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Apple's fiscal Q3 results, reported at the end of July, beat expectations with revenue up 16% to roughly $109.4 billion and iPhone revenue up 22% year-over-year, but shares fell sharply after the company issued soft guidance citing supply constraints and rising memory-chip costs that CEO Tim Cook expects to persist for several more quarters. In the days since, Apple has faced analyst downgrades tied to memory inflation and has escalated a trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI while also launching a fresh legal challenge over the UK's encrypted-data access demands. The earnings-driven pressure is consistent with the stock's roughly 9% weekly decline.

AMD reported Q2 2026 results on August 4 with record revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year-over-year and driven by a Data Center segment that more than doubled and represented 58% of company revenue. Despite beating on both revenue and adjusted EPS ($1.66 vs. ~$1.61 expected) and guiding to roughly $13 billion in Q3 revenue, shares initially dropped around 7-9% in a sell-on-news reaction, with capital rotating out of tech hardware. CEO Lisa Su said the company expects data center sales to double in 2027, and AMD also highlighted a major AI win with Anthropic agreeing to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of its MI450-series GPUs.

Amazon's late-July Q2 report drove the stock sharply higher, with shares soaring roughly 15% as AWS revenue jumped about 37% year-over-year to $42.2 billion, its fastest growth in several years and its fifth consecutive quarter of accelerating cloud sales. Total net sales rose about 20% to $200.6 billion, and CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon expects capital expenditures to reach around $220 billion this year as it invests heavily in AI, noting a backlog of roughly $496 billion. The results, which eased concerns about returns on AI spending, are consistent with the stock's strong roughly 20% weekly gain.

Broadcom shares gained more than 4% on August 4 as Palantir's strong earnings sparked a broad relief rally across AI chipmakers ahead of Broadcom's own September report. Commentary during the week continued to frame Broadcom as a key beneficiary of AI infrastructure spending through its networking chips and custom silicon, though Goldman Sachs removed the stock from its US Conviction List while keeping a Buy rating. The AI-driven optimism aligns with Broadcom's roughly 10% weekly gain.

Alphabet rose roughly 13% over the week amid a broad rally in the largest cloud and AI names, with reports noting that Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft together added nearly $1.5 trillion in combined value in the prior week. Attention centered on Alphabet's AI infrastructure ambitions, including a reported order with Intel to manufacture more than three million Tensor Processing Units in 2028 and reports that Blackstone is weighing a debt package of at least $36 billion to support Anthropic's use of Google AI chips. This follows the company's late-July Q2 report, which beat on revenue but raised its 2026 capital expenditure outlook.

Meta's stock was roughly flat over the week as investors continued digesting its July 29 Q2 report, which showed revenue up 28% to $60.8 billion but earnings per share down 13% and free cash flow sharply lower amid heavy AI spending. A notable development was CEO Mark Zuckerberg signaling that Meta could rent out excess AI computing capacity, with reports the company is in early talks to sell compute to Anthropic at a premium. Market skepticism about the payoff from Meta's rising capital expenditures remained a recurring theme in coverage.

Microsoft was among the week's strongest performers, up about 25%, following its July 29 fiscal Q4 report in which revenue grew roughly 18% to $90.01 billion and adjusted EPS of $4.74 topped estimates, aided by a $3.2 billion gain from its Anthropic investment and strong Azure growth. Shares jumped about 8% in extended trading on the results and steady capital-expenditure commentary. This week Microsoft also drew attention for setting minimum RAM specifications for Windows 11.

Netflix shares were roughly flat over the week but remain well below prior highs, with the stock trading around $72-73 and down substantially year-to-date after a soft Q2 revenue-growth guidance sparked its biggest drop in years last month. Commentary this week focused on whether the stock now looks like a value play, with some analysts suggesting it may be undervalued at around 20 times forward earnings. Netflix also drew coverage for a partnership between Walmart-owned Flipkart and Netflix aimed at attracting younger digital shoppers.

Nvidia rose about 8% over the week, helped by a broad rebound in AI chip names after strong hyperscaler earnings pointed to continued heavy capital spending, though the stock remains below its 2026 record high of about $236. A notable development was SpaceX naming Nvidia as the exclusive supplier for its AI chip needs and partnering with the company to design the computing payload for new Starmind AI satellites. Investor attention is increasingly turning to Nvidia's own earnings report scheduled for August 26, viewed as the next major test for the sector.

Palantir surged roughly 30% over the week after its August 3 Q2 report, which CEO Alex Karp called 'otherworldly,' with revenue up 93% year-over-year to $1.94 billion and US commercial revenue soaring 149%. The company beat estimates on both the top and bottom lines, posted net income of about $1.07 billion, and raised full-year revenue guidance to roughly $8.16 billion. The blowout results and higher guidance also helped lift sentiment across other AI-linked names.

SpaceX reported its first-ever earnings as a public company on August 4, posting Q2 revenue of about $7.8 billion (versus roughly $6.8 billion expected) driven by Starlink growth, along with adjusted EBITDA of $3.5 billion that topped forecasts. Despite the revenue beat, shares slipped as AI-related capital spending ballooned to $15.8 billion from $7.7 billion in Q1, and the report landed just before an August 6 lockup expiration expected to sharply increase the tradable share supply. On the earnings call Elon Musk said Nvidia would be the exclusive chip supplier for SpaceX's AI needs, and the CFO said the company is on pace toward $100 billion in annualized recurring revenue by year-end. The stock remains well below its June IPO-era highs, consistent with its roughly 23% decline over the past 30 days.

Tesla rose about 6% over the week but remains down roughly 17% over 30 days after hitting a new 52-week low of about $297 in late July, with analysts citing EV margin pressure, cash burn, and robotaxi risks. Recent coverage pointed to Tesla resuming an uptrend as China EV sales rose for a ninth straight month and robotaxi optimism returned, along with attention on how SpaceX's earnings and a possible SpaceX merger dynamic could affect the stock. Tesla also confirmed participation in a limited-run California EV incentive program and drew news for declining to reinstate a popular Full Self-Driving speed-control feature.