Alphabet reported earnings on July 22 and the stock dropped more than 7% in a single session. The numbers weren’t bad. Cloud grew 82% year over year. Advertising held up. EPS beat. What rattled investors was the spending. Capital expenditure guidance for 2026 came in at $195 billion to $205 billion. Free cash flow went
Nvidia(NVDA) investors have no shortage of reasons to remain bullish. The AI chipmaker posted record revenue of $81.6 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2027, up 85% from a year earlier. Data center revenue surged 92% to $75.2 billion. Nvidia forecast second-quarter revenue of about $91 billion and gross margins of about 75%. That
With jet fuel prices continuing to sit at decades-old highs over the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, almost every airline has reworked its network to optimize high-traffic routes and cut any underperforming ones. United Airlines and American Airlines both trimmed approximately 5% of their flight capacity for the rest
Seagate Technology (STX) and Western Digital (WDC) supply high-capacity hard drives used by cloud providers to store the growing volumes of data produced by artificial intelligence workloads. The companies have become two of the market’s most closely watched AI infrastructure stocks as hyperscalers expand data-center capacity and reserve hard-drive supply years in advance. Both stocks
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung flew to San Francisco on July 24 for a summit with the most powerful names in artificial intelligence. Jensen Huang was there. Sam Altman was there. The heads of Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor and Naver flew in. By the end of the day, roughly $950 billion in new
The Roth IRA is usually framed as a patient account, one that rewards savers for leaving it alone across a long career and collecting the reward decades later. Contributions go in with money that has already been taxed, and the vision is that everything inside grows and eventually comes out without the IRS taking another
Five years ago, the Department of Veterans Affairs launched a new medical records system meant to fix a health network running on decades old technology. The rollout became one of the most cited failures in modern government technology, tied to patient deaths and years of paused deployments. The project started as a $10 billion contract
Leaked Galaxy S27 camera plans suggest a broader Samsung lineup as retailers, carriers, and customers mull another premium smartphone tier. Samsung Electronics (SSNLF) may be preparing to give shoppers yet another expensive Galaxy phone to consider. Samsung is developing four Galaxy S27 models: the S27, S27+, S27 Pro, and S27 Ultra, reports SamMobile, citing WinFuture.
Eli Lilly (LLY) stock has turned into one of the best comeback trades of 2026. Shares closed at $1,196.03 on July 24, up nearly 11% year to date after a rough start dragged the stock below $900 in the spring. Lilly shares have climbed about 39% since the company’s first-quarter report, according to Goldman Sachs.
In 2014, Elon Musk stood in front of an audience and said building AI was like “summoning the demon.” In 2018 at SXSW, he said AI was “far more dangerous than nukes.” In March 2025, he put the odds of killer robots annihilating humanity at somewhere between 10% and 20%. Those are the quotes people