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Big tech reining in its AI spending may be a tantalizing prospect for some. Second-quarter reports coming later this month will likely show another period of blowout AI investments. Wall Street analysts estimate that combined capital spending by Google, Microsoft Amazon com and Meta Platforms surged 74% year over year to hit $168 billion in the June-ending quarter, according to consensus estimates from Visible Alpha.

By Tife Owolabi LAGOS, July 7 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has directed the country’s competition regulator to investigate major technology companies over alleged anti-competitive

Magnetic fusion start-up Proxima Fusion has raised €411 million ($469.69 million) from investors ‌including Alphabet's Google and German utility RWE ‌as part of a financing round, the Munich-based start-up ​said on Tuesday. • "Proxima's financing demonstrates that Europe can not only invent breakthrough technologies, but also build globally competitive companies around them," Francesco Sciortino, Proxima ‌Fusion's chief executive, ⁠said in a statement • The round was led by XTX Ventures and East ⁠X Ventures, with RWE and Google as strategic investors, the company said • It added that ​the financing ​round brings Proxima Fusion's ​valuation to €2.4 billion ($2.7 ‌billion) • German utility com...

Hans Ibarra, a founder building an AI-voice startup, has found himself on the receiving end of a big opportunity: Top artificial-intelligence companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and others desperate to win his business are ramping up discounts. Across Silicon Valley, startup founders like Ibarra are enjoying a wave of computing credits and fielding competing offers from AI-model makers racing to land new enterprise customers. The offers from growing AI-sales armies at companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic are so rich that some early-stage startup founders say they won’t need to raise money as soon as they expected, and others have been able to play AI companies off one another.

On a recent episode of Barron’s Streetwise, host Jack Hough answered a listener named William who was nervous about how much money he had made in AI-adjacent names like Dell (NYSE:DELL) and HPE (NYSE:HPE). Hough’s answer had a number in it that should probably make everyone else nervous too. “You can look at the S&P 500 right now ... The S&P 500 Looks Pricey at 22x Earnings. On Cash Flow, It’s a Terrifying 32x.

Broadcom (AVGO) will develop custom microchips for Apple's (AAPL) products under an expanded partner

Morgan Stanley said the recent weakness in U.S. semiconductor stocks is a sign that the market ‌gains are broadening, with investors likely to turn toward ‌AI "hyperscalers" as well as consumer discretionary, transport and biotechnology shares. In a note dated ​Monday, the brokerage said hyperscalers — an industry term for tech companies that are spending big on data centers — could benefit from a rotation away from semiconductor stocks as the AI cycle shifts. Although the ‌likes of Alphabet ⁠and Amazon have committed billions to scale up their AI infrastructure, skyrocketing the share prices of semiconductor ⁠companies, clear evidence that AI products can generate returns that justify the spending is yet to be seen.

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The recent Big Tech correction is a healthy reset, not a market crash. Big Tech capex remains the S&P 500's core engine. With falling gas prices driving down headline CPI and an impending dovish Fed pivot, current market levels offer an ideal entry point for a new historic rally.

On June 12, Amazon engineers handed a report to the U.S. Commerce Department. Within hours, two of Anthropic's newest AI models went offline for every user on the planet. Nineteen days later, Anthropic got them back. The return of Claude Fable 5 to global availability on July 1 is the result of two ...

Anthropic has opened early talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI chip, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Claude developer has never built its own silicon before. It has relied entirely on chips rented from Amazon, Google, and Nvidia, and that dependence is now colliding ...

Tesla said on Friday its robotaxi was available in Miami, ‌as the electric vehicle maker looks ‌to expand its autonomous ride-hailing operations. The expansion highlights ​Tesla's efforts to increase adoption of its self-driving software, a version of which it uses in the robotaxis and a key ‌part of CEO ⁠Elon Musk's shift from EVs to AI and robotics. Tesla's move comes ​as the ​robotaxi sector gains ​momentum, with competitors ‌such as Alphabet's Waymo and Amazon's Zoox accelerating their expansion efforts.

The judgment concludes a legal dispute that began after the European Commission fined Google in 2018 for abusing market dominance.

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As Alphabet is gearing up to report its fiscal Q2 earnings report soon, analysts predict its EPS to rise by double digits.

The next major space company might not be building rockets It may not be launching satellites into space, flying tourists to the edge of the atmosphere, or competing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the next big thing in orbit. Instead, it might accomplish something a little less glamorous: helping ...

Wall Street does not punish companies for spending money. It punishes them for spending money without a story. Give investors a believable path from this year's bills to next year's profits and they will forgive almost any number on the capital expenditure line. Take that story away, and every ...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares traded about 1% lower on Thursday after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) upheld a €4.1 billion ($4.67 billion) antitrust fine against Google over its Android mobile operating system. The ruling marks the end of Google's legal challenge against the European...

EU court backs regulators in long-running case.

Ed Elson and tech reporter Alex Heath spent a recent segment of Prof G Markets arguing about the same set of facts and reaching almost opposite conclusions. Elson thinks OpenAI is a company drifting sideways while leaks about an IPO pile up. Heath thinks the leaks are the story, and most of them are being ... Is OpenAI’s IPO a Hot Mess or Just Media Noise? Two Reporters Can’t Agree

Europe's top court upheld findings that Google abused Android's market dominance.

On this episode of Stock Movers: - SoftBank (SFTBY) shares are responding to news that it is starting a new U.S. venture to rent out the computing power needed to build and run artificial-intelligence models, aiming to capitalize on strong American demand for AI computing resources. - Shares of Alphabet/Google (GOOG) are responding to the company losing its long-running fight against a 4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android's market power.

OpenAI already has a lineup of impressive investors ahead of its eagerly awaited initial public offering. OpenAI has talked about offering a 5% ownership stake to the U.S. government, potentially via a sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the talks. There would be a couple of potential benefits for OpenAI if the Trump administration were among its investors.

The U.S. innovation engine, from the Model T to SpaceX and AI, continues to be a rocket for America's economy. But China is a growing rival.

Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo on Thursday said it had completed the cloud migration of its ‌core IT systems, joining a handful of European banks that have ‌managed to move away from legacy technology. Replacing existing core IT infrastructure, known as ​mainframes, with cloud technology poses a major challenge to traditional banks. Legacy systems, often comprising multiple software stacks accumulated over time due to mergers, put high-street banks at a disadvantage versus cloud-native, challenger banks.

July 2 (Reuters) - European regulators have launched a series of antitrust, privacy and online safety investigations into major technology companies in recent years.

Judges at the European Union's top court dismissed an appeal by Google over a landmark, 4.1 billion euro ($4.5 billion) antitrust fine imposed for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The case has been tangled up in courts since the European Commission announced the fine in 2018. “The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General Court is dismissed, thereby confirming the penalty imposed for Google Search’s abuse of a dominant position in the context of the Android operating system,” the Luxembourg-based judges wrote in their ruling.