Tag: NASDAQ:MSFT
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AI Boom Could Keep Memory Prices Elevated for Years
Will Costs Across the Tech Industry Rise? The global memory market may be entering another extended period of supply constraints, as surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure places increasing pressure on available DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production. Industry executives are warning that shortages could persist through 2027 and potentially beyond, creating challenges for manufacturers…
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Microsoft’s Disc-to-Digital Rollout Turns Physical Xbox Games Into Digital Licenses, With a Catch
Microsoft has unveiled a new Xbox feature that could change how players think about physical game collections in an increasingly digital gaming landscape. Announced during Gamescom, the company’s new Disc-to-Digital program allows owners of supported Xbox One and Xbox Series X games to convert eligible physical copies into digital entitlements. The feature begins rolling out…
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OpenAI and News Corp Seal Partnership, DuPont de Nemours Announces Division, and More News
News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) – News Corp and OpenAI have established a historic partnership allowing OpenAI to use journalistic content from News Corp, including major titles like The Wall Street Journal and The Sun, to enhance OpenAI’s answers and products. News Corp’s shares rose up to 2% in pre-market trading. DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:DD) – DuPont…
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CalPERS to Oppose Exxon Mobil Directors; Microsoft Unveils Copilot+ PCs with AI Focus, and More News
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced it will vote against Exxon’s 12 board nominees, citing the company’s legal action against activist investors. CalPERS warned in a letter that such legal action could diminish investors’ roles and rights in influencing the company’s financial outcomes. The vote will take place at…
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Li Auto Stocks Drop Post Earnings; Calhoun Re-elected to Boeing Board, and More News
Li Auto (NASDAQ:LI) – Li Auto shares fell 4.5% in pre-market trading after reporting first-quarter results. Li Auto’s vehicle revenues of 24.25 billion yuan (US$ 3.4 billion) increased 32% year-over-year but fell short of the expected 26.71 billion yuan. Deliveries of the Chinese automaker’s first pure electric car were below targets, resulting in a net…
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OpenAI’s Reddit Partnership Boosts Shares by 14%, Microsoft Embraces AMD Chips for AI, and More News
Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) – Reddit has partnered with OpenAI to integrate its content with ChatGPT, boosting the platform’s shares. This initiative aims to diversify beyond advertising, following a similar collaboration with Alphabet to train AI models. Investors see significant revenue potential in data for AI. Reddit’s shares rose 13.7% in pre-market trading. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Advanced Micro…
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Chubb Stock Soars 9% with Berkshire Acquisition, AST SpaceMobile jumps 37% on AT&T deal, and More News
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A), Chubb (NYSE:CB) – Chubb’s stock increased by approximately 9.3% after Berkshire Hathaway disclosed its acquisition of nearly 26 million shares of the property and casualty insurer, representing a $6.7 billion investment. As a result, Chubb became Berkshire’s ninth-largest holding by the end of March, as recorded in a new regulatory document. Netflix…
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Buterin Proposes New Ethereum Fee Model, Unofficial Gamestop Memecoin Soars, and More Crypto News
Unofficial Gamestop memecoin reaches $100 million market cap The memecoin Gamestop.Finance, an unofficial parody on Solana based on GameStop (NYSE:GME), briefly hit a $100 million market cap due to a trading frenzy, reaching a peak of $0.01449. At the time of writing, GME has increased by 2,109% in a week and is trading at $0.01234,…
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Arm Sets 2025 Target for AI Chip Development, Amazon and Microsoft Commit Billions to French Investments, and More
Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) – SoftBank is collaborating with Arm to develop AI chips, aiming to start mass production in 2025. SoftBank is financially contributing, negotiating with manufacturers like TSMC (NYSE:TSM). Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) – France secured new jobs and investments on Sunday before hosting a foreign investment summit. Macron led the ‘Choose France’ event, aiming to…
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Novavax Surges 57% Post $1.4 Billion Sanofi Deal; Apple Boosts Data Centers with AI and Internal Chips, and More News
Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX), Sanofi (NASDAQ:SNY) – Novavax closed a $1.4 billion deal with Sanofi to commercialize its Covid-19 vaccine and develop a new combined vaccine against coronavirus and influenza, boosting NVAX shares by 56.70% in pre-market. The deal led Novavax to suspend its continuity warning, reversing its previous financial decline. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) – Apple plans to…