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A dual-industry leader is the most common top-four holding for six of the savviest billionaire investors.

This impending spending will benefit many companies, but there's a good way to invest in each of the AI industry's next biggest needs.

Companies with more cash than debt can be financially resilient, but that doesn’t mean they’re all strong investments. Some lack leverage because they struggle to grow or generate consistent profits, making them unattractive borrowers.

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Intel and Micron stocks are heading for further records, while SpaceX, Alphabet, and other big tech names decline.

June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures started the week on a subdued note, after Friday's public holiday, with investors monitoring developments in U.S.-Iran talks following a tense start.

This research roundup highlights a mix of opportunities and risks across large-cap technology, healthcare, and micro-cap stocks.

The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:DIA) has climbed about 7% year to date and is up almost 22% over the past year, but those returns hide a dramatic shift in what drives DIA. Because the Dow is price-weighted, the highest-priced stock carries the most influence, and Caterpillar’s (NYSE:CAT) 73% YTD surge to ... The One Stock Now Controlling DIA’s Next Move: Why Caterpillar’s Power Generation Backlog Matters More Than Apple

Google’s “Triggerfish” will feature a substantial memory upgrade, support next-generation HBM4E memory, and allow more active workloads to remain on-chip, according to Ming-Chi Kuo.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of Kevin O’Leary’s top stock picks for 2026 through the O’Shares U.S. Quality Dividend ETF. The stock made up 5.79% of the ETF as of June 17, 2026. On June 17, 2026, HSBC and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership to build and deploy AI capabilities across HSBC’s global operations. […]

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SK Hynix on Monday overtook Samsung Electronics to become South Korea's most valuable listed company, marking a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a chipmaker that two decades ago nearly collapsed under debt. The company, now the dominant supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in AI systems for customers such as ‌Nvidia and Alphabet's Google, has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the global AI boom, propelling a more than 340% rally in its shares this year and lifting ‌its market value above both Samsung Electronics and Micron. Shares of SK Hynix, now the world's most valuable memory chipmaker, traded up 5.7% to bring the company's market capitalisation to 2,082.5 trillion won ($1.35 trillion) as of 0347 GMT, compared with gains of ​0.4% in Samsung Electronics to 2,081.3 trillion won, excluding preferred shares.

SK Hynix on Monday overtook Samsung Electronics to become South Korea's most valuable listed company, marking a dramatic reversal of fortunes for ‌a chipmaker that two decades ago nearly collapsed under debt. The company, now the dominant supplier ‌of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in AI systems for customers such as Nvidia and Google has emerged as one of ​the biggest beneficiaries of the global AI boom, helping propel its shares up more than 340% this year and lifting its market value above both Samsung Electronics and Micron. Shares of SK Hynix, now the world's most valuable memory chipmaker, traded up 5.7% to bring the company's market capitalisation to 2,082.5 trillion won ($1.35 ‌trillion) as of 0347 GMT, compared ⁠with gains of 0.4% in Samsung Electronics to 2081.3 trillion won, excluding preferred shares.

Microsoft’s CEO offers a blistering critique of the AI power balance and calls for earning society’s permission.

To look ⁠for ways to eradicate online listings, including through AI-enabled detection and prevention. Represent a ⁠fifth of the global e-commerce market and 90% of the world's social media users. Vodafone, Vodacom, Safaricom to use ​AI ​in anti-money-laundering and transaction monitoring ​systems across mobile money ‌platform M-Pesa.

US stocks traded mixed on Monday as investors assessed signs of progress in US-Iran peace talks, while shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX) fell for the third day in a row.

US stocks traded mixed on Monday as investors assessed signs of progress in US-Iran peace talks, while shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX (SPCX) fell for the third day in a row.

One of the most anticipated public offerings in recent memory is drawing skepticism. SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) currently has a valuation of roughly $2.44 trillion, up nearly 40% from its $1.75 trillion IPO. Morningstar analysts have signaled the stock could be worth less than half that figure on a fundamentals basis. That gap was the centerpiece of a recent segment on ... Morningstar Says SpaceX Could Be Worth Less Than Half Its $1.75 Trillion IPO Price

The biggest winners from artificial intelligence may not be the companies building the most popular AI products. According to Div Garg, founder and CEO of AGI Inc., the companies with the most to lose in an AI-agent future could be some of today’s biggest technology platforms, including Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.. Garg, who famously turned down a lucrative job offer from OpenAI to build his own company, believes investors are focusing on the wrong question. Rather than asking which co

TSMC's biggest strength may be that its customers are also its competitors.

Google stock investors were, for the most part, bracing for another AI spending headache. For some context, the tech giant had already bumped its full-year 2026 capex guidance to $180 billion to $190 billion, saying demand for AI compute is “unprecedented.” At the same time, 2027 capex is expected ...

One member of the group is doing something none of the others can match -- and the stock still doesn't trade like it.

Apple’s next chief executive has tipped his hand on artificial intelligence, and the message is the opposite of what is coming out of Redmond, Mountain View and Menlo Park. John Ternus, who becomes CEO of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) on Sept. 1, 2026, used a pre-appointment interview to draw a philosophical line: technology exists to serve the ... Apple’s Incoming CEO Draws a Line on AI: Tools Serve Products, Not the Reverse

For two decades, Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was an advertising company that happened to own a cloud business. On the Q1 2026 earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai reframed the story in one sentence. “Revenue from products built on our gen AI models grew nearly 800% year-over-year. Enterprise AI solutions have become our primary growth driver for the ... Forget Ads: Alphabet’s CEO Says This Is Now the Biggest Growth Driver

One of these has performed much better than the other.

Apple Inc. is preparing to raise prices across its product lineup after CEO Tim Cook acknowledged the company can no longer absorb skyrocketing costs for memory and storage components. Apple To Raise Prices “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” Cook said in a Wall Street Journal interview published Wednesday. “We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, but the situation has become unsustainable.” Don’t Miss: A single bad hire can set a startup ba

When companies as a group turn into sellers, it’s a reasonable sign that stocks are very overpriced.

This leading artificial intelligence (AI) enterprise has more than doubled shareholder capital in the past five years.

Corporate bond issuance in the year through May totaled $1.23 trillion, up 21% from a year ago.

Alphabet is investing heavily in AI computing resources.