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After a slow start to the year, Amazon stock has come roaring back to a near $3 trillion market capitalization. While AI remains the top focus for investors, the company's massive retail business has a big test coming up: Prime Day. Amazon's retail business has held up against a "bifurcated consumer market," Sergei Pliutsinski, an analyst at investment management firm Harding Loevner, told Investor's Business Daily.

OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to launch IPOs, perhaps in 2026. Google stock could be pressured as its AI rivals build bigger war chests.

One of Blue Origin’s rockets blew up late Thursday, bursting into an enormous ball of flames during a test, in a major setback for Jeff Bezos’ space company. It’s a reminder that creating space technology is hard. AST stock was down 13% in premarket trading, while and futures were both up about 0.1%.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) was among the stocks Jim Cramer discussed on Mad Money, highlighting several companies with market caps over a trillion dollars. Cramer called himself a huge believer in the company, as he commented: Number five, Amazon, misunderstood, even by me. Now, I’ve become a, you know, I’m a huge believer of this one. […]

Thornburg Investment Management says investor interest is expanding beyond Nvidia and hyperscalers into the AI supply chain. Here are five companies benefiting from the trend.

STORY: :: Courtney BlairThis uncrewed Blue Origin rocket had just ignited in its launchpad on Thursday when it suddenly exploded...erupting into a massive fireball, sending a towering plume of flames and smoke into the air.Jeff Bezos' space venture said it had experienced an “anomaly,” a term commonly used to describe a launch failure or explosion.In a post on X, the Amazon billionaire said all personnel were accounted for and that it was "too early to know the root cause" of the incident.NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency would work with partners to support an investigation, adding that NASA would provide information on any impact to its Artemis and Moon Base programs.The incident is a major setback for Bezos' Blue Origin, as it seeks to narrow the gap with Elon Musk’s IPO-bound SpaceX.Both billionaire-run companies have been racing to help return people to the moon by designing the lunar landers NASA will use.Musk responded on X to a video of the Blue Origin explosion, saying: “Most unfortunate. Rockets are hard."

Berkshire Hathaway invested in one of the four largest US airline stocks in the first quarter. The airline is also the only of the four to be battling with Elon Musk.

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