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European stock markets closed mostly lower in Thursday trading, with the Stoxx 600 fractionally lowe

Meta is pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers while its stock sits well below its recent highs and insiders quietly sell shares every week. The gap between that spending ambition and what shareholders actually earn back is the tension every META investor needs to understand right now.

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.

Meta and Microsoft both crushed earnings on the same day, yet the executives at one company immediately started selling shares at a frantic pace while the other held steady. What the insiders know about what comes next in August may change how you see both stocks.

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.

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.

Meta, Pinterest, and Reddit look like bargains given their growth.

Magellan Investment Partners, an Australian investment management company, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter for “Magellan Global Opportunities Fund”. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The Fund invests in companies with sustainable competitive advantages that generate returns exceeding their cost of capital over time. In Q2, the global stock market rose 13.8%, […]

Every bearish headline about AI spending sends most investors to the sidelines, but one piece of software infrastructure keeps pulling me back to the buy button with growing conviction about where a decade of AI capital is actually flowing.

Investing.com -- Alphabet's Google will be required to open key Android features and share certain search-related data with OpenAI and other artificial intelligence rivals under new European Union rules aimed at curbing the company's market dominance, EU regulators said on Thursday.

Meta just crushed earnings by nearly 57% yet the stock sits flat on the year, and a specific date in fall 2026 is when our model says the dam finally breaks.

The Wall Street firm stated that companies with the strongest technology, products, and distribution are best positioned to benefit.

The social media giant is pouring record sums into an artificial intelligence future, forcing investors to decide if they are buying a proven profit machine or funding an unproven science project.

Midstream operator Williams Cos. an energy middleman whose pipelines act as toll roads, handles roughly one-third of all the natural gas in the U.S. every day, connecting it from where it’s produced to where it’s used. It’s one of the latest beneficiaries of artificial intelligence, as the company helps to provide some of the juice that increasingly electricity-hungry data centers require. “Williams has articulated an expectation for potentially 10% earnings growth through the end of the decade and even beyond; eight to 10 years is sort of the time frame,” says Ben Cook, portfolio manager of the Hennessy Midstream fund, which owns the shares.

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.

Neko Health is planning to open its first US site in New York, with further US sites to follows, this year.

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.

The best practices of risk aversion and diversification have changed in this era of tech hype.

Chinese rival to Micron could shake up the chip market, U.S. will put 25% tariff on some Brazilian goods, United Airlines raises full-year guidance, and more news to start your day.

<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>

Investing.com -- Citi is projecting a staggering $801 billion in combined 2027 capital expenditure across Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Amazon, warning that the scale of AI infrastructure spending will push all three hyperscalers into negative free cash flow territory in both 2027 and 2028.

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.

Sodexo stock has delivered a 26.6% total return over the past 5 years, yet its current pricing sits in a grey area, with the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) intrinsic value estimate pointing to a premium while market multiples suggest more room on the upside. That split, combined with a mixed overall value score, raises a clear question about how much of the recent news flow is already reflected in the share price. Over 5 years, Sodexo has returned 26.6%, which points to a moderate payoff for...

Demand for hyperscaler company bonds has waned this year.

The backlog is enormous. So are the losses and the capital bills behind it.

Burry has previously said that Nvidia’s $117 billion in inventory and supplier commitments leave it exposed to an AI spending slowdown.

The data is mixed as to whether there is an AI bubble.

Meta's newest recruits could lose their jobs once data center construction is finished. Nobody knows if they'll get hired anywhere else

Meta and Alphabet may be competing in another field soon.