Oracle Corp. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle‘s shares jumped in premarket trading on Friday after it reported 30% revenue growth in its fiscal first quarter, fueled by strong demand for its cloud…
Piper Sandler renewed coverage of Jim Cramer’s least favorite portfolio tech name with a buy. We’re talking about custom chipmaker Broadcom , which analysts at Piper called the “ASIC compute king” in a new note to clients. ASIC stands for application-specific integrated circuit. They set a $460 price target on the stock, representing more than…
Stocks moved lower since our last CNBC Investing Club Monthly Meeting as renewed inflation concerns, sparked by rising oil prices, sent Treasury yields higher — a toxic mix for the market. In early Thursday trading, it was much of the same, with Iran war uncertainty pushing U.S. oil prices above $100 per barrel, joining international…
Corning and Qualcomm rallied on Tuesday and brought a host of AI-related stocks along with them, as a pair of infrastructure deals lifted Wall Street’s confidence that data center spending will remain strong. Chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices gained 9% and 6% respectively, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise climbed 8% and photonics company Coherent added…
Qualcomm shares rose 4% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services, a major win as the chipmaker tries to take on Nvidia in the artificial intelligence market. As part of the agreement, Qualcomm said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it issued Amazon…
At a July protest against data centers in Lubbock, Texas, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller took the microphone to share his concerns about data center land grabs in his home state. But what he said could apply to what’s happening in dozens of states across the U.S. “When [data centers] first started popping up, nobody…
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, center, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images First, Anthropic updated Fable and Mythos. Then came model enhancements from Meta and Google. OpenAI followed suit by releasing…
Mustafau | Istock | Getty Images The stakes have never been higher for senior cybersecurity leaders at top companies. “It feels like my job has doubled or quadrupled,” said Wally Dalrymple, chief security officer at global education and talent solutions firm ETS. “It’s coming at us so fast and at such large volumes,” he said….
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Yesterday, Nvidia confirmed what we all already knew. The company is planning to acquire Hugging Face, a New York-based startup which has built a repository for open source AI models and recently shot to global recognition after it…
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. Stocks dipped on Friday following the strong August employment report. Still, the S & P 500 was on track for a positive week. Nonfarm payrolls increased…
