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(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. launched products this week allowing investors to quickly cut — or ramp up — exposure to tech industry debt, as concerns mount over hyperscalers’ huge future bond sales for artificial intelligence investments.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandAlphabet Falls a

The "Magnificent Seven" group of stocks suffered its steepest one-day decline since the tariff-driven market sell-off in April 2025.

CEO Andy Jassy has pledged that Amazon will be a "meaningful leader" in AI.

(Bloomberg) -- The Magnificent Seven group of megacap technology stocks is on track for its biggest one-day drop since the tariff tantrum in April 2025 as results from Alphabet Inc. and Tesla Inc. are casting doubt on the durability of the artificial intelligence trade that has powered the stock market for more than three years.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of

$888.2 billion That's how much the Mag Seven tech stocks have collectively lost in market value today, as of midday trading. It's the biggest one-day market cap decline for those names since the tariff turmoil of April 2025.

Investing.com -- Alphabet burned $5.9 billion in free cash flow in the second quarter of 2026—its first cash burn on record. Tesla burned another $1.1 billion. Together, the two reports have crystallized a fear that has been building all year: Big Tech's AI infrastructure build-out is consuming capital faster than it can generate returns.

Databricks said on Thursday it would expand its partnership with Microsoft through the ‌2030s, a deal under which it will increase ‌its use of the Azure platform and Microsoft's custom chips. Databricks offers a ​platform that helps users ingest, analyze and build AI applications using complex data from various sources. One of the most valuable private companies, the San Francisco-based firm's move marks a ‌sizeable win for ⁠Microsoft's Azure cloud business and comes as enterprise AI adoption accelerates.

Oppenheimer Backs Microsoft Stock Ahead of Earnings Despite AI Capex Overhang

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.

While stocks shrug off oil shocks and global tariff turmoil, businesses are transforming to prepare for a more volatile world.

I have covered each of the following four stocks separately over the past few weeks:Micron's historic earnings. Intel's painful turnaround. AMD's server CPU advantage heading into August 4. Applied Materials' wafer equipment supercycle. On July 21, Jim Cramer put them all in the same basket with a ...

Earnings dominated the narrative in the U.S. markets on Wednesday, with Alphabet, Tesla, and IBM reporting Q2 results.

Alphabet topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly cloud revenue growth on Wednesday, as the Google parent benefited from strong demand for its cloud computing services from ‌enterprises worldwide thanks to the AI boom. Revenue at Google Cloud rose 82% to $24.8 billion ‌during the quarter ended June, accelerating from the 63% jump reported in the preceding three months. The third-largest cloud services provider behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, Google has seen demand surge as companies race to secure the cloud capacity needed to develop, train and run AI models, helping it land ‌major deals with firms, including Anthropic.

3M beat second-quarter estimates and raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance following its AI infrastructure partnership with Microsoft.

Alphabet shareholders await results from the first of the Magnificent Seven stocks.

Infleqtion received three Department of Energy research projects and led gains among the companies tied to the initiative.

Advanced Micro Devices and Cerebras Systems on Wednesday separately announced partnerships related to their AI chips. AMD stock and Cerebras stock rose on the news as semiconductor stocks overall advanced.

Today, July 22, 2026, WTI crude oil jumped above $86 per barrel on Middle East tensions, sparking inflation fears.

Investing.com -- OpenAI is planning a massive data center complex in Effingham County, Georgia, near Savannah, according to The Wall Street Journal. The project underscores the extreme capital and energy demands required to power the next generation of AI. Core Project Details Power & Cost: OpenAI secured 3.2 gigawatts (GW) from Georgia Power—enough for ~2.4 million homes. It committed $20 billion locally to secure incentives, with total costs expected to exceed $30 billion at full capacity. Tim

Investors are asking whether cloud and AI revenue can keep pace with a sharp rise in capital spending.

Will the divergence in semis vs. Mag 7 end?

Google stock faces Q2 earnings test as investors watch cloud growth, AI progress, advertising trends, capital spending and Gemini updates.

(Bloomberg) -- Investors who spent weeks watching US stocks go nowhere are pinning their hopes for a breakout on a key pillar of the four-year bull run: corporate earnings. Most Read from BloombergTrump’s 100% Generic Drug Duty Threatens US Low-Cost SupplyApple to Launch ‘Upgrade’ Device Leasing Program With Klarna to Spur SalesTrump Extends Pardons to Companies, Echoing a 17th Century KingSpaceX Set to Unlock $116 Billion in Shares After IPO Restrictions LiftTreasury Flags Concern Over ‘Potenti

July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Wednesday, pressured by weakness in chip stocks, as investors remained cautious ahead of the first batch of Big Tech earnings that could decide

If Big Tech scales back its spending, it would have a cascading impact on semiconductor stocks as well as the global tech trade.

Alphabet will report second quarter earnings after the stock market closes Wednesday. Analysts expect capex for the quarter to be $45.1 billion, a 101% increase from a year earlier.

South Korea's Samsung is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of euros in the AI ‌start-up Mistral, as part of a fundraising round that ‌could value the group at roughly €20 billion ($22.81 billion), Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing ​sources. Samsung could invest about €1 billion in the new round, the report said, adding that Swedish investor EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund is in talks to back the fundraising round. In April, Samsung said it would ‌considerinvestment and acquisitions where ⁠necessary to accelerate development and commercialisation in robotics, while combining partnering local companies for technology development.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock jumped more than 7% Tuesday, July 21, as investors cheered the chipmaker's latest AI infrastructure push and looked ahead to its key AI event. On Monday, July 20, AMD introduced Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, which is expected to begin shipping later this ...

Today, July 21, 2026, memory-chip leaders rallied, leading stocks higher even as investors weighed geopolitical and tariff risks.

Earnings are the most important thing, and expectations are high. But interest rates are rising, and energy tensions aren't easing.