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According to a Bloomberg report, no final decision has been made on the size of the offering.

Alphabet launched a 10-part bond offering after raising its 2026 capital spending forecast to fund AI infrastructure and other corporate needs.

Wellington Management fixed income portfolio manager Brij Khurana weighs in on what the bond market (^TYX, ^TNX, ^FVX) could be signaling about SpaceX's (SPCX) debt sales plans, especially as shares of Elon Musk's space venture continue to slide lower.

Nextech3D.AI (CSE:NTAR, OTCQX:NEXCF, FRA:1SS) CEO Evan Gappelberg tells Proactive's Stephen Gunnion the company has reported $874,000 in new customer contract value and 160 new customer contracts, with software gross margins of 92%. He describes these as proof points of a new phase of growth for the AI-powered event technology business. Gappelberg says average contract value is up 77% and that the company is increasingly signing three-year deals rather than one-year deals, providing greater revenue visibility. Enterprise customers including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Deloitte, and BNP Paribas are among those buying from the company's three platforms: Eventdex, MapD, and KraftyLabs. On KraftyLabs, Gappelberg says it is the most underappreciated platform Nextech currently owns, and that the company is building it into an AI-first corporate culture platform with an AI avatar layer set to launch in the coming weeks. Gappelberg also reveals that Nextech is imminently close to signing what he calls the biggest deal in the company's history, describing it as a multimillion-dollar contract he expects to close in August. He says this deal, combined with 92% gross margins, will significantly accelerate the path to profitability and cash flow. Read Proactive's Editorial Policy here: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/pages/editorialPolicy #Nextech3Dai #NexTech #AItechnology #eventstech #SaaS #softwaremargins #enterprisesoftware #smallcap #growthinvesting #techinvesting

Its correlation to the index leaves real room for its own story, and its up-day and down-day readings show what that story costs in swings.

Bronte Capital, an investment management company, released its “Amalthea Fund” second-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The Fund posted a 6.49% net return in June, bringing the quarterly returns to 5.12%, compared to 3.17% and 14.48% for the globally diverse MSCI ACWI in ($A), respectively. The outperformance in June […]

Microsoft announced its fourth cloud region in India and its largest data center deployment in the country.

Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley chats with Morning Brief host Julie Hyman about Google's (GOOG, GOOGL) recently announced AI leadership changes.

Alphabet is aiming to raise up to $25 billion in a bond sale Thursday in what is expected to be its last dollar-denominated offering of the year, according to investors familiar with the matter. The Google parent has already issued more than $50 billion of bonds globally this year, part of a historic borrowing binge by tech companies funding the AI buildout.

(Corrects to remove detailed Microsoft information as story published July 31 included Q3 data.)

Optical networking startup Lumilens said on Thursday it was valued at $5.51 billion in its latest funding round, ‌as surging investment in AI data centers fuels demand for ‌high-speed connectivity technologies. The San Jose, California-based company designs and manufactures optical and networking products ​that help data centers move data faster while using less power. It raised more than $700 million in the Series C funding round co-led by Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures and Spark Capital, bringing its ‌total funding to more than $900 ⁠million.

Reddit sits at the intersection of AI training data, social commerce, and authentic human conversation, making it one of the most strategically valuable assets on the internet right now. But super-voting insiders hold the real power, and the list of buyers capable of clearing that bar is shorter than you might expect.

Suno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.

Netflix shares dropped sharply after its Q2 earnings, but three popular ETFs that all hold the stock reacted in surprisingly different ways. The structure of each fund tells you far more about your real risk than the name on the label.

Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is hitting the U.S. corporate debt market with a massive 10-part benchmark bond sale, capitalizing on its pristine credit ratings to lock in capital as the tech giant rapidly scales its infrastructure. Expected to price today, Alphabet is seeking to raise as much as $25 billion from the offering, according to Bloomberg News. The sprawling transaction spans maturities from two to 40 years and features a mix of fixed and floating-rate notes. Funding the AI Arms Race W

Alphabet is looking to raise as much as $25 billion from its ‌latest U.S. bond offering, Bloomberg News reported ‌on Thursday citing people familiar with the matter, weeks ​after the tech giant's 2026 capital spending outlook triggered a selloff. Alphabet ⁠did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Alphabet late ‌in July raised its ​annual capital expenditure forecast for ​the second time ​this year, fanning fears over the ‌pace of returns on ​its AI investments, ​especially as concerns mount over delays to its flagship AI model.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has returned to the U.

Michigan's data center buildout is reshaping the math for one overlooked regulated utility, and most defensive-sector investors haven't caught on yet. Here is where we see DTE Energy heading before the year ends.

Jeff Dean spent 27 years helping build Google's search infrastructure and the neural networks behind the modern AI era, then walked out the door with three colleagues to launch a startup. Now investors are asking whether Google can still hold the talent it needs to stay in the race.

Every quarter, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet publicly announce they cannot buy fast enough from one company, and that paper trail shapes every investment decision I make heading into a critical August earnings date.

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The ARK Invest founder wasn’t deterred by a certain stock’s bumpy lift-off over the last few weeks.

Alphabet is in the spotlight as investors look to these catalysts for future growth.

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It’s been 23 weeks since the U.S. began strikes on Iran, and we’re still in the midst of what feels like the hundredth attempt at peace talks. President Donald Trump said this week that a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was close, but warned that strikes could resume if talks fall apart. This week I’m diving into El Niño, and how the sheer strength of this year’s weather event means that its effects will extend well beyond agriculture profit margins—it will hurt global central banks’ efforts to curb inflation.

Blue-chip stocks looked set to extend their record-breaking rally on Thursday, as investors continued to rotate away from tech amid concerns about overspending on AI. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 168 points, or 0.3%. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.3%.

Aug 6 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Dow futures were steady on Thursday after this week's record-breaking rally as investors awaited details on a Middle East peace deal, while Nasdaq futures slipped as

<body><p>STORY: "A $15 billion investment that promised 188,000 jobs. That's the pitch behind Google's planned data center in India. But for environmentalists, it's a threat to wildlife and water supply."</p><p>:: Munsif Vengattil, Reuters India Technology Correspondent</p><p>:: Bengaluru, India / August 6, 2026</p><p>:: Google’s $15 billion India data center project battles water, wildlife concerns</p><p>:: Visakhapatnam, India / August 3, 2026</p><p>"This dispute, it centers on where this is being built. The site in the port city of Visakhapatnam, also known as Vizag, it sits near forests, reservoirs, and wildlife sanctuary buffers on in a city that is already facing water shortages. Activists, they say clearances were fast-tracked without assessing the impact on the city's water supply or on local wildlife.&nbsp;</p><p>"The city has already seen at least five street marches, also some round table discussions around the concerns of this project. There have been at least four cases, including in the state's top court, as well as the environmental tribunal in India, all asking for the project work to be halted because of the environmental concerns."</p><p>"Google has given us a very detailed statement for the story saying the project will be complying with all applicable laws on water. They say they will use air cooling technology in the data center facility, which will significantly reduce the water usage."</p><p>"On the wildlife concerns, Google says in their words, they're going to be a silent neighbor because they're gonna use sound dampening fans as well as landscape buffers."</p><p>"The state of Andhra Pradesh has responded to Reuters in a statement. They have said that the concerns of activists are incorrect and misleading, but said that they are open to feedback. They have added that the protesters have every right to protest. And it is open to corrections if it finds that there is any legitimacy to the claims."</p></body>

Alphabet said DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will step down from his role and become chief scientist of Alphabet and chair of DeepMind.