Alphabet-owned Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to some public passengers in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando, the company announced. With the multi-city expansion, Waymo is now operating its service in 10 U.S. cities, extending its lead in the North American driverless ride-hailing market. The Google sister company is aiming to lock in loyal riders and win over skeptics, including six in 10 U.S. drivers who said they were fearful of driverless cars, according to a 2025 survey by the Ame ...

Alphabet's Google will build its first data center in Minnesota and deploy a significant amount of new renewable energy in the state under an agreement with utility Xcel, the companies announced Tuesday. The data center will be located on a 480-acre site at Pine Island, a town of about 4,000 people some 70 miles southeast of Minneapolis. Google had not publicly disclosed its role in the project previously. The facility will be used for artificial intelligence applications as well as Google's broader cloud b ...

AMD clinches second mega chip supply deal, this time with Meta | ReutersSkip to main content[Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial market professionalsLearn more aboutRefinitiv]An AMD logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration created on August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]- Companies- Summary- AMD had struck a similar deal with OpenAI last year- Deal gives Meta the option to buy up to 10% of AMD- AMD to sell up to ...

Resistance Over SupportWhile institutions like Wells Fargo have recently upgraded Alphabet with targets as high as $387, Moon is taking a decidedly short-term, contrarian view.On Morning Trade Live by Schwab Network, Moon noted that the current market environment has shifted from its traditional “buy the dip” mentality.“I’m looking at Google as a fade right now,” Moon stated, emphasizing that technical barriers are now more significant than historical floors.“In this environment, resistance is going to play ...

As it always does following each quarter, Berkshire Hathaway recently disclosed the stocks it held in its massive equities portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025. This is a particularly special filing for followers of Berkshire because it will ultimately be the last quarter that Warren Buffett was CEO of the company he led for over six decades and built into one of the greatest wealth-generating machines in history. While Buffett will remain chairman of the board of directors, the 95-year-old ...

U.S. stock futures are showing signs of stabilization on Tuesday morning, February 24th, 2026, as investors attempt to recover from a bruising session that saw major indexes tumble. Premarket activity indicates a modest rebound, with futures for the S&P 500 (SPY) rising 0.34% and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) futures gaining 0.49%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) futures are also up approximately 127 points, or 0.2%, as market participants engage in bargain hunting following Monday’s sharp sell-off.The previous s ...

Core Viewpoint - Nvidia's upcoming quarterly earnings report is critical for assessing the sustainability of its profits amid increasing competition and potential risks to its market dominance in the AI chip sector [1][5]. Group 1: Earnings Expectations - Analysts expect Nvidia's profit for the quarter ending in January to surge over 62%, a slowdown from 65.3% growth in the previous quarter [5]. - Revenue is projected to jump more than 68% to $66.16 billion, with first-quarter revenue forecasted to grow another 64.4% to $72.46 billion [6]. - Nvidia has surpassed sales expectations for the past 13 quarters, although the growth delta has been shrinking [6]. Group 2: Competitive Landscape - Nvidia faces competition from companies like Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Google, which are developing their own AI chips [3][4]. - Google has entered into a deal with Anthropic to provide its in-house chips, and is reportedly in talks to supply Meta, a significant Nvidia customer [3]. - To maintain its market position, Nvidia has licensed chip technology from Groq in a deal reportedly worth $20 billion [4]. Group 3: Market Dynamics - Concerns are rising about the sustainability of AI spending, with Nvidia potentially reducing its commitment to OpenAI from $100 billion to $30 billion [5]. - Analysts predict Nvidia will forecast revenue for the April quarter at least 3% above estimates, with some expecting it to exceed estimates by over 13% [7]. - Demand for Nvidia's chips, which are essential for processing large AI workloads, is expected to remain strong, supported by Big Tech's capital spending [8]. Group 4: Supply Chain and Production - Supply chain bottlenecks may limit Nvidia's growth, particularly regarding chip shipments as it competes for capacity with TSMC's 3-nanometer assembly lines [9]. - Nvidia's executives hinted at ongoing discussions for data center orders for the next year, suggesting an update to its $500 billion order backlog figure [9]. - The potential return of Nvidia's AI chip sales to China could positively impact sales, as the company seeks to finalize licensing for its H200 AI chip [10]. Group 5: Financial Metrics - Nvidia is expected to record an adjusted gross margin of 75% in the fourth quarter, an increase of over one percentage point from the previous year [11]. - Analysts believe Nvidia's pricing power and secured high-bandwidth memory allocations will mitigate the impact of rising memory prices [12].

World shares were mixed Tuesday after U.S. stocks slumped on heavy selling of shares in companies that could be losers in the artificial-intelligence boom.A report by Citrini Research, a New York-based financial services company, that outlined a future scenario in which AI's dominance caused the “human-centric consumer economy,” to wither away with dire consequences for employment, was the latest hit to confidence for companies that might be displaced by fast expanding use of the technology.“Policy response ...

Nvidia’s stock has become a market object. It’s big enough to tug the major indexes, with a 7.8% weight in the S&P 500. When it moves, it drags money and sentiment with it, which helps explain why people talk about its quarterly reports as if they’re a major weather event.The company can clear consensus and still disappoint a crowd that paid for a bigger and louder fireworks show. Meet the expectations treadmill: A good quarter gets a shrug. A great quarter gets a shrug. Now, the market’s daring Nvidia to d ...

富国银行将Alphabet的目标价从354美元上调至387美元，评级上调至"增持"。(格隆汇) ...