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Alphabet to Issue $80 Billion of Equity for AI Buildout. Berkshire to Buy $10 Billion.

Alphabet said it will issue $80 billion of equity, including $10 billion of stock to Berkshire Hathaway as it funds its huge AI computing infrastructure buildout. Alphabet said it plans to issue $30 billion in concurrent underwritten public offerings consisting of $15 billion of mandatory convertible preferred stock and $15 billion in its class A and class C common equity. Another $10 billion of stock will be sold to Berkshire in a private placement.

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McDonald’s Bets on Fancier Chicken, Airier Restaurants to Keep Luring Diners

(Bloomberg) -- McDonald’s Corp. is betting on everything from fancier chicken to new playgrounds as part of a campaign to make fast food feel less like fast food.Most Read from BloombergRussia Finance Officials Tell Putin War Spending Is UnaffordableUS Says Deals With Iran for Safe Hormuz Transit Are ProhibitedBerkshire Hathaway to Buy Taylor Morrison for $6.8 BillionStocks Rise on Trump’s Iran Remarks, AI Optimism: Markets WrapA Rare ‘Super’ El Niño Is Looking More Likely. Here’s What to Expect

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Tesla Reclaims No. 1 Position In Global Battery EV Race

Counterpoint Research data showed a changing competitive landscape in the global battery electric vehicle (BEV) market during the first quarter of 2026, with Tesla, Inc. reclaiming the top spot even as overall industry growth remained modest and demand weakened in...

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Greg Abel’s Week Is Off to Quite a Start

It's been a busy few days for Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel, who took over for Warren Buffett Jan 1. On Sunday night Berkshire announced it would buy home builder Taylor Morrison Home Corp. for $6.

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Nvidia Has a Robot Partner. It Isn’t Tesla.

Over the weekend, at COMPUTEX 2026 in Taiwan, Nvidia announced plans to accelerate development of humanoid robots. There will be an “open humanoid robot reference design built on the Nvidia Isaac GR00T platform, combining a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot, Sharpa five-fingered hands for dexterous manipulation, NVIDIA Jetson Thor onboard compute for advanced reasoning and control,” reads part of a news release. Isaac GRoot is Nvidia’s software for robot brains, running on Jetson Thor hardware.

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Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN): The Best Stock in the Jeff Bezos Stock Portfolio

We just covered the Jeff Bezos Stock Portfolio: Top 10 Stock Picks and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) ranks 1st on this list. Jeff Bezos’s relationship with Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is foundational; he is the architect, founder, and long-time cultural leader of the global e-commerce and cloud computing titan. Bezos started the company in 1994 as an […]

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(Bloomberg) -- A data center tied to CoreWeave Inc. is set to get funding from a $850 million junk-bond sale by Elk Grove Village Property LLC, which joins a wave of high-yield issuers tapping debt markets to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure.Most Read from BloombergRussia Finance Officials Tell Putin War Spending Is UnaffordableUS Says Deals With Iran for Safe Hormuz Transit Are ProhibitedBerkshire Hathaway to Buy Taylor Morrison for $6.8 BillionStocks Rise on Trump’s Iran Remarks, AI

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Tesla Stock Drops. OpenAI Is Coming for One Line of Its Business.

The move came after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted on Sunday that his company is hiring people to jump-start its robot business. “AI should be able to help people in the physical world,” wrote Altman. “In the short term, we are focused on robots to support skilled workers to build our future infrastructure; in the long term, we imagine everyone having a personal robot doing anything they need.”

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