HSBC raised its price target on Micron Technology to $1,700 from $1,100, marking the fifth increase this year, driven by surging AI memory demand. Micron's fiscal third-quarter revenue hit $41.46 bill…
Apple and Microsoft raised prices on MacBooks, iPads, and Xbox consoles in late June 2026 due to memory chip costs quadrupling since 2025, driven by AI data center demand. Apple increased prices by up…
Emerging-market stocks fell over 2% on June 23, the steepest drop since May 15, led by a tech selloff that sent South Korean chip giants Samsung and SK Hynix plunging more than 12%. The decline was tr…
Samsung Group plans to invest $646 billion over the next decade in semiconductors and AI data centers, marking one of the largest corporate investment commitments in South Korea's history. The investm…
Qualcomm and Micron stocks swung wildly as the semiconductor sector experienced a $400 billion after-hours rally following a bruising sell-off, driven by Micron's 346% revenue surge and Qualcomm's $15…
Apple raised prices on Mac, iPad, and home devices on June 25, citing unsustainable memory chip costs driven by AI demand, triggering a selloff in Asian technology stocks. Apple shares dropped up to 6…
Global markets fell as investor concerns mounted over potential slowdowns in AI demand and delays in OpenAI's initial public offering. OpenAI, whose private valuation surged to $852 billion, faces int…
Airwallex closed a $320 million Series H round on June 25, 2026, raising its valuation to $11 billion from $8 billion six months earlier. The global payments platform plans to use the funds to develop…
Retail investors poured a record $12 billion into US semiconductor ETFs in a single month through mid-to-late June 2026, a 1,200% surge since April, driven by the AI chip trade. The VanEck Semiconduct…
Taiwan's retail margin debt hit a record NT$600 billion ($19 billion) on June 18, 2026, surpassing the dot-com era peak, driven by AI mania and a market that doubled in the past year. Trade defaults b…
South Korea's KOSPI index plunged over 8% on June 23, triggering a circuit breaker, as foreign investors sold $2.6 billion in shares amid a tech rout led by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The sello…
Micron Technology reported $41.46 billion in fiscal Q3 2026 revenue, quadrupling year-over-year and beating estimates, as its stock surged more than eightfold in a year amid AI-driven demand for high-…
Microsoft raised Xbox Series X|S prices by $100 to $150, effective August 1, citing surging memory and storage costs driven by AI demand for high-bandwidth memory chips. Apple also increased MacBook a…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plan a $646 billion investment package to build a second major semiconductor cluster in South Korea, accelerating their timeline to 2034-2035 to meet explosive AI-driv…
SoftBank Group shares fell 12% on concerns that OpenAI's IPO timeline may be delayed, exposing the Japanese conglomerate's leveraged $60 billion bet on the AI company. The stock dropped 11% in early J…
The Trump administration has requested that OpenAI stagger the release of its GPT-5.6 AI model, citing national security concerns and potential misuse. OpenAI will initially limit access to trusted en…
Virtuals Protocol has enabled autonomous AI agents to trade tokenized versions of real US equities like Apple and Tesla directly on-chain through platforms such as Uniswap and xStocks, blurring the li…
Microsoft shares fell more than 24% year-to-date as of late June 2026, the worst start since the dot-com bust, driven by investor concerns over a $190 billion capital expenditure plan for AI infrastru…
Mysten Labs unveiled a Seal MPC prototype on Sui Network's testnet, enabling AI agents to transact onchain without controlling private keys. The system uses multi-party computation committees to autho…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) on June 25, 2026, the first public dashboard to correlate AI exposure metrics with unemployment claims. Initial …