- Alphabet is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings on July 22, with investors closely watching for updates on AI capital expenditures and infrastructure spending.
- The semiconductor sector entered a bear market recently, with the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index dropping over 20% from its June highs, though Intel and Texas Instruments remain up significantly for the year.
- Reports of a delay for Alphabet's Gemini 3.5 Pro model have pressured the stock, as competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to integrate with enterprise IT stacks.
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“Headlines continue to raise anxiety and leave investors scratching their heads wondering why the market continues to reach new heights... And the reason it does is because the fundamentals have been resilient, and the earnings continue to be outstanding.”
“OpenAI and Anthropic do not need to win customers away from Google all at once. Every quarter Gemini 3.5 Pro sits unreleased, those competitors are deepening integrations with enterprise IT stacks that are sticky by design.”