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• AI shopping could drive $263 billion in holiday sales. Walmart and Target are racing to get in - Consumers are turning to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for gift discovery, reviews and price matching, potentially driving billions in sales this holiday season.
• Costco's quarterly beat isn't enough to knock out the bears — here's what could - The quarter looked pretty down the fairway, with beats across key line items — the membership renewal rate.
• Oracle's lease commitments jump by almost 150% as company builds out to meet AI demand - Oracle's lease commitments now total $248 billion, with $10 billion tied to cloud capacity.
• Oracle's stock slides 7% on revenue miss even as AI backlog soars - Oracle flagged new business from Meta and Nvidia in reporting a 438% increase in remaining performance obligations.
• Amazon pledges a massive $35 billion worth of investments in India’s AI space through 2030 - Amazon has committed to investing $$35 billion in India’s cloud and AI space by 2030, as hyperscalers race to get a foothold in the market.
• Paramount questions Warner Bros. Discovery on 'fairness and adequacy' of sale process: Read the full letter - Paramount attorneys sent a letter to Warner Bros. Discovery questioning whether its acting in the best interest of shareholders.
• Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use - Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum Computing has become the first private firm to deploy a quantum computer for commercial use in the city-state.
• Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals - Microsoft stock sank after a report that multiple sales teams for the company's Azure Foundry product missed growth goals in the last fiscal year.
• Michael Burry calls Tesla 'ridiculously overvalued' and knocks tech industry for a widely used practice - "The Big Short" investor Michael Burry put Tesla's valuation in the spotlight.
• Forget AI spending — the biggest risk to this stock market is speculative junk - The idea that these alternative investments somehow create anything en masse is almost ludicrous.