Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Alphabet (NasdaqGS:GOOGL) introduced Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create interactive 3D digital worlds. The announcement signals a new push by Google into virtual content creation and has already drawn attention from the video game industry. Market watchers are assessing ...
Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Alphabet (NasdaqGS:GOOGL) introduced Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create interactive 3D digital worlds. The announcement signals a new push by Google into virtual content creation and has already drawn attention from the video game industry. Market watchers are assessing how the tool could influence costs, workflows, and competition across gaming and broader digital content. For you as an investor, Project Genie sits alongside Alphabet’s broader AI efforts that have mostly focused on search, productivity, and cloud services. By moving into tools for 3D world building, Alphabet is stepping closer to areas typically associated with game engines and creative software. This could influence how developers think about their tech stack over time. The reaction from major game development platforms highlights that competitors are already treating this as a potential change in how games and virtual experiences get built. As Project Genie evolves, the key things to watch are adoption by developers, integration with existing workflows, and how it fits into Alphabet’s wider AI monetization efforts. Stay updated on the most important news stories for Alphabet by adding it to your watchlist or portfolio. Alternatively, explore our Community to discover new perspectives on Alphabet. NasdaqGS:GOOGL Earnings & Revenue Growth as at Jan 2026 How Alphabet stacks up against its biggest competitors For Alphabet, Project Genie looks less like a one off experiment and more like another way to put its Gemini AI models and custom chips to work in a high-compute use case. By offering AI generated 3D worlds to game studios and creators that might otherwise use engines from Unity, Roblox or Epic, Alphabet is testing whether its AI stack can sit closer to content creation workflows, which could eventually support demand for Google Cloud and its Tensor Processing Units. H...
Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images A cache of newly released documents from the Epstein files on Friday showed Elon Musk apparently corresponded with the convicted sex offender in 2012 and 2013, as they discussed meeting at Je...
Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images A cache of newly released documents from the Epstein files on Friday showed Elon Musk apparently corresponded with the convicted sex offender in 2012 and 2013, as they discussed meeting at Jeffrey Epstein's private island and at Musk's SpaceX facility in Southern California. The emails indicate Musk asked about attending the "wildest party," hosted by Epstein at his island. Musk, who serves as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has for years downplayed his connection to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while in federal custody. "Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED," Musk said in a post on his social network X in September. He also complained that Sky News had mentioned him in conjunction with Epstein before naming Britain's Prince Andrew, who had visited the island. The U.S. Virgin Islands issued a subpoena to Musk in 2023 because of suspicion that Epstein "may have referred or attempted to refer" Musk as a client to JPMorgan Chase . The Department of Justice on Friday released millions of additional pages of documents related to Epstein , along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. The release comes after weeks of criticism that the DOJ wasn't complying with the requirement under federal law passed in November that all files related to Epstein be publicly released by Dec. 19. Among the documents released Friday were emails dated from 2012 to 2013, showing Musk's name but with his email address redacted. "The world needs more romance," Musk wrote to Epstein in October 2012, the documents indicate. He told Epstein that he would be traveling with his partner at the time, English actress Talulah Riley, to St. Barts, and was looking to potentially connect at Epstein's Island. In a November 2013 em...
The flash storage leader's profits crushed Wall Street's expectations. Shares of Sandisk (SNDK +6.60%) climbed on Friday after the data storage device maker announced a blockbuster earnings report. By the close of trading, Sandisk's stock price was up more than 6% after rising as much as 25.5% earlier in the day. Shocking AI-driven growth Sandisk's revenue surged 61% year over year to $3 billion i...
The flash storage leader's profits crushed Wall Street's expectations. Shares of Sandisk (SNDK +6.60%) climbed on Friday after the data storage device maker announced a blockbuster earnings report. By the close of trading, Sandisk's stock price was up more than 6% after rising as much as 25.5% earlier in the day. Shocking AI-driven growth Sandisk's revenue surged 61% year over year to $3 billion in its fiscal second quarter, which ended on Jan. 2. Cloud computing giants are racing to secure the high-performance data storage systems they need for their artificial intelligence (AI) factories. With demand outstripping available supply, Sandisk has been able to raise prices without sacrificing sales. The memory card manufacturer's gross margin jumped a whopping 18.6 percentage points to 51%. "The critical role that our products play in powering AI and the world's technology is being recognized," CEO David Goeckeler said in a press release. Expand NASDAQ : SNDK Sandisk Today's Change ( 6.60 %) $ 35.59 Current Price $ 574.89 Key Data Points Market Cap $79B Day's Range $ 533.28 - $ 676.69 52wk Range $ 27.89 - $ 676.69 Volume 1.3M Avg Vol 13M Gross Margin 29.33 % All told, Sandisk's adjusted net income rocketed 443% higher to $967 million, or $6.20 per share. That far surpassed analysts' estimates, which had called for adjusted per-share profits of $3.54. Management sees more gains ahead Sandisk guided for third-quarter revenue of $4.4 billion to $4.8 billion, with adjusted earnings per share of $12 to $14. "Our structural reset to align supply with attractive, sustained demand positions us to drive disciplined growth and deliver industry-leading financial performance," Goeckeler said.
The $4 trillion AI boom has largely been driven by Palantir’s sophisticated models and Nvidia's highly powered GPUs. Investors have poured billions of dollars into silicon, but a bottleneck formed as Rubin and Blackwell chips become smarter, faster, and… hotter. When chip power densities exceed ...
The $4 trillion AI boom has largely been driven by Palantir’s sophisticated models and Nvidia's highly powered GPUs. Investors have poured billions of dollars into silicon, but a bottleneck formed as Rubin and Blackwell chips become smarter, faster, and… hotter. When chip power densities exceed ...
In the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold. On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was price...
In the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold. On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was priced at 6,878 yuan (US$990) – having shot up nearly fivefold since September. “In my over 10 years in this industry, this is the single most aggressive price surge I have ever seen,” said Ye, who builds computers for individuals and enterprises. Advertisement Massive global investments in artificial intelligence are driving the spike. The so-called Big Three memory makers – Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology – are repurposing production lines to feed an insatiable appetite for the higher-margin memory chips used in AI data centres. As they make more of these high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, supply has dropped for the more pedestrian chips used in personal computers, smartphones and other devices. As painful as the skyrocketing prices are for Ye’s customers and many others, the chaos also presents a high-stakes opportunity for China’s domestic memory makers – led by ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) – to claim a larger slice of the global market. Advertisement Memory prices have been so volatile that in Huaqiangbei, price quotes now carry expiration dates measured in hours. An engineer surnamed Li, working at a store near Ye’s, said he had simply given up on drafting written quotes for clients, as prices change two or three times a day.
In the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold. On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was price...
In the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold. On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was priced at 6,878 yuan (US$990) – having shot up nearly fivefold since September. “In my over 10 years in this industry, this is the single most aggressive price surge I have ever seen,” said Ye, who builds computers for individuals and enterprises. Advertisement Massive global investments in artificial intelligence are driving the spike. The so-called Big Three memory makers – Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology – are repurposing production lines to feed an insatiable appetite for the higher-margin memory chips used in AI data centres. As they make more of these high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, supply has dropped for the more pedestrian chips used in personal computers, smartphones and other devices. As painful as the skyrocketing prices are for Ye’s customers and many others, the chaos also presents a high-stakes opportunity for China’s domestic memory makers – led by ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) – to claim a larger slice of the global market. Advertisement Memory prices have been so volatile that in Huaqiangbei, price quotes now carry expiration dates measured in hours. An engineer surnamed Li, working at a store near Ye’s, said he had simply given up on drafting written quotes for clients, as prices change two or three times a day.
Weekend Long Read: China’s Disappearing Nomads 00:00 00:00 /00:00 您的浏览器不支持 audio 标签。 Listen to this article 1x Three generations of a Buryat family in Inner Mongolia’s Ewenki autonomous banner gather indoors together during lambing season in March 2016. Due to the cold weather, the family moved their newborn lambs and calves indoors to protect them from the chill. Photo: Ayin Far to the north in C...
Weekend Long Read: China’s Disappearing Nomads 00:00 00:00 /00:00 您的浏览器不支持 audio 标签。 Listen to this article 1x Three generations of a Buryat family in Inner Mongolia’s Ewenki autonomous banner gather indoors together during lambing season in March 2016. Due to the cold weather, the family moved their newborn lambs and calves indoors to protect them from the chill. Photo: Ayin Far to the north in China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in the Ewenki autonomous banner, more than 8,000 Buryats — an ancient branch of the nomadic Mongol people — continue to live off the animal husbandry skills passed down for generations. Known as the Xini River Buryats, or Chinese Buryats, they maintain ancient languages, dress and customs even as modernity encroaches on their expansive grasslands. You've accessed an article available only to subscribers Subscribe today for just $.99. VIEW OPTIONS Unlock exclusive discounts with a Caixin group subscription — ideal for teams and organizations. Subscribe to both Caixin Global and The Wall Street Journal — for the price of one. Share now and your friends will read it for free!