These days, however, Sputnik is remembered as the moment of national reckoning rather than a knee-jerk response to a Cold War ...

Amazon's growth is driven by AI-related cloud demand and ad revenue, with AWS and advertising becoming major profit ...

And that's weighing on the companies’ stock prices. Google and Microsoft are down 2.7% and $3.3% year-to-date, respectively, while Tesla is off 17%. Apple's stock has declined 6%. Amazon is up 4.4% ...