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Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record

Samsung’s stock has more than quadrupled in a year. The KOSPI broke 7,000 for the first time. Two Korean chipmakers now account for 42% of the index. The supercycle that built this rally is, by Samsung’s own forecast, not yet at its peak. There is a particular type of market moment that does not happen […]

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Duolingo beat every estimate Wall Street had. Then it told investors it was going to slow down on purpose. The stock dropped 14 per cent.

Duolingo beat every Wall Street estimate for the first quarter of 2026. Revenue rose 27 per cent year on year to 292 million dollars. Earnings per share came in at 89 cents against expectations of 76 cents. Daily active users grew 21 per cent to 56.5 million. Paid subscribers grew 21 per cent to 12.5 […]

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Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again

Three months after a $30bn multi-currency raise, Google’s parent is back. The euro tranches expand one of the most active corporate borrowing programmes of the AI cycle. Three months after raising more than $30bn in a multi-currency global debt issue, Alphabet is back at the bond market. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Google’s parent has […]

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Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT

Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust will list on the NYSE under BXDC, targeting newly built data centres leased to hyperscalers. It is the most direct way Wall Street has yet packaged the AI build-out for public investors. For most of the past 18 months, the financial story behind the AI build-out has been a story about […]

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Palantir’s earnings test arrives in the middle of an AI software sell-off

After a 30% year-to-date drawdown, Monday’s Q1 results are Palantir’s first chance to argue, not assume, that it does not belong in the broader AI software multiple compression. Until two weeks ago, Palantir was, by some measures, the best-performing large-cap software stock of the AI cycle. It had outpaced Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe by […]

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Cerebras files updated IPO terms: $3.5bn raise at $26.6bn valuation

Three days after suggesting it might target up to $4bn at $40bn, the AI chipmaker has marketed 28 million shares at $115-$125 each, lining the deal up with its February private valuation rather than above it. Cerebras Systems was preparing to seek up to $4bn at a roughly $40bn valuation in its long-awaited initial public […]

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Amazon’s best quarter in years was half-built on a $16.8 billion paper gain from Anthropic

Amazon reported first-quarter 2026 net sales of $181.5 billion, a 17 per cent increase year on year that exceeded analyst estimates by more than $4 billion. Net income reached $30.3 billion, nearly doubling from $17.1 billion in the same period last year. Earnings per share came in at $2.78, crushing the $1.64 consensus. AWS revenue […]

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Wall Street says Oracle is a buy. The investors selling it can count to $300 billion.

Oracle’s stock has fallen nearly 50 per cent since hitting a record in September and dropped 14 per cent in the six sessions through Thursday, its worst stretch in months. Of the 51 Wall Street analysts tracked by Bloomberg who follow the company, 41 have buy ratings and only one rates it a sell. The […]

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AI chipmaker Cerebras targets up to $4bn IPO at $40bn valuation

After a CFIUS-induced retreat in 2024, the wafer-scale chip startup is back with an OpenAI deal in its pocket and a sharper bet against Nvidia. Eighteen months ago, Cerebras Systems looked like a cautionary tale. The Sunnyvale-based AI chip startup had filed for an initial public offering in September 2024, only to see its plans […]

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Reddit Q1 revenue jumps 69% to $663m, and shares rally 9%

The social platform beat Wall Street estimates across every line, raised Q2 guidance above consensus, and reported $1m in capital expenditure, a striking contrast to the hyperscaler capex arms race. Reddit reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $663 million, up 69% year on year and 8.5% above the $611 million Wall Street consensus, in earnings released […]

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