Today: 26 June 2026
BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) jumps after QNX outlook nudge, eyes on cash flow

BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) stock watches QNX beat with AI premium in play after $1B re-rate

26 June 2026
BlackBerry surged to a $6.06 billion market cap after QNX revenue jumped 26% and fiscal 2027 revenue guidance rose by $10 million, but premarket shares slipped 2.8% after the rally; analysts lifted targets, citing faster operating leverage and rising QNX growth, while the company’s first cash-positive Q1 in nine years and a $1 billion QNX royalty backlog highlight investor focus on embedded-AI potential.
Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) gains $50 billion as AI memory trade pushes past Street forecasts

Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) gains $50 billion as AI memory trade pushes past Street forecasts

Applied Materials soared 10.7% to $652.07, adding $50.4 billion in value after unveiling new DRAM and advanced packaging systems and forecasting DRAM equipment spending to more than double NAND, with HBM driving over 50% growth in advanced packaging this year; shares now trade 18.7% above the average analyst target.
Dow ends higher; Nasdaq drifts as AI stocks slip, oil falls

Dow Jones (INDEXDJX:.DJI) spikes 700 points as price-weighted stocks outpace tech slide

Dow soars 763.79 points as Caterpillar, Goldman Sachs, and Honeywell drive gains, offsetting Apple’s 4.8% drop; investors brace for Alphabet to replace Verizon in the Dow on June 29, a move set to shift index weightings for funds tracking the price-weighted average.

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-5 will launch in summer 2025, claiming major improvements over GPT-4. Midjourney released its first text-to-video system, Model V1, in June 2025. Meta delayed LLaMA 4 Behemoth to late 2025 due to performance issues. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, running vision-language-action AI entirely on robots.

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BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) jumps after QNX outlook nudge, eyes on cash flow

BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) stock watches QNX beat with AI premium in play after $1B re-rate

BlackBerry surged to a $6.06 billion market cap after QNX revenue jumped 26% and fiscal 2027 revenue guidance rose by $10 million, but premarket shares slipped 2.8% after the rally; analysts lifted targets, citing faster operating leverage and rising QNX growth, while the company’s first cash-positive Q1 in nine years and a $1 billion QNX royalty backlog highlight investor focus on embedded-AI potential.
SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI) holds near $17 as AI trading faces Russell volume test

SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI) holds near $17 as AI trading faces Russell volume test

SoFi shares hovered near $17.30 premarket, about 47% below last year’s high, as investors shrugged off this week’s AI investing platform launch and focused on Friday’s Russell index reconstitution, which could drive major trading volume and volatility, with $12.2 trillion tracking FTSE Russell indexes and nearly $150 billion in trades expected during the reshuffle, according to Reuters and lseg.com.
Judge ruling puts question mark on Trump grad-loan caps for private lenders

Judge ruling puts question mark on Trump grad-loan caps for private lenders

A U.S. judge blocked the Education Department’s stricter “professional degree” test, letting some high-cost graduate programs keep access to $50,000 a year in federal loans—potentially shrinking the private student loan market by up to $100,000 per borrower; Sallie Mae and SoFi’s expected multi-year private loan growth tied to federal reforms now faces new uncertainty.
US futures edge lower ahead of Russell index reshuffle as chip stocks see selling

US futures edge lower ahead of Russell index reshuffle as chip stocks see selling

Russell index reconstitution triggers nearly $150 billion in expected forced trades after Friday’s close, with 62 companies joining the Russell 1000 and 237 joining the Russell 2000, potentially driving major end-of-day volatility as funds reset benchmark exposure, Reuters reports.
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