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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Twilio raises full-year revenue forecast as voice AI drives fastest growth in three years and shares jump 18%
Twilio raises full-year revenue forecast as voice AI drives fastest growth in three years and shares jump 18%

Q1 revenue of $1.41 billion grew 20% year on year, the highest reported rate since 2022, as the cloud communications platform repositions itself as enterprise voice AI infrastructure. Twilio raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth forecast to 14-15%, …

Apple posted its best quarter ever by not building an AI model
Apple posted its best quarter ever by not building an AI model

Apple reported its best March quarter in history on Thursday, posting revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 per cent year over year, with net profit of $29.6 billion. iPhone revenue reached a March quarter record of $58 billion, up 22 per cent, driven by wh…