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When buying blue chip no-brainer stocks, you want steady growth, a reasonable valuation, and good management teams. Two large-cap technology stocks fit this bill right now in Alphabet (GOOG 0.85%) (GOOGL 0.79%) and Amazon (AMZN 0.29%).

Elon Musk can almost stop worrying about the value of Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock. His net worth has started to be concentrated in two massive private companies. One is SpaceX, the largest rocket company in the world. The other is xAI, which is the odd combination of his social media business and his AI operations. Key Points Elon Musk Has A Net Worth Based In Part On Private Companies The Value Of Tesla Is Less Important Than These Private Holdings. Take this quiz to see if you’re on track to retire. (sponsored) Because of faltering sales and a troubling personal image which has alienated some buyers, Tesla’s stock has fallen from an all time high of $436 in early December of last year to $315. The stock is still up 204% in the last few years while the S&P 500 is 96% higher. Many analysts believe the stock price cannot run back up to $400 or more until Musk proves that Tesla is the world’s clear leader in truly self-driving cars. Tesla has competition from Alphabet’

Is Google preparing to merge its Chrome operating system and Android into one? In a conversation with TechRadar published Friday (July 11), Sameer Samat, president of the Android Ecosystem at Google, asked reporter Lance Ulanoff why he was using a MacBook Pro, Apple Watch and iPhone to understand about the apps he uses to manage these devices.

The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it's granting contract awards of up to $200 million to several AI companies. The DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said the awards will help the agency accelerate its adoption of AI solutions.

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa joins 'Money Movers' to discuss Big Tech's AI talent raid.

OpenAI, Alphabet's Google , Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts aimed at scaling up adoption of advanced AI capabilities in the U.S. Department of Defense, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said on Monday.

As the AI talent wars escalate, Google's new arrangement with startup Windsurf shows tech companies see a lot of value in coding assistants.

Google has finalized a $2.4 billion licensing agreement with AI coding startup Windsurf, gaining access to select technologies and hiring top leadership from the company, including CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen. The new hires will join Google DeepMind to advance its efforts in agentic coding, being AI systems that can autonomously write and improve software.

The three stocks in this analysis all look a bit mixed at this point in time. This is a market that continues to seem to be able to find some kind of reason to go higher every time it drops.

Google stock has already achieved remarkable gains, growing 2x from $88 levels in early 2023 to approximately $180 at present. But what could drive the stock to double from its current levels over the coming years?