NVIDIA Puts $1 Billion Into Naver to Build Korea’s AI Factories
Naver shares jumped more than 10% Monday, the kind of move the South Korean internet group has not seen in years, after it disclosed that NVIDIA would acquire $1 billion…
Microsoft and Meta Face a Record Options Swing as AI Bills Come Due
The options market has priced a move worth about $190 billion in Microsoft’s market value for Wednesday evening, the largest single-company earnings swing on record. Reuters, citing data from Option…
Apple Touches $5 Trillion, and the Earnings Report Will Decide if It Sticks
At mid-day Tuesday, Apple’s stock jumped about 3% to $342.89, pushing the company’s market value to roughly $5.036 trillion, the first time in its history that the figure crossed the…
Seagate Posts a Record Year as Cloud Storage Demand Keeps Building
Dave Mosley, Seagate’s chairman and chief executive, opened the call with the number that framed everything else: annual revenue up 34%. The drive maker, which has spent the past two…
SK Hynix’s Record Profit Fails to Soothe Memory-Chip Worries
The numbers released Wednesday were the best in SK Hynix’s history. The company posted sales of 79.3 trillion Korean won for the second quarter, up 50.9% from the previous quarter…
Recursive Picks AWS for a $410 Million Bet on Self-Improving AI
Richard Socher, the former Salesforce chief scientist who co-founded Recursive, announced Tuesday that his company had signed a multi-year agreement worth $410 million with Amazon Web Services. Under the deal,…
Big Tech Earnings Week Opens as AI Spending Comes Under Scrutiny
The most closely watched earnings week of the year opens July 29, when Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon report quarterly results within 48 hours of each other. The four companies,…
Lyft and Baidu Apollo Launch Robotaxi Trial in London
London became the newest front in the global robotaxi race on July 28, when Lyft and Baidu’s Apollo unit began a public trial of driverless ride-hailing in the city. The…
Broadcom Signs $200 Billion AI Chip Pact With Samsung Through 2030
Broadcom said July 28 it has signed a $200 billion agreement with Samsung to supply AI chips and manufacturing services through 2030, covering high-bandwidth memory and foundry work. The deal…
SpaceX Shares Halve From IPO High as Cursor Deal Draws Investor Doubt
SpaceX’s stock has fallen about 50% from its post-IPO peak, wiping out roughly $1.2 trillion in market value, as investors question the company’s $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding…
