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Here's the thing about artificial intelligence—everyone's obsessed with the flashy stuff. GPUs, transformers, the whole nine yards. But here's what nobody talks about at parties: you need memory to actually run this stuff. And that's where Micron Technology (MU) comes in. Think of it this way: if AI companies are building the brains, Micron's building the filing cabinets. The company makes DRAM and NAND flash memory—basically the stuff that stores and retrieves all that data your AI models need to function ...
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Here's the thing about the AI voice assistant race—it's basically David versus Goliath, except David is actually pretty good at what he does, and Goliath has a $142 billion cloud business backing him up. Let's talk about SoundHound (SOUN) first, because honestly, they're the more interesting story. This company is laser-focused on conversational AI—think of them as the pure-play voice assistant specialists. They nearly doubled their revenue to $168.9 million in 2025, which is genuinely impressive. They're winning deals across automotive, ...
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Here's the thing about the AI boom that nobody talks about at dinner parties: it's not really one gold rush. It's a sequence of gold rushes, each one solving a different problem before the next bottleneck shows up. First, everyone needed GPUs. Nvidia printed money. Then hyperscalers realized they needed servers to hold those GPUs. Super Micro and Dell had their moment. Then the data centers started melting—literally—so cooling companies like Vertiv became the new hotness. Then the power grid started ...
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While everyone was watching oil prices and war headlines this week, JPMorgan Chase did something that barely made the news — but probably should have. The nation's largest bank quietly began marking down the value of loans tied to private-credit portfolios, with many of those loans going to software companies. When the biggest bank in America starts repricing collateral in the hottest lending market on the planet, it's time to pay attention. Here's the backdrop. Private credit has exploded into a ...
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When a company beats on revenue but its stock still craters 12%, the market is telling you something. Ulta Beauty just delivered that exact message — and traders should be paying attention. The cosmetics giant reported Q4 earnings Thursday night that looked solid on the surface: revenue of $3.90 billion topped the $3.80 billion estimate, and net sales grew 11.8% year-over-year. Full-year revenue hit $12.4 billion, up nearly 10%. Not bad for a retailer in this environment. But then came the guidance, ...
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Netflix has been telling Wall Street for years that it prefers to build, not buy. Apparently, that philosophy has an expiration date — and it just hit. Days after walking away from an $82.7 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming businesses, Netflix pivoted hard in the other direction. Its new target? InterPositive, an AI filmmaking startup that Ben Affleck quietly founded in 2022 and kept in stealth mode until now. The price tag: up to $600 million, ...
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Here's the thing about the AI boom that nobody talks about at dinner parties: it's not really one race. It's a relay race where each leg creates a new batch of winners. First, it was GPUs. Nvidia printed money. Then it was the servers to hold those GPUs. Then cooling systems, because you can't just stack thousands of processors without turning your data center into a pizza oven. Then power plants—suddenly nuclear energy became sexy. Then memory. Each bottleneck got solved, ...
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Everyone's talking about oil hitting $100 a barrel thanks to the Iran situation. Fair enough—that's a big deal. But here's what most people are missing: the real damage to your portfolio might not come from your energy stocks or your grocery bill. It could come from your tech holdings. Tom Hancock, who runs the Focused Equity team at GMO, has been thinking about this differently than the crowd. His track record speaks for itself—his fund has beaten 98% of similar funds ...
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