A top strategist at State Street says the biggest AI risk this year is not investor sentiment but physical limits. In a new CNBC interview, Jennifer Bender, global chief investment strategist at State Street, names one of the firm’s annual “grey swan” scenarios, describing it as a low-probability event that could meaningfully reshape markets. According to Bender, a top candidate this year centers on AI hitting structural bottlenecks rather than fading hype. “Every year, we put our outlook at the same time for the year. We put our grey swan outlier scenario. I mean, these are low-probability events that have…
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Famed short-seller Michael Burry warns that the economics behind the US AI data center boom may be about to change. In a new post on X, the Big Short investor highlights reports surrounding the upcoming launch of DeepSeek V4, a Chinese model said to rival Western systems at a fraction of the cost. Burry says the moment is a major structural shift rather than a single product release, suggesting that falling model costs and performance convergence could pressure the entire AI infrastructure trade. “Convergence, commoditization, compression and reflexivity – the four horsemen of the data center buildout apocalypse. DeepSeek V4…
Morgan Stanley is loading up on two hyperscalers in a move that offers a glimpse into how the bank and its customers are approaching the AI trade. Morgan Stanley’s latest 13F filing shows that the bank accumulated 1,379,651 shares of Apple (AAPL) in Q4 of 2025, lifting its stake to 230,483,035 shares valued at $62.659 billion. At the end of the quarter, Apple is Morgan Stanley’s number one holding, accounting for 3.74% of its portfolio. The bank also bought 1,132,013 shares of Alphabet Class C stock (GOOG), boosting its exposure to 71,841,419 shares, worth $22.543 billion. Morgan Stanley also holds…
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood says the market is still treating the AI boom like a trauma response. In a new episode of ARK Invest’s In The Know podcast, Wood says this cycle looks nothing like the late 1990s mania that still haunts investors today. Wood says the setup is unusually constructive for long-term innovation investing, believing that the AI trade has more room to run to the upside. “Unlike the tech and telecom bubble, this is the real deal. Unlike the tech and telecom bubble, people are scared to death. As a portfolio manager in the world of innovation,…
Veteran investor Tom Lee says a shift is underway in the AI trade, but notes that it is not the end for Big Tech names. In a post on X, the Fundstrat co-founder highlights that investors are rotating within the same theme rather than abandoning it. He says the move is a preference for suppliers or the picks and shovels over the tech giants themselves. “The Mag 7 is selling off because investors favor ‘bullet makers’ over ‘armies’ – one of the major 2026 stories – we view it as a rotation – but investors will rotate back. AI is…
OpenAI is doubling down on personal AI agents — and it just hired one of the internet’s most unexpected breakout builders to help lead the charge. Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source project OpenClaw, announces he is joining OpenAI to “work on bringing agents to everyone,” marking a strategic bet on multi-agent systems becoming central to how people interact with AI. Steinberger says the decision followed weeks of conversations with major AI labs and access to cutting-edge, unreleased research. “My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use. That’ll need a much broader change, a…
One of Wall Street’s most vocal AI bulls says the biggest risk to the revolution is not valuations, interest rates, or funding. Speaking in a new Basis Points interview, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives points to energy as the biggest risk factor that could derail the AI trade. According to Ives, the US has ticked everything in the AI boom list from chips to capital, except for energy constraints. “I think the biggest bear case around the AI revolution is energy. Because to me, everything else, I feel really like check, check, check… What’s the blind side? Seeing around the corners,…
Banking titan JPMorgan Chase is massively trimming its exposure in the AI trade, dumping billions of dollars worth of Mag 7 names. The bank’s Q4 13F filing shows that JPMorgan unloaded $7.16 billion in shares of the social media giant Meta (META), selling 10,859,259 shares to reduce its holdings by 20% in just one quarter. As of the end of Q4, the bank holds 43,855,509 shares in META worth about $28.948 billion. Aside from META, JPMorgan also sold $6.06 billion in Nvidia (NVDA), distributing 32,478,144 shares in Q4 to trim its exposure in the chipmaker by 7%. At quarter end,…
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says the post-1945 world order is breaking down and the era ahead will be driven less by rules and more by raw power. In a lengthy post on X, Dalio points to remarks at the Munich Security Conference where leaders described a shift into “great power politics,” with Germany’s chancellor saying the old order “no longer exists” and warning that freedom “is no longer a given.” Dalio says the breakdown fits what he calls “Stage 6” of the Big Cycle, a phase he describes as “great disorder” where “might is right” and major powers clash. He…
Elon Musk is sketching out what he sees as a multi-year turning point for artificial intelligence across his companies. In a series of posts on X, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO lays out a timeline stretching from humanoid robots to autonomous vehicles and interplanetary expansion. He first addresses Tesla’s Optimus robot and when it could start reshaping industries. “It will begin to transform things in 2027, be obvious in 2028 and have a massive impact by 2029.” In January, Musk said that Optimus could be available for sale to the public by 2027. Musk has repeatedly described Optimus as a…