Broadcom’s AI Numbers Look Great, and the Stock Falls Anyway
The earnings report had the numbers investors once paid anything for. Broadcom said revenue in its fiscal second quarter reached $22.2 billion, up 48 percent from a year earlier, and…
South Korea Puts $550 Billion Behind Its Memory Makers
The televised address came on a Monday, and the president of South Korea, Lee Jae-myung, used it to declare 2026 the year the country would establish itself as an irreplaceable…
ON Semi’s $7 Billion Bet on the Physical World
The announcement landed on a Thursday morning from Scottsdale, Arizona, and it was the largest deal ON Semiconductor had ever done. The chipmaker, known to investors as ON Semi, agreed…
AI Customers Learn to Spend Less, and Model Makers Feel It
The finance chief of a mid-sized software company began receiving a new kind of report this spring: a weekly breakdown of how much the company’s engineers were spending on artificial-intelligence…
Big Tech’s June Selloff Erases $2.3 Trillion
The Magnificent Seven, the group of America’s largest technology companies, ended June with a combined loss of about $2.3 trillion in market value, their worst month since 2022. The selloff…
Alphabet Joins the Dow as the Index Crosses 52,000
The opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on June 30 had more than the usual ceremony attached. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, began trading that morning as…
Microsoft Stock Heads for Its Worst Month Since the Financial Crisis
A portfolio manager at a Boston mutual fund began June with Microsoft as his largest holding, a position built over two decades of reliable earnings growth. He spent the past…
Apple’s Steepest Drop in a Year Puts the Memory Crisis in Focus
By the time the closing bell rang on June 30, Apple shareholders had watched the stock fall more in a single session than in any other day in over a…
Amazon to Pay Anthropic by the Token
Finance teams negotiating cloud contracts have begun seeing a new line in their terms: Amazon will pay for Anthropic’s models by the token, rather than by the hour of compute…
Blackstone Sells Virginia Data Centers Back to Digital Realty
Two years ago, Blackstone and Digital Realty Trust formed a joint venture to build data centers in Northern Virginia, betting that the artificial-intelligence boom would turn the region’s power corridors…
