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News (NASDAQ:NWS) reported record fourth-quarter profitability for fiscal 2026, with revenue rising 11% year over year to $2.3 billion and total segment EBITDA increasing 31% to $423 million. Net income from continuing operations climbed 167% to $230 million, while reported earnings per share rose t
(Bloomberg) -- Stocks in Asia were poised to ease Thursday as investors digested gains in technology shares while watching for fresh signs of progress toward a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Most Read from BloombergIran Says Agreement on Hormuz Shipping Reached With OmanSpaceX’s AI Splurge Puts a Damper on First Earnings After IPOTrump Says Iran Talks Going Well as Hopes Rise for Hormuz DealChina’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model MakersTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasit
Sandisk shattered Wall Street estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter as relentless hyperscaler demand for AI data storage triggered severe capacity bottlenecks and surging memory chip prices.
Meta Platforms on Wednesday launched Muse Code, a coding tool powered by its latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.2, designed to help developers write and debug software. Muse Code can write code and verify results, and has been trained to handle long, complex coding projects while also running multiple sub-agents simultaneously to speed up difficult tasks, the company said. Meta also said it trained Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code together to operate smoothly as a pair.
The company, pressed by investors to generate revenue from AI, says its offering will cost less than popular alternatives.
(Bloomberg) -- A key Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a package of bills aimed at improving children’s safety online, teeing up a showdown with the House over whether to hold Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harms done to minors on their social media platforms. Most Read from BloombergSpaceX’s AI Splurge Puts a Damper on First Earnings After IPOTrump Says Iran Talks Going Well as Hopes Rise for Hormuz DealChina’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model Mak
Advanced Micro Devices has had a stellar year so far. AMD shares were down around 5% on Wednesday following its earnings the previous day. The big question hangs over AMD’s ability to take market share from Nvidia’s graphics-processing units.
Host Kenny Polcari joins Man Group Chief Market Strategist Kristina Hooper and Legato Financial CIO Ryan Kelly to debate the risks of massive AI CapEx spending and how a hawkish Federal Reserve could impact markets ahead of the midterms.
(Bloomberg) -- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a 54.2% increase in monthly sales, signaling sustained demand in global AI infrastructure buildout by customers such as Nvidia Corp.Most Read from BloombergTrump Says Iran Talks Going Well as Hopes Rise for Hormuz DealTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasite Weeks Before RecallBeer Dynasty Families Sell €731 Million Stake in AB InBevChina’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model MakersSpaceX’s AI Splurge Puts a Damper on Debut Earni
The new framework, completed in recent days, is seen as most likely to affect OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
On the latest episode of the AI Investor Podcast, 24/7 Wall St. Analyst Austin Smith opens with a puzzle: two companies are being treated in opposite ways for the same underlying behavior. Microsoft is up roughly 16% after Azure growth accelerated from 38% to 43%, with guidance pointing to 45–46%, vindicating a capex program the market had criticized. Meta, meanwhile, is down about 10% at roughly 20x earnings despite 28% top-line growth — and is being punished for the same infrastructure spending, even after Zuckerberg argued that Meta rents out compute at a markup over its cost. Co-host Eric Bleeker's answer is that both moves are likely overreactions, and that the real variable is what each company said versus what Wall Street wanted to hear. Microsoft delivered on message: Azure at a $124 billion run rate, 90% of cloud demand coming from outside the frontier labs, and no capex increase. He frames Microsoft's position as a prisoner's dilemma, since compute routed to Azure is compute unavailable for its own AI products, and argues Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella relented under pressure from prior quarters. He compares the market's discomfort with capex growth to Apple's mid-decade smartphone choppiness versus Google's steadier trajectory. Meta hit every wrong note: an EPS miss on one-time costs, decelerating guidance, Zuckerberg walking back the cloud-capacity revenue opportunity, and incremental compute directed toward Meta Superintelligence rather than the core ad business. Eric estimates the justified moves were only a few percent in either direction, with the rest attributable to PR and positioning. He credits Microsoft's software exposure as valuable diversification, but concludes the share-price gap doesn't reflect any real difference in business trajectory.
Arista Networks stock soared Tuesday after the network infrastructure company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings. The results provided further evidence that demand for artificial-intelligence services is accelerating, with hardware suppliers like Arista among the main beneficiaries. Arista reported adjusted earnings of $1.02 a share for the second quarter, up from 73 cents last year and above analysts’ call for 89 cents, per FactSet.
Short sellers piled into Microsoft and Amazon at historically stretched levels before earnings, and the beats that followed set off a covering scramble that has powered both stocks for weeks. Now the question is whether the rally has legs or whether the easiest gains are already gone.
Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mostly for data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence boom. The commitments show that a substantial part of Big Tech's AI spending spree has already been locked in, without yet appearing as debt-like lease liabilities on company balance sheets. The total is nearly four times the roughly $285 billion of lease liabilities already recognised on the companies' balance sheets, according to company filings compiled by Reuters.
Analyst upgrades are piling up ahead of earnings
(Bloomberg) -- Anthropic PBC has struck a $10 billion deal for computing capacity from a months-old infrastructure startup, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the Claude maker’s latest effort to keep pace with demand for its products. Most Read from BloombergBeer Dynasty Families Sell €731 Million Stake in AB InBevTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasite Weeks Before RecallApple’s New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive for Management TeamMamdani Dismisses Business Leaders Advi
The Meta founder is looking to have his cake and eat it too by acquiring short-term revenue from compute, while playing the long game.
(Bloomberg) -- Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a new artificial intelligence cloud company, has raised $300 million in venture funding and secured an additional $5 billion worth of financing to help a wider mix of technology companies gain access to costly AI chips. The funding, set to be announced Tuesday, values Volta at $2.4 billion, and was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter Capital. Nvidia Corp. and Michael Dell also participated. Azora, the asset-management firm providing the financing
(Bloomberg) -- The breakdown of Uber Technologies Inc.’s robotaxi partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo is looming large over the ride-hailing giant’s quarterly results, as investors grow anxious about the stock that has lagged the broader market this year. Most Read from BloombergBeer Dynasty Families Sell €731 Million Stake in AB InBevApple’s New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive for Management TeamTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasite Weeks Before RecallMamdani Dismisses Business Leaders
For investors who expect continued weakness or sideways trading in Meta Platforms, a bear call spread in Meta Platforms stock offers a way to express that view with defined risk. Last week's Magnificent Seven companies' earnings produced some clear winners and losers.
Big Tech stocks are soaring after the companies reported earnings last week, namely Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN). Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley takes a closer look.
Here's a look at the Magnificent Seven tech stocks, which are on quite a roll. The megacap stocks have added about $800 billion in market cap today alone, adding to about $1.1 trillion over the past two trading sessions, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Amazon's accelerating cloud growth helped investors reconsider Meta's higher capital-expenditure plan and potential AI returns.
Blowout cloud earnings and a sudden geopolitical thaw sent the biggest AI names surging Monday, but the question investors are scrambling to answer is whether the rally signals a lasting regime change or just a relief bounce before the next round of capex anxiety.
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