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Broadcom shares sank in pre-market following the chipmaker's quarterly results.

Broadcom shares edged higher ahead of the company's earnings on Wednesday.

The new agent is part of the company’s effort to broaden beyond its core consumer business as it spends aggressively on artificial intelligence.

By Katie Paul LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, positioning the social media

Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, positioning the social media giant as a player ‌in the enterprise AI market. Announced at the company's WhatsApp-focused Conversations conference in London, the new product ‌expands on existing business messaging services by enabling "agentic" capabilities in which the assistant can take actions like booking calendar appointments and closing ​sales on behalf of businesses. The company said more than 1 million businesses were already using earlier chatbot versions of such agents on WhatsApp and Messenger.

By Karen Brettell June 3 (Reuters) - The artificial-intelligence boom already has fueled a record stock-market surge. Now it's driving up long-term Treasury yields too.

Private infrastructure and real estate capital are expected to play a larger role in financing the ‌AI-driven data-center boom, as companies move beyond traditional forms ‌of funding, Goldman Sachs said in a note on Tuesday. Goldman increased its ​combined capex forecast for the four largest hyperscalers - Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet - to $5.3 trillion between fiscal years 2025 and 2030. Prior to the start of first-quarter earnings, the Wall Street brokerage forecast ‌capex at $4.5 trillion for ⁠the same period.

Europe's second-highest court on Wednesday backed Meta Platforms' fight ‌against the labelling of its Marketplace ‌platform as a gatekeeper under EU rules but ​rejected its challenge against the same designation for its messaging app Messenger. "The decision does not satisfy the requirements in terms of ‌reasoning as regards ⁠Marketplace, in that it allows neither Meta to understand the reasons ⁠for its classification as a core platform service that is an online intermediation service ​nor the ​Courts of the ​European Union to ‌exercise their power of review," the General Court said. Meta took its grievance to the Luxembourg-based tribunal after the European Commission said both services were important gateways for businesses ‌to reach users under ​the Digital Markets Act ​because they met ​the quantitative criteria.

Analysts expect Broadcom’s revenue to grow at the highest pace in nine years, powered by custom chip deals with Meta and Google.

Three years after brokering one of the most consequential emergency acquisitions in banking history, UBS is still working through what that deal cost in human terms. The latest bill arrived on May 29. Hundreds of employees across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa found out their jobs were gone. ...

Broadcom stock has already had a meteoric run ahead of Q2 earnings on June 3, but options traders believe AVGO shares will push higher after the quarterly print.

Meta is dialing back elements of its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions ‌for use as AI training data, it said in an ‌internal memo on Tuesday, following weeks of angry pushback from staffers. New controls will allow ​employees to pause the data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time and request exemptions from the initiative, according to the memo, authored by Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's AI model-building Superintelligence Labs ‌unit. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment.

Broadcom Faces High-Stakes Earnings Test. Oppenheimer Says AI Could Deliver Another Beat

The artificial intelligence boom has survived just about everything investors have thrown at it. Concerns over China, export restrictions, sky-high valuations, and even recession fears have failed to derail a rally that has added trillions of dollars in market value to companies like Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO), and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META). Yet there ... Only One Man Can Kill the AI Boom: Fed Chair Kevin Warsh

The biggest story surrounding the IPO landscape is, of course, none other than SpaceX. But CoreWeave's debut last year shouldn't be forgotten either.

Morning Brief host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley and Investopedia Editor-in-Chief Caleb Silver to discuss the key question investors should be asking about upcoming IPOs from companies like SpaceX (SPAX.PVT), Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), and whether retail investors are ready to buy into the hype.

The S&P 500's rebound looks a lot thinner once AI enablers are stripped out.

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Broadcom's quarterly results and earnings calls are worth following for AI growth stock investors.

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The biggest IPO in history could force investors to make room for SpaceX just as the stock market rally faces new pressure.

BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) - China issued sweeping new rules on Monday, widening regulators' powers to scrutinise overseas deals involving Chinese investors, technology, data and national security, a

China issued sweeping new rules on Monday tightening control of overseas deals that involve Chinese investors, technology, data and national security, a month after Beijing ordered Meta to ‌unwind its acquisition of AI startup Manus. The rules, published by the State Council, or cabinet, will take effect ‌from July 1. One of the most significant articles requires authorisation for exports of restricted Chinese goods, technologies, services or related data.

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Wall Street used to get the growth story early. Now it often only gets the receipt.

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Every technology that mints a new fortune tends to make an enemy somewhere else. The railroads did it. The factory floor did it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is doing it now, and the backlash is showing up in places Wall Street doesn't usually watch. For two years, the only AI story most investors ...

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Meta Platforms plans to start testing an AI pendant in the next ‌year, as it charts a roadmap for ‌wearable devices in an effort to reverse losses in its ​hardware division, The Information reported on Friday, citing a memo. • Meta declined to comment to Reuters on the report. • The Facebook and Instagram owner plans ‌to significantly expand ⁠its selection of AI glasses and add a business-focused service called "Wearables for Work" ⁠the report said, citing an internal memo by Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of wearables.