US power use is expected to keep notching record highs in 2026 and 2027, according to the Energy Information Administration.
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Shares of Apple have risen 26% this year, enough to help it retake the market cap throne from momentary usurper Nvidia earlier this month.
Apple shares climbed nearly 1% on the news, bringing it closer to reclaiming the throne as the biggest US company by market cap.
Google shares have been hammered recently as two top artificial intelligence researchers spurned the company to join OpenAI and Anthropic.
IBM shares rose 5% on Tuesday, thanks largely to a pair of executive orders signed that helped funnel it toward a quantum-fueled future.
The US government took a 10% stake in Intel last year and the Trump administration has been arguably its best sales advocate.
The big money firm is teaming up with Nvidia, Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund, and Texas energy producer Vistra to build data centers.
Capital expenditures continue to balloon and the company plans to raise another $40 billion through debt and equity financing.
There’s been a bit of a vibe shift since Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tabbed Marvell as “next trillion-dollar company” just a week ago.
Training the AI robots that can interact in the physical world requires a gargantuan set of relevant training data that doesn’t yet exist.
A share price rally pushed ASML’s market cap to $668 billion on Wednesday, beating a European record set by Novo Nordisk in June 2024.
Running AI agents around the clock can consume hundreds of millions, or even billions, of tokens (units of data) a week.
High-bandwidth memory now accounts for roughly two-thirds of the total AI chip component cost, up from about 50% in early 2024.
SoftBank is one of OpenAI’s top shareholders, having built up a $64.6 billion, 13% stake in the ChatGPT maker.
The Chinese company was blacklisted from receiving advanced semiconductor technology in 2019 over national-security concerns.
In a call with analysts Wednesday, CFO Colette Kress confirmed that the company generated zero revenue from H200 sales to China.