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Oracle shares surged about 10% before the bell on Wednesday after the software giant's upbeat revenue forecast calmed worries over faster returns from its hefty spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Remaining performance obligations (RPO), a key indicator of future contracted revenue, jumped 325% from a year earlier to $553 billion …
<body><p>STORY: From Oracle's bumper revenue predictions to Anthropic suing the U.S. government.... This is AI Weekly.</p><p>:: AI Weekly</p><p>Oracle has predicted that the AI data center boom will power revenue above Wall Street estimates well into 2027.</p><p>Its shares shot up over 8% on that news.</p><p>The outlook helps to allay investor concerns that …
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Micron, Sandisk, Bloom Energy, IREN, and NVIDIA have been highlighted in this Investment Ideas article.
Moltbook’s team will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs division in the tech giant’s latest move to scale up its AI-related talent and capabilities.
<body><p>STORY: :: Oracle</p><p>Oracle on Tuesday predicted that the AI data center boom will power its revenue above Wall Street estimates well into 2027.</p><p>That sent shares in the firm up over 8% in extended trading.</p><p>Oracle reported third quarter revenue of just over $17 billion, beating estimates.</p><p>It expects fourth-quarter revenue growth of …
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) has agreed to acquire Moltbook, a social networking platform built for AI agents rather than human users. The deal brings Moltbook's founders into Meta's Superintelligence Labs, adding AI agent and social systems expertise to the company. The acquisition focuses on the social and interaction layer for autonomous …
Bill Ackman is offering an innovative inducement to get investors to buy a new U.S. closed-end equity fund. Buyers of the fund will get 20 shares in Ackman’s management company as a bonus for every 100 shares of the closed-end fund that they purchase. Barron’s estimates that a buyer of …
Industry groups say proposed app tracking changes fail to resolve competition concerns.
Oracle on Tuesday predicted that the AI data center boom will power its revenue above Wall Street estimates well into 2027, sending its shares up 8.3% in extended trading. Oracle has made a dramatic turn toward building data centers for partners such as OpenAI and Meta, while at the same …
Moltbook founders join Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta Expands Autonomous AI Efforts With Moltbook Buyout
The company announced location-based increases ranging from 2% to 5% and said it would no longer be covering the cost of digital service taxes and other fees.
Startup team will join Meta's Superintelligence Labs
The real fortunes in AI will be made from companies providing the essential memory, energy, and physical space that make artificial intelligence possible.
Advanced Machine Intelligence aims to build AI systems capable of reasoning and planning.
Investors back new push into next generation AI
Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots.
Meta Platforms will charge advertisers a location fee ranging from 2% to 5% to cover digital service taxes imposed by some countries, the U.S. tech giant said in a post on its website, following in the footsteps of Alphabet's Google and Amazon. The fee, for image or video ads delivered …
The former Texas governor believes the AI race will be won by energy-rich states and companies that can navigate a tightening industrial supply chain.
As the name says, the fund invests only in the Magnificent Seven tech stocks.
Renowned investor Ross Gerber responded to Michael Saylor on Sunday after the Strategy Inc. Chair said the company is gearing to buy more Bitcoin. Gerber Jabs Saylor Gerber replied to Strategy Chair Michael Saylor’s X post, “The Second Century Begins,”...
Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc. attracted approximately $126 billion in peak demand for its US bond sale, marking one of the largest corporate offerings on record, according to a Bloomberg report Wednesday.
<body><p>STORY: Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for AI agents.</p><p>Moltbook is a Reddit-like site where AI-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners.</p><p>It was started as a niche experiment in late January, and has since become the …
Meta Platforms (META) must strengthen its rules for identifying and labeling deceptive AI-generated
Strong early-year revenue highlights continued spending on AI infrastructure
All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Tuesday, as oil prices pulled back
Last November, Bank of America analysts issued a stark warning: hyperscaler borrowing for AI data centers was exploding. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), and others issued bonds and loans at double the pace of the prior decade. Companies that once self-funded massive expansions through overflowing cash reserves have now tapped …
March 10 (Reuters) - Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company's founders
Instagram and Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) has reportedly acquired Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents rather than humans, in a deal that will bring its founders into the company's secretive artificial intelligence division. The purchase, reported by Axios, will...
The Magnificent Seven, the Lag-nificent Seven, the Terrific or Terrible Two, whatever you want to call them, they’re no longer the darlings of this market. With President Trump recently saying things like the Iran war will be over “pretty quickly,” though, perhaps there is room for hope and a potential …
Advanced Machine Intelligence seeks to develop a new breed of AI systems that can better understand the real world than existing models.
Oklo is a nuclear power company developing technology that uses recycled nuclear fuel.
<body><p>STORY: From Meta allowing AI rivals on WhatsApp to age-checking tech maturing...</p><p>This is Tech Weekly.</p><p>:: Tech Weekly</p><p>:: Meta </p><p>Meta has announced that AI rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year. </p><p>It’s aiming to stave off action from EU antitrust regulators after complaints from competitors shut out of the messaging service. </p><p>After …
AMI Labs founder Yann LeCun Chesnot/Getty Images AMI Labs, the world model startup launched by former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, has raised more than $1 billion in its debut funding round. At $1.03 billion, the round is Europe’s largest-ever seed deal and gives the Paris-based startup a reported …
Sandbar aims to ship the Stream, which can be used to take notes, chat with an AI assistant, and for media playback, this summer.
Meta Platforms (META) is requiring advertisers to pay for digital service levies imposed by various
Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) is up 10.5% year-to-date, trading around $93 Monday morning, all while Reddit sentiment has climbed from a bearish 35 in mid-February to a bullish 72 today, driven by a contract backlog that would make most AI startups dizzy. The question retail investors keep circling back to: can …
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the top stocks that will make you rich in 10 years. Reuters reported on March 5 that according to Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META), AI rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year, with the decision aimed at heading off a possible temporary …
YieldMax gets most of the attention when income investors go hunting for double-digit yields. But the options-premium income space is wider than one fund family, and several funds outside that universe are currently paying well above 15% annually, each using a structurally distinct method to generate that income. Here are …
Tesla is preparing for an exciting future, but its core business is facing major challenges in the here and now.
The go-to chipmaker for Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Broadcom Inc. serves as a barometer for the global AI industry, with attention now on how the US and Israel’s strike on Iran will affect appetite to build data centers and other digital infrastructure. The construction of AI data …
Advanced Machine Intelligence, the startup founded by former Meta Platforms chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, said on Tuesday it raised $1.03 billion based on a $3.50 billion pre-money valuation, as it seeks to commercialize artificial intelligence systems built around reasoning, planning and "world models." The funding round was co-led by …
AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.
The social media giant is delivering exceptional top-line growth, but could a massive planned increase in capital expenditures derail the company's earnings momentum?
German publishers and advertisers on Tuesday called for the country's competition authority to fine Apple over proposed changes to its app tracking rules, saying they do not do enough to resolve antitrust issues. The authority had sought feedback from the groups, which include media agencies and the German Association of …
The Larry Ellison-led software giant is remaking its cloud infrastructure to rival Amazon and Microsoft.
Mark Zuckerberg once shared a pivotal piece of advice he received from legendary Apple Inc. co-founder and one of his mentors, Steve Jobs, which led him to travel to India. Steve Jobs' Advice During Uncertain Times In 2015, Meta Platforms, Inc. CEO Zuckerberg shared a little-known story about the early …
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) has signed a multi-year AI content licensing deal with News Corp to train and improve its AI models. The company is pursuing multibillion dollar, multi-year agreements with Nvidia, AMD, and Google for advanced chips and AI infrastructure. Meta is expanding its own data center footprint and creating …
Artificial intelligence spending is only going up across the whole of the tech industry. These two companies stand to benefit from all of it.
Virtuix (NASDAQ:VTIX) executives outlined what they described as a “transformative” nine-month period ended December 31, 2025, on the company’s first earnings call as a publicly traded firm. Management highlighted year-over-year revenue growth, a swing to positive gross margins, and several strategi
Oracle will report its Q3 earnings after the bell on Tuesday.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Monday, betting on growing demand for its networking equipment as the company prioritizes more higher-margin orders. The company, which also provides artificial intelligence-optimized servers equipped with Nvidia's chips, raised its fiscal 2026 forecasts for adjusted earnings per share and …
AI data center developer secures Series C funding led by Aker and 8090 Industries as Sandberg and Clegg join board.
Down over 50% from all-time highs, Oracle stock offers significant upside potential in 2026, given consensus price targets.
Over the past week, Advanced Micro Devices (NasdaqGS:AMD) announced a multiyear mega deal with Meta Platforms to supply large scale AI compute infrastructure. AMD expanded US GPU manufacturing capacity through a collaboration with Flex to support domestic production of advanced chips. The company launched an AI research lab with the …
A new Fidelity analysis reveals that 401(k) balances have grown more than 11%—here's the biggest contributor to the boost in their retirement savings and what you can learn from it.
Indiana has quietly taken a step that could reshape how public retirement systems approach cryptocurrency, becoming the first state to do so. Gov. Mike Braun signed House Bill 1042, allowing certain state retirement plans to offer cryptocurrency exposure through self-directed...
Caitlin Kalinowski, head of hardware and robotics at OpenAI (Unlisted:OPAI), has resigned following the company’s agreement to deploy its artificial intelligence models on US Department of Defense cloud networks. Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in 2024 after leading augmented-reality hardware...
Four of the world's richest men now own Miami estates within 20 miles as tech power shifts from Silicon Valley to Florida's billionaire enclaves.
Even the world’s richest people borrow money to buy homes. Financial experts say mortgages can actually be a strategic wealth move for the ultra-rich.
YCG LLC, an asset management firm, released its fourth quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In the quarter, the S&P 500 Index returned 2.66%, and the S&P Global Broad Market Index returned 3.22%. The global stock market currently favors speculation and high-risk investor …
Executive cites concerns about safeguards in AI deployment for defense.
AI infrastructure startup Nscale has raised $2 billion at a $14.6 billion valuation. But the most revealing signal about the company’s future may be the people it just added to its board When startups announce funding rounds, the headline number usually dominates the conversation. But...
If you’re looking for the best Magnificent 7 stock to buy right now for the next five to ten years, forget the hype trains and the over‑valued names. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) has not-so-quietly become the go-to stock for millions of investors. There’s a simple thesis as to why that’s the …
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Recently, Zacks.com users have been paying close attention to Meta Platforms (META). This makes it worthwhile to examine what the stock has in store.
Investing.com -- Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) pushed back against recent media reports about its flagship Abilene, Texas AI data center, stating that the facility remains on track and that the company has secured the full 4.5 gigawatts of capacity committed to OpenAI. Shares of Oracle last traded down 1.2% at $152.96 …
Is the open internet actually getting stronger, or just fighting for survival? The Trade Desk's CEO believes the balance is shifting in its favor.
Sir Nick Clegg and his former Meta boss Sheryl Sandberg have joined the board of a tech company building Britain’s biggest AI data centre.
Several companies in the S 500’s communications sector trade at low price-to-earnings valuations, with attractive dividend yields well supported by cash flow.
Another member of the "Magnificent Seven" has become the favorite investment of Tiger Global Management's billionaire boss.
Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence group Nscale was valued at $14.6 billion after raising $2 billion in its latest funding round, the British company said on Monday. The Series C funding round was led by Norway's Aker and 8090 Industries, and included Nvidia, Citadel, Dell, Jane Street, among others, the firm said …
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is included in our list of the 9 best stocks to buy according to billionaire Bill Ackman, accounting for 11.37% of the total portfolio. One of the biggest additions to Pershing Square’s portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025 was Meta Platforms, Inc. …
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) is preparing large workforce reductions, with reports indicating potential cuts of 20,000 to 30,000 jobs, up to 18% of its staff. The company is also scrapping a major planned AI data center expansion in Texas that was expected to involve OpenAI. The canceled project may create room for …
Exchange-traded funds could provide good diversification.
Meta and Microsoft are two top growth stocks to buy this year.
Oil futures have rocketed past $100 per barrel tonight, and Wall Street is already flinching. Nasdaq futures are down more than 400 points, off 1.7% as of Sunday evening. The question: why are NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Meta (NASDAQ:META) in the crosshairs? None of them drill for oil. The …
Broadcom (NasdaqGS:AVGO) laid out a multi year AI roadmap, including a target of more than $100b in AI chip revenue by 2027. The company reported shipment of what it calls the industry’s first 2nm custom compute SoC built on its 3.5D XDSiP platform. Broadcom highlighted multiyear custom chip partnerships with …
Investors are getting a great price for these top artificial intelligence (AI) growth stocks.
Meta and other tech stocks have faced headwinds in recent weeks.
Meta Platforms signed multi year AI chip and infrastructure agreements with Nvidia, AMD, and Google to support its next generation AI systems. The company is pursuing a major data center expansion, including a potential site in Texas that previously had interest from Oracle and OpenAI, with Nvidia involved in facilitating …
Amazon stock has lost about 7% year to date, at the time of writing, Friday afternoon, March 6, according to Yahoo Finance. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is down about a little more than 1% in the same period. Alphabet (GOOGL) is down almost 5%.Microsoft (MSFT) is down …
Hedge funds and institutional investors have been quietly building positions in Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) despite recent market volatility, viewing it as one of the most compelling opportunities in the AI and digital advertising space. With its massive user base, dominant ad business, and aggressive push into generative AI, Meta has …
Market ripples from the US-Iran conflict are sending investors toward tech's safe havens.
Investing.com — Internet stocks are potentially entering a "trough of AI disruption disillusionment," according to Bernstein analysts, who suggest the sector may be finding a valuation floor despite persistent bearish narratives. Worsening sentiment regarding massive capital expenditure and existential disruption risks has fueled a recent de-rating. Bernstein argues that GAAP …