Yahoo Finance • 16 days ago

Some short sellers are seeing opportunity in this tech mania. How they're spotting fake AI stocks

Short sellers are increasingly hunting for cracks beneath the stock market's artificial-intelligence frenzy, betting that some of the speculative excesses, copycat "AI" branding and vulnerable legacy business models could eventually unrave... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 27 days ago

Allbirds Is Now an AI Company, and That Should Strike Fear Into Anyone Investing in Its Competition

Silicon Valley may have abandoned its favorite shoe company, but Allbirds(NASDAQ: BIRD) isn't abandoning Silicon Valley. The venture-capital-backed direct-to-consumer shoe company was once worth $4 billion. In March, the company sold its s... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Apple's CEOs, Intel & AI, and Another SaaSpocalype

In this episode of Motley Fool Money, Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium and Lou Whiteman, and Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser discuss: The Jobs/Cook era at Apple.Intel & AI.SaaSpocalype 3.0.Value or falling knife stocks. To catch ful... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

ReelTime’s Reel Intelligence “RI” Launches Worlds Most Advanced Image Generation System, Expanding Its Multi-Modal Intelligence Platform Lead Over Legacy AI

RI’s Distributed, Infrastructure-Light Architecture Signals a Break from Traditional AI Models as Microsoft (MSFT), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta Platforms (META), Palantir (PLTR), OpenAI, Allbirds (BIRD), Anthropic, xAI, and Luma... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Risky meme trading is back. A trading rule change may have lit the fuse

Retail traders are diving back into some of the market's most speculative corners, with a regulatory shift removing barriers to rapid-fire trading and helping revive the kind of meme-stock frenzy that has historically delivered sharp gains... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Allbirds Is Becoming 'NewBird AI' — Is This the Wildest Pivot Yet?

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Allbirds (NASDAQ:BIRD) is no longer a shoe company. The San Francisco-based brand, once known for its sustainable wool sneakers, is maki... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Markets Hit Highs But Risks Linger

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. S&P 500 (SP500) pushed to fresh highs this week, rising 4.5% as improving headlines out of the Middle East gave markets a reason to lean bullish again. The momentum was strong across the board. T... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Trending stocks this week as markets hit new highs while Middle East tensions persist

[Wall street sign in New York with New York Stock Exchange background] naphtalina/iStock via Getty Images Wall Street’s major averages posted big weekly gains, surging to new highs for three consecutive trading days, as positive developme... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

S&P 500 at 7,000: 7 investing rules you must now live by

This is The Takeaway from today's Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: What we're watching What we're reading Economic data releases and earnings It was a tale of two weeks for yours tru... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

2 Things to Know About the Allbirds Pivot Into AI

It'll be one of the most bizarre headlines you'll read in 2026. Allbirds (NASDAQ: BIRD), the eco-friendly sneaker brand once valued at more than $4 billion, announced it is leaving the shoe business entirely and making a full pivot into ar... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Jim Cramer on NVIDIA: “When It Comes to GPUs and Service, I Want to Go With Jensen”

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) was among Jim Cramer’s stock calls, as he discussed the rising market speculation. Noting that the company’s CEO has a “real sense of the industry,” Mad Money’s host said: Wait a second, I got a better ide... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Jim Cramer Says “Go Buy AMD and Intel Like Everyone Else” During CPU Supply Shortage

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) was among Jim Cramer’s stock calls, as he discussed the rising market speculation. Cramer said that investors should buy companies like AMD when CPUs “are in short supply.” Seriously, you want exp... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Jim Cramer Says “Allbirds (BIRD) Wasn’t Even a Successful Shoe Company”

Allbirds, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIRD) was among Jim Cramer’s stock calls, as he discussed the rising market speculation. Cramer made a note of the stock’s gigantic recent rally, as he said: Why am I so adamant that speculation is getting out of co... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

What the Allbirds 'Hail Mary' says about the AI trade right now

Allbirds' (BIRD) surprising pivot to artificial intelligence this past week provided yet another reminder that the AI hype is real. On Wednesday, the sustainable sneaker company once known for making Silicon Valley's go-to shoe announced... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Allbirds stock gains 350% this week as shoemaker pivots to AI

Allbirds (BIRD) stock fell on Friday, capping a roller-coaster week for the company following its announcement that it's shifting from a sustainable sneaker business to an artificial intelligence company. On Wednesday, the stock soared ne... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Avis and 2 More Stocks That Are the Big Winners in the Nasdaq Hot Run

A lasting end to the war in Iran would almost certainly be welcome news for tech companies’ bottom lines. Continue Reading... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Allbirds stock on track for 400% gain this week as the shoemaker pivots to AI

Allbirds (BIRD) stock careened higher on Friday to conclude a roller-coaster week for the company following its announcement that it's switching from a sustainable sneaker business to an artificial intelligence company. On Wednesday, the... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Morning Brief: 3 takeaways from big bank results

👋 Good morning! The stock market was treated to more good news on Thursday, with further hopes of deescalation with Iran and a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Oil prices, however, rose on the news before pulling back. The... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

New Hopes for Iran Deal — Heard on the Street Thursday Recap

Stocks rose on hopes for Iran talks. President Trump said Thursday that "we are very close to making a deal" with Iran, and that he was open to traveling to Pakistan to seal an agreement. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes both close... Full story

Yahoo Finance • last month

Factbox-US companies that jumped ship to tech, AI businesses over the years

By Purvi Agarwal and Anshuman Tripathy April 16 (Reuters) - Sneaker company Allbirds' pivot to AI computing has revived a Wall Street trend in recent years: smaller companies leaning into tech-focused transformations to win over AI-hungry... Full story