Block mass layoffs earn Wall Street’s approval, Duolingo shares plunge

Duolingo (DUOL) stock plummeted as much as 25% on Friday after the company offered downbeat guidance for 2026 despite beating analysts’ expectations on Q4 earnings. The company said it’s shifting focus from monetizing its language-learning app to growing the subscriber base.

While daily active users and subscriptions were up 30% and 28% year over year, respectively, that growth slowed throughout 2025 and is expected to decelerate further this year.

CEO Luis Von Ahn told Yahoo Finance on Friday that more than 15 million people have a Duolingo streak longer than 365 days, and growing that dedicated user base is a priority. Von Ahn said artificial intelligence is a major driver of the company’s pivot to user growth.

“We think that over the next few years, the way people learn is going to change quite significantly,” Von Ahn said, adding that “the most important thing we can do is capture as much of the market as we can, entice as many users to use Duolingo as possible … and we’re prioritizing that pretty much above everything else.”

Duolingo reported fourth quarter revenue of $282.9 million, up 35% year over year and ahead of the $275.74 million estimated. Adjusted earnings per share came at $0.84, versus the $0.83 estimate. The company’s 2026 outlook, however, landed well short of the $1.26 billion estimated, with full-year revenue guidance of $1.20 billion-$1.22 billion.

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Intuit (INTU) stock fell about 2.5% in after-hours trading as the company’s fiscal third quarter profit forecast disappointed investors.

The third quarter is usually Intuit’s strongest, as more users turn to the company for tax help; however, the company said it expects to spend more on marketing to attract customers to its tools, such as TurboTax.

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Cloud computing provider Nutanix (NTNX) reported strong earnings and announced a multiyear deal with AMD (AMD) on Wednesday, sending the stock more than 15% higher in premarket trading on Thursday.

For the fiscal second quarter, Nutanix reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.56 for the quarter on revenue of $722.8 million. Wall Street analysts were looking for earnings per share of $0.44 on $709.7 million in revenue, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

For the full year, Nutanix said it expects revenue of $2.80 billion to $2.84 billion and a non-GAAP operating margin of 21% to 22%.

Nutanix’s new multiyear partnership with AI chipmaker AMD also boosted shares on Thursday as the two companies seek to develop a platform for enterprise agentic AI. AMD said it will invest $250 million in Nutanix shares and joint R&D and go-to-market efforts, and the equity investment is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026.

AMD stock slid 1.5% following the announcement and earnings from its rival Nvidia (NVDA).

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Shares of Celsius Holdings (CELH) jumped more than 12% in premarket trading on Thursday after the energy drink maker reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings as its acquisitions of Rockstar Energy and Alani Nu drove momentum in the business.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company is “close” to finalizing its agreement with OpenAI (OPAI.PVT)

“We continue to work with OpenAI toward a partnership agreement, and believe we are close,” Huang said. “We are thrilled with our ongoing partnership with OpenAI, a once-in-a-generation company we’ve had the pleasure of partnering with since their first days.”

In September 2025, Nvidia said it planned to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to support artificial intelligence infrastructure. But in early February, Huang said that the $100 billion was “never a commitment,” and a few weeks later, the Financial Times reported that the company was close to finalizing a $30 billion deal to replace the $100 billion one.

On the earnings call, Nvidia executives touted that “just about every startup in the world is working on Nvidia’s ecosystem.” The company has also struck partnerships with rival models, including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini.

Nvidia’s (NVDA) CFO Colette Kress confirmed a report earlier this week that it has not yet sold any of its second-most-powerful chips to China.

“While small amounts of H200 products for China-based customers were approved by the US government, we have yet to generate any revenue, and we do not know whether any imports will be allowed into China,” Kress said on the earnings call.

That was in line with what a Commerce Department official said at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.

President Trump gave Nvidia the green light to sell H200 chips to China last month. In late January, Beijing reportedly gave three of China’s largest tech companies, ByteDance, Alibaba (BABA, 9988.HK), and Tencent (0700.HK, TCEHY), approval to purchase more than ‌400,000 H200 chips.

Nvidia’s earnings call is underway. You can listen to it live here.

CFO Colette Kress called out that the hyperscalers — Big Tech firms like Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta (META) that provide large-scale cloud services — continue to have a strong appetite for Nvidia’s data center chips.

“Analysts expectations for 2026 capex across the top five cloud providers and hyperscalers, who collectively account for a little over 50% of our data center revenue, are up nearly $120 billion since the start of the year and approaching $700 billion,” Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said on the earnings call. “We continue to expect the transition of classic data center workloads to GPU-accelerated computing and the use of AI to enhance today’s hyperscale workloads and contribute toward roughly half of our long-term opportunity.”

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Nvidia (NVDA) stock popped by more than 3% after earnings beat expectations and delivered a strong revenue outlook for the first quarter.

Nvidia said it expects revenue of $76.44 billion to $79.56 billion in Q1, ahead of expectations of $72.78 billion, according to Bloomberg consensus estimates.

Here’s what Nvidia reported for the fourth quarter compared to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg:

Data Center compute revenue ($51.3 billion, up 58% from a year ago) and networking revenue ($11.0 billion, up 263%) both also reached record highs.

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