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In AI, money talks. The ability to tap stock market capital is important again, after a quarter of a century of being all but irrelevant.

June 2 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Tuesday after hitting a series of record highs, while blowout results from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a funding commitment from

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Tuesday with U.S.-Iran talks ongoing. AI name Marvell stock soared 19%.

At about $170.68 a share, Arista Networks (ANET) is trading near its 52-week high, fueled by a surge in demand for AI networking infrastructure. The world's largest tech companies, including hyperscalers such as Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta Platforms (META), are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build AI data centers. Arista's high-speed Ethernet switches and routers provide the networking fabric that enables massive clusters of AI GPUs to communicate efficiently at scale. The company rec

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The rapidly evolving landscape of Cloud AI has highlighted a significant challenge as the pace of AI technology advancements outstrips customers' ability to adopt them. According to Instruqt's 2026 State of Developer Adoption Report, conducted by SlashData, many software companies face operational hurdles, including team misalignment and maintaining content accuracy amid frequent product updates. This gap in adoption is being addressed through innovative hands-on labs, which have proven...

Zoom (ZM) is actively shedding its reputation as a single-use utility. Following a robust Q1 FY27 earnings beat and a speculative surge tied to Anthropic's IPO plans, shares have rallied to $112. As the stock trades at a notable premium, investors must determine if Zoom's AI-driven enterprise pivot truly justifies this momentum.

The gargantuan funding requirements of developing artificial intelligence has already set records for the funding rounds in private markets. Now the list of largest-ever equity issues on the stock market is set to be rewritten too. The largest component of Alphabet’s proposed $80 billion equity issue—$40 billion, to be sold into the market—will be roughly on par with the size of Saudi oil giant Aramco’s 2019 initial public offering, adjusted for inflation.

A private placement, public offering, and ATM program fund a capex plan of up to $190 billion.

Alphabet unveils public and private share offerings as it targets record capital expenditure for AI and cloud growth.

In 2002, Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, reflected on his company's valuation during the dot-com peak in an interview with BusinessWeek. Sun had traded at about 10x revenue. McNealy walked through what that price implied. To give investors a 10-year payback at 10x revenue, he would have to pay out 100% of revenues as dividends for a decade. That assumed zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company. It assumed zero expenses across 39,000 employees. It assumed no

Berkshire Hathaway is putting in $10 billion through a private placement, with the rest coming from underwritten offerings and an at-the-market program

Anthropic filed for an IPO and Alphabet is seeking to raise $80 billion, even as Middle East tensions weigh on sentiment

FEATURE The rebound in software stocks looked set to fizzle out as Wall Street pivoted back toward the chip and server makers that have helped power the market to all-time highs in recent months. Oracle fell 5%, ServiceNow dropped 5.

The benchmark US stock measures were tracking in the red before the opening bell Tuesday amid uncert

Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) shares climbed more than 6% in premarket trading on Tuesday after Alphabet announced plans to raise $80 billion in new equity capital to support a major expansion of its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The fundraising initiative reinforced investor confidence in companies positioned to benefit from the rapid growth of AI-related spending, including Broadcom, which maintains a deep strategic relationship with Google.

Three big U.S. tech companies control the vast majority of Canada's publicly-available cloud infrast

It is a golden rule of finance that what goes out must, at some point, come in. That’s why AI’s biggest spenders are starting to seek new ways...

Mega-cap tech stocks were sliding on Tuesday after Google owner Alphabet outlined a plan to issue $80 billion in stock to fund its AI spending spree. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven exchange-traded fund slid 0.

Two stories were moving markets on Tuesday—Google parent Alphabet unveiled a plan to issue $80 billion of equity, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Marvell Technology could top a $1 trillion valuation. Both events were giving Broadcom stock a boost. Alphabet’s plan to raise tens of billions of dollars to help pay for its AI infrastructure drew a mixed response from the market, but bodes well for Broadcom.

Shares in Alphabet are down premarket after the Google parent unveiled a giant equity issue plan that underscored the epic bill for the AI buildout. The stock is down 2.5% premarket, enough to wipe more than $100 billion off the company’s market value.

Google's parent company Alphabet is raising $80 billion (€68.7bn) through a series of share offerings, marking one of the largest equity fundraising efforts in corporate history as competition in AI development intensifies.View on euronews

The S&P 500's rebound looks a lot thinner once AI enablers are stripped out.

Investing.com -- Broadcom shares gained over 6% in premarket trading Tuesday after Alphabet unveiled plans to raise $80 billion in equity, a massive fundraise aimed at accelerating its AI infrastructure buildout.

↘️ Alphabet (GOOGL): The stock fell more than 2.5% premarket after the company said it plans to raise $80 billion to help finance AI infrastructure investments. Shares in Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), which agreed to buy $10 billion of stock, are little changed ahead of the bell.

June 2 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 futures edged lower on Tuesday after hitting a series of record highs, while blowout results from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a funding commitment

By Amanda Cooper LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) - Global stocks rallied on Tuesday, buoyed by fresh AI optimism after Anthropic moved towards a U.S. stock market listing, while oil prices and bond yields

U. S. stock index futures traded little changed on Tuesday as investors assessed conflicting signals surrounding negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

Retail sentiment for GOOGL remained ‘bearish’

Stocks looked set to slip on Tuesday after Google parent Alphabet said it would issue $80 billion in equity, giving investors another reason to fret about Big Tech companies’ artificial-intelligence spending plans. The search engine and cloud computing company said it would issue $80 billion of equity, including $10 billion of stock to Berkshire Hathaway at a discount as it funds its AI infrastructure buildout, reviving some worries about so-called hyperscalers’ planned spending sprees. The move “is a clear sign that the AI arms race is moving into a more capital-hungry phase,” said Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Matt Britzman, although he noted that the $80 billion figure was less than 2% of Alphabet's $4.6 trillion market capitalization.