- Nvidia partnered with 6 Wall Street giants to launch an AI compute financing platform aiming to raise over $500 billion in third-party capital.
- This initiative helps resolve capital bottlenecks for AI infrastructure customers, alleviates market concerns over circular financing, and expands Nvidia's potential orders.
- Technical analysis shows an upward trend, with the stock expected to test the $230-$236 resistance and potentially reach $300 if it breaks its all-time high.
- Alliant Energy held its Q2 2026 earnings call, reporting GAAP earnings of $0.65 per share while reaffirming its full‑year guidance and 2027 through 2029 compound annual EPS growth rate of 7% or more.
- The company highlighted a surging demand pipeline driven by major data center projects with tech giants like Google, QTS, and Meta, which is expected to support roughly 60% demand growth by 2031.
- Management navigated headwinds including milder weather, higher operating costs, and regulatory scrutiny while advancing aggressive generation, renewable, and financing initiatives to strengthen its balance sheet.
- Alphabet closed a $25 billion senior notes sale on Monday across ten tranches with maturities running from 2028 to 2066.
- The company raised its 2026 capital expenditure guidance to a range of $195 billion to $205 billion primarily for infrastructure investments like servers and data centers.
- Long-term debt has increased significantly to roughly $123 billion following the recent debt sale and stock issuance to support surging capital spending.
- Soros Fund Management filed its Q2 13F filing detailing major portfolio adjustments across several key holdings.
- The firm initiated a new stake of 768K shares in American Electric Power valued at 105.1M dollars while completely exiting Salesforce.
- Additionally, the fund increased its stake in Entergy and reduced its holdings in Amazon.
- Elon Musk stated that orbital compute will become the only viable solution to scale artificial intelligence by 2029 due to terrestrial power shortages and permitting delays.
- Major industry players like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Google have already filed applications with the FCC to launch large satellite constellations for space-based data centers.
- Implementing this orbital infrastructure faces significant technical and economic challenges, including massive solar panel requirements, launch cost thresholds, and the rapid obsolescence of AI processors.
- Bally's ( NYSE : BALY ) reported quarterly earnings with a loss of $2.41 per share , missing the consensus estimate of $ -1.08 by $1.33 .
- The company generated quarterly revenue of $792.23 million , surpassing the estimated $789.89 million .
- The stock closed at $13.90 with a market capitalization of $680.65 million amidst mixed analyst ratings and institutional trading activity .
- Whale Rock Capital Management released its latest 13F filing detailing its investment portfolio moves during the second quarter.
- The hedge fund established new stakes in Snowflake with 884.7K shares and Twilio with 821.7K shares.
- The firm also significantly increased its holdings in Advanced Micro Devices to 1.51M shares from 69.2K shares.
- TD Cowen analyst Itay Michaeli maintained a Buy rating and a $460 price target on Tesla stock, emphasizing its strong autonomous vehicle prospects.
- The analyst noted that Tesla and Waymo are best positioned to dominate the U.S. autonomous vehicle market, which is expected to favor a winner-take-most model.
- Despite Tesla dropping 24% year-to-date due to margin and EV competition concerns, experts highlight its software safety improvements and consumer appeal.
- Berkshire Hathaway revealed its latest portfolio moves in a 13F filing under the leadership of CEO Greg Abel for the second quarter ending June 30, 2026.
- The firm added a new position in D.R. Horton Inc, completely exited Constellation Brands, and significantly increased stakes in Alphabet Class C and Lennar Corp while reducing holdings in companies like Capital One Financial.
- Combined Alphabet stakes reached $37.8 billion, making Alphabet a top three holding alongside Apple Inc and American Express Company in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio.
- Berkshire Hathaway significantly increased its stake in Alphabet by 83% during the second quarter, making it the conglomerate's third-largest U.S.-listed equity holding valued at $37.9 billion.
- The investment conglomerate also expanded its financial bets by increasing positions in Delta Air Lines and homebuilders such as Lennar and D.R. Horton.
- These investments ended 14 consecutive quarters of net stock sales, dropping Berkshire's cash level to $365.5 billion at the end of June.
- Goldman Sachs is capitalizing on the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom by securing major financial advisory and underwriting roles for high-profile industry transactions.
- The bank is helping facilitate massive capital raises, including a $500 billion financing initiative for Nvidia and stock offerings for Intel and Alphabet.
- While these lucrative deals generate substantial fee revenue and position Goldman as a premier advisor, they also tie the bank's stock performance to the broader semiconductor capital expenditure cycle.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT regained market share in July, with Gemini's share of chatbot visits falling to 28.8% and Anthropic's Claude rising to 10.4%.
- OpenAI confidentially filed for a potential IPO in June while generating an annualized revenue rate of over $40 billion.
- Google plans to boost its chatbot share by integrating on-device AI features via the Pixel 11 lineup powered by the Tensor G6 chip.