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GOOGL heads into Q2 earnings with AI-fueled momentum in Search, Cloud and YouTube, even as heavy infrastructure spending pressures near-term margins.

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(Bloomberg) -- President Xi Jinping hailed China’s progress in developing low-cost artificial intelligence, pressing his personal imprint on the country’s rapidly expanding global influence to call for a more open technological order.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthGoogle Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal GoalsCIA Says AI Drones Give Russian Troops Only 30 Minu

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MEDIA & MARKETING Photo: George Downs/WSJ Struggling to keep up in the console market, Microsoft’s Xbox bet on a subscription service called Game Pass. The company spent more than $80 billion to acquire game studios—and bring major franchises like “Call of Duty” and “Fallout” onto the platform.

Microsoft has not been an easy stock to own in 2026. It's down more than 20% year to date and nearly 23% over the past year, a run that's frustrated a lot of investors who expected the company's AI push to show up in the share price by now. The spending has been enormous, Azure has kept growing, ...

The social media giant is pouring record sums into an artificial intelligence future, forcing investors to decide if they are buying a proven profit machine or funding an unproven science project.

Exposure to the artificial-intelligence boom has become virtually impossible for investors to avoid. The theme hasn’t just cornered the stock market. It has systematically swallowed up corporate credit and venture capital, too.

Despite rising debt levels, Oracle’s large backlog, lower valuation compared to peers, and a sector-wide increase amid lower inflation have boosted investor sentiment.

(Updates with market moves at the end of the day.) US equities rose Wednesday, driving major inde

The cybersecurity leader's double-digit jump wasn't about a new product or a big contract, but something much bigger.

Citi and Mizuho just cut their Microsoft price targets before fiscal Q4 earnings, yet both firms kept their bullish ratings intact. The reason behind that split signal could reshape how investors think about the AI spending wave ahead of July 29.

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The hyperscalers are under pressure to show results from their AI spending.

Just one day after glowing reviews, a surprise revenue warning sent the stock into a tailspin and brought lawyers to the door.

U.S. stock futures were largely higher in early European trade, as positive market sentiment following lower-than-expected inflation data buoyed risk assets.

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It turns out that Palantir (PLTR) CEO Alex Karp’s thunderous warning about the AI industry wasn’t a one-off rant. Over the past couple of years, the word "AI" has become like a broken record, heard at least once almost every day, often followed by a wave of anxiety. What has happened amid all the ...

Meta stock is back in rally mode, for now.

OpenAI is in an IPO pickle. A year ago, the idea of an OpenAI listing would have had Wall Street salivating, with relatively few reservations about its large financial losses or questions about its leadership. After surviving an attempted ouster two years prior, chief Sam Altman had carved OpenAI into his nascent industry’s undisputed king and hitched himself closely to the much wealthier Microsoft to bankroll growth.

IBM stock collapsed 25% after the company preannounced its Q2 earnings results.

IBM stock collapses 25% after the company preannounced its Q2 earnings results.

IBM stock collapses 25% after the company preannounced its Q2 earnings results.

Portugal is keen to attract data centres that generate economic benefits and boost productivity and not ‌become a dumping ground for power-hungry projects with limited returns ‌for the country, Infrastructure Minister Miguel Pinto Luz said on Tuesday. • The country is ​emerging as a key European data-centre hub, with more than 2.6 gigawatts under development, led by the 1.2-GW Start Campus project in Sines, backed by Microsoft AI infrastructure investments, with the pipeline expected to grow substantially. • ‌As opposition to data ⁠centres grows in parts of the world, particularly in the United States, the minister said Portugal will only ⁠support such investments if they deliver measurable productivity gains and real benefits for the economy.

MARKETS AM NEWSLETTER Oil prices surged Monday, erasing a month of declines, amid renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran. But investors’ attention will likely drift Tuesday, at least temporarily, to a flood of bank earnings and the latest reading of U.

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After a terrible first half, MSFT stock shows fresh signs of life, and traders expect upside before its July 29 earnings report.

Analysts expect Alphabet’s second-quarter capital expenditures to reach $44.9 billion, a 100% increase from the prior year period.