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The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite was the best-performing among major indexes Thursday as Wall Street reacted to big earnings reports, with Nvidia, Salesforce and CrowdStrike soaring on the stock market today. Nvidia broke out past a proper buy point. The Dow industrials rose 200 points, or nearly 0.4%, led by its tech components including Nvidia and Salesforce.

Broadcom looks like both a short-term and long-term buy.

AWS is turning one million planned Nvidia processors into a fleet expansion exceeding three million.

Lucid is surging hard off multi-year lows while Rivian barely twitches on the same tape, and the gap between those two moves tells you exactly what is really driving this afternoon's action in electric vehicle stocks.

ServiceNow stock nears a buy point as easing AI disruption fears and AI product sales fuel a sharp rebound from early 2026 plunge.

Forty-nine state attorneys general spent years building what some feared could be an existential legal threat against Meta, and the final number shocked analysts on both sides of the trade. Whether that surprise is reason to buy or a distraction from a deeper problem is the question Wall Street has not answered yet.

XYZ's Square expands deeper into restaurants as partnerships and seller wins test whether wider adoption can accelerate growth.

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Major tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon are calling for a society-wide defensive surge to defeat what they

Megacap Tech Stocks Lag Nvidia as AI Money Pours Into Chips and Software

Danial didn't chase popular AI stocks and instead used the proceeds to buy a few defense stocks that she thinks offer more attractive valuations today.

Private equity could open a much bigger AI channel

Mike Ashley has attacked Andy Burnham’s plans to save the British high street as “disastrous” and “delusional”.

The correlation to the index is high, the five-year record shows wider swings for slightly less return, and neither of those says diversification.

Barret Zoph is returning to DeepMind.

Despite the awkward timing with the security breach, it’s still a good deal to gain control over an open-source model.

FEATURE Stocks rallied Thursday as a batch of stellar earnings reports, including one from Nvidia revived Wall Street’s appetite for tech stocks. Nvidia shares rose 7.7% after the chip maker’s second-quarter earnings topped analysts’ expectations.

LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Google has agreed to settle a mass London lawsuit brought on behalf of app developers for £260 million ($353.21 million), according to a deal published on Thursday.

Nvidia stock was surging following an earnings report that is making Wall Street rethink its assumptions about the chip maker's growth.

ServiceNow's Agentic AI momentum drives $1B-plus AI ACV, broader enterprise adoption and new monetization opportunities despite rising competition.

Lucid's new CEO unveiled a sweeping list of fixes, partnerships, and bold promises, but Wall Street responded by punishing the stock hard. The question now is whether the company can survive long enough to compete in markets dominated by rivals with far deeper pockets.

Rosenblatt called the settlement a significant win for Meta, noting that the payments represent only about 1% of Meta’s market value.

All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Thursday, after Nvidia (NVDA) relea

Alphabet and Meta both posted blockbuster Q2 2026 revenue, but one company's AI spending quietly destroyed its free cash flow by more than 90% while the other expanded margins to levels rarely seen at this scale. The divergence points to a clear winner for the next four quarters.

As rumors swirl that Nvidia may be closing in on a deal to buy Hugging Face, it released a small robot.