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Oracle stock jumps 7% on earnings beat and increased guidance as cloud revenue climbs 44%
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Oracle stock jumps 7% on earnings beat and increased guidance as cloud revenue climbs 44%

Oracle shares rose 8% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results that surpassed Wall Street projections and boosted its revenue guidance for fiscal 2027. Management said is now forecasting $90 billion in fiscal 2027 revenue. Analysts polled by LSEG had anticipated $86.60 billion. Oracle sees $1.92 and $1.96 in adjusted […]

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Amazon wins court order to block Perplexity’s AI shopping agent
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Amazon wins court order to block Perplexity’s AI shopping agent

The Perplexity app in the Apple App Store on a smartphone arranged in Washington, June 1, 2025. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal judge temporarily blocked startup Perplexity from accessing Amazon‘s site with its Comet artificial intelligence browser, according to court filings. Amazon sued Perplexity in November, alleging the startup took steps […]

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Amazon plans ‘deep dive’ internal meeting to address AI-related outages
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Amazon plans ‘deep dive’ internal meeting to address AI-related outages

The logos of World Economic Forum (WEF) and Amazon are displayed during the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. Romina Amato | Reuters Amazon plans to address a string of recent outages, including some that were tied to AI-assisted coding errors, at a retail technology meeting on Tuesday, […]

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How the Iran war and rising energy prices are threatening semiconductor demand
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How the Iran war and rising energy prices are threatening semiconductor demand

SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chips, front, and a LPDDR5X CAMM2 memory module arranged at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images A prolonged conflict in the Middle East could impact the semiconductor industry’s access to key materials while rising costs could […]

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Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square files for IPO on the NYSE
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Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square files for IPO on the NYSE

Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Oct. 21st, 2025. CNBC Outspoken investor Bill Ackman is taking a step toward his long-held ambition of building a publicly traded investment vehicle modeled on Warren Buffett’s approach, filing to list his hedge fund firm Pershing Square Capital Management on the […]

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Oracle earnings will show whether its expensive AI bet is starting to pay off
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Oracle earnings will show whether its expensive AI bet is starting to pay off

Oracle reports third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, and it will be an unofficial test for the artificial intelligence trade. Following the announcement of a $50 billion financing plan at the beginning of February that included debt and equity, investors have been eager to understand the pace of dilution for current stockholders. “The cadence matters,” said Gil […]

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Lego keeps beating the toy industry. Its secret weapon is not what you’d expect
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Lego keeps beating the toy industry. Its secret weapon is not what you’d expect

Lego just put up another banner year — with help from a behind-the-scenes secret weapon. The Danish company on Tuesday reported a 12% jump in revenue to 83.5 billion Danish kroner, or $12.9 billion, for fiscal year 2025. Operating profit rose 18% year over year to 22 billion Danish kroner, or $3.4 billion, the company […]

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Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
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Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt

Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is no longer planning to expand its partnership with Oracle in Abilene, Texas, home to the Stargate data center, because it wants clusters with […]

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Anthropic was the Pentagon’s choice for AI. Now it’s banned and experts are worried
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Anthropic was the Pentagon’s choice for AI. Now it’s banned and experts are worried

Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Last August, Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael, a former Uber executive and attorney, took on the added role of overseeing the Defense Department’s artificial intelligence portfolio. A […]

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Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklist
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Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklist

U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behind, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday after the artificial intelligence startup was blacklisted and labeled a threat […]

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