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Palantir communications chief calls the company’s political shift ‘concerning’
CEO of Palantir Technologies Alex Karp attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 15, 2025. Andrew Caballero-reynolds | Afp | Getty Images Palantir‘s head of global communications said Wednesday that the company’s political shift toward the Trump administration is “concerning.” “I think it’s […]
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Amazon cloud records 20% sales growth, topping estimates
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman delivers a keynote address during the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Noah Berger | Getty Images Amazon said Thursday that revenue in its cloud computing business increased 20% in the third quarter, exceeding analysts’ estimates. Revenue at Amazon Web Services for the third […]
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Amazon earnings: Cloud growth, holiday outlook and layoffs in focus
Amazon is slated to post results for the third quarter after the closing bell Thursday. Here’s what analysts polled by LSEG are looking for: Earnings per share: $1.57 Revenue: $177.8 billion Wall Street is also looking at other key revenue numbers: Amazon Web Services: $32.42 billion expected Advertising: $17.34 billion expected AWS growth will be […]
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AI companies are downplaying amount of energy and capital they need, Joe Lonsdale says
Joe Lonsdale, the founder of venture firm 8VC, says that top executives in artificial intelligence are underselling the resources they need to meet their ambitious goals. These companies are ” afraid to scare their investors, and so they are telling them they need a lot less capital, a lot less energy than they know they actually […]
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Alphabet stock jumps 4% after posting strong results, boosting AI spend
Alphabet stock jumped 4% Thursday after the company reported third-quarter financial results that beat across the board and increased its capital expenditures for the year. The Google parent company bumped its spending expectations on artificial intelligence infrastructure to $91-$93 billion from $85 billion the prior quarter, noting continued strong cloud demand. CEO Sundar Pichai said the […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Eli Lilly, Merck & more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Alphabet — The search giant jumped more than 7% after strong results that were boosted by revenue from Google Cloud and YouTube advertising. Alphabet earned $3.10 per share, on an adjusted basis, more than the $2.33 per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. Revenue of […]
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Big Tech earnings, Fed cuts rates, Trump-Xi meeting and more in Morning Squawk
Stocks on display at the Nasdaq on Sept. 10, 2025. Danielle DeVries | CNBC This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Magnificent or not? Magnificent Seven members Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta Platforms all beat […]
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CNBC Daily Open: All about Trump-Xi, Fed cuts and Big Tech earnings
The Google corporate office at The Hub building in Warsaw, Poland on Sept. 16th, 2025. Beata Zawrze | Nurphoto | Getty Images The news cycle barely stopped to breathe today. First, Trump meets Xi. U.S. President Donald Trump met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday, during which he struck a 1-year rare […]
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Stock futures climb marginally after Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea: Live updates
Stock futures moved higher marginally Thursday as U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded their meeting in Busan, South Korea. This also comes as investors digested a batch of Big Tech earnings and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 37 points, or 0.07%. […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Capex is the number to look at amid Big Tech earnings
Signage at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Benjamin Fanjoy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The news is coming in fast and thick. Strap in. First, interest rates. The U.S. Federal Reserve lowered rates by 25 basis points, as expected by traders. But Chair Jerome Powell cautioned that another […]
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