US Sends Iran 15-Point Proposal To End War, But No Sign Tehran Is Interested in Talks

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Scramble For AI Compute: Meta Inks Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Amazon For CPU Chips Meta Platforms inked a multibillion-dollar agreement with Amazon to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton processor cores in support of its next-generation AI buildout. The deal makes Meta one of the largest Graviton customers globally and shows CEO Mark Zuckerberg's willingness to spend aggressively on compute infrastructure as the AI arms race intensifies with Alphabet, Microsoft, and other tech giants. The news that the social media giant would deploy hundreds of thousands of Amazon's general-purpose chips...

AI Capex Depreciation Risk Is The Catch To Record Earnings Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The second-quarter earnings season is in full swing. So far, the results are landing in line or better than the upwardly revised Wall Street estimates. That’s the opposite of how this usually works. Analysts normally trim their forecasts as a year wears on. In 2026, they’ve done the opposite. The S&P 500 is on track to grow earnings north of 20% for a second straight quarter. The earnings are real. However, a meaningful slice of...