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Apple stock is quickly dwindling at Berkshire Hathaway... CEO Warren Buffett has said the stock will remain its biggest investment, even as its stake in Apple has halved this year.
âŚand CrowdStrike stock is shrinking at Google. Alphabet halved its stake in the cybersecurity giant just weeks before its global IT outage.
Nvidia is reportedly under an antitrust investigation. The U.S. Department of Justice is scrutinizing accusations over its abuse of market dominance in AI chips, The Information reported.
The Federal Trade Commission is probing grocery prices in the U.S. Chair Lina Khan is looking into why prices and profits at grocery chains remain so high despite lower costs.
ExxonMobil saw record oil production. The company is pumping 4.1 million barrels of crude-equivalents a day.
The AI chips are falling all over the place
Investors have a metric theyâre especially tuned into this earnings season: AI spending.
So far, it has been a mixed bag of results. Microsoftâs AI expenses freaked out investors. Metaâs, not so much. And Apple investors were more interested in the companyâs future AI plans than its lagging iPhone sales in China.
But while those three are some of the biggest players in AI development, theyâre not the only ones. Take a look at what their rivals saw:
$26.3 billion: Second-quarter revenue of Amazonâs cloud-computing unit, up 19% year over year
27%: How much Intelâs stock plummeted after it missed revenue expectations amid a push to ramp up its AI PC production
12%: Year-over-year growth that chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is projecting
What else is Wall Street saying about chips after techâs big earnings week and beyond? Quartzâs Britney Nguyen has the latest analyst notes.
Pop quiz: Change of address
Chevron â one of the biggest oil companies in the U.S. â is getting the heck out of California. Which state will house its HQ?
A. Louisiana
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The correct answer to the pop quiz is B., Texas.