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The latest investor updates on stocks that are trending on Tuesday.
The industry leader with the clearest path to become the next trillion-dollar company is one of Wall Street's most prolific stock-split stocks.
Stocks shrug off latest Powell threat. U.S. indexes posted mild gains despite pressure following the news that the Trump administration has launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, still believes in the investment case for artificial intelligence in the year ahead but will be focusing on broader opportunities, it said on Tuesday. Investors seeking to play the AI theme into 2026 favour energy and infrastructure providers over Wall Street big tech, BlackRock said in its Investment Directions report, citing a recent investor survey it conducted. AI and big tech dominated markets and world equity returns in 2025, but as the multitrillion-dollar race between the likes of Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet to build new data centres generates worries about uncertain returns on capital and higher borrowing, investors were looking for new ideas, the BlackRock survey showed.
AI-based shopping remains a haphazard experience for now. But OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are working hard to disrupt shopping once again.
Apple gets a faster path to a smarter Siri, while Alphabet gets Gemini in front of one of the biggest consumer audiences in the world.
UK house prices to rise by 1.5% overall in 2026, says Zoopla.
After more than two years of negotiations, one of the biggest credit-card deals of all time will see Goldman replaced by JPMorgan on the Apple credit card.
CoreWeave is risky but it trades at a surprisingly low valuation.
Microsoft has promised to pay higher utility bills for all of its U.S. data centers powering artificial-intelligence models, President Trump said Monday, accelerating plans by the tech industry and administration to respond to local fears that AI is pushing up electricity prices. The software giant “will make major changes beginning this week to ensure that Americans don’t ‘pick up the tab’ for their power consumption,” Trump said on Truth Social.
What Happened in Markets Today Stocks shrug off latest Powell threat. Major U.S. stock indexes posted some mild gains Monday despite earlier pressure following news that the Trump administration has launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
Apple plans to use Google's Gemini to power future Apple Intelligence features, including an AI-enhanced Siri coming later this year, the companies said Monday.
During the proverbial (and actual) gold rush, the most consistent fortunes are made by those selling the "picks and shovels." While the LLM wars between tech giants continue to dominate the headlines, the real staying power and predictability lie in the AI infrastructure stocks.
On Jan. 12, 2026, a Bitcoin-linked data center operator’s AI pivot and Microsoft deal put its growth strategy under the spotlight.
Google parent Alphabet value topped $4 trillion, making it the latest tech company to cross that threshold as investors reward the internet-search leader for its artificial-intelligence gains. Shares in Alphabet rose 1% to a record $331.86 on Monday, putting its market capitalization just above $4 trillion. Four technology companies have traded at market capitalizations of $4 trillion, and only Nvidia is still above that mark.
Nasdaq composite outperforms the Dow and the S&P 500. Alphabet crosses above $4 trillion market cap.
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Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that's become more like a rite of passage amid an artificial intelligence arms race. Alphabet reached the threshold just four months after Google dodged the U.S. government's attempt to break up its internet empire following a ruling last year that branded its ubiquitous search engine an illegal monopoly. In an effort to prevent further abuses, a federal judge overseeing the case ordered a shake-up that investors widely interpreted as a slap on the wrist, resulting in a 57% increase in Alphabet's stock price since then that has created an additional $1.4 trillion in shareholder wealth.
The chip stock has rallied hard following President Donald Trump's praise for its CEO. Analysts still see issues for the company.
Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology.
Apple revealed Monday that it plans to use Google's Gemini AI models to power the next version of its Siri digital assistant. Apple stock rose.
Meta plans to cut around 10% of the employees in its Reality Labs division who work on products including the metaverse, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing three people with knowledge of the discussions. The cuts to Reality Labs, which has roughly 15,000 employees, could be announced as soon as Tuesday and are set to disproportionately affect those in the metaverse unit who work on virtual reality headsets and virtual social networks, the report said. The metaverse had been a massive project spearheaded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who prioritized and spent heavily on the venture, only for the business to burn more than $60 billion since 2020.
Microsoft beat software peers as Azure's 25% cloud share and OpenAI-led AI lift cash flow, despite competition, regulation and rising AI capex.
Alphabet stock joined the club of companies with a market capitalization of more than $4 trillion. It was the stock’s first time above that threshold, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Alphabet has now joined Nvidia Apple and Microsoft as the only companies to ever cross the $4 trillion milestone.
Investors will be looking to what executives say about the credit card business after President Donald Trump’s demands for a 10% cap on card rates.