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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 15h ago
US Top News and Analysis | Google cloud growth tops Microsoft and Amazon as all three beat estimates on AI demand AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. In the first quarter, the three leading cloud providers all surpassed analyst expectations, with Google posting the most striking growth—its cloud revenue jumped 63% to $20.03 billion, the fastest expansion since the segment was separated in 2020. Amazon Web Services saw a 28% increase to $37.6 billion, while Microsoft’s Azure and other cloud services rose 40%, beating estimates. The surge is driven by soaring demand for artificial‑intelligence models and services, as Google pushes its Gemini AI and tensor‑processing units, Amazon expands its Bedrock AI platform, and Microsoft reports a doubling of customers using Anthropic and OpenAI models. Together, the trio expects to spend nearly $600 billion on capital expenditures this year, even as smaller “neocloud” players capture about 5% of the market. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/google-microsoft-and-amazon-all-report-cloud-beats-in-earnings.html #Google #Amazon #Microsoft #SundarPichai #OpenAI #Anthropic #Nvidia #SynergyResearch #CoreWeave #Nebius #
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 16h ago
US Top News and Analysis | Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the stock market Thursday AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. On Thursday, April 30 2026, Jim Cramer highlighted ten market catalysts: Alphabet topped earnings with strong AI‑driven growth in search, subscriptions and cloud, prompting a price‑target hike to $400; Amazon followed, boosting AWS to 28% growth and maintaining a $200 billion capex plan, lifting its target to $300; Microsoft saw 40% cloud growth and Copilot expansion, keeping its $500 target despite a slight stock dip; Meta’s lack of a cloud business hurt sentiment, leading to an 8.5% share decline and a reduced target of $750; broader market forces—robust earnings, lower oil, and bond yields—should support a higher S&P 500 opening; Eli Lilly smashed forecasts with a 49% U.S. volume surge, sending its stock up over 6%; Cardinal Health delivered modest earnings improvement but fell 1%; AI start‑up Anthropic is in talks for a $900 billion valuation; Qualcomm’s data‑center chip launch for a “large hyperscaler” spurred a >10% rally; and Intel, riding soaring demand for AI chips, hit an all‑time high with shares jumping nearly 24% after blockbuster earnings. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/jim-cramers-top-10-things-to-watch-in-the-stock-market-thursday.html #JimCramer #JeromePowell #Alphabet #Amazon #EliLilly #AndyJassy #DavidRicks
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 16h ago
US Top News and Analysis | Amazon posted a blowout quarter. Why the Street says this is only the start of the stock's strong run AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Amazon.com reported a strong first‑quarter earnings beat, posting $181.52 billion in revenue—above the $177.3 billion forecast—and earnings of $2.78 per share versus the $1.64 consensus estimate. AWS accelerated 28% quarter‑over‑quarter, driven by AI‑related workload shifts and its Trainium chip, while the company lifted its second‑quarter revenue outlook to $194‑199 billion. Although the stock initially rose more than 4% before retracing, analysts were upbeat: Barclays raised its target to $330, Citi to $285, Morgan Stanley to $330, Bernstein to $315, BofA to $310, Mizuho to $325, and Canaccord to $330, citing AWS’s AI‑driven growth, a robust retail business, expanding margins, and a strong backlog that position Amazon as a leading AI and e‑commerce player. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/amazon-had-a-blowout-quarter-the-street-sees-start-of-a-strong-run.html #Amazon #AWS #Barclays #Citi #MorganStanley #Microsoft #Alphabet #Meta #OpenAI #Mizuho #
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 21h ago
Bloomberg Technology | Microsoft’s Cloud Growth Fails to Ease Investors’ AI Concerns by Brody Ford AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Microsoft Corp. announced that its cloud computing revenue and AI‑infrastructure spending will accelerate this year, aiming to reassure investors that its large AI investments are set to deliver returns. The company projects Azure cloud sales to rise about 40 % in the current quarter and expects a “modest acceleration” of growth in the second half of the calendar year, according to Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood during an analyst call. Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/microsoft-posts-strong-expansion-in-azure-cloud-computing-unit #Microsoft #Azure #AmyHood #Amazon #AI
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 22h ago
Sweden Herald - Latest Sweden News | Amazon is doing better than expected after beating quarterly earnings and revenue expectations by Sweden Herald AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Amazon posted a stronger‑than‑expected quarterly performance, reporting earnings per share of $2.78 versus the $1.64 analysts had forecast and revenue of $181.52 billion, outpacing the $177.3 billion consensus. Cloud services generated $37.59 billion—above the $36.64 billion estimate—and grew 28 % year‑over‑year. For the upcoming quarter, Amazon projects sales of $194‑199 billion, beating the $188.9 billion analysts anticipated, yet its shares slipped 1.5 % in after‑hours trading on the NYSE. Read more: https://swedenherald.com/article/amazon-is-doing-better-than-expected-after-beating-quarterly-earnings-and-revenue-expectations #Amazon #AmazonWebServices #LSEG #NewYorkStockExchange
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 1d ago
News Headlines | Fears for 150 Irish-based jobs at Oracle AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The Irish Department of Enterprise has received a collective redundancy notification from Oracle indicating that roughly 150 Irish‑based roles are at risk, though the exact figure was not confirmed. The planned cuts are part of a broader global downsizing as Oracle ramps up spending on artificial‑intelligence to compete with rivals such as Alphabet and Amazon, and the company has not responded to requests for comment. The article also mentions similar redundancy notifications for other tech firms—outsourcing company Covalen and Meta—but the immediate focus is the potential loss of about 150 jobs at Oracle’s Irish operation. Read more: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0429/1570890-fears-for-150-irish-based-jobs-at-oracle/ #Oracle #Alphabet #Amazon #Meta #IrishGovernment
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 1d ago
US Top News and Analysis | Traders brace for $800 billion in earnings-related stock movement AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Traders are bracing for a dramatic earnings night as four members of the “Magnificent Seven”—Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Meta and Microsoft—prepare to report results, prompting options markets to price in more than $800 billion of potential market‑cap movement. Implied moves for three of the four stocks exceed their four‑quarter averages, with bullish call buying outpacing puts across all names. Notably, huge call orders have been placed on Amazon and Microsoft, including multi‑hundred‑thousand‑dollar purchases of in‑the‑money strikes, suggesting investors expect upside surprises despite mixed historical performance relative to options pricing. The overall sentiment remains bullish, with demand for upside exposure outstripping expectations of sell‑offs. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/traders-brace-for-800-billion-in-earnings-related-stock-movement.html #Alphabet #Amazon #Meta #Microsoft
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 1d ago
US Top News and Analysis | Five 'Magnificent Seven' names will post earnings before the week ends. Levels to watch AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article reviews the upcoming earnings reports of the five “Magnificent Seven” megacap growth stocks and examines what their chart patterns suggest for the near‑term market. It notes that the MAGS ETF, which tracks these large‑cap growth names, has rebounded sharply from March lows but has yet to break new highs, hovering near its 200‑day moving average and showing a potential inverse head‑and‑shoulders formation. Relative strength is evident as MAGS has outperformed the S&P 500 in recent weeks, and historic pullbacks have typically been followed by multi‑month rallies that restored the ETF to prior relative highs. Among the individual components, Google (GOOGL) and Nvidia (NVDA) have outperformed the ETF dramatically over the past year, while the other holdings have lagged, dragging overall performance. The piece concludes that a positive earnings response from the lagging stocks, combined with continued strength from the leaders, could revitalize the broader large‑cap growth complex, though investors should watch for overbought conditions and potential price ceilings. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/five-magnificent-seven-names-will-post-earnings-before-the-week-ends-levels-to-watch.html #MagnificentSeven #MAGSETF #SP500 #Google #Nvidia #Amazon #Apple #Meta #Microsoft #NVDA #
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 1d ago
qwant news | Bill Ackman's $5 billion Pershing Square IPO to start trading, testing Berkshire-style vision AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square USA (ticker PSUS) debuted on the NYSE at $42, well below its $50 IPO price, and was trading around $40.90, an 18% decline, while the related asset‑manager stock Pershing Square Inc. (PS) opened at $24 and hovered near $23.50. The $5 billion offering created two separately traded entities—a closed‑end fund (PSUS) and the management company (PS)—designed to attract both institutional and retail investors and to omit performance fees. Investors in PSUS also received bonus shares of PS, linking the two vehicles. Ackman positioned the structure as a step toward a Berkshire‑Hathaway‑style permanent‑capital platform, emphasizing Pershing Square’s 2,600% cumulative net return since 2004, its macro‑hedging record (including a 93‑fold COVID‑era credit‑protection trade), and plans for Berkshire‑inspired shareholder practices such as annual meetings and investor days. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/bill-ackmans-5-billion-pershing-square-ipo-to-start-trading-testing-berkshire-style-vision.html #BillAckman #PershingSquare #BerkshireHathaway #WarrenBuffett #Amazon #Uber #Brookfield
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 1d ago
US Top News and Analysis | OpenAI looms over earnings from tech hyperscalers AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. OpenAI, now valued at more than $850 billion, has become a pivotal market barometer as Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft gear up to report earnings, and a Wall Street Journal story that the AI company fell short of its own revenue and user‑growth forecasts knocked shares of Oracle, Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom. The same day Amazon announced that OpenAI’s models will be available on its AWS cloud, while Microsoft and OpenAI reshaped their long‑standing partnership despite Microsoft’s $13 billion investment and Amazon’s newly pledged $50 billion commitment. Meanwhile, Alphabet’s Gemini models are gaining ground and easing concerns that AI could erode Google’s search dominance, and Meta is locked in a talent war with OpenAI—having tried to poach staff with massive bonuses and now launching its proprietary Muse Spark model after open‑source attempts faltered. Analysts regard OpenAI as a competitive but manageable threat to the hyperscalers, and the firm is also tangled in a high‑profile lawsuit between CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk over alleged breaches of OpenAI’s founding agreement. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/openai-looms-over-earnings-from-tech-hyperscalers.html #OpenAI #SamAltman #ElonMusk #Amazon #Microsoft
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 1d ago
Irish Independent : Independent | Spotify to hike all monthly premium plans by €1 to €3 AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Spotify announced that it will raise the price of all its Premium plans in Europe by €1 to €3, representing increases of 8 % to 15 % across the range. The individual plan will go from €11.99 to €12.99, the Duo plan from €16.99 to €18.99, and the Family plan from €19.99 to €22.99. Spotify says the additional revenue will allow it to “invest more in Premium” and improve the service as it approaches its 20‑year anniversary. In the latest quarter the company reported 761 million monthly active users, with paying subscribers up 9 % to 293 million and revenue up 8 % to €4.5 billion, even as it faces competition from AI‑driven offerings and rivals such as Amazon, Apple, YouTube and Meta. Read more: https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/spotify-to-hike-all-monthly-premium-plans-by-1-to-3/a1346885138.html #Spotify #Amazon
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@GurgelSegrillo@mastodon.ie · 2d ago
Jeff Bezos is hoping ONE WEEK from today when he chairs the Met Gala that he’ll be celebrated and pictured with Beyonce. F*ck that. We’re exposing the truth: Amazon's servers are used to track and deport people for ICE. Thanks to the 1000 people who’ve funded these ads. Via Everyone Hates Elon https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXpVG5OETtg/?igsh=MXYwZ21veHY2d2Nieg== #BoycottBezos #MetGala #FuckICE #FuckBezos #Amazon #JeffBezos #EveryoneHatesElon #FuckAmazon
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@TechDesk@flipboard.social · 3d ago
Sometimes a business deal needs negotiation. Or, in the case of OpenAI and Microsoft, a good renegotiation. The tech giants have announced a deal that resolves the issue of OpenAI’s up-to-$50 billion contract it agreed to with Amazon last February. Read more from @Techcrunch@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/SwLpTV #Tech #OpenAI #Microsoft #AI #Amazon #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence
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@newsgroup@social.vir.group · 5d ago
Google has announced plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI. The previous record was $13 billion from Microsoft into OpenAI. Amazon had already given Anthropic $4 billion. Three tech giants are now financially tied to the three leaders of the frontier AI race. Independent players at this level have effectively disappeared. Computing power is controlled by the same cloud providers. Training data flows from platforms owned by the same corporations. Talent is recruited by whoever has the deepest pockets. This is not competition. This is structural monopoly. Anthropic markets itself as a safety-first AI lab with Constitutional AI. The question remains: who writes the constitution? A private company now dependent on Google and Amazon. Corporate oversight of "safe AI" is not neutral academic process. It is the definition of allowable knowledge through the lens of business interests. When you talk to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, your conversations are stored on corporate servers. Official reason: improving models. Default setting: data collection. You can opt out if you find the buried setting. Most users never will. The alternative is not utopian. Open models like Meta LLaMA 4 and Mistral AI can run locally on your own hardware. Ollama and LM Studio provide one-command installation. Local AI means no data collection. No corporate control. No surveillance. Frontier models are more capable. But for most daily tasks, open models are sufficient. The question is not technical. It is structural. And the window for keeping AI as a public good rather than a corporate asset is closing. https://newsgroup.site/google-40-billion-anthropic-ai-monopoly-open-source/ #AI #Monopoly #Google #Anthropic #OpenAI #Microsoft #Amazon #OpenSource #Privacy #LocalAI
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@mongabay@mastodon.green · 6d ago
As gold prices soar, so does illegal mining in the Amazon. A new AI tool from Amazon Mining Watch is now tracking these "mining scars" across nine countries to provide an early-warning system for authorities to tackle this soaring-price-driven crisis. Constance Malleret reports for #Mongabay. https://mongabay.cc/0iqYhP #News #Gold #Amazon
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@Dragofix@veganism.social · 6d ago
Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/vaupes-river-contamination-identified-near-rapidly-expanding-amazonian-town/ #Amazon #Vaupés #environment #river
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@Dragofix@veganism.social · 6d ago
Global appetite for beef is driving Amazon deforestation, new study finds https://phys.org/news/2026-04-global-appetite-beef-amazon-deforestation.html #Amazon #environment #forest #deforestation #beef #AnimalRights #GoVegan
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 6d ago
US Top News and Analysis | Cramer's week ahead: Record highs meet a pivotal week for tech earnings AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Jim Cramer warned that the market has become a “beast” driven by a powerful rally in data‑center and AI‑related stocks, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closing at record highs on gains from chipmaker Intel and other AI infrastructure players. He said the packed slate of tech earnings next week will be the most important of the quarter, testing whether the surge is sustainable or over‑hyped. Cramer highlighted upcoming reports—Verizon, Nucor, Corning, Robinhood, Bloom Energy, Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Eli Lilly, Apple, Sandisk, Western Digital, Chevron and Exxon—pointing out specific catalysts such as data‑center demand, fiber‑optic growth, fuel‑cell technology, and memory shortages. He urged investors to listen to conference calls rather than headlines, noting his charitable trust holds shares in many of the discussed companies. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/cramers-week-ahead-record-highs-meet-a-pivotal-week-for-tech-earnings.html #JimCramer #Amazon #Microsoft #AndyJassy #TimCook AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 6d ago
US Top News and Analysis | Amazon custom chips get a boost from Meta, giving the cloud giant another path to win in AI AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Amazon’s shares jumped nearly 3 percent after Meta announced a multi‑year deal to run its AI workloads on Amazon Web Services’ Graviton CPUs, making Meta a top‑five Graviton customer and underscoring AWS’s growing role in AI infrastructure. The partnership highlights Amazon’s broader chip strategy—offering cost‑efficient Graviton processors for “always‑on” reasoning tasks and Trainium accelerators for AI model training—as a complement to Nvidia’s GPUs and a way for cloud customers like Meta to lower compute expenses. Jim Cramer praised the move, noting that Amazon’s chip revenue now exceeds $20 billion and is growing at triple‑digit rates, and he maintains a bullish outlook on both Amazon and Meta ahead of their upcoming earnings reports. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/amazon-custom-chips-get-a-boost-from-meta-giving-the-cloud-giant-another-path-to-win-in-ai.html #Amazon #Meta #AWS #Graviton #JimCramer AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
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@kuow_bot@mastodon.gruezi.net · Apr 22, 2026
Seattle Independent Bookstore Day is on April 25, kicking off 10 days dedicated to filling your shelves with books from local booksellers, like Estrelita's Library and the 33 participating stores in the Seattle area alone. https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-independent-bookstore-day-2026-amazon-can-never-be-us #KUOW #News #Books #Amazon #Literature #Seattle #Business #Economy #Books
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