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I bought more Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) this morning, and I will probably buy more before the week ends. The stock is down 7.02% over the past week and 17.47% year to date, and every red candle has made me a more eager owner of a roughly $2.95 trillion business that is still growing like a mid-cap. ... Why I Can’t Stop Buying This Trillion-Dollar Juggernaut Even as June Volatility and the Fed Threaten to Shake Wall Street

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Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index slashed its gains after Trump's new threats on Iran. Oracle stock plunged on earnings.

(Bloomberg) -- When Applied Digital Corp. first tapped the junk-bond market in November to fund a data center project tied to CoreWeave Inc., it had to stomach a hefty yield to get the deal done. Fast forward to this week, and borrowing costs for another portion of the same project tumbled.Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulUS Strikes Iran in Trump Escalation Over Stalled Peace TalksTech Sto

Oracle shares fell in the Thursday premarket after the company reported mixed earnings results for its fiscal fourth quarter after the Wednesday bell. Oracle also said that its capital expenditures for the current fiscal year would be around $70 billion, plus another $20 billion to $25 billion paid directly by customers. In its just ended fiscal 2026 year, Oracle’s capex was $56 billion, up from $21 billion in fiscal 2025.

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Oracle on Wednesday forecast capital spending plans for fiscal 2027 above Wall Street estimates, as the cloud computing company said it will also raise more debt in 2027, reflecting the staggering scale of cash ‌burn needed to build out its AI infrastructure. Its shares fell 8.9% in extended trading, after Oracle said it expects to raise ‌nearly $40 billion through a combination of debt and equity financing in 2027. Oracle, which has major deals to build data centers for customers ​such as Meta Platforms and OpenAI, is working to position itself as a major rival to cloud leaders such as Amazon.com and Microsoft.

Microsoft is limiting employees' use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 because of the AI startup's ‌new data retention requirements, The Verge reported on Wednesday, ‌citing sources. Anthropic on Tuesday said it is rolling out Claude Fable 5, a ​public version of its Mythos AI model, with guardrails barring its use in risky areas such as cybersecurity. Claude Fable 5 is the most powerful model Anthropic has made available for wider use, with ‌the company citing its ⁠performance in software engineering and analytics.

Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI is expected to go public within the next year, although the timing co

Investing.com -- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates appeared before a House committee on Wednesday for closed-door questioning about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The most expensive habit a company can have is paying someone else for the thing it sells. For three years, Microsoft (MSFT) looked like the firm that had outsourced its way to the front of the artificial intelligence race. It poured more than $13 billion into OpenAI, wired ChatGPT's models into ...

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Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) is set to report its earnings on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Heading into the results, the stock has experienced notable pressure, dropping roughly 8% over the past five days as investors heavily scrutinize the company's ability to successfully monetize its generative AI tools.

LinkedIn is aiming to burnish its position as a go-to platform for business advertisers with a new team of marketing experts ‌that it expects to generate an annualized run rate of $100 million next fiscal year, ‌a source familiar with the matter said. The Microsoft-owned platform on Wednesday unveiled BrandWorks, the newly assembled team that aims ​to deliver higher-performing ad campaigns for customers ranging from software giant SAP to privately held website hosting platform Webflow. "We're developing services that are designed to meet the marketer where they are," said Alex Josephson, VP of BrandWorks, who previously built a similar offering called Twitter Next.

Morgan Stanley forecasts AI-related global debt issuance to more than double ‌to nearly $570 billion in 2026, pointing to ‌rising bond supply and credit market activity as hyperscalers turn ​to alternative funding sources to meet massive AI-driven capex needs. Here are some details: • Tech companies that have long relied on strong cash flows are ‌increasingly turning to ⁠debt financing as investment needs surge • Morgan Stanley estimates AI-related global debt issuance ⁠stood at nearly $236 billion as of May 31, 2026, fourfold more than the same period last ​year • Hyperscalers ​Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and ​Meta are expected to ‌spend $700 billion in outlays this year • Morgan Stanley ex...

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Oracle reports fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday afternoon as it continues to disrupt its own legacy software business with cloud software and services. Wall Street analysts are expecting the company to report $1.96 in adjusted earnings per share, up from $1.70 the year before. With sales of its mature business software stalled, in 2019 Oracle began running the Microsoft cloud-pivot playbook.

Meta Platforms will lease an AI-ready data centre to be built by billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, ‌the U.S. tech major said on Wednesday, deepening ties with the Indian ‌conglomerate. The deal comes at a time when India has seen a surge in hyperscale data centre ​builds led by U.S. cloud majors such as Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google, as New Delhi seeks to draw in investment in AI. In February, Reliance committed about $110 billion and Adani outlined $100 billion in investments to position India as an AI ‌hub.

The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:SMH) closed Friday at $599, capping a stretch in which SMH has returned roughly 146% over the past year and tacked on nearly 20% in May alone. SMH is up about 66% year to date, and the rally has been driven less by NVIDIA than most holders assume. Because the fund ... SMH ETF Investors: Watch Hyperscaler Capex Guidance at July Earnings Calls

Interest has accelerated as the tech industry touts the technology as a solution to the electricity demands of artificial intelligence.

Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5, its most powerful AI model yet.

OpenAI just took its most concrete step yet toward Wall Street, while going out of its way to say it has not actually decided to go public. The company confidentially filed S-1 IPO paperwork with the SEC and disclosed the move in a blog post. OpenAI was valued at roughly $850 billion after its $122 billion financing round ... Sam Altman’s OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO, Eyes $850+ Billion Valuation

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Oracle and OpenAI have a $300 billion deal for Oracle to build out AI data centers. Microsoft owns 27% of OpenAI, but the companies have renegotiated their cloud and licensing deals.

OpenAI announced it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering one week after competitor Anthropic announced it planned to go to market. The ChatGPT parent said in a blog post on Monday night that it has recently submitted a confidential S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission. “We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it,” the company said in the blog post.

IPOs have had juicy first-day gains this year, but it doesn’t take long for the pullback to start. And that is particularly true for mega IPOs.

OpenAI announced it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering one week after competitor Anthropic announced it planned to go to market. The ChatGPT parent said in a blog post on Monday night that it has recently submitted a confidential S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission. “We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it,” the company said in the blog post.