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Alphabet Class A (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares are down 6% in Thursday morning trading, with GOOGL stock at $321.65 and GOOG stock at $320.76. The slide follows Alphabet’s Q2 2026 report, released after Wednesday’s close. The drop caps a rough week for Alphabet (GOOGL) stock after a 79% one-year run. The broader tape ... Alphabet Drops 6% on Soaring AI Capex Despite 82% Cloud Surge; Meta Platforms, Snap Follow

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Goldman Sachs Trust holds 724 positions worth $2.4 billion, and its mega-cap tech bets are sitting on analyst price targets that tower above where those stocks trade today. The question is whether retail investors are reading the same signal Wall Street is.

HRL, jointly owned by Boeing and GM, makes electron spin qubits — a different approach from the superconducting circuits IBM currently uses

By Ragini Mathur and Avinash P July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes were on track to open lower on Thursday as concerns over heavy AI spending resurfaced after the first batch of Big Tech earnings,

Alphabet just posted its first quarterly negative free cash flow as a public company, and that was somehow not the most alarming number in its earnings report. The real story is what the company has committed to spending next.

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The European Commission fined Google the equivalent of about $1 billion Thursday for manipulating its search results to hurt competitors and blocking app developers from directing customers to cheaper deals outside its Play store.

Alphabet's stock price was the best-performing "Magnificent Seven" stock this year. Then earnings hit.

The Google parent’s results have provided fuel for a rally in chip stocks, but Nvidia has been left behind.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped 300 points Thursday as Alphabet and Tesla stock dived on earnings. Oil prices jumped.

Alphabet's first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending strains one of the world's most profitable companies, and the pain is only expected to increase. The Google ‌parent burned $5.9 billion in the second quarter, even as the cloud unit that rents out AI computing power notched a record 82% growth. With Alphabet ‌now expected to spend $15 billion more in 2026 and predicting another increase next year, the outlays behind the cash burn will only rise.

US equity futures were lower pre-bell Thursday as the traders considered the possibility of the Midd

Boosted by big AI demand and partnership with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google, Datadog is tracking the scent of a breakout.

Wall Street futures pointed moderately lower pre-bell Thursday on refreshed concerns that the AI-rel

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IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co and General Motors, the ‌company said on Thursday, adding a second pillar to IBM's quantum computing efforts. IBM has been racing ‌against Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and others to create practical quantum machines that can crack problems that would take conventional computers thousands ​of years to solve. In May, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it would award $1 billion to IBM to set up a new company called Anderon in New Albany, New York, to serve as a chip factory for U.S. quantum computing firms.

The European Union on Thursday hit Google with a fine of 890 million euros ($1 billion) after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers towards its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors. It was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world's largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing. Google had recently lost its appeal of a $4.5 billion antitrust fine imposed for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system.

↘️ Tesla (TSLA): Elon Musk’s EV maker reported negative free cash flow of more than $1 billion in the second quarter amid heavy spending on AI and robotics. Shares fell about 5% premarket. ↘️ Alphabet (GOOGL): Shares slid more than 3% premarket after the tech company announced plans to significantly boost its capital expenditure.

Companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI are moving deeper into financial services and while unlikely to become banks themselves, their models could increasingly shape how banks operate, make decisions and serve customers, writes Dimitar Dimitrov

Google Cloud delivered one of the rarest combinations in big tech — faster growth and wider profitability at the same time.

Investors mostly kept their focus on AI spending growth and Big Tech earnings as surging oil prices exerted pressure on markets.

Investors mostly kept their focus on AI spending growth and Big Tech earnings as surging oil prices exerted pressure on markets.

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment is weak, declining to ‘extremely bearish’ on SPY and ‘bearish’ on QQQ.

GOOGL’s move underscores the rising bar for AI and cloud companies even as investors scrutinize spending and returns.

U.S. stock futures fell in early European trade as the global oil benchmark topped $98 a barrel after another night of escalating tensions in the Gulf.

July 23 (Reuters) - European shares edged lower on Thursday, weighed down by technology stocks following quarterly results from U.S. giant Alphabet, while markets assessed the Middle East conflict

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares fell almost 3% after hours, wiping almost $125 billion from its valuation, despite second-quarter results that beat Wall Street forecasts on both revenue and earnings. The Google parent reported revenue of $119.8 billion and earnings per share of $9.11,...

Investors were positioning their trades ahead of Intel’s second-quarter earnings report, due after the market closes on Thursday.