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Portfolio Watch and personal columns from AIStockWire writers, with positions disclosed.
The Nasdaq hit a record. Underneath, breadth not seen since 1929 and the dot-com bubble.
The tape looked great on top and ugly underneath: the S&P near a record, but more stocks at new lows than new highs. That exact combination has happened only twice in a century, in 1929 and 1999. Here is why I'm respecting it without running from it.
AMD closed above $1 trillion. Intel jumped in a good day for AI stocks.
AMD closed above $1 trillion for the first time and Intel jumped about 12 percent as falling yields and cheaper oil put the AI trade back on. I sold AMD too early, and I still own Intel.
Four AI subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, saying they slowed down on purpose
Four paying subscribers filed a federal antitrust class action claiming Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google agreed to slow AI development. The evidence they cite is largely public essays and posts. Alphabet (GOOGL) and SpaceXAI (SPCX) are the publicly traded companies connected to the defendants.
AI stock battle week 9: four models trade as Claude falls to last (September 19, 2026)
Six AI models each run a $10,000 portfolio of AI stocks. Four of them traded this Saturday and put $10,404.72 into drone makers, a quantum company and a uranium enricher, while Grok made its first trade of the contest.
A new arms race is forming on the ocean floor, and defense money is already moving in (LMT, KRKNF)
Governments and defense giants are racing to protect more than 1.5 million kilometers of undersea cables, and the spending is flowing into underwater drones. Here are the stocks exposed to a brand-new defense sector, from Lockheed Martin (LMT) to Kraken Robotics (KRKNF).
Odyssey's new AI drives cars, flies drones and plays Grand Theft Auto. Odyssey is optimizing the model for Amazon (AMZN) Trainium.
Odyssey published results for Odyssey-3, a shared world model it says can be adapted to robot arms, humanoids, cars, drones and video games with a small layer of task-specific control data. There is no stock to buy, but Amazon and AMD are on the cap table and Odyssey is optimizing the model for AWS Trainium.
AI stock battle week 8: DeepSeek still leads, but the crowded AI stocks all fell (September 12, 2026)
Five of our six AI models owned SoundHound. It closed lower in all four sessions. Then two of them sold it on the same Saturday, in separate sessions, off an identical prompt.
Trump says the $5,000 dividend will happen. His proof is a $2.6 billion payment Congress had already approved.
Paying $5,000 to an estimated 245 million adult US citizens would cost $1.225 trillion, and no eligibility rules have been published. The payment Trump cites as proof he delivers was $2.6 billion Congress had already approved.
AI stock battle week 7: DeepSeek leads our AI stock contest. All four of its latest picks broke the rules (September 5, 2026)
DeepSeek tried to sell C3.ai and buy four stocks. Two were over the $10 billion ceiling, two were too illiquid, and it wanted eight names in a five-stock contest.
Sivers Semiconductors (SIVEF) falls 39% in four sessions as wireless losses eclipse photonics
The segment getting blamed was not the biggest problem. Wireless lost more than photonics last quarter, in the half of the business holding the production orders.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood week 10: Fervo Energy (FRVO) jumped 26% and it sold half
Fervo Energy (FRVO) announced a 396-megawatt power purchase agreement with Google and rose about 26%. Claude AI bought 2 shares at $17.87 and sold 1 at $19.43 two hours later. It still loses two out of every three trades, and the account went up anyway.
Box (BOX) CEO says strongly held AI beliefs last about 6 months. Nvidia (NVDA) lost $590 billion on one that flipped.
Aaron Levie listed a dozen strongly held AI beliefs the industry has already cycled through, from RAG is dead to cheaper models mean less compute. He says the average one lasts 6 months. The market is pricing trillions like the answers are settled.
AI stock battle week 6: all six AIs were green on Thursday, then Friday knocked two below $10,000 (August 29, 2026)
Every model in the contest was above its $10,000 starting stake at Thursday's close. One Friday afternoon took Claude and Meta AI below it, the first time any model has ended a week under water.
Growing up, nobody in my school knew what Korea was. Now it's the world's No. 3 AI power.
My classmates knew exactly two Asian countries. Stanford's AI Index 2026 now ranks South Korea third in the world in AI models, and the memory chips behind the whole AI trade come from Seoul.
Software's biggest day of 2026, and the Salesforce (CRM) beat behind it is mostly paper
Software is on pace for its biggest day of 2026, led by a 22% jump in Salesforce. But the $5.90 adjusted EPS everyone is quoting includes a $2.6 billion investment gain the company doesn't strip out. Back it out and the beat is single digits at best.
Is money rotating out of AI stocks and into Bitcoin and gold? Nvidia decides Wednesday
Five red days for the Nasdaq, a 30% rip in Bitcoin, and a record payout that sank Samsung. It all points to one thing: the market is holding its breath for Nvidia.
An AI dating app signed up 160,000 college students. Match Group (MTCH) and Bumble (BMBL) have to be watching this.
A Bay Area startup replaced swiping with a text-based AI matchmaker and signed up 160,000 college students. Match Group and Bumble are already fighting the same Gen Z problem it's built to solve.
AI stock battle week 5: all six AIs lost money for the first time and all six are still up (August 22, 2026)
All six models lost money in the same week for the first time. Applied Optoelectronics opened a new $600 million stock program after the close and fell about 10% by the settle.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood week 9: it wrote down why indie Semiconductor (INDI) was a bad buy, then bought it
Claude AI flagged the indie Semiconductor (INDI) setup as the shape of most of its past losses, bought it anyway, and was stopped out 23 hours later. Both stops fired within two seconds of Tuesday's open as chip stocks sold off. The account is down about a third.
The AI trade rotates to a new sector every week. Which one is it going to be this week?
The AI trade has rotated by sector almost every week: software, then photonics, then memory. So which corner of AI runs next? I make the case for the one group that keeps riding along without ever leading.
AI stock battle week 4: Grok took the lead, and ChatGPT's one trade broke the rules (August 15, 2026)
Grok took the lead without making a single trade in four weeks. ChatGPT finally tried to move and picked the one stock the rules would not let it buy.
Ondas (ONDS) posted record revenue and raised guidance. The number I care about is Q4.
Ondas posted record revenue and raised its full-year target, then the stock fell on a wider loss. I own ONDS at about $9. The Q2 print was never the point, the Q3 and Q4 numbers are.
Nebius (NBIS) soars 27% as explosive AI demand burns Michael Burry's short
Nebius grew Q2 revenue 454% to $582 million, swung to a profit, and jumped about 27% as CEO Arkady Volozh said AI demand keeps growing exponentially. The whole data center trade rallied, and Michael Burry's fresh short went underwater.
CoreWeave (CRWV) crushed earnings and Cramer's IREN call aged well. Then Nebius (NBIS) crushed it too.
CoreWeave crushed its quarter and jumped about 15% after hours, five days after Jim Cramer told a caller to buy CRWV over IREN and called it cheaper and better. The backlog hit $104 billion. Nebius (NBIS) reports Wednesday morning, and it's the next test for the whole neocloud trade.