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Top Technology News

Markets Rise on Jobs — Global stocks rose Monday as softer US jobs eases rate-hike fears. Futures edged down with AI trade in focus. US Services growth slowed in June with ISM PMI at 54.0 as new orders dropped though employment improved.

Microsoft just cut 4,800 jobs in a major Xbox restructure to focus on core gaming, AI initiatives as tech companies increasingly cite AI for layoffs across engineering, marketing, operations in 2026 raising long-term employment concerns.

Trump Blocks AI Rules — Departing AI adviser Sriram Krishnan rejects formal AI licensing regime citing export controls on Anthropic, OpenAI advocating industry-led oversight, equity donations to public.

China AI Reins In — Alibaba, ByteDance will stop offering personalized AI agent features from chatbots as China tightens regulations on humanlike AI interactions.

SpaceX Bubble Warning — Jeremy Grantham warns SpaceX is overvalued likening it to a classic bubble peak praising Starlink profitability but criticizing speculative ventures, heavy reliance on investor optimism.

Fed To Hike Into Weakest Jobs Market In Years, & AI Big 10 Hit Dot-Com Concentration Levels

The Tech Buzz Editorial

The June jobs report landed at 57,000 new payrolls. Wall Street wanted 110,000. A miss that big usually means one thing: rate cuts are coming. Not this time. Most economists still expect the Federal Reserve to raise rates from the current 3.50% to 3.75% range this year. And while hiring stalls, just 10 companies now make up 41% of the entire S&P 500, the same concentration that marked the top of the dot-com bubble in 2000.

Two facts that should not coexist. They do, and the reason is the AI buildout.

Why weak jobs no longer buy you cheap money

Here is the part that breaks the old playbook. The ISM services survey showed prices paid by businesses at 67.7 in June. That is hot. It stayed hot even after oil slid below $72 on the shaky Iran ceasefire and the OPEC+ production boost. The survey names the culprit directly: companies pouring money into AI, which keeps pushing up the price of semiconductors and electronics.

So the same buildout thinning payrolls is feeding inflation. AI drags the jobs number down and props the prices number up, and the Fed answers to the prices number. That is why a 57K print, plus 74,000 in downward revisions to April and May, still points toward hikes. Wednesday's Fed minutes will be read for exactly this tension.

Look at where the job losses came from. Microsoft cut 4,800 roles this week, including 20% of its gaming unit. Meta shed around 8,000 in May. Amazon cut 16,000 in January. What changed is the honesty. Companies now name AI in the layoff memo itself. After spending billions on data centers, a smaller headcount is the easiest proof a CFO can hand investors that the money is working. Layoffs became the new earnings beat. The monthly jobs report is turning into an AI adoption tracker, whether the Bureau of Labor Statistics likes it or not.

Ten stocks, one index

Now the concentration problem. Bank of America counts the AI Big 10 as Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Tesla, Broadcom, Micron and AMD. Together, 41% of the S&P 500. Tech and telecom held roughly the same share in early 2000, right before the floor gave out.

There is an awkward loop here. The companies cutting workers are the same ones holding up the index. The labor savings help fund a capex arms race that Wedbush's Dan Ives says nobody can quit, because whoever pulls back hands compute leadership to a rival. If you own an index fund, you own that bet. Most people holding the S&P 500 have no idea how narrow their diversification actually is.

The bulls have a fair point, though. Slatestone's Kenny Polcari argues this is nothing like 1999, when slapping dot-com on a company name tripled its value overnight. These firms earn real money. Samsung just flagged an 18-fold profit jump on AI memory demand. SK Hynix is raising $28B in a Nasdaq listing this week. Real cash flows, real concentration risk. Both true at once, which is what makes this moment hard to trade.

Where the money is already moving

Watch the rotation. Chip stocks are still nursing a rough July, with the SOXX semiconductor ETF down 8% this month. Cybersecurity picked up the ball. CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and Okta are all up more than 20% since June 25, and the CIBR ETF is pressing its record high near $94.

The logic is simple. Every AI system a company deploys gives hackers a new door to try. Security is the rare software category AI clearly helps rather than threatens. Money rotating inside tech keeps the trade alive. Money leaving tech entirely would be the signal worth fearing. So far it is rotating.

The takeaway

Three things for 2026 positioning. Do not treat weak jobs data as a green light for cuts; AI capex broke that reflex, and rate-sensitive assets like real estate should be priced for hikes, not relief. Know what you own, because a passive S&P 500 position is a concentrated AI bet wearing a diversified costume. And follow the rotation into what AI cannot disrupt: security, memory, and the infrastructure layer where the pricing power lives.

The machine is running hot. The Fed holds the whistle, the Hormuz ceasefire is the wildcard, and ten stocks are the whole scoreboard.

Companies To Watch

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Erebor Bank $8B — Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel-backed bank is raising at a valuation doubling $4.35B figure from last year with deposits surging 4X in 3 months.

Crusoe $30B — AI neocloud firm seeks a $3B raise at valuation backed by Valor, Mubadala serving Meta, Oracle with 1.2 GW data center alongside Blue Owl Capital.

Big Movers

OpenAI $1T IPO — Sam Altman targets valuation for IPO with $13B revenue in 2025, $2B monthly sales in 2026 despite $38.5B losses in 2025, $8.5B in Q1 2026.

TeraWulf $19B — The Bitcoin miner pivots to AI securing a $19B Anthropic contract for a Kentucky campus delivering 401 MW by 2028 selling Abernathy stake for $450M with shares up 85% YTD.

Mercor $2B — Hit gross revenue run rate exceeding in June doubling growth pace driven by AI app developers, Fortune 500 clients rapidly expanding tech influence.

Klarna Bank Charter — Sweden-based BNPL giant applied for US bank charter to expand financial services ahead of potential IPO underscoring strategic positioning.

Even Realities — Shenzhen display-first smart glasses startup raised $150M pre-Series B at a $1B valuation led by Meituan, Tencent with 300-400 staff targeting professionals in US, Japan, Europe.

Tripo AI — A 3D foundation world-model platform secured a $150M Series A3 backed by Geely Capital, to help gaming firms advance algorithms, expand infrastructure for manufacturing, entertainment, robotics.

Lockheed-Ultra — LM is acquiring Ultra Maritime from Advent for enhancing anti-submarine warfare capabilities following partnerships with Anduril, General Atomics, US Navy acoustic decoy contract.

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Trump Memecoin Loss — Investors suffered $3.8B losses exposing high risks of meme-based crypto highlighting regulatory concerns, potential for significant retail investor damage.

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Bitcoin Trump Accounts — Trump expressed interest in incorporating Bitcoin into federally backed savings program aiming to offer free investment platform for children boosting US AI edge over China.

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