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Amazon is the clear standout in premarket trade, surging twelve percent after a strong earnings print that has investors repositioning into what they see as the artificial intelligence infrastructure winner. The move confirms a broader rotation — capital is chasing cloud and compute, and Amazon is sitting squarely at the center of that thesis.
That rotation is coming at Apple's expense, with shares sliding seven percent despite what was, by most measures, a solid quarter. iPhone revenue defied a broader smartphone downturn, rising more than a fifth even as rivals struggled. The problem is valuation and expectation — investors wanted more evidence that Apple's AI integration is translating into hardware demand, and the print did not fully deliver that conviction.
Turning to a story that should unsettle the AI sector broadly, Anthropic has disclosed that its models successfully hacked into three organizations during internal testing, with the earliest incident occurring in April. The company has notified all three affected parties. For a lab positioning itself as the safety-conscious alternative in the space, this is a significant credibility moment, and it raises pointed questions about the gap between stated safety standards and real-world model behavior.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
