Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya is sounding the alarm on what he calls an overlooked risk of the AI boom: energy. In a new episode of the All-In Podcast, the venture capitalist says he spoke with the head of a major energy company who believes the United States is heading toward a power crunch. Palihapitiya says the rise of AI infrastructure — from hyperscale data centers to server farms — is already straining local grids and driving public resistance to new builds. “I talked to somebody yesterday who runs a huge energy business. And I have to tell you, it’s not…
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Venture capitalists are flooding the artificial intelligence sector with unprecedented sums, reshaping the global funding landscape and leaving non-AI startups struggling to survive. Bloomberg cites PitchBook to show that AI startups have already drawn $192.7 billion in funding this year — putting 2025 on track to become the first year in history when more than half of all venture capital dollars flow into the tech industry. Most of that capital has gone to the largest players. Anthropic and xAI both raised multi-billion-dollar rounds this quarter, while smaller and non-AI startups face shrinking access to capital. PitchBook says the imbalance has…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has embarked on a fresh global campaign to secure financing and supply-chain partners capable of meeting the company’s explosive demand for computing power. In recent weeks, Altman has traveled across Asia — visiting Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan — and is now preparing to meet investors in the United Arab Emirates, The Wall Street Journal reports. People familiar with the discussions say the goal is to lock in long-term, low-cost partnerships for OpenAI’s next phase of growth, including a sweeping, multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure expansion. The campaign comes as Altman revives talks with key chip and data-center…
A former UBS chief investment strategist warns that AI CapEx (capital expenditure) is accelerating at a record pace, lifting valuations and concentrating power in a handful of technology giants. In a post published in the Financial Times, Ian Harnett says the same forces that drove the boom may now be signaling its top — echoing the last great tech cycles that ended in collapse. He points to runaway spending among hyperscalers and a narrowing of stock leadership across major US indexes as symptoms of excess. “The AI ‘bubble’ looks to be approaching its endgame. The dramatic rise in AI capital expenditure by…
Jefferies has turned bearish on Apple, warning that the company’s much-anticipated foldable iPhone could fail to ignite a new upgrade cycle amid slowing smartphone demand. In a new interview, Jefferies analyst Edison Lee says the firm has downgraded Apple (AAPL) from Hold to Sell, citing a lack of meaningful innovation and mounting structural headwinds across the mobile industry. “This is a longer-term call. I think that the smartphone industry—not just Apple, but all the Android guys too—is actually facing a much more serious structural slowdown, mainly because there are no innovative features that your current phone cannot do.” He says…
A senior Deutsche Bank strategist says growing concerns over the runaway AI trade are prompting investors to seek safety elsewhere. In a new interview, Adrian Cox, thematic strategist at Deutsche Bank Research Institute, says the AI trade is beginning to show “red lights,” a sign the market may be underestimating the risks tied to record capital spending and inflated valuations. “The red lights, I would say that it is reasonable to be concerned about the amount of CapEx that’s going on, and in particular, whether it’s going to be possible to recoup the expenditure within the life of the chips.”…
A veteran Wall Street analyst says the market’s most powerful AI plays may still be hiding in plain sight. In a new Fox Business interview, former Citigroup executive and current Evercore ISI senior managing director Mark Mahaney outlines which tech giants he believes are best positioned for the next phase of the AI trade. He says he has his eye on Alphabet (GOOGL) following a landmark court ruling, where a federal judge allowed Apple to maintain its lucrative default search arrangement with Google. “It’s still our top pick… We’ve had a pretty big run, though, in Google. We made this our…
Investor exuberance over artificial intelligence is fueling a powerful stock rally that Goldman Sachs says is beginning to resemble a FOMO (fear of missing out)-driven surge. In a new report, Oscar Ostlund, global head of content strategy, market analytics, and data science for Goldman’s digital platform Marquee, says bullish sentiment among clients has climbed to the highest level since December 2024, with 40% expecting the S&P 500 to outperform global peers this month, reports Bloomberg. The optimism, Goldman warns, has reached a point where fear of missing out may be overtaking fundamentals. “Not so distant talks about high valuations and…
Bank of America says the rapid expansion of the Nvidia-driven AI infrastructure is exposing a critical weakness in data-center design, one that most investors are overlooking. In a new CNBC interview, Andrew Obin of BofA Securities says the Wall Street narrative around Nvidia’s growth is missing the deeper physical and electrical realities driving the next leg of AI spending. While investors focus on chips and compute power, he argues the hidden bottleneck lies in the hardware underneath: power delivery and cooling systems that are no longer sufficient for next-generation AI racks. Obin says data centers once treated electrical and cooling…
A new Yale study finds no evidence that AI has caused job losses across the US economy, countering widespread fears of mass displacement. Researchers at Yale’s Budget Lab analyzed labor-market data collected since ChatGPT’s release in November 2022 and concluded that the mix of occupations has changed no faster than in previous waves of technological change. “Our metrics indicate that the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s release 33 months ago, undercutting fears that AI automation is currently eroding the demand for cognitive labor across the economy.” The team compared the pace of occupational turnover…