legal reprieve after a federal judge overturned his economic espionage convictions. Judge Rejects Economic Espionage Convictions U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled that prosecutors failed to provide sufficient evidence that Ding knew or intended his actions would benefit the Chinese government, a requirement for economic espionage charges, Reuters re

Broadcom is in talks with a group of ‌lenders to raise more than $60 ‌billion in debt for an AI chip financing ​deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the ‌matter. The financing ⁠could include a roughly $30 billion junior debt tranche, and Broadcom ⁠would guarantee part of the senior-secured tranche possibly ranging from about $60 ​billion to $70 ​billion, the report ​said. Blackstone and Apollo Global Management are in talks with ‌Broadcom to participate ​in the financing, following ​a partnership ​the three companies struck ‌in June, the report added.

Unrealized investment profits strengthened reported results while enormous infrastructure spending continued consuming cash.

Investing.com -- Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo announced Thursday that it has developed a custom chip for its robotaxis, marking a shift away from relying solely on third-party suppliers such as Nvidia Corp.

By Prathik Jayaprakash Aug 20 (Reuters) - Satellite-constellation developer Muon Space has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round as it looks to expand manufacturing capacity amid rising

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo has built a custom chip that the company said will improve the performance of its robotaxis, while also diversifying its chip supply beyond third-party companies such as Nvidia Corp.

Barclays models $18.5 billion of annual revenue and $6.15 of incremental EPS

Shares of Meta Platforms Inc. have been under pressure all year due to questions about its spending on artificial intelligence. But a trial accusing its social media platforms of targeting children goes beyond that, raising existential questions about the future of its core business.

S&P 500 companies are winding up a banner quarterly earnings season, fueled in large part by surging profits at AI-related companies. The S&P 500 is on track for a 52% surge in aggregate second-quarter earnings from ‌the year before, helped by a 74% profit jump in the technology sector. The figures include big mark-to-market boosts at Alphabet and Amazon, ‌both of which recognized large gains in the period on investments in AI highfliers such as Anthropic.

S&P 500 companies are winding up a banner quarterly earnings season, fueled in large part by surging profits at AI-related companies. The S&P 500 is on track for a 52% surge in aggregate second-quarter earnings from ‌the year before, helped by a 74% profit jump in the technology sector. The figures include big mark-to-market boosts at Alphabet and Amazon, ‌both of which recognized large gains in the period on investments in AI highfliers such as Anthropic.

Australia passed legislation on Thursday that will force tech giants to pay millions of dollars in ‌levies if they fail to strike commercial deals with local ‌media outlets for news on their platforms. Proceeds from the scheme would be directed to local Australian news outlets, whose content helps drive user engagement and advertising revenue on the tech firms' platforms. The levy applies to Meta, Alphabet's Google, ‌TikTok and Microsoft's LinkedIn, ⁠covering companies with a "significant" social media or search service in Australia, and local advertising revenue exceeding A$250 million ($178 million).

The flight attendants want assurance that their confidential information will be removed from the sale of the defunct airline’s digital records.

Eagle Point Credit Management LLC is providing a roughly $1.3 billion private credit loan for a sprawling AI data center in Texas tied to Anthropic PBC, giving the investment firm a key role in one of the latest jumbo financings fueling the artificial intelligence boom.

Alphabet has raised A$5.5 billion ($3.89 billion) via ‌its inaugural Australian dollar debt issuance, ‌according to a term sheet seen by Reuters, ​adding to the hectic pace of fundraising by global tech companies. The U.S. tech giant raised the amount by issuing 3-, ‌5-, 10- and ⁠20-year bonds, the term sheet showed. The company set the ⁠coupon at 6.9% for the longest tenure bond tranche, according to the term ​sheet.

S&P 500 earnings per share are on pace to climb more than 50% in the second quarter. Combining reported and yet-to-be-reported results, S&P 500 earnings are up 50.4%, according to the most recent data from FactSet. Profit growth is broad, too, with 10 of the 11 S&P 500 sectors posting year-over-year earnings growth.

Roughly 45 days after every quarter closes, a few hundred of the biggest money managers in the country have to tell you what they own. The document is called a Form 13F, one of the rare places where an ordinary investor sees what the professionals did instead of what they said on television. It is ...

A Plexo Capital partner who owns Anthropic shares went on CNBC to defend a valuation that dwarfs every profitable public AI company, and the caveat he buried in his own argument may be the most important thing he said.

GF Securities Raises Nvidia Price Target to $345 Ahead of Earnings

Aggressive AI spending is unlikely to be reined in by the execs doling out the checks.

Big funds are clinging to Google.

Ackman put new capital to work in the second quarter of the year.

FORT Robotics plans to go public through a business combination with Newbury Street II Acquisition (

Longer-maturity bonds are at the epicenter of investor angst about everything from inflation to the debt-laden artificial-intelligence boom — and governments are paying the price.

SpaceX(SPCX) stock is back trading near $140, up nearly 5% over the past week, as investors find new reasons to bet on Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk’s newest public-market heavyweight. Also, the latest 13F filings are only adding to the fuel. AI behemoth Nvidia(NVDA) disclosed 122.76 million ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is headed to court Tuesday for a high-stakes showdown with a coalition of state attorneys general over claims that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users.

Mexico is exploring ways to regulate the use of social media by children and adolescents, as countries such as Australia and Brazil have done, with government-led discussions on the harmful effects of platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

Amazon and Alphabet are benefiting from their massive investments in AI and space companies, but those investments come with greater exposure to private-market valuations and liquidity constraints.

SpaceX shares are getting a lift after some of tech’s top names identified themselves as big investors in Elon Musk's rocket-and-AI company. Among them: artificial-intelligence chipmaker Nvidia, which said in a Friday filing it owned close to 123 million SpaceX shares.

Alphabet is looking to raise about A$5 billion ($3.6 billion) in what would be its debut bond offering in Australia, people familiar with the matter said, as US tech firms binge on debt to fuel AI spending. Bloomberg Tech's Ed Ludlow joins to discuss this as well as the latest from Anthropic.

Alphabet is looking to raise about $3.6 billion in what would be its debut bond offering in Australia, according to people familiar with the matter. Initial price guidance on the deal may be provided as early as Tuesday, with the notes potentially pricing the following day. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more.