Amazon shares plunged 8% Friday after the company posted mixed fourth-quarter earnings and boosted its 2026 spending forecast to $200 billion. Here’s how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.95 vs. $1.97 estimated Revenue: $213.39 billion vs. $211.33 billion estimated Wall Street was also looking at other…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday, OpenAI has been busy playing defense. CEO Sam Altman and a wave of senior…
Jim Cramer is urging Amazon investors to remain patient and trust the cloud and e-commerce company’s massive spending strategy despite the evident risks it poses to profits. “I have total faith,” Jim said on Friday’s “Squawk on the Street.” “[Amazon CEO Andy Jassy] knows how to do this. So, I believe, and I’m not bolting.”…
The Google Midlothian Data Center in Texas, Nov. 14, 2025. Ron Jenkins | Getty Images Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon are expected to spend nearly $700 billion combined this year to fuel their AI build-outs. For investors who love cash above all else, some warning signs may be flashing. With the heart of tech earnings…
Uber signs are seen on cars in Krakow, Poland on October 12, 2025. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Uber on Thursday was ordered to pay $8.5 million to the plaintiff in an Arizona trial that is the first lawsuit to be tried of thousands involving alleged sexual assault and misconduct by drivers on…
The tech industry’s surging capital expenditures for AI infrastructure are justified, appropriate and sustainable, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday on CNBC’s “Halftime Report.” “The reason for that is because all of these companies’ cash flows are going to start rising,” Huang said. Nvidia shares were up 7% during trading Friday. Huang’s comments come after…
Megan Lieu is an influencer who makes content about tech and gives career advice on social media. Tech companies like Microsoft and Google are going after new users for their AI services the way any marketer tries to make their products look cool: through social media influencers. Other artificial intelligence players, including OpenAI, Anthropic and…
Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor said two years would be an “aggressive” time frame for space data centers and that cooling remains a problem for the developing technology. While SpaceX has the heavy lift rockets to bring components to space, Taylor told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan that the lack of a cooling solution to transfer the…
Amazon shares sunk more than 9% on Friday after the company’s hefty spending forecast surprised investors who were already wary that the artificial intelligence boom is at risk of becoming a bubble. The e-commerce company on Thursday became the latest tech giant to announce plans for a massive increase in capital expenditures, after Google parent…
Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images Bitcoin bounced off its recent low on Friday after narrowly avoiding falling below the key $60,000 mark, but some market commentators suggested there’s more selling to come. Late on Thursday, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency fell below $61,000 and hovered just above the $60,000 mark. As of 7:50 a.m….