Blackstone Credits AI Infrastructure for 26% Jump in Earnings
Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative-asset manager, reported second-quarter distributable earnings of $1.98 billion on Wednesday, up 26 percent from a year earlier, and pointed to its artificial-intelligence infrastructure investments as…
South Korea’s KOSPI Jumps 3.7% as Chip Stocks Lead a Broad Rally
South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index surged 3.72 percent on Thursday, its sharpest single-day gain in months, led by the country’s two largest chip makers. Samsung Electronics rose nearly 4 percent…
Intel Posts 22% Revenue Gain but Cuts Data Center Jobs
Intel reported second-quarter revenue up 22 percent from a year earlier on Wednesday, but the growth came with a round of layoffs in its data center and AI division, part…
SpaceX Prepares Starship’s 13th Flight as Short Sellers Press Their Bet
SpaceX was preparing to attempt the 13th flight of its Starship rocket on Wednesday from its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, after engineers re-tested Booster 20, the booster slated…
Nvidia Unveils Edge AI Model and Ethernet Platform for Data Centers
Nvidia on July 22 introduced two products aimed at expanding its reach beyond the training chips that made it the most valuable company in the semiconductor industry. The first, Cosmos…
AMD to Invest Up to $5 Billion in Anthropic in AI Infrastructure Push
AMD announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic on Wednesday under which it could invest up to $5 billion in the AI company, and Anthropic will deploy AMD’s rack-scale Helios systems…
OpenAI Lifts Compute Spending Outlook to $750 Billion
OpenAI has raised its planned spending on computing power through 2030 to nearly $750 billion, up from roughly $600 billion at the start of the year, according to people familiar…
Alphabet Raises AI Spending to $205 Billion as Cloud Orders Surge
Sundar Pichai had a number ready on Alphabet’s earnings call: $514 billion. That, the chief executive said, is the backlog of cloud orders the company is sitting on, driven by…
EU Fines Google $1 Billion in First Digital Markets Act Case
The European Commission on July 22 fined Google €890 million, about $1 billion, the first penalty imposed under the Digital Markets Act since the law took effect in 2024. The…
Cybersecurity Startup Glow Emerges From Stealth at $1.2 Billion Valuation
The pitch that Glow’s founders made to investors began with a question: who guards the software that acts on its own? On Tuesday, the company stepped out of stealth with…
