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Amazon and Microsoft are spending $400 billion on AI—and investors are low on patience

Days after Wall Street punished Alphabet for its unbridled spending on AI infrastructure, the world's two leading cloud giants are set to provide the...

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Neo raises $100 million to hunt the zombie AI agents haunting your company

Former SentinelOne executives are cracking down on your AI tools.

24.07.2026 3

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A new group of stocks is transforming global equities markets. Meet ‘Memi,’ the $3 trillion sector fueled by AI’s insatiable hunger for memory chips

Micron Technology, SK Hynix, and Samsung hit $1 trillion or more in market cap this year due to surging demand for memory chips.

22.07.2026 1

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After SpaceX’s $2 trillion debut, investors are eyeing Anthropic and OpenAI. Market experts share how to play the next trillion-dollar IPO

Before buying into the hype, pros say to skip the first-day frenzy, follow the revenue, and read the prospectus.

22.07.2026 10

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Netflix used AI to produce 17 minutes of a documentary ‘twice as fast and at half the cost’—as streaming competition drives up content spending to $20 billion

The streaming company touted the efficiencies of AI in its Q2 earnings, while stressing that movies will still be 'made by people who make movies.'

16.07.2026 4

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An SEC email address mix-up is causing confusion and threatening to disrupt its proposal to scrap quarterly reporting requirements

The SEC has received more than 66,000 comment submissions on the controversial rule, and now, claims that there may have been a typo in the email...

14.07.2026 4

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SpaceX and Amazon are tech dopplegangers worth $4.5 trillion—and they’re headed for a collision

Elon Musk’s space-and-AI company lost $4.9 billion last year and trades at 97 times sales. Investors need a lot to go right.

13.07.2026 20

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Elon Musk’s judge has ‘significant misgivings’ about $1.5 million Twitter settlement—but approves it anyway

“This is not to say this settlement is run-of-the-mill,” Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan wrote.

09.07.2026 20

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Amazon’s $25 billion ‘surprise’ bond sale dangled extra yield to lure in buyers—and flashed a warning sign about the AI boom

Hyperscalers have sold an estimated $194 billion in AI-related bonds this year, and widening spreads on Amazon’s latest bond issuance show the...

08.07.2026 20

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Elon Musk can’t sell a single SpaceX share for a year—and then all the locks crack open at once

The rocket maker’s gated stock-sale structure is designed to keep billions of shares from cratering the stock price.

03.07.2026 20

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‘Cop on your wrist’— Wearables offer tons of data but people are still going to sleep to Netflix and TikTok

A group of experts at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech event in Aspen pinpointed a problem: People have more data than ever from their wearables, but...

29.06.2026 10

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Bill Ackman, David Tepper, and other billionaire fund managers are quietly piling into Amazon

Even as Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway exited the stock, big institutions bought 253 million more shares of Amazon during the past 12 months.

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AOL cofounder Steve Case on AI— major upside, real risk, and ‘probably a net negative’ for jobs

Speaking at Fortune Brainstorm Tech, the internet pioneer described himself as a “huge optimist” about AI's benefits but warned that the risks are...

16.06.2026 10

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AI can be a ‘secret sauce’ or a way of ‘democratizing mediocrity’—Here’s how business leaders are getting the best of the technology

AI tools can be the most effective and well-designed in the world, but two people can use the same tool and get to vastly different results.

12.06.2026 10

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SpaceX is about to make history—and 80% of VCs won’t see a dime of it

A live Term Sheet meetup of investors agreed SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic will reward a sliver of venture. But most of the industry will be watching...

11.06.2026 20

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Marc Lore’s robots make 500 burrito bowls an hour. A human can make 45

The Wonder founder is automating fast-casual food with machines that make salad and poke bowls, sauces, and eventually drinks but there are few roles...

09.06.2026 10

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‘Getting control where we can’—Europe wants sovereign AI but most of the chips are from the U.S.

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Mistral's Timothée Lacroix made the case for European control over the AI stack.

09.06.2026 10

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Your career needs a ‘gym membership’ to keep up with continuous AI advancements, says Campus founder Tade Oyerinde

“I'm sorry if you’re exhausted,” said AI learning founder and Campus Chancellor Tade Oyerinde.

08.06.2026 10

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Elon Musk bullet-proofed his $1 trillion ‘Mars-shot’ pay at SpaceX after the epic battle over his $56 billion moonshot at Tesla

The CEO will have almost complete control of his Texas-based space company, without colonizing Mars or building a single non-Earth data center.

06.06.2026 30

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Salesforce turbocharges $25 billion stock buying spree with debt, cuts cash flow guidance in half

In the first quarter of fiscal 2027, Salesforce returned $27.5 billion to shareholders.

27.05.2026 10

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North Korean operatives stole $2 billion last year—and financial firms are the next target

A new CrowdStrike report shared exclusively with Fortune reveals DPRK-linked hackers tripled their attack pace in a single quarter and U.S. financial...

14.05.2026 20

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Encrypted texts reveal how Nvidia chips and U.S. tech are being smuggled to China and Russia

American-made tech components are being illegally smuggled to Russia, Iran, and China and lawmakers fear it could give them a battlefield edge.

13.05.2026 60

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Supermicro CEO insists ‘no one’ beyond indicted employees were involved in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme

CEO and Chairman Charles Liang said Supermicro’s relationship with vendors including Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Broadcom was “strong” despite the...

05.05.2026 20

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Supermicro’s co-founder allegedly smuggled $2.5 billion in Nvidia-chipped servers to China—now the whole company is under the microscope

The company will report financial results on Tuesday after disclosing it has launched an internal probe that could reshape its management and future...

05.05.2026 30

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Meta just bumped its 2026 capex forecast up to as much as $145 billion for the AI boom—and investors flinched

CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to spend more on infrastructure in 2026 than Meta did in all of 2024 and 2025. Meta's stock fell 6% in after-hours...

29.04.2026 20

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Microsoft, Meta, and Google just announced billions more in AI spending. Only Google convinced investors it’s paying off

Surging prices due to memory chip shortages have led to billions more in capital expenditures from Magnificent 7 companies—and many investors...

29.04.2026 20

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CEOs got millions after boards ‘neutralized’ the impact of tariffs. Some won’t say what it was worth

An exclusive analysis found eight of 22 companies adjusted executive pay for tariff impacts. Some declined to disclose the dollar value of the...

29.04.2026 60

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Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions back in the spotlight as Meta execs begin ‘moonshot’ mission for $9.5 trillion valuation and massive payouts

The deepest tranche of options won’t fully pay off unless Meta becomes nearly twice the size of Nvidia.

28.04.2026 20

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North Korean IT workers are stealing remote jobs and raking in billions—and Americans are helping them do it

“North Korean IT worker schemes would not be successful without U.S.-based facilitators,” wrote Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg in an...

25.04.2026 40

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Boards say the C-suite owns the AI strategy. The C-suite doesn’t agree

A new Pearl Meyer survey reveals that the AI bottleneck isn’t about technology. It’s a warning that some senior executive teams are struggling to...

22.04.2026 30

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A secretive tycoon known as the ‘French Murdoch’ holds the key to Bill Ackman’s $64 billion bid for Universal Music Group

Vincent Bolloré keeps his cards close to his chest, and trying to guess what he’ll do is “very dangerous,” say analysts.

17.04.2026 50

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Reed Hastings’s exit from $455 billion Netflix ‘had nothing to do with’ the failed Warner Bros. deal, says Ted Sarandos

Netflix’s stock price sank 9% in after-hours trading on Thursday.

16.04.2026 20

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Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav’s ‘extraordinary’ $887 million golden parachute gets ripped by proxy advisory firm ISS

ISS has recommended investors vote against Warner Bros. Discovery’s compensation proposal that would see executives collect $1.35 billion in...

08.04.2026 20

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Supermicro launches internal probe after cofounder’s arrest on charges of $2.5 billion in chip smuggling

This is the Nvidia-allied server maker's third internal investigation since 2017.

07.04.2026 30

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Supermicro soared because of $4 trillion Nvidia—but Jensen Huang can walk away any time he wants

Nvidia giving Supermicro the cold shoulder on GPUs could have a “devastating impact” on the hardware manufacturer, according to Bernstein analysts.

06.04.2026 40

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‘Attempted corporate murder’ — Judge calls on Anthropic and Department of War to hash out dispute over supply chain risk

District Judge Rita Lin to issue a ruling on Anthropic’s legal challenge “in the next few days,” she said on Tuesday.

24.03.2026 20

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Supermicro—accused of smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia chips and servers to China—has been here before, with Iran

Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw was arrested on Thursday and resigned his seat on the Super Micro Computer board on Friday.

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Supermicro’s co-founder was just arrested for allegedly smuggling $2.5 billion in GPUs to China

The arrest of board member Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw—who previously resigned following an accounting scandal in 2018—raises mounting questions...

19.03.2026 50

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Fortune Brands new CEO never officially worked a day—but he’ll get $18.4 million after a massive leadership shakeup

The son-in-law of activist billionaire Nelson Peltz triggered the shakeup—and now he's getting a board seat and a say in who runs the company next

18.03.2026 40

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Boards protected CEO bonuses as tariffs threatened business. Now, as Iran disrupts trade, CEOs may get more protection

An exclusive analysis of 50 companies found CEOs in the lowest-performing tier still collected 87% of their target bonuses last year—and boards may...

17.03.2026 60

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Oracle blows investors away with 22% ‘hyper growth’—but cash flow crunches to negative $24.7 billion

Free cash flow at the enterprise software giant has tumbled over the past year as the company races to spend $50 billion on AI.

10.03.2026 20

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Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation

The Larry Ellison-led software giant is remaking its cloud infrastructure to rival Amazon and Microsoft.

09.03.2026 30

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Google, Meta and the AI ‘hyperscalers’ are on a $1 trillion borrowing binge after years of printing cash. Here’s why Big Tech’s pivot to debt matters

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle are spending billions to fund the AI buildout—but overinvestment risk means there will be “winners...

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Warren Buffett complained for decades that boosting profits by excluding exec stock comp was ‘cynical’—Nvidia just surprised Wall Street and agreed

The AI chipmaker will score brownie points with Wall Street by making the change, without incurring much downside. Nvidia's competitors won't be so...

04.03.2026 60

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Cyber retaliation from Iran is a problem for U.S. companies — ‘It’s in the hands of a 19-year-old hacker in a Telegram room,’ ex-NSA operative says

The bigger threat to U.S. companies may not be a data breach, but a coordinated campaign designed to make your employees stop trusting everything they...

02.03.2026 50

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What AI bubble? Nvidia posts record $68 billion quarterly revenue and $78 billion forecast, as Jensen Huang cites ‘skyrocketing’ adoption of agents

Nvidia just released Q4 and FY 2026 results showing another blowout, beating guidance on nearly every metric.

26.02.2026 40

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Trump announces 401(k) for all: ‘We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year’

Trump also pressured lawmakers to formally prohibit insider trading among legislators, shortly after mentioning Nancy Pelosi's name.

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Troubled Nvidia ally Supermicro pledged to hire a new CFO ‘immediately.’ That was 14 months ago.

“No one wants this job,” Cowen Partners search firm president Shawn Cole said.

20.02.2026 60

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With Figma stock down 80% post-IPO, investors cheer solid customer growth, ties to Anthropic and OpenAI

The design collaboration platform has shed 80% of its stock value since its 2025 IPO, trading at $23 a share amid a brutal sector-wide rout in SaaS...

19.02.2026 50

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A widow lost $39,000, her house, and six dogs after a scam. ‘If the story wasn’t so horrible, people wouldn’t pay attention’

Americans are being defrauded out of billions through an epidemic of romance and investment schemes and it can happen to anybody, authorities warn.

14.02.2026 50

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