Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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The AI Safety Selloff: The Week the Builders Asked to Slow Down
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for slowing frontier AI development, Altman and Musk agreed, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 5.9 per cent in a day. Inside the AI safety selloff: the doomsday trade’s strange shape, the OpenAI cash question and the new pacing risk premium.
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Broadcom AI Revenue Tripled to $16.7 Billion. The Stock Fell Anyway.
Broadcom grew AI semiconductor revenue 221 per cent to $16.7 billion, printed a record $29.6 billion quarter and $13.7 billion of free cash flow, then fell around 5 per cent on a guidance figure seven tenths of one per cent light. Inside the grading curve the market now applies to the AI trade.
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Nvidia Q2 Earnings: The $96 Billion Quarter the Market Finally Bought
Nvidia grew revenue 106 per cent to $96.2 billion, guided $4 billion above consensus and tripled its AWS order book, then told investors margins are heading down before they head up. Inside the first Nvidia print in a year the market chose to buy.
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The Small-Cap Rotation Week: Russell 2000 Records While the Market Sells AI Beats
The Russell 2000 closed the week at a record 3,068, its 27th of 2026, while record results from Applied Materials and a $4 billion guidance beat from Cisco were both sold. Inside the small-cap rotation, the AI trade’s new grading curve, and what decides whether the broadening lasts.
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CoreWeave Q2 2026 Earnings: The $104 Billion Backlog and the $640 Million Interest Bill
CoreWeave doubled revenue to $2.58 billion and grew its backlog 246 per cent to $104 billion. It also paid $640 million in interest, which is what turned a profitable operation into a $626 million loss. Inside the quarter that priced the debt-funded AI model.
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Palantir Q2 2026 Earnings: The 93% Quarter That Split the AI Trade
Palantir grew revenue 93 per cent to $1.94 billion, tripled profit, and raised guidance by half a billion dollars; the stock rose 29.5 per cent against an options market pricing 12. Inside the print that split the AI trade into hardware sceptics and software believers.
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Big Tech Earnings: The Week the Market Graded AI Capex Line by Line
Microsoft rose 9 per cent, Amazon 9 per cent, Meta fell 10 and Apple 7: the week the market started grading AI capex line by line. Inside the $720-745 billion ledger, the depreciation wave building beneath it, and the new rules of the AI trade.
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Intel Q2 2026 Earnings: The Fastest Growth in 15 Years Lands in a Bear Market
Intel’s Q2 2026 earnings beat consensus by $1.7 billion with the fastest revenue growth since 2011, landing in the middle of a semiconductor bear market. What the print says about the AI build-out, the foundry turnaround and the sector selloff.
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Tesla Q2 2026 Earnings: Record Revenue, a One-Third Profit Miss, and an Inverted Investment Case
Tesla printed record revenue of $28.2 billion and record deliveries, then missed earnings by a third as margins collapsed to 16.8 per cent. Inside the quarter the car business became the treasury for an AI venture portfolio.
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Alphabet’s $205 Billion Capex: The Quarter the AI Build-Out Turned Cash Flow Negative
Alphabet beat on revenue with Cloud up 82 per cent, raised 2026 capex to as much as $205 billion, and printed its first negative free cash flow quarter of the AI era. Inside the market’s new arithmetic on the build-out.