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Three numbers on Meta's income statement keep pulling my money back before the July 29 earnings call, and one of them proves something no other hyperscaler has managed to pull off yet.
Meta Platforms is in talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential deal worth as much as $10 billion over two years, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the discussions. Such a deal would help Meta diversify beyond its core advertising business by generating new revenue from its infrastructure investments and directly pitting it against CoreWeave and Nebius, as growing adoption of advanced tools drive up the need for computing capacity. Anthropic had proposed the deal in June and Meta is considering it, the report said.
Analysts say Netflix is losing control of its own story, and a single line buried in Friday's earnings report about future disclosures is making Wall Street more nervous than the guidance miss itself.
(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. was upgraded to buy at HSBC Holdings Plc on Friday, in the latest reflection of how Wall Street is increasingly positive on the iPhone maker’s position in a market where many trades related to artificial intelligence have been faltering.Most Read from BloombergGoogle Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal GoalsThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthNasdaq Futures Tumble
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) has been hit with a federal lawsuit filed by employees over AI-assisted layoffs. The suit alleges that Meta's use of AI in personnel decisions discriminated against protected groups, including workers with disabilities and pregnant employees. Plaintiffs are seeking to halt further layoffs and are calling for an independent audit of Meta's AI systems used in workforce management. Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other...
(Bloomberg) -- The bonds sold by hyperscalers to fuel their artificial intelligence ambitions have become a drag on investor portfolios from London to Tokyo.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsGoogle Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal GoalsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthNasdaq Futures Tumble 1.5% as Chip Rout Deepens: Markets WrapUS Cyclospora Outbreak Tied to Taco Bell Lettuce From MexicoFrom fa
Dave Brown, one of the most senior executives at Amazon Web Services, will bring his nearly two decades of experience to the social-media giant.
(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
(Bloomberg) -- On a video conference call from Hangzhou earlier this year, one of China’s hottest startups held a four-hour pitch meeting with potential venture investors that was unusual by almost any measure. Only two representatives per institution were allowed. The majority of those present were getting a glimpse of the company’s leader for the very first time.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Cat
Investing.com -- Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) shares fell 2.3% Thursday afternoon following a Bloomberg report that the company’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model.
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthCIA Says AI Drones Give Russian Troops Only 30 Minutes to LiveOpenAI’s Fir
Recordings sent over Meta’s messaging app are supercharging falsehoods, leading to attacks on Ebola treatment centers and assaults of health workers and volunteers.
(Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp.’s ambitions to dominate the artificial intelligence buildout are running into a key hurdle: funding a spending spree without further damaging its credit standing.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI CompanionCIA Says AI Drones Give Russian Troops Only 30 Minutes to LiveOnePlus, Once Popula
Nvidia-backed AI infrastructure startup Fireworks said on Thursday it raised $1.51 billion at a $17.5 billion valuation to expand its engineering team and global compute capacity. The Series D funding round was led by investment firms Atreides Management, Index Ventures and TCV. Participants included existing investors like Nvidia and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
The Nasdaq composite is down more than 1% this morning. Here are the stocks on the index that are getting hit hard: 💾 Chips, memory makers: Sandisk, Micron, AMD, SK Hynix's ADRs, Intel, Western Digital, Seagate, Arm, Broadcom, Nvidia and Marvell are all deep in the red.
Wall Street analysts are reshuffling their bets on Thursday, sending some of the market's biggest names in opposite directions as geopolitical tensions and inflation crosscurrents cloud the outlook. Find out which stocks got upgraded, downgraded, or newly covered today.
U.S. stocks remain deep in the throes of a major rotation heading into the teeth of the second-quarter earnings season, and the traditional August lull that follows, as investors take money from highflying tech sector and spread that cash across a host of old-economy bets. What’s happening alongside that “great rotation,” however, is also interesting, and likely keeping stocks afloat amid the broader tech declines.
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.
<body><p>STORY: From SK Hynix shares yo-yoing to Apple suing OpenAI...</p><p>This is AI Weekly.</p><p>:: AI Weekly</p><p>SK Hynix shares went on a wild ride after its U.S. listing last week.</p><p>Shares plunged 15% in trading on Monday, marking the South Korean chip giant's biggest one-day fall on record.</p><p>But the firm's stock bounced back almost 13% later in the week.</p><p>It followed gains made in U.S. tech stocks after softer-than-expected U.S. inflation data and upbeat analyst forecasts for AI memory demand.</p><p>Meta plans to produce AI chips this September.</p><p>That's according to a memo seen by Reuters.</p><p>The move would help Meta gain more independence from chip suppliers like Nvidia.</p><p>Apple sued OpenAI and two former employees.</p><p>The U.S. tech giant alleged misappropriation of its trade secrets to benefit the ChatGPT-maker's move into consumer hardware.</p><p>It accused OpenAI of orchestrating an effort to acquire and exploit Apple's confidential information through former employees, recruiting practices and supplier relations.</p><p>OpenAI said in a statement they "have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets."</p><p>IBM shares plunged by a quarter in one day.</p><p>Investors sold off after the U.S. tech company signaled the AI infrastructure boom has drawn spending away from the software sector.</p><p>IBM said it expected revenue to rise just 1% in the second quarter, falling short of Wall Street hopes.</p><p>The announcement added to worries over a software industry already rocked by the rise of AI tools.</p><p>And TSMC raised it forecast for capital spending by up to 14% for this year.</p><p>It comes after the chipmaker and major Nvidia supplier posted a 77% jump in second-quarter profit of $22 billion.</p><p>That was well ahead of market forecasts and the firm's ninth straight quarter of double-digit percentage growth.</p><p>Looking ahead, capital expenditure for this year is forecast to now be between $60 billion and $64 billion.</p></body>
Robinhood executives Stephanie Guild and Steve Quirk join Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to break down the unprecedented wave of upcoming AI and SpaceX IPOs, the risks of the "Magnificent Seven" market concentration, and why a looming $150 oil shock could test the stock market this summer.
Step onto Meta Platforms’ Menlo Park campus, and you might feel as though you’ve entered a virtual reality (VR) game. The expansive, 250-acre campus looks more like a utopian town than a corporate hub: one that’s filled with uniquely designed spaces, Instagrammable green spaces, and dozens of ...
(Bloomberg) -- In the span of just two weeks, Meta Platforms Inc. has gone from a market afterthought to one of its hottest stocks, as investors finally like what Facebook’s parent is saying about its artificial intelligence plans.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsTrump Drops 20% Fee for Hormuz Cargo After Gulf PressureUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Buil
Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim strongly denied by the trillion dollar company.According to the lawsuit, filed in Oakland, California on Monday Meta used AI systems to "score, rank, and select employees" to be laid off rather than "the considered judgement of managers who knew the work" while disproportionately targeting those on medical or family leave.
A lawsuit alleged the company relied on AI that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who were on medical or parental leave.
There’s no sugarcoating it; getting laid off is awful. But if you've been following the news, it feels like tech workers are being laid off left and right. Here’s what one Reddit user, who was recently laid off from an account executive role at a tech company, had to say on the r/Layoffs subreddit: ...
Chinese large language model (LLM) developer DeepSeek is reportedly preparing for an IPO later this year or in 2027. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley outlines what we know so far.
TYLSemi, a startup founded by executives from recent Qualcomm acquisition AlphaWave, on Tuesday said it has raised $43 million in early funding to help companies build their own AI chips. The market for such AI chips is booming, with major companies such as Meta Platforms working with Broadcom and others to develop custom semiconductors. Broadcom and its rival Marvell Technology both have proprietary technology for making chips talk to each other at high speed, and the only way to access that technology is to work with them to develop a custom chip.
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