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.
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Autodesk's Q1 beat highlights its planned MaintainX acquisition, pushing deeper into operations while tying AI to engineering-grade validation.
Microsoft will hold its annual software developer conference on Tuesday, where the company is expected to showcase new tools for developers building AI software for PCs and the cloud. In a keynote address in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to outline how the technology company plans to compete both in the cloud, where it is both an investor and a rival to firms such as OpenAI, and increasingly on PCs. But OpenClaw, which has gained popularity in China and helped Microsoft's longtime rival Apple sell Mac computers, and other such tools are also risky for most businesses to use.
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.
Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas said on Tuesday that it would be difficult to block the export to China of CPUs that are useful for AI because of their widespread use and as it would be difficult to block only AI CPUs. "CPUs are kind of like oil relative to the application space," Haas said in an interview with Reuters. Banning artificial intelligence CPUs would be nearly impossible because of the challenge of establishing specific performance thresholds and memory bandwidth limits as is possible with the graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia, Haas said.
STMicroelectronics is likely to decide on a further expansion of its Crolles chipmaking site in France by the end of 2026, as demand for silicon photonics used in AI data centres accelerates, its chief executive said on Tuesday. CEO Jean-Marc Chery, speaking at a conference in Geneva, Switzerland hosted by BNP Paribas, said the expected shift towards so-called near-package optics, where optical engines sit closer to processors, would require a capacity decision. (Reporting by Nathan Vifflin in Gdansk, editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak)
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The world’s only $5 trillion company can sell the concept that AI computing won’t be confined to data centers.
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Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC Taipei stage on June 1 and described a humanoid robot by its weight and height before anything else. Six feet. 150 pounds. "Just like me," he said. The robot standing behind him was built by a Chinese startup. And that detail is more significant than it first ...
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Jensen Huang says Marvell Technology could be the next chip firm to join the trillion-dollar club, predicting a surge in demand for AI hardware fueled by the emergence of autonomous models.
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Broadcom is set to be the final semiconductor giant to report earnings for the quarter, as a historic rally in chipmaker stocks shows little signs of abating. Investors will also watch Friday’s jobs report—one of the first major economic indicators that will inform the Federal Reserve under its new chairman, Kevin Warsh.
June 2 (Reuters) - European shares opened higher on Tuesday as strong forecasts from chipmaker STMicroelectronics lifted technology stocks, while investors awaited a key inflation report later in the
Yardeni expects strong retail demand for the AI-3 IPOs, noting that brokers have already begun inviting clients to participate in the SpaceX offering.
The chairman of South Korea's SK Group said on Tuesday its memory chip unit SK Hynix aims to double wafer capacity over the next five years. Chey Tae-won was speaking at the Computex conference in Taipei, where executives from some of the world's top technology companies, including Nvidia, are gathering. He added that he hopes his company can be a major high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supplier for Nvidia's Vera Rubin system.
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Broadcom's custom chips and AI networking are winning market share in data centers.
STMicroelectronics raised the revenue target for its data centre business on Tuesday, citing continued strong demand tied to AI infrastructure and progress in expanding capacity. The Franco-Italian chipmaker now expects data centre revenue of about $1 billion in 2026, compared with its previous forecast for revenue "nicely above" $500 million. "Assuming the current dynamic continues and with the current engagements we have, revenues could double in 2027," STMicro said in a statement.
Enterprise AI software company C3.ai (NYSE:AI) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Amazon.com will host its annual Prime Day sales event from June 23 to June 26 after launching the event in July for the past five years, citing major holidays and sporting events as factors in its decision. Prime Day is one of Amazon's biggest sales events of the year, and helped drive $24.1 billion in U.S. online spending in 2025 when it extended the event to four days from two, according to data from Adobe Analytics. The e-commerce company considers U.S. and global events, religious holidays and bank holidays when choosing the dates for Prime Day each year.
SpaceX may be impressive, but investors should also weigh the downside risk.
Cybersecurity platform provider CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what to look for.