My top 10 things to watch Monday, July 27 1. Futures are surging this morning , and oil prices are tumbling after the U.S. and Iran paused fighting over the weekend. Nasdaq is leading the way, up about 1.4%. WTI crude is down about 7% to under $84 a barrel, on pace for its biggest…
Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new AI safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyber attack committed by a rogue OpenAI model continues. Last week, it emerged that the target of the attack, startup Hugging Face, was unable to use leading U.S. frontier models to…
It’s not the spend, it’s the return. That’s what Friday’s technology stock plunge said. I think it just might be the most significant tech selloff in more than a year. We need to know — potentially — what we are facing. We need to know if the trillion-dollar spigot is drying up — or it…
Amazon , Meta Platforms , Microsoft and Apple headline the busiest week of this summer earnings season. Plus, the Federal Reserve holds its July policy meeting, which adds intrigue following rekindled Middle East tensions. 1. Earnings: We’ve got 10 Club names reporting this week, including the other three hyperscalers on the heels of Alphabet earnings…
It was a tough week for stocks, as investors navigated everything from escalating tensions in the Middle East to key tech earnings reports to healthcare developments. Logging their second straight weekly losses, the S & P 500 slipped 0.6%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2.1%. Here’s a closer look at what drove the trading action….
Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google LLC, speaks during a Google AI event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Earlier this year, Google AI lead Jeff Dean, on a podcast, discussed a concept that, at the time, was hardly spoken about…
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…
Investors are getting increasingly uncomfortable with the amount of capital needed to make the artificial intelligence buildout a reality. It’s playing out in real time in the bond market, where the biggest names involved in the blitz — Google, Amazon and Meta — are seeing credit spreads widen as fixed-income investors demand more reward to…
From left, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet; Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft; Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon; and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. Damian Lemanski | David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images | CNBC | Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure at a trillion-dollar annual clip is eroding the…
U.S. President Donald Trump and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announce a US-EU trade deal on July 27, 2025 in Turnberry, Scotland. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will launch a trade probe into the European Union that will cancel hefty fines levied against…
