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Investing.com -- Here are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week.

Apple isn't just counting on customers to keep buying iPhones. It also expects them to keep paying every month long after they've bought one. While Apple built its reputation selling cutting-edge devices, its fastest-growing profit engine has become Services, the business that keeps generating ...

Yahoo Finance's AI winners and losers include TSMC, Moonshot AI, IBM, and the chip industry.

Apple shares hit an all-time high of $334.68 on July 16. The stock was up 23% on the year, the product pipeline was looking unusually stacked, and most of the analyst community already had a Buy on it. Then, on July 17, one of the banks that had been sitting on the sidelines decided it had seen ...

Semiconductor stocks came under renewed pressure as investors continued to digest Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)’s higher 2026 capital expenditure guidance.

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Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

Investing.com -- Apple Inc. and the US Justice Department are in early discussions to settle a 2024 antitrust lawsuit, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Apple ‌and ‌the U.S. Department ​of Justice are in ‌early ⁠discussions about settling ⁠a 2024 ​lawsuit ​that ​alleges the ‌iPhone maker violated antitrust laws, ‌Bloomberg ​News ​reported ​on ‌Friday. Reuters could not ​immediately ​verify the ​report. (Reporting ‌by Jaspreet ​Singh in ​Bengaluru)

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GOOGL heads into Q2 earnings with AI-fueled momentum in Search, Cloud and YouTube, even as heavy infrastructure spending pressures near-term margins.

The iPhone maker became the U.S.’s most valuable publicly traded company as investors are shifting focus from hardware supply to consumer execution.

Apple is within striking distance of overtaking Nvidia as the world's most valuable company, a milestone that would reshuffle the ranks of tech heavyweights as investors reassess the outlook for AI. Apple was last valued at $4.90 ‌trillion as its shares rose marginally in premarket trading on Friday, while Nvidia was roughly at the same level, following a 2.4% decline. If ‌Apple overtakes Nvidia, it would reclaim the top spot for the first time since April last year.

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Investing.com -- HSBC analyst Nicolas Cote-Colisson upgraded Apple to Buy from Hold and raised its price target on the iPhone maker’s shares to $366 from $260 in a note Friday, saying it is at "an operational turning point" as AI capabilities and a strong product pipeline support growth.

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July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slid on Friday as a selloff in chip stocks deepened, forcing investors to reassess the staying power of this year's AI-fueled rally, while a weak forecast

KUALA LUMPUR, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. investor Balaji Srinivasan said an immigration check at a "digital nomad" community in Malaysia based on anonymous social media claims of law violations that

Legendary investor and now-retired CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B), Warren Buffett, spent decades teaching investors that knowing what to sidestep is probably as important as finding what to buy. The Oracle of Omaha zeroed in on businesses with predictable demand, durable pricing power, ...

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With the stock out of favor, investors are focused on slowing sales growth, but they may be missing the more powerful story of how efficiently Netflix is compounding profit per share.

US equity markets were mostly tracking in the red before the opening bell Thursday as traders await

Exposure to the artificial-intelligence boom has become virtually impossible for investors to avoid. The theme hasn’t just cornered the stock market. It has systematically swallowed up corporate credit and venture capital, too.

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<body><p>STORY: From SK Hynix shares yo-yoing to Apple suing OpenAI...</p><p>This is AI Weekly.</p><p>:: AI Weekly</p><p>SK Hynix shares went on a wild ride after its U.S. listing last week.</p><p>Shares plunged 15% in trading on Monday, marking the South Korean chip giant's biggest one-day fall on record.</p><p>But the firm's stock bounced back almost 13% later in the week.</p><p>It followed gains made in U.S. tech stocks after softer-than-expected U.S. inflation data and upbeat analyst forecasts for AI memory demand.</p><p>Meta plans to produce AI chips this September.</p><p>That's according to a memo seen by Reuters.</p><p>The move would help Meta gain more independence from chip suppliers like Nvidia.</p><p>Apple sued OpenAI and two former employees.</p><p>The U.S. tech giant alleged misappropriation of its trade secrets to benefit the ChatGPT-maker's move into consumer hardware.</p><p>It accused OpenAI of orchestrating an effort to acquire and exploit Apple's confidential information through former employees, recruiting practices and supplier relations.</p><p>OpenAI said in a statement they "have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets."</p><p>IBM shares plunged by a quarter in one day.</p><p>Investors sold off after the U.S. tech company signaled the AI infrastructure boom has drawn spending away from the software sector.</p><p>IBM said it expected revenue to rise just 1% in the second quarter, falling short of Wall Street hopes.</p><p>The announcement added to worries over a software industry already rocked by the rise of AI tools.</p><p>And TSMC raised it forecast for capital spending by up to 14% for this year.</p><p>It comes after the chipmaker and major Nvidia supplier posted a 77% jump in second-quarter profit of $22 billion.</p><p>That was well ahead of market forecasts and the firm's ninth straight quarter of double-digit percentage growth.</p><p>Looking ahead, capital expenditure for this year is forecast to now be between $60 billion and $64 billion.</p></body>

Investors were set to parse signals on the AI build-out, consumer spending, geopolitical uncertainty, and more in a packed Thursday session.

The US House China committee chair has urged the Trump administration to ban US companies from buying memory chips from CXMT and YMTC to avoid...