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Impressively, the aggregate earnings total for Q1 is on track to be a new all-time quarterly record at $690.4 billion, surpassing the record set in the preceding quarter at $655.5 billion.

Impressively, the aggregate earnings total for Q1 is on track to be a new all-time quarterly record at $690.4 billion, surpassing the record set in the preceding quarter at $655.5 billion.

Forrester Research (NASDAQ:FORR) reported first-quarter 2026 results that showed improving retention trends and strong free cash flow, even as revenue declined year over year and contract value (CV) remained down. Management also highlighted growing adoption of Forrester AI and continued progress on

Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) is reported to be reassessing its 2030 goal to match 100% of its electricity consumption with renewable energy, as AI data center power needs increase. The company is expanding AI and cloud infrastructure globally, including new multibillion dollar investments in Europe such as Portugal. Microsoft is deepening AI partnerships and has shifted its OpenAI agreement to a nonexclusive structure. The potential change in climate commitments could affect perceptions of...

Hyperscalers building out AI infrastructure have run into a hard constraint: electricity. Training clusters and inference farms need round-the-clock baseload power, and grids in Virginia, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest are already strained. That has pushed Microsoft, Amazon, and Google toward direct purchase agreements for nuclear power with utilities and small modular reactor developers, with ... Load Up on Nuclear Before the Data Center Energy Race Accelerates

Investors piling into the AI trade may need something less glamorous than another price target, product demo or promise about the future: a rule for when to stop trusting their favorite market narrative. That is the central argument from the investing blog Capital Blueprint, helmed by an independent market commentator using the name Jin, who says investors should build what Jin calls a "self-destruct chip" into their AI framework — clear conditions that force them to stop trusting a favorite nar

Most dividend ETFs make you pick a lane. You can chase yield with funds packed full of utilities, telecoms, and tobacco names that throw off cash but barely grow, or you can buy dividend growth funds that pay you almost nothing today on the promise of bigger checks a decade out. JPMorgan Dividend Leaders ETF ... This New Dividend Fund Is Chasing Yield And Growth At The Same Time

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the best stocks to buy in 2026 according to billionaire George Soros. Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) released its fiscal Q3 2026 (ended March 31) report on April 29. It reported an 18% YoY increase in revenue to $82.9 billion, supported by strong growth in the cloud business. That was more […]

With an upside potential of 33.31% as of May 3, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is included among the 10 Best Fortune 500 Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is engaged in developing and marketing software, services, and hardware that deliver new opportunities, greater convenience, and enhanced value to people’s lives. On April 30, Deutsche […]

Is Zoom Communications stock (NASDAQ: ZM) pricey at 18 times earnings? Not at all.

Anthropic says it will rent all of the compute capacity from SpaceX's massive Colossus 1 data center.

Shares of Oklo (NYSE:OKLO) are up roughly 13% in midday trading Wednesday after the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved the Principal Design Criteria for the company’s Aurora powerhouse. The stock trades near $77, and it’s up 59% over the past month. The move adds to a striking 12-month run for Oklo stock, now up ... Oklo Advances 12% on NRC Aurora Approval: Is This the AI Infrastructure Nuclear Play?

CrowdStrike recently launched Falcon OverWatch for Defender, extending its managed threat hunting to Microsoft Defender customers, while also deepening AI integrations and expanding its Project QuiltWorks coalition to address emerging AI-driven vulnerabilities across enterprise environments. By pairing adversary-intelligence-driven hunting, frontier AI models like Claude Opus 4.7, and new offensive-testing partners such as Armadin, CrowdStrike is positioning its Falcon platform as a central...

The investment consists of $270m for shared infrastructure and $546m for a second 200MW building at the Sines Data Campus.

Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) stock just earned a fresh vote of confidence from Bay Street. Scotiabank analyst Orest Wowkodaw raised his CCJ stock price target to $175 from $150, keeping an Outperform rating after a quarterly update he characterized as positive given higher estimates. The takeaway for prudent investors: the Western nuclear renaissance is shifting from thesis ... Scotiabank Just Hiked Cameco Price Target to $175 as the Nuclear Renaissance Accelerates

Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei warned that some software companies could "completely go bust" without AI integration while speaking at his company's The Briefing: Financial Services event. Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley breaks down Amodei's comments and what it could be signaling for software developers.

"Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary wants to build a massive AI data center in Utah that will generate more than double the power the state currently uses. Dubbed Stratos, the data center recently received Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority designation....

Government will test frontier systems for national security risks

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is dominating headlines and TV again after a 56.79% EPS beat and another round of personal-superintelligence rhetoric from Mark Zuckerberg. But here’s what you should actually be watching. The headline EPS is an optical illusion. $8.03 billion of Q1 profit came from a U.S. Treasury notice on capitalized R&D costs, adding $3.13 ... Meta Is Spending Up to $145 Billion on AI Infrastructure. This Supplier Trades at a Tenth of Meta’s Multiple

The case for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) gets easier to articulate every quarter. The pitch is simple. While Big Tech is in a capex arms race that will run past $725 billion in AI spending this year across Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Meta (NASDAQ:META) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple is sitting on enormous free cash flow, raising prices, raising dividends, and quietly ... While Big Tech Spends $725 Billion Building AI, Apple Is Letting Them. And That May Be the Smartest Move in Tech

Medline Inc. (NASDAQ:MDLN) is one of the best young stocks to buy and hold for the next decade. On May 4, Medline officially launched Mpower, a cloud-based, AI-powered digital control tower designed to enhance supply chain resiliency for healthcare providers. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft and informed by feedback from US health systems, the platform […]

Microsoft is considering delaying or abandoning its 2030 goal of matching its entire hourly ‌electricity use with renewable energy purchases, Bloomberg News ‌reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The expensive and ​energy-intensive push for data centers is reshaping the feasibility of Microsoft's climate commitments that were made before the AI era and rank among the industry's most ambitious targets, the ‌report said. The discussions were ⁠ongoing and no final decision has been made, Bloomberg News added.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) trades at $411.38, a level worth a closer look. The slide from $552.51 to $410 looks like a discount. The stock has fallen 14.74% year-to-date even as the AI business grew at triple-digit revenue rates, a disconnect worth examining. Microsoft sits at the intersection of two enterprise budgets. Productivity software and cloud compute ... Buy, Sell or Hold Microsoft at $410?

Everyone knows Bill Gates’ Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) story. The interesting position sits one line further down the Gates Foundation Trust’s 13F: Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), the yellow-iron giant most investors still file under “old economy.” According to the most recent filing, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust holds 6,353,614 shares of CAT, valued at $3,639,794,852, with sole ... Bill Gates Owns Billions in This Secret AI Player Up Nearly 183% in a Year, and It’s Not Microsoft

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) just rewrote what a Mag 7 quarter is supposed to look like. EPS of $5.11 against a $2.63 estimate, a 94% surprise, paired with revenue of $109.90B (+22% YoY) and Google Cloud growth of 63%. The stock has rallied 30% in the past month, validating the report. That is the bar. Below, we count ... Can the Rest of the Mag 7 Reach the Google-Level Greatness Shown Last Quarter?

Microsoft has had a rough start in 2026.

When CoreWeave reports Q1 earnings, analysts expect a bigger loss amid booming revenue growth. But other financial metrics may move CoreWeave stock.

Oracle’s chart has flipped from broken to breaking out, and the fundamentals underneath the move say this trajectory will continue rather than fade. Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) has rallied 24% in the past month and trades around $185, recovering from a post-earnings low of $138.09 on the back of contracted backlog visibility that very few large-cap technology ... Oracle Stock’s Breakout Is Real and the Long-Term AI Infrastructure Case Is Only Getting Stronger