The US-UK technology deal announced in September 2025 promises to accelerate Britain’s AI sector, but critics warn it will happen at the expense of national tech sovereignty. It reflects the steady trend of US government and private interests extending a technologically driven form of hegemony, employing communications, data and AI systems to deepen dependence on…
(Reuters) –Microsoft (MSFT) has struck a $9.7 billion deal with data-center operator IREN that includes access to Nvidia‘s (NVDA) advanced chips, aiming to ease the computing crunch that has kept the tech giant from fully cashing in on the artificial intelligence boom. The news sent shares of IREN (IREN) up more than 20% in trading…
AI is still the stock market’s favorite trade, but it might be wise to hedge against any potential reversal in the event the music stops. With Nvidia touching a $5 trillion market cap and Apple and Microsoft both crossing $4 trillion this week, some investors may be feeling a bit jittery about how much further…
Sure, maybe AI enthusiasm is creating a stock market bubble. But if the Federal Reserve is set to continue slashing rates, one might be tempted to ask: so what? In other words, even with valuations elevated, the old maxim of “don’t fight the Fed” may prove to be prudent advice in the near term. When…
Amazon (AMZN) reported its third quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, beating on the top and bottom lines as its cloud business grew faster than expected. The results come just a day after rivals Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG, GOOGL) announced their own results, with both companies saying they’ll spend more on AI data…
(Reuters) –Microsoft said late on Wednesday it had resolved an outage of its Azure cloud platform that had impacted the tech giant’s suite of productivity software, and a range of industries worldwide. “While error rates and latency are back to pre-incident levels, a small number of customers may still be seeing issues, and we are…
While Microsoft didn’t offer a specific forecast for its AI capital expenditures for the next quarter or coming year, the company’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, said that the company’s total spend will “increase sequentially, and we now expect the fiscal year 2026 growth rate to be higher than fiscal year 2025.” Tech companies are…
US stock futures edged lower Wednesday night as Wall Street digested a wave of Big Tech earnings alongside the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate move, while waiting for President Trump’s long-awaited summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) fell about or 0.2%, while S&P 500 futures (ES=F) slipped 0.1%. Nasdaq…
(Reuters) -Shares in three of the “Magnificent Seven” companies with significant investments in artificial intelligence were mixed in after-hours trade on Wednesday after the mega caps released third quarter earnings. Shares in Google-parent Alphabet rose 6.2% after the company beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as both its core advertising business and…
(Bloomberg) — In late 2024, OpenAI, still recovering from the aftershock of the brief, messy ousting of Sam Altman, initiated what it hoped would be a relatively straightforward process of converting to a more traditional for-profit business that would be more appealing to investors. Then came the pushback. Most Read from Bloomberg Elon Musk, an…