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Google Cloud Revenue Surges 82% as Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Lifts 2026 AI Capex Toward $205 Billion

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)'s June-quarter results showed Google Cloud accelerating well past the 63% growth it posted three months earlier. But a $44.9 billion quarterly capital bill, negative free cash flow and a raised spending forecast pushed the shares down rather than up.

Nitish Kishor | 28 July 2026

BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) Is Marketing a US$12.3 Billion Meta Data-Centre Bond, and Buyers Are Pushing Back

BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) owns 80% of the venture behind Meta's El Paso AI campus and launched a US$12.3 billion note sale in late July 2026. Investor resistance to the pricing is the first real test of the fee engine the firm spent two years assembling.

Nitish Kishor | 28 July 2026

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Just Posted Its Fastest Revenue Growth in 15 Years, and an $11 Billion Loss to Go With It

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)'s June-quarter revenue rose 25% as data center demand surged, growth the company calls its strongest in more than fifteen years. A $12.5 billion non-cash charge tied to shares escrowed for Washington turned that quarter into a headline GAAP loss.

Nitish Kishor | 28 July 2026

Meta (NASDAQ:META) Leans on a US$12.3 Billion Off-Balance-Sheet Bond as AI Data-Centre Debt Turns Expensive

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is financing its El Paso AI campus through a BlackRock-controlled vehicle rather than its own balance sheet. The bonds were still being marketed at last closing, and investors want more than they did nine months ago.

Nitish Kishor | 28 July 2026

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Is Building an AI Security Control Plane, but It Still Won't Say What Security Earns

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has shipped an aggressive run of agentic-AI security products in 2026, from Agent 365 to a multi-agent vulnerability scanner. Investors heading into 29 July earnings face a harder question: it still has not disclosed a security revenue figure in more than three …

Nitish Kishor | 28 July 2026

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) Backs Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, but the Deal's Real Currency Is Vera Rubin Compute

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) confirmed a long-term strategic partnership and investment in Safe Superintelligence at last closing without disclosing the amount. The more consequential detail is what SSI receives: an order-of-magnitude compute increase on a Vera Rubin platform that has not yet shipped.

Nitish Kishor | 28 July 2026

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) Booked a US$638 Billion Backlog and 93% Cloud Growth, then Lost Half Its Market Value

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL)'s fiscal 2026 delivered the fastest infrastructure growth in its history and a contracted backlog larger than most national economies. Investors responded by cutting the shares roughly in half, and S&P lowered the credit rating to one notch above high yield.

Nitish Kishor | 28 July 2026

Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) Bets on Nvidia's Open Models for Sovereign AI as US Revenue Doubles, Yet the Stock Has Lagged

Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) pairs Nvidia's Nemotron open models with its own Ontology for classified and air-gapped deployments, while first-quarter US revenue grew 104%. Investors have marked the shares down anyway. Second-quarter results land 3 August.

Nitish Kishor | 28 July 2026

OpenAI in Talks With Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) for $250 Billion Backstop on Ohio AI Campus

OpenAI is in discussions with Nvidia about a backstop of up to $250 billion that would support the company's plans to lease a large artificial intelligence data center campus, according to a person familiar with the matter. The arrangement would allow OpenAI to raise …

Vinay Lochav | 27 July 2026

IonQ (NYSE:IONQ) Rallies 5% Today Alongside Quantum Computing Peers

IonQ, Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) shares advanced Monday, rallying alongside other quantum computing peers after rival D-Wave Quantum announced an expanded commercial partnership with AT&T to deploy quantum computing technology across the telecom giant's network operations, reigniting investor enthusiasm for the broader quantum computing sector ahead …

Nitish Kishor | 27 July 2026
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