One of America’s largest asset managers says nearly every corner of the US stock market is overpriced — except for one sector. In a new Bloomberg Technology interview, Empower chief investment officer Marta Norton says valuations across most industries now sit in the ninth and tenth deciles relative to history, a level that historically pressures three-year returns. She notes that while technology has led markets higher, its gains have spread across multiple industries, making it harder for earnings alone to drive the next leg of growth. “When we look under the hood in technology, we really see it across industries.…
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The United States has emerged as one of the most targeted countries in the world as cybercriminals rapidly integrate AI into their attack tools, according to new research from Trellix. The cybersecurity firm’s CyberThreat Report: October 2025 tracked 1,221 advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns across 121 nations and 14 sectors. Trellix finds that the US and Türkiye recorded the highest volume of detections, with the telecommunications industry among the hardest hit. “The United States represents the second-highest APT target, accounting for 23.9% of global activity. Unlike Türkiye’s telecommunications focus, US targeting demonstrates a broader sectoral distribution with technology companies bearing significant…
A new McKinsey report warns that AI could upend global banking economics, eroding profit pools by more than $100 billion if banks fail to adapt. In its Global Banking Annual Review 2025, McKinsey says agentic AI, autonomous systems capable of reasoning and action, is poised to change how consumers and institutions manage money. McKinsey says early adopters stand to capture lasting advantages, while slow movers risk watching their core revenues vanish as customers turn to digital agents that automatically optimize deposits, credit card borrowing and investments. “But AI is a double-edged sword, likely to bring cost savings as well as…
The architect behind much of modern machine learning says the robotics boom rests on shaky ground until a new kind of AI emerges. Speaking in a dialogue with Mark Gorenberg, chair of the MIT Corporation, Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says the entire robotics sector faces a fundamental intelligence gap, one that current models cannot bridge. LeCun, who pioneered convolutional neural networks and helped shape modern machine learning, says the next generation of systems must move beyond today’s large language models toward what he calls “world models.” “So this notion of world model… I think [it] is going to…
One of Wall Street’s most bullish strategists says the US stock market is nowhere near an AI bubble. In a new interview with Anthony Pompliano, Lee compares today’s AI-driven optimism to the late-1990s dot-com era, saying the fundamentals don’t support bubble talk. According to the market strategist, AI stocks may actually be undervalued at current levels. “If we’re measuring bubbles, based on like risk reward, we’re pretty far from it. Because in 1998, September, which is similar to today because the Fed was on pause, and then they started cutting again, September 98. Cisco, which was the biggest company at…
The US government’s nearly $9 billion investment in Intel is paying off in a big way in just a few months, as INTC continues to soar following a strong Q3 2025 performance. In a new press release, Intel says its third-quarter revenue stands at $13.7 billion, beating Wall Street estimates of $13.65 billion. The firm’s Q3 adjusted gross margin sits at 40%, up 22 percentage points from the same period a year ago and shattering projections of 36.1%. Meanwhile, adjusted earnings per share are $0.23, well above expectations of $0.01. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the AI boom is creating…
A top technical strategist at Fundstrat believes Tesla’s (TSLA) next breakout could unleash a powerful rally into year-end if one critical price level gives way. Mark Newton, Fundstrat’s head of technical strategy, says the stock remains structurally bullish and is poised to accelerate once it clears resistance at all-time highs. Should TSLA shatter the $488 price level, Newton believes that the stock will generate bullish momentum that could propel it into uncharted territory. “Thereafter, a move to new all-time highs happens, which results in an acceleration that could carry TSLA north of $600. Thus, I remain quite bullish on TSLA…
A new financing push is underway to build some of the largest data centers in the world in an effort to support OpenAI’s massive Stargate project. JPMorgan Chase and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group are leading a $38 billion debt sale that will fund two massive data center projects in Texas and Wisconsin, Bloomberg reports. The facilities, developed by Vantage Data Centers and used by Oracle, will supply computing power to the $500 billion Stargate initiative, an AI infrastructure program designed to support OpenAI’s future models. Sources familiar with the matter say the package is split across two senior secured credit…
Anthropic gears up for its next leap in compute power through an expanded partnership with Google Cloud. In a new press release, Anthropic says it struck a deal with Google Cloud to access up to one million TPU chips, hardware worth tens of billions of dollars. The company says the deal will provide “well over a gigawatt of capacity” coming online in 2026, enough to train and serve the next generations of its Claude models. This partnership builds on Anthropic’s earlier 2023 collaboration with Google Cloud, which already powers Claude models through Vertex AI and the Google Cloud Marketplace. Thousands…
A prominent venture capitalist dismisses AI bubble talks, arguing that current valuations bear little resemblance to the excesses of the dot-com era. In a new post on X, Menlo Ventures executive Deedy Das cites data from the Coatue Oct 2025 State of AI Report to show that the AI trade is less than half of the multiples witnessed during the late 1990s dot-com bubble. “Multiples (P/E) are nowhere near the .com level.” Looking at the chart, the Nasdaq’s price-to-earnings multiple appears to have soared to 89x by 1999. In comparison, the same measure clocks in at 28x today. Turning to…
