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Microsoft once regarded the idea of quitting China as unthinkable. In the past five years, however, at least 15 Microsoft branch offices and joint ventures in China have been shut, corporate filings show, and Microsoft is pursuing what five company sources described as ‌a strategy of retreat. The firm considered quitting the market in 2023 because some executives felt it took on too much geopolitical risk for too little economic return, one of them said, while stressing Microsoft has no current plans to exit.

Alphabet's Demis Hassabis, who co-founded Google DeepMind and is considered a pioneer in the field of machine learning, has been spending increasing amounts of his time advancing the idea of an organization that would codify safety guardrails and best practices for developing artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

Revenue grows 5% but PAT margin slumps to 1.8% amid heavy marketing spend and soft discretionary demand.

Alphabet’s top scientist discussed the proposed new entity with heads of other AI labs and Trump administration officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, advanced 0.2% last month, with the overall annual inflation rate landing at 3.4%.

A fresh Starlink launch and a surprise Morgan Stanley note are pulling SpaceX stock out of a steep selloff, while Intuitive Machines heads into earnings with options traders betting heavily on the upside. Here is what the catalysts actually signal.

Investing.com -- Google unveiled its Pixel 11 smartphone lineup on Wednesday, raising starting prices by $100 as surging memory costs add pressure to device makers, while introducing upgraded cameras, a faster chip and new artificial-intelligence features.

Google debuted its Pixel 11 line of smartphones on Wednesday.

Investors might be unsure where to place their money this year. But some S&P 500 companies are churning out profit.

(Bloomberg) -- One of the stock market’s favorite momentum plays from earlier this year is re-emerging as rising confidence in artificial intelligence spending sends the shares of optical component makers soaring again.Most Read from BloombergPhoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn’t DriveFive Takeaways From Zuckerberg’s 6,500-Word Manifesto on AITata Sons Chairman to Step Down, Deepening Leadership TurmoilTrump Weighs Call for Capital Gains Tax Cuts as Midterm BoostPak

AMD and Nvidia are the market leaders for designing artificial intelligence (AI) GPUs.

Form Energy’s fundraising has surpassed $2 billion for batteries that can continuously run for 100 hours.

When I spoke to Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, CEO of Xero, in early June, she said she didn’t want to talk too much about the company’s share price. Its share price was down more than 50% from one year prior even though the company beat revenue estimates for its fiscal 2026, which ended March 31. The drop was partly attributed to the “SaaS Apocalypse,” but also to investor concerns about the impact of a 2025 acquisition, a move the company made to expand the business in the U.S.

(Bloomberg) -- Swedish coding startup Lovable has raised funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, bringing in fresh capital to compete with larger rivals like Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Most Read from BloombergFive Takeaways From Zuckerberg’s 6,500-Word Manifesto on AIPhoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn’t DrivePakistan Says Deal Is Close Even as Iran, US Harden StancesTata Sons Chairman to Step Down, Deepening Leadership TurmoilTrump Weighs Call for Capital Gain

An appeals court ruled more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat over addictive design claims targeting youth can proceed.

Executives involved are hailing it as a new asset class, but critics have concerns about using chips as collateral.

Ryanair said on Wednesday it would deploy Google's Gemini AI tools and DeepMind models ‌across its operations under a new five-year cloud partnership, using ‌the technology to help manage crew scheduling and make operational decisions. Ryanair, Europe's largest airline ​by passenger numbers, said it would roll out Alphabet's Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 employees across its network, supporting its efforts towards a goal of carrying 300 million passengers annually by 2034.

Alphabet (NasdaqGS:GOOGL) faces more than 3,000 youth addiction lawsuits in US federal court after a key ruling denied dismissal efforts by major social media companies. The court decision leaves Google and peers exposed to potential legal findings on platform design and user harm, with possible knock-on effects for future regulation. FactSet data shows Alphabet has had an outsized impact on S&P 500 earnings growth this quarter, highlighting its weight in overall index performance. The...

Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley breaks down CoreWeave (CRWV) Q2 results.

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Why are the indexes red when the typical stock is green? Alphabet and Amazon account for nearly the whole decline, and Wednesday's inflation report is the week's real event.

By Avinash P and Purvi Agarwal Aug 11 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes slipped on Tuesday, as losses in tech stocks weighed on sentiment, while investors assessed reports of potential deals that

Investing.com -- UBS upgraded Jabil to Buy from Neutral, citing stronger AI-driven demand and a more diversified business mix. The bank kept its $430 price target, implying about 28% upside, while raising its fiscal 2027 and 2028 EPS estimates to $16.78 and $20.24 from $15.89 and $18.34, respectively.

NEW YORK, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Larger-than-usual post-earnings stock swings by AI and hyperscaler companies this earnings season have upended a historical pattern in which smaller companies' results

There’s an elegant simplicity to one of the central tenets in gauging the health of the stock market and the companies that comprise its benchmark indexes: figuring out what’s in the till at the end of the day. Profit remains the most important measure of stock market health—and Corporate America is raking it in. “The greatest force behind stock markets right now is earnings, which is helping to overshadow concerns about Iran, inflation and AI [capital expenditure] spending viability,” said Dennis Follmer, chief investment officer, at Montis Financial in Waltham, Mass., to Barron’s. “Earnings have been an absolute freight train driving this market higher.”

Polymarket now prices real odds of a September rate hike, and that puts millions of investors holding the most popular dividend ETF in a position their fund was never designed to handle. Fidelity quietly built something for exactly this moment.

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the other major stock indexes traded higher Tuesday, after it was reported the U.S. and Iran had reached "some sort of an arrangement" for a peace deal.

Anthropic’s $965 billion IPO path rests on the aggressive, multi-layered industrialization of compute. The company has transformed access from a variable cost into a structural moat by diversifying hardware and energy supply across three continents through seven distinct funding mechanisms — effectively decoupling its growth from the supply-chain bottlenecks that throttle competitors tethered to single-cloud […]

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Every hyperscaler on the planet just committed to a spending spree that funnels through one chokepoint, and the Aug. 26 earnings report will either validate the conviction or expose the cracks in it.