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Investors in Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:PBW) have watched shares climb 74% over the past year, rising from around $20 to $35. This recovery reflects renewed optimism about renewable energy economics, though the fund still trades well below its 2021 peak after a brutal 70% drawdown driven by rising rates and profitability concerns. The ... You Need To Watch Microsoft and Amazon Before Investing in PBW ETF
In November 2025, Nvidia (NVDA) said it would invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic. The company also stated it will help optimize Anthropic models for performance, efficiency, and total cost of ownership. Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models have been trained on Nvidia GPUs, Amazon Trainium ...
Intel stock gained again on Wednesday ahead of the chip company’s earnings report. Intel shares were up 11.7% at $54.25 for the session, their highest close since January 2022. Intel is expected to report adjusted earnings of eight cents a share on revenue of $13.42 billion for the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a FactSet poll of analysts’ estimates.
Global demand for smartphones, personal computers and gaming consoles is expected to shrink this year as companies from Britain's Raspberry Pi to HP Inc raise sticker prices to offset surging memory chip costs. The rapid build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure by U.S. tech firms such as OpenAI, Alphabet-owned Google and Microsoft has absorbed much of the world's memory chip supply, pushing up prices as manufacturers prioritize components for higher-margin data centers over consumer devices. Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, the world's three largest producers of memory chips, have said in recent months that they were struggling to keep up with demand as they reported rosy quarterly earnings on the back of surging prices for their semiconductors.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the AI Stocks on Market Radar. On January 20, TD Cowen lowered its price target on the stock to $625 from $655 and maintained a Buy rating. The price target cut comes ahead of Microsoft’s Q2 results, with the firm flagging capacity constraints as a limiting factor for growth […]
Earlier in January 2026, Apple announced a multi-year partnership with Google to base its next generation of Apple Foundation Models on Google’s Gemini AI and cloud technology, bringing more personalized, AI-powered Siri features while keeping Apple Intelligence workloads on-device and within its Private Cloud Compute framework. The deal effectively places Google’s Gemini at the heart of Apple’s core AI experience, turning a long-time ecosystem rival into a large-scale customer for...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GBank Financial Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: GBFH), the parent company of GBank (the “Bank”), is pleased to announce that Jason Amos has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (EVP & CTO) of the Bank. Amos will lead the bank’s technology strategy and modernization efforts as GBank advances toward a digital-first operating model. Amos brings more than twenty years of experience building and leading large-scale te
Intel shares popped Wednesday, adding to their recent gains amid growing optimism about demand ahead of the chipmaker's earnings report due Thursday.
Despite competition concerns, Apple had the top market share in Q4 in China, per Counterpoint Research.
Microsoft (MSFT) vice chairman and president Brad Smith warned that China is currently winning the AI race against the US. This month also marked a full-year since the launch of China's DeepSeek AI model. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) senior fellow for China and emerging technologies, Chris McGuire, joins Josh Lipton To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination.
Combined with $15 billion in total prior commitments from Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp., the size of the current financing could easily surpass $20 billion, some of the people said. The list of investors in the round is starting to take shape: Coatue Management and Singapore’s GIC, which are leading the financing, are each expected to put in about $1.5 billion, according to one of the people. Iconiq Capital is also slated to be a major investor, with plans to put in $1 billion or more.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella says artificial intelligence faces a test: prove it improves people's lives or risk losing public trust. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday in a wide-ranging discussion with BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) CEO Larry Fink, Nadella said AI's massive energy use will only be tolerated if it delivers tangible results in areas like health care, education and productivity. “We will quickly lose even the social permission to actually tak
Apple's earnings are coming soon. Here's what investors should expect.
Apple plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The chatbot, code named Campos, will be embedded deeply into the iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems and will replace the current Siri interface, the report said, citing people familiar with the plan. Siri's revamp is a crucial part of Apple's strategy to catch up to its Big Tech peers in the AI race after its initial "Apple Intelligence" rollout in 2024 met with lukewarm reception.
Investing.com -- Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock spiked as much as 1.6% Wednesday afternoon following a Bloomberg News report that the company plans to transform Siri into a built-in chatbot, marking its entry into the generative AI race currently led by OpenAI and Google.
The company forms a 250 million yuan joint venture with China National Nuclear Power to explore energy generation for future AI infrastructure.
CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP) today announced that it has earned two Microsoft Solutions Partner designations - Data & AI (Azure) and Digital & App Innovation (Azure). These designations recognize CLA's commitment to delivering transformative digital solutions that help organizations harness the power of data and modern applications.
Apple and Google describe their Gemini deal as a multi‑year collaboration that will put Google’s models and cloud technology at the core of Apple’s next generation of foundation models, including a more personalized Siri arriving later this year. In their joint statement, the companies stress that ...
The chatbot — code-named Campos — will be embedded deeply into the iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems and replace the current Siri interface, according to people familiar with the plan. Users will be able to summon the new service the same way they open Siri now, by speaking the “Siri” command or holding down the side button on their iPhone or iPad.
The problem is that the market is worried about long-term growth, especially for the hundreds of smaller firms that provide businesses with niche software products that could face competition from artificial intelligence. Products from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic could eventually have business applications, which could make any given software company’s business obsolete one day down the line. The silver lining is that this sets up an opportunity to buy some beaten-down software stocks.
Tech CEOs used Davos forums to extol the future of AI, both in the enterprise and for helping better the world.
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the automaker's vehicles equipped with the AI4 (HW4) chip will be able to achieve unsupervised autonomous driving without requiring upgrades. AI4 Will Be Capable Of Self-Driving On Monday, user @iliketeslas shared a post on the social media platform X, stating that the current AI4 chips are capable of running Unsupervised FSD without "better hardware." Anyone using AI4 right now knows that better hardware is not needed for unsupervised dr
Apple stock has lagged the market, but improving fundamentals and upbeat analyst forecasts suggest earnings may reset investor expectations.
24/7 Wall St. Analysts Eric Bleeker and Austin Smith are kicking the New Year off in style with 12 trends for AI investors to watch in 2026. Over the course of 12 videos, the two will share their thoughts on everything from the memory explosion to software stocks to robotics. In this video, Eric takes a deeper look at the rise of AI factories, massive data centers with a capacity of more than 1 gigawatt. As Eric notes, it's not just Oracle's Stargate getting into the race. There are also new super factories from Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and many others. Companies with data center cooling portfolios like Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), nVent Electric (NYSE: NVT), Modine Manufacturing (NYSE: MOD) could be winners as the construction of this new generation of data centers takes off.
Tech stocks were higher Wednesday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF