One down, three to go. Alphabet kicked off Big Tech earnings this week — telling Wall Street it plans to spend even more than previously expected on artificial intelligence. Now, the question is whether fellow Club names Amazon , Meta Platforms, and Microsoft will follow suit when they report next week. “Capex trends are going…
Alphabet has squashed concerns that artificial intelligence will destroy its Google tech empire. One of its biggest weapons in the fight: homegrown silicon chips. Google’s in-house tensor processing units (TPUs) serve as the engine to the company’s Gemini chatbot, which has bolstered its image in the past year against rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. They also…
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, helps ring The Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 30, 2025. NYSE The “SaaSpocalypse” may not be over. But for now at least, fears of software’s demise have cooled. Software stocks soared this week, driven by strong results from Snowflake and Okta, signaling that some companies…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq powered higher on Thursday, with both indexes touching all-time highs during the session. Helping fuel the gains, Axios reported…
Software stocks popped on Thursday after Snowflake said it plans to spend $6 billion on compute from Amazon and topped earnings estimates on artificial intelligence momentum. Shares of the software maker surged 35% and headed for its best day ever. The company is expanding its use of Amazon’s in-house chips for AI. Along with the…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft had all the pieces to win in vibe coding, thanks to the near ubiquity of GitHub, which the company bought for $7.5 billion in 2018. But repeated…
An Android character is displayed in front of a building on the Google headquarters campus on July 23, 2025 in Mountain View, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Alphabet‘s stock is up 140% over the past year, with a cloud business that is growing faster than Amazon’s and Microsoft’s. But 18 months ago, the Google…
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet briefly passed Nvidia by market cap in after-hours trading this week, a remarkable feat for a company that was seen as deeply at…
Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, speaks during the 29th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on May 4, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Nvidia stepped on the gas last year, putting cash into companies up and down the AI infrastructure stack and helping…
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaks at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images All three top cloud infrastructure providers surpassed analyst estimates in earnings reports late Wednesday, but Google was the standout, generating its fastest growth rate on record. Google is chasing Amazon…
