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Renewed Middle East fighting and falling bond prices have weighed on stocks, but major indexes shrugged off those pressures on Wednesday after a rough start to the week. Brent crude futures have risen sharply in recent days, and didn’t move much on Wednesday despite the stock-market recovery. Brent hovered above $95 a barrel as Iran and the U.S. traded attacks again, leaving any resolution to the long-simmering conflict distant.

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Tech stocks were mixed late Wednesday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR

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The ride-hailing company Uber is cutting thousands of jobs to simplify its management structure, the chief executive said in a letter to employees Wednesday.

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Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) CEO Greg Abel outlined the conglomerate's multibillion-dollar investment in Alphabet, focusing on artificial intelligence as a key area of interest. Abel described how AI adoption is being assessed across Berkshire's portfolio companies, with Alphabet highlighted as a major player in the technology. The comments offer rare detail on Berkshire's thinking around one of its largest equity positions and how AI factors into its future capital allocation. For...

Wix.com Ltd. previously announced a collaboration with Google to embed its Wix Harmony website creation tools directly inside Gemini as a connected app, allowing users to build, manage, and analyze full-featured sites through natural-language interactions without leaving the Gemini interface. At the same time, multiple securities class action filings now question prior disclosures about the competitiveness and cost profile of Wix’s AI products, putting added scrutiny on how initiatives like...

NVIDIA and four tech giants offer quantum exposure through cloud, software and infrastructure, helping investors tap the boom beyond pure plays.

Google dodges a major antitrust blow after a judge rejects a forced AdX sale. Alphabet stock climbed on the news.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) has reshuffled its data-center leadership after engineering concerns and reliability problems emerged at facilities in Tennessee and Mississippi, The Information reported Tuesday. The shake-up comes as Elon Musk races to expand SpaceX’s AI infrastructure business...

Investing.com -- Waymo is close to securing its first debt financing, with Pacific Investment Management Co. and other lenders set to provide more than $3 billion to Alphabet Inc.'s autonomous driving unit, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

Sandisk has been crushing the S&P 500, and recent news from peer memory maker Samsung could extend its rally.

Alphabet shares rose nearly 1% Wednesday after a federal judge rejected the Justice Department’s request to dismantle the online advertising business at the company's Google unit. Read more on the decision ...

Elon Musk told G20 leaders that AI and robotics will add up to $30 trillion a year to the global economy, naming a specific deadline. The supply chain constraints binding even NVIDIA suggest the math only works if you ignore how long industrial revolutions actually take.

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Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) could become a weak link in the AI boom if OpenAI runs into trouble, according to Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Sebastian Mallaby. “If OpenAI runs into trouble, I think we can say that there’s a good...

Shares of Alphabet rose Wednesday after a federal judge rejected a Justice Department request that Google sell its online advertising business. Alphabet stock advanced 1% to $338.51 on Wednesday, while the and the both gained 0.5%. Judge Leonie Brinkema on Wednesday dismissed the Trump administration’s move to force Google to sell AdX, the company’s online exchange tool for publishers and advertisers.

The options market is pricing a sizable year-long swing for the software giant, and if you hold the shares, you are already exposed to the full ride.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Google to retool the system powering its monopoly in digital advertising, sparing the company from a wrenching breakup sought by the U.S. government. The initial two-page decision by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia marks the second time in a year that Google has received a reprieve from a Justice Department proposal to dismantle its internet empire. Meanwhile, what courts have described as the company's anti-competitive practices, have enriched Google's corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., which has a market value of $4.11 trillion.

Surging U.S. debt and AI borrowing are pushing up Treasury yields, spurring an unusual bond market move by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

A federal judge in Virginia declined to order Google to sell AdX, handing the DOJ its second straight loss in efforts to break up the tech giant

Google avoids a forced divestiture of its advertising exchange despite an earlier ruling that it illegally monopolized key ad-tech markets.

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Investing.com -- Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) shares plunged 7% on Wednesday. While the broader market context remains complex, the sharp sell-off appears directly tied to Google’s sudden entry into Palantir’s most lucrative territory: specialized government and defense AI. The decline accelerated shortly after Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence model built explicitly for cybersecurity, vulnerability detection, and automated patching. Cruc

Fervo's deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.

A federal judge rejected the Justice Department's bid to force Google to sell its AdX advertising exchange.

The ruling blocks a forced exchange sale, but behavioral remedies leave Google's illegal-monopoly finding intact.

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