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Microsoft lobbies Trump White House to block ban on Chinese optical transceivers used in AI data centers
Microsoft is pressing the Trump administration to abandon a planned ban on Chinese data center technology, specifically optical transceivers that move data across fiber-optic cables within…
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AI Data Centers Turn to Used Jet Engines and Turbines as Power Crunch Worsens
The race to power artificial intelligence data centers has grown so intense that developers are bypassing years-long queues for grid connections and new turbines by converting retired jet…
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Microsoft Drops Oracle AI Cloud Deal as $3 Trillion Rout Hammers Tech Stocks After Democrat Midterm Sweep
A convergence of political and corporate shocks sent the AI trade into a sharp global convulsion this week, erasing roughly $3 trillion from US stocks on Thursday alone. The catalyst that…
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100 Protesters Storm Microsoft's €1 Billion Amsterdam Data Center Site Over AI Expansion
Around 100 activists forced their way onto the construction site of a €1 billion Microsoft data center near Amsterdam on Friday, in a coordinated demonstration against the rapid growth of…
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Microsoft Rejects Multibillion-Dollar AI Partnership Deal With UK's Nscale
Microsoft has turned down a major multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence partnership deal with Nscale, the British AI infrastructure company, according to a Financial Times report. The…
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Democrats Sweep Congress, Oil Crashes 8% and AI Data Center Stocks Tumble as Iran War Costs Republicans Both Chambers
Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterm elections in what analysts called the largest Democratic midterm victory since the post-Watergate election, dealing a…
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Meta Seeks Up to 9 Billion Euros in Debut European Bond Sale to Fund AI Push
Meta Platforms launched its first-ever sale of euro-denominated bonds on November 4, seeking to raise as much as 9 billion euros from European investors. The offering follows a $15 billion…
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Google Plans $15 Billion Malaysia Investment in 2027 and 2028 to Expand Data Centers and Clean Energy
Google announced a $15 billion investment in Malaysia to be deployed across 2027 and 2028, its largest commitment to the country to date. The spending will expand the company's existing…
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CFTC Approves Perpetual Futures on Individual US Stocks for First Time
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved equity perpetual futures on individual US stocks on November 3, 2026, clearing the products to trade on dual-registered US exchanges for…
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Microsoft Posts Fastest Revenue Growth Since 2021 as Azure Surges 48% on AI Demand
Microsoft delivered a blowout fiscal first quarter, reporting revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year, its fastest growth rate since late 2021. Adjusted earnings per share came in…
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Microsoft Launches 10-Part US Dollar Investment-Grade Bond Offering
Microsoft launched a 10-part U.S. dollar high-grade bond offering on October 29, 2026, one of the larger multi-tranche debt deals seen from the technology sector. The offering was flagged…
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Alphabet Plunges 13% on Earnings Miss and Negative Free Cash Flow, Erasing Up to $500 Billion in Market Value
Alphabet reported third-quarter adjusted earnings of $2.12 per share on $63.4 billion in revenue, missing analyst estimates on both metrics. Advertising revenue came in below expectations…
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SanDisk Jumps 4% on SK Hynix Earnings Halo as AI Memory Demand Reignites
SanDisk shares rose roughly 4% on October 28, 2026, lifted by a powerful earnings report from South Korean memory rival SK Hynix, whose US-listed shares surged 8% in premarket trading to…
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Microsoft Surges on 48% Azure Growth While Alphabet Falls 7% After Search and Earnings Miss
Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $92.3 billion, beating the $90.7 billion consensus estimate, with adjusted EPS of $4.89 against a $4.73 estimate. Azure revenue grew 48%…
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Alphabet Sinks 9% as Search Ad Miss Overshadows Record Cloud Growth While Microsoft Surges on Azure Beat
Alphabet reported third-quarter revenue of $127.58 billion, missing the $127.93 billion analyst estimate, and sent shares down as much as 9% in after-hours trading as weakness in its core…
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Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft Head Into Q3 Earnings Under a $1 Trillion AI Spending Microscope
Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon are preparing to report third-quarter 2026 results against a backdrop of surging AI capital expenditures that collectively approach $1 trillion across the…
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Microsoft Offers Voluntary Buyouts to Around 60,000 Employees in Historic First
Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts to around 60,000 employees, according to an internal memo, marking the first program of its kind in the company's 51-year history. The…
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Fed Rate Hold Expected Wednesday as Big Tech Earnings and Inflation Data Set Up Market's Biggest Week of the Year
Markets are bracing for one of the most consequential weeks of 2026, with the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision on Wednesday, October 28 at the center of investor attention alongside…
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OpenAI Decisions API Now Generally Available at $0.10 Per Million Tokens with No Output Charges
OpenAI has made its Decisions API generally available, entering a fast-growing market for lightweight, high-speed AI decision models. The API is powered by GPT-6 Luna and delivers responses…
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Oppenheimer Upgrades Zoom to Outperform With $130 Target After AI Strategy Unveiled at Zoomtopia
Oppenheimer analyst Ittai Kidron upgraded Zoom Communications from Perform to Outperform on October 21, setting a price target of $130, which represents roughly 33% upside from Zoom's share…
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Anthropic S-1 Reveals $80.7 Billion Half-Year Loss and Up to $750 Billion in Planned Compute Spending
Anthropic's draft S-1 prospectus, viewed by the Wall Street Journal, lays bare the staggering financial scale of frontier AI development. The company posted an $80.7 billion net loss in the…
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Microsoft exits UK data center deal with Nscale amid power supply delays, clouding IPO prospects
Microsoft has pulled out of a data center deal with British neocloud startup Nscale at a site in Loughton, Essex, according to a report by the Telegraph, dealing a significant blow to the…
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S&P 500 Ends Flat as Chip Selloff Drags Nasdaq While Dow Gains on Q3 Earnings Optimism
U.S. stocks finished a mixed session on October 12, 2026, as a broad selloff in semiconductor shares weighed on technology stocks and pulled the Nasdaq 100 down 0.7%, while the S&P 500…
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Oracle Drops 6% as OpenAI Revenue Comes in $20 Billion Below Prior Reports While Trucked Gas Strategy Raises Data Center Cost Alarms
Oracle shares fell as much as 6.1 percent on Thursday, on track for their biggest one-day drop in 12 weeks, after a Financial Times report revealed OpenAI told investors its annualized…
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Trump Administration Suspends Adobe and Microsoft from PERM Green Card Program Over H-1B Fraud Allegations
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it is suspending Adobe, Microsoft, and six major IT outsourcing firms from the PERM program, the federal labor certification process that…
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Trump Administration Suspends Cognizant, Microsoft and Six Other Tech Firms from US Green Card Program Over H-1B Abuse Allegations
The Trump administration announced Thursday it is suspending eight major technology and outsourcing companies from the PERM program, the federal Labor Certification process that serves as…
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Securitize Launches 1:1-Backed Tokenized Shares of Apple, Nvidia and Tesla on Solana
Securitize has launched tokenized versions of 12 major U.S. stocks on the Solana blockchain, including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, and Strategy, with each token backed one-for-one by a…
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Google Cloud Launches Gemini Agent as a Universal AI Agent That Can Orchestrate Its Own Sub-Agents
Google Cloud announced Gemini Agent on October 8, 2026, positioning it as a universal agent for work that can dynamically assemble a roster of specialized sub-agents to handle enterprise…
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark Chip Starts at $2,599 and Ships October 16
Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra on October 7, powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chip and priced starting at $2,599. The device is now available for preorder and will begin shipping…
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Nvidia and AMD Hit Record Highs as Big Tech Plans $725 Billion in AI Capex for 2026
Nvidia and AMD shares both closed at record highs Friday as investors rushed to capture what Goldman Sachs describes as the next leg of the AI rally, with the bank projecting double-digit…
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Nvidia Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Stop Rogue AI Agents After Hugging Face Breach
Nvidia introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28, a double-layered, open-source software security system designed to monitor and shut down AI agents that break out of their…
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Microsoft Stock Closes at Highest Level of the Year After Copilot Enterprise Super-App Overhaul
Microsoft closed at its highest level of 2026 on Friday, with shares rising roughly 3% to $514.04, after the company unveiled its most significant Copilot overhaul yet, repositioning the…
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Large ETF Outflows and Unusual Options Activity Dominate September 25 Trading
Several notable capital flows shaped market activity on September 25, 2026, with significant ETF redemptions and concentrated options positioning drawing attention across equities and fixed…
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Trump Hosts Xi at White House State Dinner Attended by Musk, Bezos, Huang and Dozens of Top Executives
President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at a White House state dinner on September 24, drawing an extraordinary roster of American business leaders whose combined net…
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AI Safety Debate Splits Industry Leaders on Regulation, Consciousness and Control
A sharp divide over how to govern advanced artificial intelligence spilled into public view on September 17, with executives from Palantir, Nvidia, Microsoft and Anthropic staking out…
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AI Server Stocks Surge on Broad Hardware Rotation as Oracle Seen With 50% Upside on Record Cloud Backlog
A rotation that began earlier in the week in memory and chip names broadened into AI server makers on Thursday, sending Hewlett Packard Enterprise up 9%, Super Micro Computer up 6%, and…
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Anthropic Launches Claude for Financial Advisors With Schwab, BlackRock and Vanguard Integrations
Anthropic on Monday launched Claude for Financial Advisors, a suite of AI connectors and workflow skills designed to automate research, meeting preparation, documentation and portfolio…
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Microsoft Issues Code of Conduct Capping Future AI Model Development Amid Industry Push to Slow Frontier AI
Microsoft has issued a code of conduct that sets explicit limits on its future AI models, making it one of the first major technology companies to formally cap the scope of its frontier AI…
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Oracle Stock Jumps 7% After Q1 FY2027 Revenue Surges 30% on Triple-Digit Cloud Infrastructure Growth
Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter 2027 results that beat Wall Street estimates across the board, sending shares up roughly 7% in after-hours trading. Total revenue climbed approximately…
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Google Commits 13 Billion Euros to AI Infrastructure in Finland in Its Largest-Ever European Investment
Google announced on Wednesday that it will invest at least 13 billion euros ($15.1 billion) in AI infrastructure in Finland over the next two years, making it the single largest investment…
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Accenture and Google Cloud Launch 1000-Engineer Gemini Enterprise Business Group to Deploy AI On-Site
Accenture and Google Cloud on Tuesday launched the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint unit designed to embed up to 1,000 forward-deployed engineers directly inside…
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Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 With Major Cost Cuts as OpenAI Readies Powerful Astra Model With Critical Cyber Rating
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, calling them the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Fable 5.1 is built for complex…
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Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 With Major Cost Cuts as OpenAI Readies Powerful Astra Model With Critical Cyber Rating
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, calling them the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Fable 5.1 is built for complex…
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Nvidia Set to Report Q2 Results With Wall Street Expecting 100% Revenue Surge and a Record Quarter
Nvidia reports its fiscal second-quarter earnings after the US market close on Wednesday, August 26, with the entire market watching to see whether the AI chip giant can clear an already…
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US July Import and Export Prices Tumble Far Below Forecasts as Treasury Yields Hit Post-2025 High
A cluster of US economic data released August 18 painted a mixed picture of slowing price pressures and modest output growth. Import prices fell 0.4% month-over-month in July, sharply…
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AI Infrastructure Stocks Rally as CoreWeave, Nebius, and Super Micro Beat Estimates While Bubble Warnings Mount
A broad rally swept through AI-linked equities on August 13 after a cluster of strong earnings reports reinforced confidence in infrastructure spending. AI cloud providers CoreWeave and…
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Chevron Stock Jumps 3.3% After Free Cash Flow Update and AI Power Deal as Big Oil Profits Draw Political Fire
Chevron shares rose 3.3% on Monday after the company late Friday issued an updated free cash flow outlook for the year, signaling stronger-than-expected performance, and separately…