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The $10 million purchase turns airline data into training material.

The deal, which covers about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, still requires a federal judge's approval

SpaceX doesn’t waste any time developing rockets, launching satellites, or making big moves to build its AI business. The purchased company is essentially an AI software development tool. A user can tell Cursor to develop, say, a touch screen-based user interface.

The Chinese internet titan’s second-quarter net profit and revenue came in below analysts’ expectations.

Longer-maturity bonds are at the epicenter of investor angst about everything from inflation to the debt-laden artificial-intelligence boom — and governments are paying the price.

SpaceX(SPCX) stock is back trading near $140, up nearly 5% over the past week, as investors find new reasons to bet on Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk’s newest public-market heavyweight. Also, the latest 13F filings are only adding to the fuel. AI behemoth Nvidia(NVDA) disclosed 122.76 million ...

Alphabet Inc. started marketing its debut Australian debt offering as the US tech giant targets its latest multi-billion dollar fundraising, with AI spending skyrocketing.

Meta Platforms Inc. is headed to court Tuesday for a high-stakes showdown with a coalition of state attorneys general over claims that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users.

Mexico is exploring ways to regulate the use of social media by children and adolescents, as countries such as Australia and Brazil have done, with government-led discussions on the harmful effects of platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

Alphabet's SpaceX Gamble Pays Off Big as Stake Hits $94B After IPO

Amazon and Alphabet are benefiting from their massive investments in AI and space companies, but those investments come with greater exposure to private-market valuations and liquidity constraints.

SpaceX shares are getting a lift after some of tech’s top names identified themselves as big investors in Elon Musk's rocket-and-AI company. Among them: artificial-intelligence chipmaker Nvidia, which said in a Friday filing it owned close to 123 million SpaceX shares.

Alphabet is looking to raise about A$5 billion ($3.6 billion) in what would be its debut bond offering in Australia, people familiar with the matter said, as US tech firms binge on debt to fuel AI spending. Bloomberg Tech's Ed Ludlow joins to discuss this as well as the latest from Anthropic.

Nvidia stock is in a base headed into earnings next week. Shares are above an early buy point of 224.76.

Alphabet is looking to raise about $3.6 billion in what would be its debut bond offering in Australia, according to people familiar with the matter. Initial price guidance on the deal may be provided as early as Tuesday, with the notes potentially pricing the following day. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more.

Groq has raised $350 million in funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, roughly half what it was worth nearly a year ago before Nvidia Corp. struck a licensing deal with the startup and hired away much of its talent.The financing, set to be announced Monday, was led by Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive. Nvidia is also set to invest in the round, according to a representative for Groq. Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment. Founded in 2016, Groq was among the companies developing the

Booming cloud demand is creating a costly financial tradeoff.

Just be sure to look more than a year down the road.

Plus, we examine why Big Tech’s AI spending is $3 trillion higher than it seems, and how Burger King overtook Wendy’s.

An age-old economics tenet posits that excessive government borrowing can leave little room for companies to tap financial markets and drive up their interest rates to punishing levels. It’s called the “crowding out” theory.

Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to a Bloomberg report published August 16, 2026. The acquisition, which follows initial reports of talks by the Wall Street Journal in July, marks a significant consolidation in the artificial intelligence infrastructure market. While a Stripe spokesperson told TechCrunch that the […]

Massive spending commitments for data-center leases and chips aren’t shown on companies’ balance sheets.

Wall Street loves a good redemption arc, but it rarely hands one out for free. The market makes companies wait, publicly and sometimes painfully, before admitting they belong. Few companies know that waiting game better than Reddit (RDDT). For two decades, the platform was the internet’s message ...

The foldable smartphone used to resemble an expensive technical experiment. Now they’re starting to appear more like something Apple can sell. That change is significant since Apple (AAPL) has spent years ignoring a category that competitors, including Samsung, Google, Motorola, Huawei, and others, ...

Alphabet recently raised its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure budget for the year.

Wall Street sees booming cloud growth as a sign that AI spending is giving a return on investment.

Enthusiasm for Big Tech and its huge investments in artificial intelligence is powering the stock market to record highs again. With a resilient economy and scorching demand, there’s seemingly only one obstacle that can derail this ride: higher interest rates.

Some of the artificial intelligence boom’s biggest beneficiaries can cash in whether open models proliferate or not.

Investing.com -- The rise of lower-cost open-weight AI models could pressure pricing and returns for model developers, but hyperscalers should continue generating attractive returns from the computing infrastructure needed to run them, Morgan Stanley analysts said.

Berkshire Hathaway is increasing the size of its stake in Google's parent company and beefing up its holdings in homebuilders, according to the conglomerate's latest snapshot of its investment portfolio. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company also continued to pare its stake in financial companies and a number of other stocks in the April-June quarter, according to a regulatory filing filed late Friday. CEO Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year, agreed in June to make a $10 billion stock investment in Alphabet, expanding on the stake that Berkshire started to build last fall.