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When people think about tariff casualties, they picture factories, shipping containers, and steel mills. Nobody had "social media ad platforms" on their bingo card. But Pinterest just proved that tariff damage can show up in the strangest places. Shares of Pinterest crashed nearly 20% on Friday after the company delivered a gut punch of a quarter. Revenue of $1.32 billion — up 14% year-over-year — and adjusted EPS of $0.67 both narrowly missed estimates. But the real damage came from the ...
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Cisco just delivered its best quarter in years. Record revenue. Double-digit growth. Earnings beat. AI infrastructure orders piling up. And the stock got punished anyway. The networking giant reported $15.35 billion in Q2 revenue — up 10% year-over-year and ahead of the $15.12 billion Wall Street expected. Earnings came in at $1.04 per share adjusted, beating the $1.02 consensus. Net income surged to $3.18 billion from $2.43 billion a year ago. By almost any traditional measure, this was a strong quarter. So ...
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For three years, Nvidia's dominance in AI chips has been the closest thing to a natural law in tech investing. Then Arista Networks' CEO Jayshree Ullal casually dropped a bombshell on her earnings call that should make every chip investor sit up. "A year ago, it was pretty much 99% Nvidia," Ullal said when asked about her company's work with AMD. "Today, when we look at our deployments, we see about 20%, maybe a little more, 20% to 25%, where AMD ...
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Rivian just posted the kind of quarter that turns skeptics into believers — or at least makes them pause. The EV maker beat Wall Street estimates on both earnings and revenue, then guided to a 47-59% increase in vehicle deliveries for 2026. Shares ripped 27% higher on Friday, closing at $17.73 after sitting at $14 the day before. The numbers: Rivian lost 54 cents per share in Q4, handily beating the 68-cent loss analysts expected. Revenue came in at $1.29 billion ...
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President Trump just committed $12 billion to stockpiling strategic minerals, and the rare earth sector is scrambling to figure out what it means. The initiative, dubbed "Project Vault," is essentially a Strategic Petroleum Reserve for critical minerals — neodymium, dysprosium, lithium, and the other elements that power everything from AI data centers to missile guidance systems. The market reaction was immediate. Critical Metals Corp (CRML), which controls a massive rare earth deposit in greenland, surged 35% on the announcement alone. And ...
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A company that used to make in-car karaoke systems just triggered the biggest one-day sell-off in trucking stocks since the tariff wars of April 2025. If that sentence sounds absurd, welcome to the 2026 AI fear trade. Algorhythm Holdings — a micro-cap with a market cap of roughly $6 million — announced that its SemiCab AI freight platform is helping customers scale freight volumes by 300% to 400% without adding a single employee. It also claims to reduce empty freight miles ...
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A company that used to make in-car karaoke systems just triggered the biggest one-day sell-off in trucking stocks since the tariff wars of April 2025. If that sentence sounds absurd, welcome to the 2026 AI fear trade. Algorhythm Holdings — a micro-cap with a market cap of roughly $6 million — announced that its SemiCab AI freight platform is helping customers scale freight volumes by 300% to 400% without adding a single employee. It also claims to reduce empty freight miles ...
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So you know how your phone gets cranky when it runs out of storage? Well, imagine that problem, but instead of your vacation photos, we're talking about AI systems that need more memory than a elephant trying to remember every peanut it's ever eaten. Enter Micron Technology (MU), the company that makes the memory chips everyone's suddenly desperate for. And boy, have they been on a tear lately. We're talking about a stock that's been climbing faster than your electricity bill ...
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