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Though the roles may be reversed in Ford and Geely's partnership, the former should have a ton to gain from its Chinese partner.

Fed’s preferred inflation gauge (PCE) showed core prices rose 3.3% annually in July.

Nvidia wavered late while CrowdStrike, Okta, Salesforce are big earnings winners. Is the market setting up or a setup?

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.

OpenAI is launching a second startup fund—this time pulling from its own balance sheet. An affiliate of the ChatGPT maker filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday indicating it has raised a $400 million sophomore fund. OpenAI launched its first startup fund, a $175 million haul, in 2021.

Meta agreed to pay a coalition of US states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing on Wednesday that ends a landmark trial in California.The settlement ends the trial in its second week.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has revealed the reason behind SpaceX launching his Tesla Roadster to orbit Earth and Mars. Could Not Risk Something Valuable In a post on X on Monday, Musk quoted a...

Elon Musk's Grok Bot promise vows to make users whole if the AI loses money, yet xAI terms cap liability at $100.

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

Autonomous trucking is moving from pilot talk to real freight ops. Einride CEO Roozbeh Charli breaks down 27% revenue growth, a 60% jump in driverless hours, the Amazon middle-mile rollout, and the plan for 500 Tesla Semis on its platform. The conversation gets into what matters for carriers and fleet operators: where autonomous trucks actually […] The post Autonomous Trucks Are Here: Einride’s 27% Revenue Jump appeared first on FreightWaves.

Researchers have raised concerns about the change’s effect on their independence and ability to detect threats from newest models.

The deal contains broad new safeguards for underage users but only pays out in full if TikTok and YouTube make similar concessions.

Nvidia (NVDA) delivered another blockbuster quarter, beating Wall Street's expectations as demand for AI infrastructure continues to surge. But amid growing scrutiny over Nvidia's investments in AI companies and data-center projects, questions about "circular financing" have taken center stage. On Nvidia's earnings call, CFO Colette Kress pushed back on that characterization, explaining why the chipmaker views its partnerships and investments as strategic opportunities, not simply a way to finance.

Rivian bleeds cash while scaling production; Tesla prints billions despite slowing revenue. The valuation gap between them tells an entirely different story.

On Aug. 26, 2026, hotter-than-expected July inflation and rising bond yields shifted rate-cut expectations, weighing on chip stocks ahead of Nvidia's earnings.

AI juggernaut Nvidia on Wednesday reported quarterly revenue of $96.2 billion, more than double from a year earlier, as the world's most valuable company beat Wall Street expectations and forecast even stronger sales ahead.Nvidia told investors to expect about $108 billion in revenue in the current quarter, well ahead of Wall Street forecasts and a signal that the company sees no near-term slowdown in AI spending.

Wednesday's historic settlement between Meta and dozens of US states could be just the start of a wave that will ripple across the social media industry, putting TikTok, YouTube and Snap under pressure to make similar changes to their apps for teens."I hope that Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube will read the writing on the wall and enter into similar settlements," Lopez said in a statement.

For 2026 Q3, the expectation is that total S&P 500 earnings will increase +22.6% from the same period last year on +10.9% higher revenues, with 14 of the 16 Zacks expected to enjoy positive earnings growth and five producing double-digit growth.

Nvidia beat expectations for its fiscal Q2 and with its sales outlook. Nvidia stock rose after wavering after the report.

One part of Alphabet’s AI story is getting harder to ignore

Stocks traded modestly lower Wednesday ahead of Nvidia’s earnings report and after the personal consumption expenditures index, or PCE, for July revealed inflation was a bit stronger than expected. Intel rose o.9% and Broadcom declined 0.3% with investors in wait-and-see mode when it comes to chip stocks. Nvidia reported earnings after the bell, and shares rose about 4%.

Investing.com -- Amazon Web Services and Nvidia announced today an expansion of their partnership to address growing demand for AI infrastructure. The companies plan to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs across AWS's global infrastructure in 2027-2028.

The stock has soared since a custom chip agreement with a giant customer came to light. The place that deal shows up this week isn't where most investors will look.

The social media giant reached a settlement with U.S. states on Wednesday, easing a major legal overhang, today, Aug. 26, 2026.

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.