Amazon.com, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Amazon and Meta Platforms <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2026/04/meta-partners-with-aws-on-graviton-chips-to-power-agentic-ai/">have entered into an</a> agreement under which the owner of Facebook and Instagram will rent hundreds of thousands of universal chips from Amazon for its projects in the field of artificial intelligence, according to a release on Meta's website. Financial details of the deal the parties do not name, but Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/meta-inks-multibillion-dollar-deal-to-use-amazon-chips-for-ai">writes</a>: we are talking about a multi-billion dollar agreement.

Meta signs 'multi-billion dollar' deal with Amazon to use AI chips

Cathie Wood disclosed an $870k purchase of Amazon stock after this deal.

Amazon and Anthropic agree to cross-invest $125 billion

Apple Inc.

NVIDIA Corporation

Apple <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/v-sfere-ii-vse-gotovo-dla-peredaci-vlasti-cto-smena-gendirektora-znacit-dla-apple">announced</a> that CEO Tim Cook will step down on September 1 after more than a decade at the helm of the company. Jeff Bezos-backed startup Project Prometheus is close to raising $10 billion at a valuation of $38 billion. These and other topics are covered in our review of key events for the morning of April 21.

Highlights for this morning: Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO, Bezos' startup raises $10 billion

AST SpaceMobile, Inc.

The AST communications satellite was put into too low an orbit and will now burn up in the atmosphere

Competitor Starlink has failed a satellite launch. Its shares plummet 15%

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Constellation Brands, Inc.

VeriSign, Inc.

Todd Combs, who moved to JPMorgan, was seen at Berkshire as a specialist in investing in the technology sector - now the securities he managed at the investment firm have been sold, the newspaper has learned

A $15 billion sell-off? Berkshire dumped ex-Buffett associate's portfolio, WSJ learns

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

United Airlines Holdings, Inc.

Expedia Group, Inc.

Airbnb, Inc.

APA Corporation

Valero Energy Corporation

Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Chevron Corporation

The S&amp;P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Russel 2000 indexes hit new records on Friday after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz "fully open" to commercial shipping and U.S. President Donald Trump said Tehran also agreed to suspend its nuclear program. Oil prices collapsed despite the U.S. military maintaining a blockade of Iranian ports and Iranian media saying passage through the strait will remain closed to "unfriendly countries."

U.S. indexes soar, Nasdaq Composite has longest streak of gains in more than 30 years

Lumen Technologies, Inc.

Shares of mid-cap company Lumen Technologies, which builds fiber-optic infrastructure, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LUMN/">jumped</a>&nbsp;more than 10% on Wednesday after the company <a href="https://ir.lumen.com/news/news-details/2026/AWS-and-Lumen-Redefine-Private-Cloud-Connectivity-by-Bringing-Cloud-and-Network-Together/default.aspx">said</a>&nbsp;it had become the first network provider to work with Amazon Web Services on the AWS Interconnect project.

Shares of fiber network provider Lumen jump on collaboration with AWS

Globalstar, Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

A Fox News journalist announced an interview with U.S. President Donald Trump in which he was quoted as saying, "The war [in the Middle East] is over". Meta has extended its partnership with Broadcom until 2029 to scale its own AI chips and reduce its reliance on Nvidia and AMD. Amazon is buying satellite company Globalstar for $11.6 billion to compete with Starlink and launch direct-to-smartphone connectivity - without the use of cell towers. These and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of April 15.

Top story by morning: Trump called war 'over' - Fox, Anthropic valued at $800 billion

Amazon <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260414237496/en/Amazon-to-Acquire-Globalstar-and-Expand-Amazon-Leo-Satellite-Network">has agreed to</a> buy satellite operator Globalstar for about $11.6 billion - as part of an effort to build its own satellite infrastructure.

Amazon to buy satellite company Globalstar to compete with Musk's Starlink

Microsoft Corporation

OpenAI suggests that its relationship with Microsoft is limiting its ability to grow in the enterprise segment, where the ChatGPT developer faces stiff competition, according to an internal company letter. OpenAI sees its recent deal with Amazon as key to growth in this area. According to the FT, the agreement has raised questions for OpenAI's main investor, which is considering, among other things, legal action.

OpenAI says partnership with Microsoft limits business growth - CNBC

Tecnoglass Inc.

Simulations Plus, Inc.

FGI Industries Ltd.

Beam Global

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Freedom Capital Markets Research.

Morning in New York: at the intersection of inflation and geopolitics

If the company starts selling its AI chips to external customers, the annual revenue of this business could reach $50 billion, the head of Amazon said