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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.

OKLO stock carries the highest short interest in the utilities sector at 16.45%. A potential short squeeze, not earnings, could be the next big catalyst for investors.

Snap said on Wednesday its first-quarter revenue rose 12% on the back of resilient advertising spending and ‌that its number of daily active users returned to growth, ‌driven by markets outside of North America and Europe. The Snapchat parent, squeezed between dominant ​platforms such as TikTok and Meta's Instagram in a crowded social media market, has been turning to subscriptions to boost its revenue, which comes predominantly from advertising sales. Snap and artificial intelligence start-up Perplexity "amicably" ended their $400 ‌million deal in the first ⁠quarter, it said on Wednesday, around six months after announcing it.

Meta Platforms has asked a Los Angeles judge to throw out a jury’s verdict finding the company liable for a woman’s ‌depression in a landmark trial over whether the company has harmed young users by ‌designing its platforms to be addictive. In the filing, submitted on Monday but made public on Wednesday, Meta asked the judge ​who oversaw the trial to overturn the verdict and rule in its favor or order a new trial. The jury in March found that Meta and YouTube parent Google had been negligent in the design of their platforms and had failed to warn users of their dangers.

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Here's how two senior executives said AI will affect their businesses in the years ahead: AI changes “how we work,” says Brian Armstrong, CEO at Coinbase Global. The company on Tuesday announced it was cutting 14% of its workforce.

Wall Street unleashed one of the most aggressive coordinated price target hikes of the year on Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) following its blowout Q1 FY2026 report. Two firms upgraded AMD stock outright (Bernstein and Seaport), while seven others lifted price targets, with the most bullish call landing at $530 from KeyBanc. AMD stock surged 17% on ... Wall Street Just Piled Into AMD: Eight Firms Hike Price Targets After Q1 Earnings Crusher

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

Company bosses are splitting into two camps over what the technology’s best, immediate benefits are. Neither calls for more hiring anytime soon.

On Sunday, former White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks said artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful drivers of the U.S. economy as Morgan Stanley raised its forecast for hyperscaler AI infrastructure spending. Morgan Stanley Projects Massive AI Capex Boom From Big Tech Morgan Stanley now expects Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. to collectively spend about $805 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, up from

Advanced Micro Devices forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, betting on resilient demand for its data-center ‌chips as cloud providers accelerate spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company ‌expects quarterly revenue of $11.2 billion, plus or minus $300 million, compared with estimates of $10.52 billion, according to ​data compiled by LSEG. AMD, long seen by analysts and investors as a leading challenger to Nvidia's dominance, is tapping into a new AI hardware opportunity in the form of central processing unit (CPU) as companies move from training models to deploying ‌them, a process known ⁠as inference.

Meta is building a highly personalised AI assistant to carry out everyday tasks for its billions of users, as the company faces investor scrutiny...

Last week’s tech earnings put investors’ attention back on AI spending and whether it’s actually paying off. One megacap stands out, surging nearly 10% over the past five trading days, the best five-day performance among the Magnificent 7 stocks. That’s Alphabet. The stock is up 22% year to date as ...

Ireland's media regulator has opened investigations into Meta's Instagram and Facebook over concerns EU users cannot easily control what they see ‌online and may be steered by algorithms into highly personalised feeds, it ‌said on Tuesday. Under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), the regulator can probe major online platforms and search engines ​headquartered in Ireland, and fine them up to 6% of global turnover for breaches of online content rules. Coimisiun na Mean, the regulator, said the suspected breaches concern whether users can easily select and modify the content they see, and whether Facebook and Instagram's interfaces deceive ‌or manipulate them away from ⁠doing so.

Publishers including Cengage Learning, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw and Scott Turow are demanding a jury trial to review their claims of copyright infringement.

SpaceX IPO sparks ETF rush with 9 space funds filed or launched in three months as Wall Street races for retail flows.

Over the long-term, the stock market is very good at valuing companies. Not every stock price reaction to recent earnings reports seems fair. Through midday trading on Monday, more than 500 companies in the had reported quarterly results.

Meta Platforms on Tuesday sought to stave off an imminent EU order to allow rival AI chatbots free access to its social ‌messaging site WhatsApp, as it presented its arguments to EU antitrust officials. Meta's request for ‌Tuesday's closed hearing came after the European Commission last month sent the tech giant an additional charge sheet outlining its plan. ​It is part of an interim measure while the EU enforcer continues its investigation into whether the company abuses its market power, which could result in a hefty fine.

By Aditya Kalra and Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI, May 5 (Reuters) - India's Zee Entertainment has sued fashion-to-beauty retailer Nykaa for allegedly using its copyrighted songs in Instagram reels to

Meta’s stock has languished recently as concern grows over its spending on AI, leaving it unusually cheap. At around 18 times forward earnings, its valuation also represents a discount to other big tech companies. The premium for Google-parent Alphabet’s shares against Meta’s is the highest it has been since 2022.

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Meta Platforms ‌is ‌working on a ​roughly $13 billion financing package for ‌a ⁠data center in El ⁠Paso, Texas, ​led ​by ​Morgan Stanley ‌and JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, ‌citing ​people ​familiar ​with ‌the matter. Reuters could ​not ​immediately verify the ​report. (Reporting ‌by Mihika ​Sharma in ​Bengaluru)

Over the long-term, the stock market is very good at valuing companies. Not every stock price reaction to recent earnings reports seems fair. Through midday trading on Monday, more than 500 companies in the had reported quarterly results.

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NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is the stock dominating every retirement account discussion, every cable hit, and every chart on Twitter, and the multi-year run is precisely why. The more important signal sits elsewhere. Semiconductor revenue is cyclical. Always has been. The Bureau of Economic Analysis already shows the math: manufacturing’s share of GDP fell from 9.7% in ... While NVDA Dominates Headlines, Here’s Where the Real AI Economics Are Hiding

AI stocks are seeing leadership shift as Google storms ahead, Nvidia wavers, software lags and key earnings loom.

By Diana Novak Jones May 4 (Reuters) - A trial is slated to begin in New Mexico on Monday that will test the state’s claims that Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms harmed young users’

May 4 (Reuters) - A trial is slated to begin in New Mexico on Monday that will test the state’s claims that Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms harmed young users’ ‌mental health and its bid for a court order forcing the company to make changes. The case, ‌which will be tried before a judge in Santa Fe, stems from a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, ​accusing the social media giant of designing its platforms to addict young users and failing to