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Investing.com -- Alphabet burned $5.9 billion in free cash flow in the second quarter of 2026—its first cash burn on record. Tesla burned another $1.1 billion. Together, the two reports have crystallized a fear that has been building all year: Big Tech's AI infrastructure build-out is consuming capital faster than it can generate returns.
The European Commission fined Google the equivalent of about $1 billion Thursday for manipulating its search results to hurt competitors and blocking app developers from directing customers to cheaper deals outside its Play store.
Several Indian digital payments firms have opposed a proposal that would allow merchants to store customers' preferred Unified Payments Interface option for one-click checkouts, arguing it could entrench the dominance of the bigger payment apps. In a July 23 letter reviewed by Reuters, the companies told the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which oversees the UPI network, that the proposal could "adversely impact" competition. NPCI and the companies did not immediately reply to Reuters' requests for comments.
I have covered each of the following four stocks separately over the past few weeks:Micron's historic earnings. Intel's painful turnaround. AMD's server CPU advantage heading into August 4. Applied Materials' wafer equipment supercycle. On July 21, Jim Cramer put them all in the same basket with a ...
Earnings dominated the narrative in the U.S. markets on Wednesday, with Alphabet, Tesla, and IBM reporting Q2 results.
A clip from an old Lex Fridman podcast interview with Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds on X (the former Twitter), and the timing of its revival is the most interesting part of the story. The clip shows Zuckerberg praising Elon Musk's overhaul of Twitter at a moment when the two men were in the ...
Google parent company Alphabet posted 24% revenue growth year-over-year in the second quarter, fueled by its booming cloud business, but the company continued to burn through cash building data centers for artificial-intelligence computing. Alphabet’s sales came in at $119.8 billion, exceeding analyst expectations. Net income for the April-June period was $112.1 billion, also ahead of analyst expectations.
Alphabet shareholders await results from the first of the Magnificent Seven stocks.
Will an announcement on Meta's earnings call lead to a surge in the stock price?
(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a massive new data center near Savannah, Georgia as part of the ChatGPT maker’s push to keep up with surging demand for artificial intelligence software. Most Read from BloombergTrump’s 100% Generic Drug Duty Threatens US Low-Cost SupplyApple to Launch ‘Upgrade’ Device Leasing Program With Klarna to Spur SalesTrump Extends Pardons to Companies, Echoing a 17th Century KingSpaceX Set to Unlock $116 Billion in Shares After IPO Rest
AI tokens have become a major focus as some companies were hit by "token shock" from Anthropic and OpenAI model.
July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Wednesday, pressured by weakness in chip stocks, as investors remained cautious ahead of the first batch of Big Tech earnings that could decide
Alphabet will report second quarter earnings after the stock market closes Wednesday. Analysts expect capex for the quarter to be $45.1 billion, a 101% increase from a year earlier.
U.S. hyperscalers are starting to show returns on their artificial intelligence investments, but the rising cost of the buildout is taking a bite out of their free cash flow, and investors are noticing. At their current trajectory, the so-called "hyperscalers" -- Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Oracle -- are expected to spend more combined on capital expenditures than they generate in free cash flow by 2027, according to a Reuters analysis of LSEG consensus estimates. The data shows the companies will generate about $340 billion more in annual operating cash flow in 2027 than in 2025, but capex is expected to rise by roughly $534 billion, equivalent to about $1.57 of additional investment for every $1 of additional cash flow.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock jumped more than 7% Tuesday, July 21, as investors cheered the chipmaker's latest AI infrastructure push and looked ahead to its key AI event. On Monday, July 20, AMD introduced Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, which is expected to begin shipping later this ...
CEO Michael Intrator says the global AI build-out requires capital on a scale rarely seen, but that he is on the “right side” of a generational change.
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it is adding the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Meta Horizon+ subscription service, expanding its gaming offering on Quest virtual reality headsets. The move deepens Meta's partnership with Microsoft's Xbox and will give Horizon+ subscribers access to more than 50 Game Pass titles alongside the existing catalog of more than 100 virtual reality games available through the service.
(Bloomberg) -- Moonshot AI is preparing to begin discussions in August on a final round of fundraising before listing in Hong Kong, capitalizing on the excitement around its latest model to raise capital at a valuation of as much as $50 billion.Most Read from BloombergYemen’s Houthis to Impose Maritime Blockade on Saudi ArabiaChina AI Sensation Moonshot’s Gamble on Big Models Pays OffTrump Vows 50% Tariff on Canadian Goods Using Depression-Era LawMoonshot’s Kimi K3 May Be More About Memory Than
<body><p>STORY: From Anthropic's class action settlement to the world AI conference in Shanghai... This is Tech Weekly.</p><p>:: Tech Weekly</p><p>A federal judge has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement...</p><p>the largest known in a U.S. copyright case.</p><p>A group of writers sued Anthropic in 2024, arguing that the company used pirated versions of their books without permission to train its Claude AI model.</p><p>The lawsuit is one of dozens brought by copyright owners against tech companies over the training of large language models.</p><p>Tennessee state has claimed Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis.</p><p>Meta Platforms went to court on Monday – one of several trials in the coming weeks...</p><p>on allegations that the company's social media platforms were intentionally built to be addictive.</p><p>The lawsuit claims Meta failed to disclose extensive internal research..</p><p>showing Instagram could harm teens.</p><p>A Meta spokesperson previously said in a statement that the company already has built-in controls to protect teens.</p><p>Ongoing conflicts shaped discussions at the Farnborough Airshow, one of the world's largest aerospace and defense gatherings.</p><p>The show brings together hundreds of companies across commercial aviation, propulsion and military technology...</p><p>from unmanned fighter jets and hypersonic missiles to spy satellites and AI-enabled weapons systems.</p><p>Defense companies made up half of a record 1,600 exhibitors at this year's show.</p><p>Apple overtook Nvidia to become the world's most valuable company...</p><p>reshuffling the top ranks of tech giants as investors reassess the outlook for AI.</p><p>The shift in the pecking order illustrates how investors are looking beyond the most obvious beneficiaries of the AI boom, such as Nvidia.</p><p>The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai...</p><p>showcasing the shifting AI landscape with Chinese open-weight AI models making rapid gains against systems from U.S. companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.</p><p>Huawei's Atlas 950 SuperPoD large-scale AI computing system made its public debut...</p><p>demonstrating China's efforts to produce tech without U.S. giant Nvidia's most advanced chips. </p><p>Li Tianyi was an exhibitor at the show.</p><p>"We work in AI applications, which are more on the software side. As far as foundation models are concerned, I think we're still slightly behind. But it's not a gap that can't be closed. At least after visiting the exhibition today, I feel confident that we can catch up with the U.S. in terms of foundation model capabilities within a relatively short period. Perhaps three to five years."</p><p>An entire hall of humanoid companies also showcased robots dancing, weight lifting and looking eerily human like. </p></body>
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX suffered their seventh straight day of declines, falling 3.3% to $119.85. SpaceX, whose stock is now well below its $135 offering price from June, on Monday dropped below Meta Platforms to become the eighth-largest U.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) is expected to deliver second quarter results above Wall Street expectations when it reports earnings on July 29, according to Bank of America analysts, who believe that healthy advertising demand and AI-driven improvements should support...
The Magnificent Seven will again reign supreme over S&P 500 earnings, but their dominance is fading. As second-quarter earnings reports start to flow in, analysts expect the Magnificent Seven companies to grow earnings by a combined 31.1%. The other 493 S&P 500 companies are expected to increase earnings 22.8%, FactSet Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters wrote in a report.
AMD stock rose more than 3% on Monday.
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