Citi is sounding caution on Palantir Technologies (PLTR), warning investors that the stock’s lofty valuation may be difficult to justify as the company’s AI advantage evolves. In a new CNBC interview, Tyler Radke, senior equity research analyst at Citi, warns that PLTR may be overvalued after rising by 107% year-to-date. He also says that at current levels and the way the AI industry is developing, Citi is not ‘particularly excited’ about PLTR’s risk-reward profile. “This stock, even despite its slide, is still trading at around 70x forward revenue. So it’s very much on the high end of the valuation range.”…
Author: Henry Kanapi
Tech titan Google believes that artificial intelligence (AI) will trigger a massive creation of wealth that would help the US wrestle with its sky-high debt level. In a speech at Jackson Hole, Alphabet president and chief investment officer Ruth Porat says AI is no longer a side story but a powerful engine that could catalyze colossal wealth generation in the coming years. “[AI can] drive economic growth, potentially in the trillions of dollars globally in the next 10 years.” Porat says the scale of the opportunity is extraordinary, even if the estimates vary. Citing data from the Congressional Budget Office…
Cambricon Technologies has swung to a record $144 million profit in the first half of the year, powered by surging demand for homegrown chips after DeepSeek’s latest AI model fueled a rush into domestic hardware. Revenue soared 44-fold to 2.9 billion yuan ($410 million), lifting Cambricon’s market value to $80 billion in August alone, reports Bloomberg. Cambricon Technologies is one of China’s largest listed AI chip designers, supplying accelerators for training and running large language models. Investors poured in after DeepSeek explicitly optimized its V3 model for local processors. Wee Khoon Chong, a senior strategist at the Bank of New…
JPMorgan Asset Management has thrown its weight behind Numerai with a $500 million capacity commitment, fueling one of the sharpest rallies yet for the AI-powered hedge fund’s native token. Numerai’s NMR coin surged more than 115% in 24 hours following the announcement, doubling in value as investors latched onto Wall Street’s endorsement of a crowdsourced approach to machine-learning strategies. The deal pushes Numerai’s assets under management toward the $1 billion mark, after a breakout 2024 in which the fund posted a 25.45% net return with a 2.75 Sharpe ratio. Founded in 2015, Numerai runs a tournament that invites thousands of…
Morgan Stanley says the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) may do more than boost productivity. In a new CNBC interview, Stephen Byrd, the bank’s global head of thematic research, says the economics of robotics are shifting fast, hitting a stage that embodied AI or robots could now erase China’s long-standing cost advantage in manufacturing. “At about a 20% penetration level of robots in US factories, the landed cost of products produced in the United States would be the same as a product manufactured in China and brought to the US. So that is absolutely huge. And that can change…
Elon Musk’s AI startup is dragging Apple and OpenAI into court, accusing them of striking an illegal pact that hands ChatGPT a monopoly inside the iPhone. The lawsuit, filed in Texas federal court by X Corp. and xAI, claims Apple’s exclusive deal to integrate ChatGPT into iOS shuts out every other generative artificial intelligence (AI) competitor, including Musk’s own Grok. “Apple would integrate ChatGPT into iOS. This deal is exclusive. Apple has not integrated with any other generative AI chatbots, including xAI’s Grok.” At the center of the case is Apple’s alleged decision to make ChatGPT the default, and only,…
Apple is weighing whether to let Google power the brain of Siri, a move that would mark a stunning break from its long-held strategy of building artificial intelligence (AI) in-house. The iPhone maker is in early talks to license Google’s Gemini models to run on its servers, Bloomberg reports. The deal would give Siri a new backbone after years of delays and false starts, while thrusting Apple into an uneasy alliance with its fiercest rival. Shares of both companies jumped on the news. Google (GOOGL) climbed 2.9% to $205.46 in New York trading Friday, while Apple (AAPL) rose 1.4% to…
A Fortune 500 cybersecurity giant is sounding the alarm after investigators confirmed that a ransomware crew relied on generative AI to accelerate its campaign against more than one hundred organizations worldwide. In its Q2 Threat Report, Gen Digital notes that FunkSec first appeared late last year, initially focused on data theft and extortion rather than encryption. The gang’s leak site listed its first victim in December, with attacks expanding into the new year. At least 113 companies across the U.S., Italy, Spain and Brazil were struck, including a firm working in child protection. The ransom note — README-{random}.md — appeared…
The world’s largest asset manager is making a colossal bet on artificial intelligence, with regulatory filings showing more than $1.13 trillion allocated across the biggest names in the sector. The latest 13-F filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that BlackRock holds $301.72 billion in Nvidia (NVDA), amounting to over 1.9 billion shares. Nvidia is the dominant supplier of GPUs that power modern artificial intelligence applications, and its stock has soared on the back of AI demand. BlackRock’s second-largest AI holding is Microsoft (MSFT), with $289.28 billion deployed into 581.6 million shares. The tech giant has cemented…
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller has deployed more than a quarter-billion dollars across three stocks through his Duquesne Family Office, a new SEC filing shows. The firm’s Q2 13F filing shows positions worth $256.45 million in Microsoft, Broadcom and one semiconductor tied to the AI boom. According to the document, Duquesne bought 200,930 shares of Microsoft valued at $99.9 million from April to June of this year. In its latest earnings report, the firm said revenue climbed 18% to $76.4 billion for the quarter ended on June 30, 2025. Net income reached $27.2 billion, up 22% year-over-year, as diluted earnings per…
