Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban says college students and new graduates have an unprecedented advantage as artificial intelligence tools reshape the economy. In a panel discussion at the All-In Summit, Cuban says he’s discouraging his children from pursuing a job at big firms, noting that they are intent on adopting AI. But he says that college graduates can have a huge advantage at small or medium-sized firms if they can actually set up tools, connect systems, or automate workflows using AI. “So I got two kids in college. And what I tell them is, if you were looking for a job…
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Morgan Stanley says the record-setting rally can continue as artificial intelligence (AI) drives a new phase for markets, and it’s laying out four themes for investors to follow. In a CNBC interview, Morgan Stanley private wealth advisor Sherry Paul says investors shouldn’t assume the run is over just because indexes keep climbing higher. But she warns that investors who are chasing the market should allocate funds to sectors and companies that have structural support or macro tailwinds. “It’s important, especially for individual investors, because just because the market hits new highs doesn’t mean that we’re not going to hit more…
ElevenLabs employees are set to cash out tens of millions of dollars as the AI voice startup opens a secondary sale that values the company at $6.6 billion, double its worth from January. The company says the staff can sell up to $100 million of stock in a tender led by Sequoia Capital and Iconiq Growth, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, reports Bloomberg. The move allows early employees to realize gains from the AI boom while new investors expand their stakes. Founded in 2022, ElevenLabs makes artificial voices that can mimic human speech in multiple languages. Its technology is used…
Nebius shares surged after the company announced a multibillion-dollar contract to supply Microsoft with the computing power needed to run advanced artificial intelligence models. The Amsterdam-based firm said it will provide GPU infrastructure capacity worth $17.4 billion over five years, reports Reuters. The deal may expand to $19.4 billion if Microsoft purchases additional services. The news sent NBIS shares flying in after-hours trading, soaring from $64.19 to as high as $102.98, an over 60% climb in a matter of hours. Nebius specializes in providing Nvidia graphics processing units and cloud services tailored for AI developers. Its platform combines computing, storage,…
AI firms Databricks and Cognition have vaulted into the highest tier of artificial intelligence startups, pulling in billions from top venture firms as investor appetite shows no signs of cooling. Databricks closed a $1 billion round that values the San Francisco software company above $100 billion, while Cognition secured $400 million at a $10.2 billion valuation, reports Bloomberg. The combined tally tops $110 billion, underscoring the scale of money pouring into AI’s infrastructure and applications. Databricks makes software that helps companies organize massive piles of information and then use it to train and run AI. The firm is now moving…
Rebecca Patterson, the former chief investment strategist at Bridgewater Associates, says corporate CFOs are preparing for layoffs as companies face pressure to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) without increasing budgets. In an interview with Risk Reversal Media, Patterson describes a discussion she held with US corporate CFOs under Chatham House rules. She says the responses revealed a striking bias toward job cuts next year. “But the big risk I’m worried about is jobs. If you don’t have a job, you’re not consuming. If you’re not consuming, earnings expectations get hit. What triggered this idea for me was a discussion about three…
One of the investors who made massive returns after shorting the housing market during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis is unveiling a bear-case scenario for the artificial intelligence trade. In a new episode of The Real Eisman Playbook, Steve Eisman says that tech titans, including Google, Meta, and Amazon, are sinking hundreds of billions of dollars into AI models and infrastructure. The investor draws a line back to 1999, noting that overinvestment in the Dot-Com rush helped trigger the 2001 recession and that tech underperformed for years afterward, a potential analogue to today’s tech capital expenditures (CapEx). “My answer is…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says artificial intelligence (AI) has unlocked the ability to call back more than 100 million customers, forcing the company to expand its sales team to meet rising demand. In an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Benioff frames the rise of the “agentic enterprise” as a structural shift in how Salesforce operates. He argues that AI is not displacing staff but enabling new opportunities that require more human sales capacity. The company has been working to pair human employees with AI sales agents capable of proactively contacting prospects, booking appointments, and closing deals. “We’ve had more than…
Senator Rand Paul says artificial intelligence (AI) could one day grant Americans enough leisure to choose work freely, framing labor as a reward rather than a punishment. In a new All-In Podcast interview, the Kentucky senator draws on historical examples of productivity leaps to highlight how technology reshapes human effort. He points to a classic calculation from a Yale economist who measured the hours required in different eras to secure light for reading. “It was like in the 19th century, because you had to have candles, and it was like 10,000 hours of work, or maybe it’s 1,000 hours of…
Goldman Sachs is warning that the S&P 500 could tumble into bear market territory if Big Tech’s record AI spending spree starts to slow. In a new research note, analysts at the banking titan estimate that hyperscaler investment has already reached $368 billion this year, with Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle driving the boom, Forbes reports. Goldman projects that AI companies will drive $1 trillion in total sales growth across the S&P 500 companies next year. But the prediction will not come to fruition if the firehose of AI money tapers off. In an extreme scenario, Goldman envisions hyperscalers…
