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Bitcoin To $2 Million? First, a Reckoning at $30K

In August 2025, we warned that the U.S. dollar was closer to a major low than most thought, and that this reversal would line up with a major top in Bitcoin. Two months later, Bitcoin peaked, and it has since fallen by 54%.

NOV 6, 2026

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CYBERSECURITY STOCKS

3 AI Trends Driving the 2026 Cybersecurity Stocks Rally

Cybersecurity stocks surged in 2026 as AI-enabled attacks rose 89%. We look at how AI threats, AI labs and platform consolidation are driving demand.

OCT 31, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Beyond Hyperscalers: Here’s the Next $1 Trillion AI Infrastructure Opportunity

Since 2022, Big Tech capex has been the clearest barometer of AI demand. But the market’s reaction to Google’s latest earnings shows investors are questioning how long that spending can last. While the market frets over hyperscalers’ cash flows, a second wave of AI infrastructure spending has quietly emerged, driven by enterprises and neocloud customers.

OCT 30, 2026Read more

AI PLATFORMS

Google’s $250 Billion AI Chip Opportunity Takes Aim at Nvidia

In April, there was a major shift in the AI accelerator market, and for once, it didn’t come from Nvidia. Six months later, merchant TPUs are moving from announcement to commercial execution, with Google recognizing its first revenue from TPU systems in Q2 (from a small base). Last quarter, Cloud revenue growth accelerated to 82% for $24.8 billion, compared to $22.5 billion expected. In addition, new details around the TPU 8t show that Google’s threat to Nvidia is not limited to inference. At the time, we pointed out that Google may be one of Nvidia’s strongest AI challengers, as Big Tech is closest to the problems that accelerators must solve. The problem that Google is prioritizing is lower cost per token, with token economics becoming a predominant concern as AI spending is pushing Big Tech’s free cash flows into the red. Below, we discuss two reasons why Google’s AI story is about to change, not from advancements in AI software, but by going after one of the most profitable hardware businesses the tech industry has ever seen.

OCT 23, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

AI Debt Nears $500 Billion in 2026: What It Means for Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and AI Stocks

AI-related debt reached $466 billion through September 2026, more than four times last year’s pace. We break down who is borrowing, the three ways new AI chip deals are being structured, and where interest costs land across Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, Broadcom and Big Tech.

OCT 23, 2026Read more

AI PLATFORMS

How Much Nvidia Business Does Microsoft’s Maia 300 AI Chip Really Replace?

Microsoft’s Maia 300 is its “biggest bet yet” on its own silicon, but the details tell a narrower story than the headlines. The chip covers inference for Microsoft’s own products from 2027, about 10% of its AI chip spending by early 2027, and leaves Nvidia’s training and cloud business in place.

OCT 23, 2026Read more

AI PLATFORMS

Why Frontier Labs, Not SaaS Vendors, Could Win Enterprise AI

AI agents and open protocols like MCP are shifting enterprise AI value to frontier labs like Anthropic. See why SaaS moats are weakening and who takes the lead in the enterprise AI stack.

OCT 16, 2026Read more

BROAD MARKET TODAY

Bonds Are Breaking, the Fed Is Boxed In: Why Stocks Can Keep Rising

In this report, we will unpack the current macro-backdrop. We will explain why this breakout in yields matters, why the U.S. Dollar remains the key, and why growth in the economy should put a floor under any extended period of volatility.

OCT 16, 2026Read more

CLOUD SOFTWARE

How Agentic AI Is Squeezing SaaS Margins

Agentic AI is squeezing SaaS gross margins at ServiceNow, Microsoft and HubSpot. See which software stocks win with usage-based pricing and which fall behind.

OCT 16, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

The New Layer in Nvidia’s Enterprise AI Strategy

Nvidia’s pace of growth in the Data Center segment has been nothing short of remarkable. Data Center revenue reached $89 billion in Q2 FY27, up nearly 9x over the last three years. Meanwhile, Nvidia’s total revenue is expected to surpass the $100 billion milestone next quarter. Despite these strong numbers, calling Nvidia a semiconductor company no longer captures what it is building. Nvidia is now moving towards building an agentic-focused enterprise AI stack, with the recent launch of its Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28. In partnership with over 100 ecosystem companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, and Salesforce, this high-profile launch was for a software and infrastructure security stack designed to govern autonomous AI agents, and not for the release of a next-generation chip conventionally associated with the company. Long-term investors should look out for whether Nvidia’s enterprise AI strategy establishes a foundational operating system that could shape how next-generation computing evolves.

OCT 12, 2026Read more

BROAD MARKET TODAY

The Greatest Bull Market in Decades is About to Begin – But a Correction Comes First

For investors who think they've missed out on AI, the best is yet to come. But first, there will be a notable correction. Since March 2009, the S&P 500 has experienced five declines of roughly 20% or more. Most were followed by relatively quick recoveries, reinforcing the belief that "buying the dip" is a reliable long-term strategy. However, these declines occurred within a broader secular bull market, which is an important distinction.

OCT 11, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Data Center Stocks Face a New Bottleneck: What Project Jupiter Reveals for Bloom, Oracle and Applied Digital

Oracle's Project Jupiter force majeure notice shows permission, not demand, is becoming the new bottleneck for data center stocks like Bloom Energy and Applied Digital.

OCT 2, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Why Nvidia’s SK Hynix Deal Leaves Little AI Memory for Everyone Else

Nvidia, Alphabet and AMD could take 85% of 2027 HBM supply. What does Nvidia's SK Hynix HBM deal mean for every other buyer in the AI memory race?

OCT 2, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nebius Vs CoreWeave: Which AI Stock Has the Upper Hand?

Nebius has 0.2x net debt to revenue vs. CoreWeave's 2.9x. We break down how net debt, customer prepayments and GPU rental prices explain the NBIS vs. CRWV gap.

OCT 2, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

AMD Stock Crosses $1 Trillion — and the Market Still Underestimates the Dark Horse

At 10%+ GPU market share, AMD remains an attractive stock. At 15%+, the underdog story changes considerably, and my thesis from two years ago that AMD’s returns will outpace Nvidia’s stock will likely play out. As for how we get there, in the coming months, Venice and Helios will arrive at nearly the same time. For a growth investor, what could be better than one major catalyst? Two major catalysts..

SEP 25, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Micron Stock: Why the AI Memory Cycle Is Different This Time

The AI memory boom is one of the most controversial debates in the market, as investors weigh if the historical cyclical nature of memory means that Micron, SK Hynix and other memory stocks have put in a top. It’s no secret memory stocks have soared with both SK Hynix and Micron up 400% and 500% in a 1-year time frame. This follows high bandwidth memory (HBM) growing from a roughly $4 billion market in 2023, to a $34.6 billion market in 2025, with Micron now expecting the market to reach $100 billion in 2027.

SEP 18, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nvidia, Palantir and the $500 Billion Sovereign AI Opportunity

Nvidia just posted one of its most impressive quarters in recent memory, but many investors likely missed the report’s critical implications for the company’s key software partner, Palantir. Sovereign AI and regional neocloud businesses were among Nvidia’s fastest growth vectors, rising 35% QoQ, 2.7X faster than hyperscalers, and more than tripling YoY. Notably, amid this dramatic growth, sovereign AI is the exact arena where Nvidia has just announced a strategic partnership with Palantir.

SEP 11, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Palantir Stock: The AI Token Boom Is Hiding a Bigger Opportunity

Palantir recently took shots at OpenAI and Anthropic’s business models, implying that they are a part of the “token industrial complex”. As token processing counts soar, OpenAI and Anthropic’s ARR figures are no doubt climbing rapidly. However, Palantir’s model of maximizing value per token, rather than needing to push customers to consume as many tokens as possible, is translating into high quality growth. And, as R&D labs struggle to sniff profitability, Palantir is putting up among the strongest margins in the tech sector.

SEP 11, 2026Read more

CYBERSECURITY STOCKS

CrowdStrike Posts Record Results—But Investors May Still Be Overlooking This AI Tailwind

CrowdStrike is on a tear after the company posted an all-time high net new ARR of $333 million. The cybersecurity leader also saw its AI Detection and Response (AIDR) ARR triple in one quarter and boosted its FY2027 net new ARR growth guidance to 34% YoY, up a whopping 1,150 basis points from its initial outlook. This incredibly strong performance is not unique to CrowdStrike. Over recent months, cybersecurity companies have been quietly posting some of the most impressive AI-driven growth rates. This includes the world’s largest cybersecurity pure-play not named CrowdStrike calling an AI security offering its fastest growing product ever.

SEP 4, 2026Read more

CYBERSECURITY STOCKS

How Autonomous Agent Risks Are Reshaping Cybersecurity Investing

Not only is AI rapidly changing the security landscape, but it is also escalating the global threat environment at a rate that legacy security systems are struggling to keep pace with. Over the past three years, weekly cyberattacks per organization have surged by 70%, driven largely by an 89% increase in AI-enabled cyberattacks. As AI-driven cyberattacks accelerate in conjunction with models becoming more autonomous, security is quickly becoming the single biggest bottleneck to wide-spread AI adoption. This reality is shaping one of the more promising investment themes in AI today.

SEP 3, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nvidia Fiscal Q2: The AI Giant Answers to Losing Market Share

This evening, Nvidia effectively pulled a rabbit out of a hat by showing the GPU juggernaut may not need hyperscalers to the degree the market thinks. According to management, “There is sovereign AI, there are regional AIs, there are NeoClouds, there are AI startups at enterprises [...] which represents about half of our business, and that is growing 100% a year.” This helped lead to an even bigger surprise than the current quarter’s beat, which is that Nvidia broke their typical guidance cadence by providing a guide for FY28, stating they will report 70% growth, or about $691 billion, compared to analyst estimates for $570 billion. Below, we discuss the main takeaway from Nvidia’s earnings report, which is that the AI infrastructure buildout is finally broadening beyond Big Tech.

AUG 27, 2026Read more

CRYPTO INVESTMENT

The Case for Bitcoin to $2 Million After This Bear Market

Our latest analysis lays out how we plan to navigate the rest of this bear cycle, along with the technical roadmap to $2 million — a view further supported by what we're seeing across the U.S. dollar, Treasuries, and gold, which together point to a challenging macro backdrop that could ultimately turn favorable for Bitcoin.

AUG 21, 2026Read more

BROAD MARKET TODAY

Is the AI Dip a Buy? Key S&P 500 Levels and the One Bond Market Line to Watch

In our last broad market report on June 18th, we presented a case for caution, presenting numerous warning signs that we tend to see before a correction, ranging from institutional positioning to numerous divergences within the broad market. The one data point that concerned us most had last appeared in 2024, just before the AI trade saw its biggest correction since the uptrend began in 2022: “The economically sensitive Transportation sector is also flashing the same warning. It’s down about 10% while semiconductors are up 43%. The only other time these two sectors diverged this sharply was July 2024. That divergence marked a one-year top in semis and gave way to a 40% drawdown into the April 2025 low.”

AUG 14, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Big Tech’s AI Revenue Is Surging, but Suppliers Will Still Be the Bigger Winners

Big Tech’s AI Capex has stomped estimates for multiple years and analysts are now calling for capex to surge to $1 trillion in 2027. However, hyperscalers have long battled investor concerns around whether billions in spending would translate to the transformative growth they claimed. Recent hyperscaler results show that the needle is beginning to move. Top cloud providers all saw strong growth accelerations in Q2 and noted that demand is outstripping capacity.

AUG 6, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

AI Capex to Hit $1 Trillion – And Estimates Are Still Too Low

Big Tech capex is the driving force behind the AI infrastructure trade, yet Wall Street has repeatedly underestimated the sheer scale of the buildout. Currently, in 2026, the guidance for $732.5 billion is now 158% higher than forecasts issued two years ago. Last week, the market received confirmation that Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google are expected to deploy approximately $432 billion in the second half of 2026 alone. This means the flashy forecast that capex will reach $1 trillion in 2027 is now firmly within reach.

AUG 5, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Token Growth is Surging – Here Are the Beneficiaries

The reality of AI demand growth has shattered early estimates for token processing, yet expectations continue moving up and to the right. In the second installment of our token processing series, we examine what exploding inference demand means for the AI infrastructure market. While many parts of the AI stack are positioned to benefit, we focus on three specific areas where the implications are significant; compute, networking, and power; highlighting notable companies along the way.

JUL 31, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

AI Token Demand is Shattering Forecasts

Total annual token processing is no longer measured in billions or trillions of tokens, but in the quadrillions and beyond. As annual token processing is now tracked in units with 15 trailing zeros, it is becoming more evident that management teams in the AI supply chain and researchers have drastically underestimated the pace of growth. Forecast revisions that once seemed dramatic have since been eclipsed years ahead of schedule, with one of the clearest pieces of evidence coming from a top Nvidia partner. Below, we outline how token processing growth has been greatly underestimated and why expectations may need to move higher once again.

JUL 30, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nvidia and Google Are Crowding TSMC’s N3 Node – Can Intel Fill the Gap?

Nvidia is moving its next-generation Rubin GPUs from 4nm to 3nm, yet Google’s latest TPUs are already on N3 and are expected to remain there. Meanwhile, a growing number of AI CPUs from Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, and Arm are converging on the same node. This creates an opportunity for Intel given that it's Arizona capacity is coming online whereas TSMC’s new fabs largely will not arrive until late 2027.

JUL 26, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Intel vs TSMC: How CoWoS Packaging Constraints Could Create an Opportunity for Intel Foundry

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) is the single, most important company to the AI industry. However, to compete with the incumbent, Intel does not need to beat TSMC at leading-edge manufacturing. It only needs to solve a problem that TSMC may not be able to solve quickly enough.

JUL 24, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Big Tech’s Free Cash Flow is Turning Negative – Who’s Next?

Big Tech’s AI revenue is accelerating, but free cash flow is moving sharply in the opposite direction. Across Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, capex is rising much faster than operating cash flow as Big Tech races to build out AI infrastructure. Notably, the Big Tech company spending the most on capex in 2026 already turned free cash flow negative, and our estimates suggest it may not be alone by year-end.

JUL 19, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Big Tech Earnings Preview: Is AI Monetization Finally Catching Up to Capex?

The most pronounced difference between 2026’s tech rally compared to rallies in the past is which companies have been left out of it. The names most associated with the AI trade have hardly participated. Google leads Big Tech with returns of 18.7% YTD, followed by Amazon at 10.5% and Meta at 3.4%. Meanwhile, Microsoft has fallen 17.8%. What is most shocking is how much Big Tech has lagged in dollar terms. The combined market cap of these four firms rose just $426 billion this year to $11.93 trillion, just 3.7%. Compare this to Micron, a single supplier to the AI buildout, which alone added approximately $700 billion to its market cap in 2026.

JUL 17, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nvidia, CXL, and the Battle to Improve AI Inference Economics

This is Part 2 of our two-part series on AI inference economics. In Part 1 — Why Nvidia's Next AI Battle Is About Tokens per Watt, we laid out why tokens per watt has become the defining metric for inference profitability. Now, we turn from the why to the how and the who. Two architectural paths are competing to solve the KV cache bottleneck: Nvidia's proprietary CMX platform and the open, vendor-agnostic CXL standard. Although they tackle the same problem, each approach points to different sets of beneficiaries.

JUL 12, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Why Nvidia’s Next AI Battle Is About Tokens per Watt

As hyperscalers move from building AI infrastructure to monetizing it, tokens per watt helps to reflect if revenue is scaling and if profitability is improving. Offload engines can increase tokens per watt by improving utilization and by increasing the amount of inference revenue generated from the same power footprint.

JUL 10, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Micron Is Up 900%. Here’s Why the AI Memory Trade May Still Have Room to Run

Over the past 10 months, memory chip stocks have gone from being solid beneficiaries of the AI boom to capturing a massively outsized piece of the return pie. The inflection in Micron’s performance demonstrates this. From the beginning of 2025 to the end of August 2025, Micron added around $36 billion to its market capitalization, rising to $133 billion for a strong 37% gain. Since then, returns have exploded, with Micron soaring more than 900% from August 2025, and up over 1600% since the April 2025 low.

JUN 26, 2026Read more

BROAD MARKET TODAY

Why the S&P 500 Shrugged Off the Iran War — and What Could Finally Break the Rally

On February 28th, the U.S. went to war with Iran, and the market was handed the kind of shock it hasn't contended with for years. The conflict set off a chain reaction across the region: an ongoing supply disruption in essential commodities, a 30-year Treasury yield pushed to 5.2%, and a CPI print of 4.2%, more than double the Fed's target. By most measures, this was the most uncertain backdrop since COVID.

JUN 19, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

Neoclouds are one of the more hotly debated AI business models, with CoreWeave and Nebius being the two most widely recognized names. These companies have seen their sales, backlog, and share prices soar. Yet, supporting their growth is extremely expensive, and neoclouds do not have the same cash nor operating cash flow profiles of Big Tech. This is leading neoclouds to employ unique and circular financing structures, raising some red flags.

JUN 12, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

AMD, Nvidia, Arm, Intel: Inside the $120 Billion CPU Gold Rush

CPUs have gone from an afterthought to becoming the AI trade’s next great bottleneck – and with AMD, Nvidia, Arm and Intel circling a market that is doubling nearly overnight, the only question left is which company walks away with the lion’s share.

JUN 5, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Google TPU v8 vs Nvidia: How Inference Is Rewriting the AI Market

In April, Google announced it would begin selling its TPUs to select third-party data center operators, which is something the market has anticipated for nearly a decade. The TPU-versus-Nvidia-GPU debate has long fueled both bulls and bears; yet it may finally carry real stakes. Google’s announcement is far from a coincidence—it is driven by several converging factors that make now the right moment to move.

MAY 31, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

The AI Networking Stock That Beat Nvidia by 7X YTD for Returns of 135% YTD

AI networking stock Lumentum is among the key I/O Fund winners in 2026. We allocated heavily to LITE in January—a month before Nvidia backed the company. While most investors couldn’t stomach taking a stake in this stock that soared 339% in 2025, I/O Fund built a 9% position that has since paid off in spades. Overall, in just five brief months, our Lumentum position delivered a return of 135.4%, or 6.8X higher than Nvidia’s 19.9% return since the end of January. For investors new to this name, Lumentum recently received significant validation from the world’s most valuable company—Nvidia—with the dominant force in AI infrastructure investing $2 billion in LITE. However, the importance of this goes far beyond the investment itself. The real story is Lumentum’s central position in Nvidia’s multi-year networking roadmap, and the broader AI market, which is affording Lumentum the opportunity to grow its business several times over.

MAY 22, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Bloom Energy — Our 2026 Top Pick Was the Best Performing Stock in April

April was the best month in six years for the Nasdaq-100. The single best-performing large-cap stock wasn't Nvidia, Microsoft, or Meta. It was Bloom Energy, up roughly 109% in one month. As you'll recall, we named Bloom our 2026 Top Stock pick on February 27. But our position began a year earlier, with initial buys at $16.64 in April 2025, when we positioned for AI energy as the next bottleneck. Over the past year, Bloom has remained one of our highest-allocations of 10% or higher with real-time trade alerts sent to our Research Members.

MAY 17, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Inside Nvidia’s $4B Optical Strategy—and Why CPO Changes Everything

Within the AI investment theme, there is nowhere that the supply chain shifts faster than in networking, leading companies to gain content on new platforms or lose incremental share. The reason is straightforward: much of the market is tied to a single customer, Nvidia; and Nvidia is rolling out new architectural iterations at an unusually fast pace. When it comes to networking, two of the most important architectural advancements are the increase in pod and cluster sizes and the transition to 200G per lane.

MAY 8, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Is Nvidia Stock a Buy? Why Semiconductor Strength May Signal a Market Top

In this report, we take a deeper look at the technical scenarios, which suggests that Nvidia’s latest high is shaping up to be a potential bull trap. That view is corroborated by the broader semiconductor complex. Specifically, the failure of other key sub-sectors to confirm the move higher.

MAY 1, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nvidia’s $20 Trillion Thesis Is Intact. My 2026 Allocation Isn’t

The thesis on Nvidia's hardware moat has played out exceptionally well, but that also highlights one of the biggest risks investors face, which is becoming emotionally attached to a winning stock. While I still believe Nvidia will reach $20 trillion by 2030, I believe much of that 310% return is likely to be back-half weighted in the years of 2028-2030. This is what separates investors from AI enthusiasts. While an AI enthusiast can sit back, relax and discuss specifications and other fandom, an investor must always answer — is my capital better deployed elsewhere?

APR 24, 2026Read more

CRYPTO INVESTMENT

Bitcoin 2026 Price Prediction: Why the Dollar, Global Liquidity and Volume Signal More Downside Ahead

In our last Bitcoin analysis, "Bitcoin After the Cycle Peak: What Comes Next and How We're Positioning", we argued that Bitcoin was closer to a cycle low than most believed, even if one final drop remained ahead. Since that publication, the probability of another drop occurring in the coming weeks has increased meaningfully. If it does, it should set up a tradeable bounce within what we believe is an ongoing bear market. What gives us the confidence that we are in a new bear market cycle, rather than a pullback within a larger uptrend, is that Bitcoin continues to track sentiment patterns and global liquidity cycles with remarkable consistency. Recognizing this unconventional correlation has been the foundation of a framework that has filtered out narrative-driven noise and kept us on the right side of every major Bitcoin trend since 2020. These are themes that we first introduced in August of 2025, when Bitcoin was trading at around $115,000.

APR 17, 2026Read more

BROAD MARKET TODAY

2026 Stock Market Outlook: Cycle Convergence & What’s Next

In our last broad market update, the S&P 500 was trading near 6,850, grinding through its fifth consecutive month of going nowhere. I drew a clear line in the sand at the 6,780 level. This was where the bulls needed to hold to keep the broader uptrend intact heading into 2026. This level (SPX6780) remains of utmost importance for the bulls. If it breaks, then the period of volatility has already begun as we head toward 6500 – 6300 in the coming weeks. This will likely complete the first leg in a larger correction, as we mount a bounce that makes a lower high into later 2026. That level clearly broke, dropping the broad market over 400 points, and finally bottoming at 6,316 on March 30th. We are now staging a bounce, which our analysis suggests will likely fail to make new highs, as the period of volatility that we have been flagging since November takes accelerates.

APR 10, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Arm Stock Could Win as Agentic AI Shifts the Bottleneck to CPUs

Arm unveiled an AGI CPU to address one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks, which is orchestration. During the chatbot craze of 2023-2025, GPUs did most of the heavy lifting while CPUs had become an afterthought. Yet with agentic workloads, which is perhaps the single largest catalyst on the horizon for the AI trade in 2026 and beyond, the importance of CPUs is set to increase. Regarding how Arm fits in, the company’s expertise in lowering power requirements could matter more than the market expects. After years of supplying the architecture IP behind other companies’ CPUs, Arm is preparing to directly compete with its customers and x86 CPU competitors by transitioning to a chip designer themselves. This comes during a time when CPU cores are expected to go up 4X from 30 million CPU cores per gigawatt to 120 million CPU cores per GW. Below, we explain why Arm may be joining a group of select, core AI names positioned to deliver over the long haul.

APR 2, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nvidia Stock Prediction: The Path to a $20 Trillion Market Cap is Strengthening

The $20 trillion market cap will not come from GPU unit growth alone, though unit growth remains very important. Rather, the value proposition will increasingly focus on economic output. This marks a tremendous shift for how Nvidia is evaluated. As the AI market shifts toward inference, Nvidia’s product cycles will be optimized around token economics such as throughput, latency, power efficiency and cost per token. The goal is no longer to simply sell faster and more powerful chips, but to deliver superior economic value at the system level relative to custom silicon (in other words, let the battle begin). Leading up to this, Nvidia was competing on performance metrics, and MLPerf benchmarks still matter of course. But going forward, workload economics and system-level efficiency will play a much larger role in how their systems are evaluated.

MAR 27, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Nvidia Stock to See New Growth Catalyst; 35X Faster AI with Groq 3 LPX

At GTC this week, Jensen Huang stated the revenue opportunity for Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips may reach at least $1 trillion through 2027, up from a previous target of $500 billion. While that grabbed most of the headlines, there was another jaw-dropping statistic that will set the stage in the coming years - which was the ability to drive up to 35X higher throughput per megawatt with its new Groq 3 LPX racks. The Groq acquisition is aimed to solve a different limiter, which inference throughput per watt, where memory bandwidth can become the gating factor to token output and cost. Nvidia is preparing to position its GPUs to be among the best inference options available, utilizing Groq’s unique SRAM-based architecture to significantly turbocharge token throughput and accelerate inference performance.

MAR 20, 2026Read more

AI STOCKS

Palantir Stock is Out of Favor, but is the Growth Engine Still Intact?

Palantir stock sold off 38% from November to February and is down about 10% year-to-date. Even so, it has held up better than many software peers given the software sector has taken it on the chin lately with many promising names down 45% YTD. With this backdrop, the softer price action raises a straightforward question: is Palantir's growth engine still intact or is the premium valuation finally cracking? To answer that, the I/O Fund team dug into Palantir’s most recent earnings report and the key metrics that matter most. We also compare this quarter to the string of strong earnings reports Palantir has delivered for nearly three years to see whether the fundamentals are still pointing in the same direction.

MAR 13, 2026Read more

BROAD MARKET TODAY

“Tech Bubble” Warnings Cost Investors a 550% Nasdaq-100 Run

Investors have been hearing “tech bubble” warnings for more than a decade — but instead of collapsing, the Nasdaq‑100 has gained 550%. If we look back ten years ago to 2015, headlines such as “Sell everything! 2016 will be a cataclysmic year” confronted investors with calls for an imminent recession. The bears made repeated claims that a “tech bubble” was about to burst with some of the world’s most prominent venture capitalists drawing parallels to the dot-com era. What followed tells a very different story with not only the Nasdaq-100 up 550% over a 10-year period but also high-flying stocks like Shopify returned as much as 5200% and Nvidia returned 22,000% over the same period.

MAR 6, 2026Read more

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Bitcoin To $2 Million? First, a Reckoning at $30K

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3 AI Trends Driving the 2026 Cybersecurity Stocks Rally

Beyond Hyperscalers: Here’s the Next $1 Trillion AI Infrastructure Opportunity

Google’s $250 Billion AI Chip Opportunity Takes Aim at Nvidia

AI Debt Nears $500 Billion in 2026: What It Means for Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and AI Stocks

How Much Nvidia Business Does Microsoft’s Maia 300 AI Chip Really Replace?

Why Frontier Labs, Not SaaS Vendors, Could Win Enterprise AI

Bonds Are Breaking, the Fed Is Boxed In: Why Stocks Can Keep Rising

How Agentic AI Is Squeezing SaaS Margins

The New Layer in Nvidia’s Enterprise AI Strategy

The Greatest Bull Market in Decades is About to Begin – But a Correction Comes First

Data Center Stocks Face a New Bottleneck: What Project Jupiter Reveals for Bloom, Oracle and Applied Digital

Why Nvidia’s SK Hynix Deal Leaves Little AI Memory for Everyone Else

Nebius Vs CoreWeave: Which AI Stock Has the Upper Hand?

AMD Stock Crosses $1 Trillion — and the Market Still Underestimates the Dark Horse

Micron Stock: Why the AI Memory Cycle Is Different This Time

Nvidia, Palantir and the $500 Billion Sovereign AI Opportunity

Palantir Stock: The AI Token Boom Is Hiding a Bigger Opportunity

CrowdStrike Posts Record Results—But Investors May Still Be Overlooking This AI Tailwind

How Autonomous Agent Risks Are Reshaping Cybersecurity Investing

Nvidia Fiscal Q2: The AI Giant Answers to Losing Market Share

The Case for Bitcoin to $2 Million After This Bear Market

Is the AI Dip a Buy? Key S&P 500 Levels and the One Bond Market Line to Watch

Big Tech’s AI Revenue Is Surging, but Suppliers Will Still Be the Bigger Winners

AI Capex to Hit $1 Trillion – And Estimates Are Still Too Low

Token Growth is Surging – Here Are the Beneficiaries

AI Token Demand is Shattering Forecasts

Nvidia and Google Are Crowding TSMC’s N3 Node – Can Intel Fill the Gap?

Intel vs TSMC: How CoWoS Packaging Constraints Could Create an Opportunity for Intel Foundry

Big Tech’s Free Cash Flow is Turning Negative – Who’s Next?

Big Tech Earnings Preview: Is AI Monetization Finally Catching Up to Capex?

Nvidia, CXL, and the Battle to Improve AI Inference Economics

Why Nvidia’s Next AI Battle Is About Tokens per Watt

Micron Is Up 900%. Here’s Why the AI Memory Trade May Still Have Room to Run

Why the S&P 500 Shrugged Off the Iran War — and What Could Finally Break the Rally

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

AMD, Nvidia, Arm, Intel: Inside the $120 Billion CPU Gold Rush

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