Verizon joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2004, when AT&T was removed and the index needed a new telecommunications name. It held that seat for 22 years. S&P Dow Jones Indices revealed on June 23 that the seat now belongs to someone else. Alphabet (GOOGL) will replace Verizon ...
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Alphabet has outpaced Microsoft in top-line revenue for every recent quarter, but both tech giants continue to report steady long-term growth.

Oil prices are tumbling now that the Strait of Hormuz is open, potentially averting a continued rise that could have led to broader, more persistent inflation. But as energy prices plunge, the Federal Reserve may have a new inflation hurdle: artificial intelligence.
Investing.com -- Bernstein said Google Cloud has emerged as the leading AI cloud platform after a strong first quarter, with accelerating cloud growth and rising profitability helping it pull ahead of rivals in incremental cloud revenue despite continued heavy spending on AI infrastructure.
Mesh came out of stealth in February with a $50 million Series A.
Alphabet NasdaqGS:GOOGL is seeing a series of senior AI researchers leave, including core Gemini contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, to rival Anthropic. The departures follow the recent exits of Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper to Anthropic, all occurring within days of each other. This cluster of moves affects teams linked to Gemini and DeepMind at a time when generative AI competition with Anthropic and OpenAI is intensifying. Alphabet, the parent of Google, sits at the...
American Airlines Group announced plans to equip over 500 aircraft with SpaceX Starlink high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2027. The company also entered a three-year sustainable aviation fuel partnership with Google to support emissions reduction efforts. These moves aim to improve passenger connectivity and deepen American Airlines' corporate relationships around sustainability. American Airlines Group, traded as NasdaqGS:AAL, is tying major technology and sustainability decisions...
An annual report finds donations to nonprofits rose by 3% in inflation-adjusted dollars to $617.2 billion in 2025
Shares of ride sharing and on-demand delivery platform Uber (NYSE:UBER) jumped 5.6% in the afternoon session after an analyst at Citizens reiterated a "Market Outperform" rating and a $100 price target on the stock, citing growth momentum.
AI's real bottleneck isn't chips, it's power. Meet the stocks delivering the electricity, grid, and equipment behind every data center, from Constellation to GE Vernova.
Find insight on Corus Entertainment, OpenAI and more in the latest Market Talks covering technology, media and telecom.
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) just became the first exchange-traded fund in history to cross one trillion dollars in assets, a milestone State Street had penciled in as one of its headline 2026 predictions. The interesting part is what investors think they own when they buy VOO versus what is actually sitting inside the ... VOO Became the First ETF to Hit $1 Trillion, but Nearly 40% of It Is Now Tech
Space stocks are catching a bid in Friday midday trading. Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) stock is up 13% to $2.83, AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS) stock is up 9% to $71.72, and Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) stock is up 5% to $84.40. The synchronized move has reignited a familiar debate on trading desks and financial social media. The question ... Virgin Galactic Rises 13%, AST SpaceMobile Jumps 9%, Rocket Lab Climbs 5%: Is This a Re-Rotation Out of SpaceX?
Two high-profile personnel exits in two weeks have called into question the outlook for Alphabet's AI offering.
Sarah Kunst of Cleo Capital went on CNBC Friday morning and said what a lot of portfolio managers have been muttering to themselves all week. “People are wondering if putting all of their eggs into the AI, a sort of high growth hyperscaler basket, was maybe not the best idea over the past couple of ... A VC Says the ‘All Your Eggs in the AI Basket’ Trade Is Finally Cracking — Here’s Where the Money Goes Next
Amid a historic surge in chip stocks and a continued malaise for software, investors have all but forgotten about the once stalwart Mag Seven group of stocks.
Investing.com -- President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will impose a 100% tariff on all imports from countries that levy digital services taxes on American companies, escalating tensions over taxation of U.S. technology firms. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said several European countries are considering digital services taxes and warned that any nation adopting such measures would face immediate 100% tariffs on all goods exported to the United States, and adding that th
Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a […]
For anyone holding Palantir (PLTR) stock, the numbers can feel like a paradox. The company just posted 85% year-over-year revenue growth, yet the stock has been under pressure, falling 25% over the past 12 months. Rather than a sign that the market is blind, this indicates investors are grappling with a single, difficult question: can Palantir’s specialized, high-intensity model actually scale to meet the opportunity it has created.
On CNBC’s Closing Bell Overtime Thursday, the conversation circled back to the question every AI investor is now asking out loud. When do OpenAI and Anthropic stop pretending they want to stay private? The reporters laid out a clock that is mostly running on revenue physics. Anthropic’s revenue is up roughly 4x from last year, ... OpenAI vs. Anthropic: The Race to IPO Before the AI Hype Peaks Is On
'Magnificent 7' Stocks Are Under Pressure. Wedbush Sees Upside
This tech giant's massive capital raise, used to fund the artificial intelligence build-out, introduced an interesting financial instrument.
Top Bank Says SpaceX's AI Expansion Could Supercharge Nvidia and Intel
The U.S. agency overseeing highway safety is considering loosening requirements for manual controls in robotaxis.
Chloe Ladwig/PitchBook News Billions of dollars are flowing into AI video generation, and the market is just getting started. In the past five years, investment in startups developing AI video and media tech has more than tripled, according to PitchBook data. Funding this year is already at its highest level yet, with $5.6 billion invested, up over 43% from 2025’s annual total. Startups building video-generation models have captured most VC dollars, converging around a clutch of well-funded comp
A sharp sell-off in leading technology stocks reflects short-term impatience rather than any breakdown in the artificial intelligence trade, according to Wedbush. The broker said core names driving what it calls the fourth industrial revolution, including Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT),...