AI Cloud Firm Nscale Prepares for a Fall IPO
Nscale, the London-based company that rents out AI computing power, is pushing ahead with plans for a public listing, holding meetings with potential investors and preparing to present its case…
Microsoft’s Record Quarter Comes With a Heavier Bill for the Future
Investors parsed Microsoft’s fiscal fourth-quarter results on Thursday with unusual care, and the number that drew the most attention was not revenue. It was a figure buried in the company’s…
Meta’s AI Spending Spooks Investors Despite a Revenue Beat
By the numbers, Meta Platforms had a good quarter. Revenue of $60.8 billion in the three months ended June 30 beat the $60.24 billion analysts had expected, and advertising sales…
OpenAI’s Revenue Keeps Climbing as a Key Researcher Returns
In an all-hands meeting this month, OpenAI’s chief financial officer delivered a message the company rarely puts on the record: the growth has not slowed down. Sarah Friar told employees…
Chip Stocks Surge as Microsoft’s Numbers Quiet Fears of an AI Slowdown
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index climbed more than 6% on Thursday, its biggest one-day gain in months, as investors seized on Microsoft’s earnings as the clearest evidence yet that the AI…
Tesla’s July Is the Worst in the Magnificent Seven
Tesla shares fell more in July than any of its Magnificent Seven peers, capping a month in which investors punished the company for a gap between its AI story and…
AMD’s Server-Chip Ambition Gets a Wall Street Boost
Susquehanna raised its price target on AMD this week, arguing that the company’s next-generation server processor could double its share of the data-center market. The report points to a structural…
Broadcom’s $30 Billion Backlog Is Priced Like a Cycle Stock
Broadcom is sitting on an order book that most chip companies can only dream of, and the market is treating it like an ordinary semiconductor business. That is the argument…
SK Hynix’s Record Profit Fails to Soothe Memory-Chip Worries
The numbers released Wednesday were the best in SK Hynix’s history. The company posted sales of 79.3 trillion Korean won for the second quarter, up 50.9% from the previous quarter…
Apple Touches $5 Trillion, and the Earnings Report Will Decide if It Sticks
At mid-day Tuesday, Apple’s stock jumped about 3% to $342.89, pushing the company’s market value to roughly $5.036 trillion, the first time in its history that the figure crossed the…
