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Wells Fargo projects Qualcomm could produce $5 billion to $7 billion in yearly revenue from data-center AI chips beginning in 2027, noting a more than $100 billion market for AI inference and calling attention to Qualcomm’s AI200/AI250 platforms, recent acquisitions and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) wafer allocation as potential adva…
ADT Inc. is purchasing Origin Wireless, known as Origin AI, in a $170 million cash deal, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The transaction adds Origin’s AI sensing platform and more than 200 global patents to ADT’s home security portfolio. The technology classifies motion and detects humans without using cameras, audio, or wearables …
Bank of America reviewed fundraising materials from OpenAI and concluded the company is targeting $283 billion in revenue by 2030 and roughly $665 billion in cumulative compute spending through 2030. Those projections expand the addressable market for AI-related services across ads, commerce, productivity and infrastructure, while also highlighting…
Irenic Capital Management has accumulated about a 2% stake in Ralliant and is pushing the precision-technology company to reduce operating expenses, accelerate share repurchases and prioritize its sensors and safety systems business over its more cyclical test-and-measurement unit, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Ralliant Corporation (NYSE:RALL) stock jumped 4.5% on Tuesday after reports that New York-based activist Irenic Capital Management has acquired about a 2% stake and has held multiple private discussions with company management. Irenic is urging the Raleigh, North Carolina-headquartered firm to accelerate share repurchases, reduce operating expenses…
The U.S. administration intends to deploy a Pentagon-developed artificial intelligence system to establish reference prices for select critical minerals as part of efforts to create an international metals trading bloc, three sources with direct knowledge of the initiative said. The Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN) program will i…
Warner Bros Discovery disclosed it is evaluating a revised bid from Paramount Skydance without revealing financial terms, intensifying a takeover contest that already pits Paramount against Netflix. The company reiterated that its existing agreement with Netflix remains active while talks with Paramount continue, and shareholders are advised to tak…
Intuit has entered a multi-year partnership with Anthropic to provide customizable AI agents for mid-market businesses and to embed Intuit’s tax, accounting, finance and marketing capabilities into Anthropic’s product suite. The integration uses Anthropic’s Claude Agent SDK on the Intuit platform, emphasizes compliant workflows, and will begin roll…
CSX Corporation has engaged Infosys and Microsoft in a coordinated effort to modernize its data platform. Infosys will deliver implementation services while Microsoft supplies the cloud platform technology. The project focuses on migrating and updating the railroad company’s existing data infrastructure as part of a broader technology transformatio…
Keurig Dr Pepper reported quarterly results that surpassed expectations and raised its annual revenue guidance, attributing momentum to strong consumer demand for its carbonated soft drinks and energy offerings, new flavor introductions and targeted marketing. The company is also progressing on financing for its planned acquisition of JDE Peet's an…
Morgan Stanley upgraded Booking Holdings to overweight from equal-weight in a note on Tuesday, assigning a $5,500 price target, down from $6,150. Analyst Brian Nowak argued Booking’s ability to own the customer, gather traveler data and convert that into high-margin direct business should preserve its central role in travel even as agentic tools de…
UBS Global Research downgraded Gerresheimer AG (ETR:GXIG) from "neutral" to "sell" and reduced its 12-month price target to €12.90 from €29, citing elevated leverage, lower growth and weaker margin assumptions. The broker highlighted unclear covenant terms after a debt renegotiation and noted the company has started sale processes for Centor and Mo…
Hims & Hers Health saw its shares fall 7.4% to $14.40 in premarket trading after the company issued a first-quarter revenue forecast below analyst expectations. Management cited regulatory pressure tied to its weight-loss offerings and higher spending on international expansion. Several Wall Street firms reacted with downgrades, lower price targets…
U.S. stock futures inched higher Tuesday following a prior session selloff, with investors parsing uncertainty around global trade and concerns about AI-driven disruption. Corporate reports and company-specific developments pushed a number of names in premarket trading: Home Depot, Keurig Dr Pepper and AMD posted notable gains, while Novo Nordisk, …
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz makes his first trip to China as chancellor leading a delegation of top business executives amid mounting economic tensions. The visit, which includes meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang and stops at industry sites, seeks to secure economic agreements while German firms confront intense competiti…
AES Corp has entered a 20-year agreement to provide electricity to Google’s forthcoming data center in Wilbarger County, Texas. The pact includes construction of generation resources co-located with the facility and shared grid infrastructure to support Google’s expansion. The announcement came as AES stock ticked higher in premarket trade and foll…
Agillic A/S has provided guidance for 2026 that calls for subscription annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth of 5% to 10%, an EBITDA margin between 12% and 18%, and the generation of positive free cash flow. The company reported 2025 subscription ARR of DKK 56.7 million, total revenue of DKK 58.4 million and EBITDA of DKK 8.4 million, up from DKK 1…
Saudi Arabia's equity market closed lower on Tuesday, with the Tadawul All Share slipping 0.71% to a new one-month low. Sector losses in Media & Publishing, Hotels & Tourism and Building & Construction weighed on the market, while individual winners and losers produced sizable percentage swings. Commodity and currency benchmarks showed mixed moveme…
Eli Lilly shares fell about 2.2% Tuesday after reports that Novo Nordisk will cut U.S. list prices for its GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic and Wegovy, by up to 50% starting Jan. 1, 2027. Novo Nordisk shares also declined roughly 3%. The announced price changes are intended to lower costs for patients with high deductibles or coinsurance tied to list…
The UK government will subject leading video-on-demand platforms, including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, to stronger regulation enforced by Ofcom under secondary legislation implementing the Media Act 2024. Services with more than 500,000 UK users will enter a new Tier 1 category and must comply with a VoD standards code modelled on the Broadcas…
China equities have faced downward pressure so far this year led by internet and auto stocks, driven by earnings revisions in e-commerce and cooling sentiment toward AI hyperscalers. At the same time, market breadth has improved: more than 60% of MSCI China constituents are outperforming the index, with industrials, commodities and pharma/biotech a…
Fulcrum Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: FULC) saw its stock decline about 20% on Tuesday after the company released 12-week results from the 20 mg cohort of its Phase 1b PIONEER trial of pociredir in sickle cell disease. Data from 12 evaluable patients showed a mean absolute fetal hemoglobin gain of 12.2 percentage points and improvements in markers of …
Futures tied to Canada’s primary equity gauge inched lower on Tuesday as investors weighed a cluster of cross-cutting risks: worries about the impact of powerful artificial intelligence models, unresolved questions over new U.S. global tariffs, and upcoming Canadian bank earnings that may reflect slower loan growth. Moves in materials stocks and co…
Major technology and infrastructure companies have struck a series of multi-billion-dollar contracts to secure artificial intelligence compute, chips and data-center capacity. Agreements span leading chipmakers, cloud providers, data-center operators and AI startups, with some arrangements including equity options, licensing of intellectual propert…
A widely circulated hypothetical report outlining a grim 2028 unemployment outcome tied to rapid AI-driven layoffs has unsettled markets already heavily exposed to the technology. Investors have moved out of software equities and into defensive names and parts of the AI supply chain perceived as durable winners, prompting sharp sectoral divergence …
