The AI rotation stole the spotlight from a strong start to earnings season

The AI trade dominated the market once again this week, upstaging an impressive start to the second-quarter earnings season. Cooler-than-expected June reports on consumer and producer prices offered encouraging signs that inflation continued to ease, while earnings from the nation’s largest banks reinforced the strength of capital markets. At the same time, investors kept one…

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Microsoft CEO says Anthropic Fable request policy ‘doesn’t make sense’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday that Anthropic’s limits on requests that users submit to the startup’s high-end Fable artificial intelligence model don’t make sense. The comments come as executives express interest in cost-efficient models that don’t come from the most well funded labs can handle software development and other tasks inside companies. On…

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