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AI stock battle week 10: Grok retakes the lead on the last day as five AIs gain (September 26, 2026)
Grok retook first place from DeepSeek on Friday as five of the six AI-run portfolios gained. Claude sold UiPath the same day Meta AI bought it, at the same price.
Quantum stocks compared: IonQ (IONQ) vs Rigetti (RGTI) vs D-Wave (QBTS)
IonQ, Rigetti, and D-Wave all sell quantum computers, but they use different technologies and run businesses of very different sizes. IonQ reported $80.1 million of second-quarter revenue, nearly 10 times Rigetti and D-Wave combined.
IonQ (IONQ) jumps on a quantum error-correction claim and a first system for Nvidia's research center
IonQ shares jumped after the company said it built the first end-to-end real-time quantum error decoder on a single CPU, tested on simulated circuits of up to 408 logical qubits. IonQ also said its Superion 256 will be the first on-premises quantum computer at Nvidia's research center in 2027.
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.
IBM has a $1 billion quantum foundry award. Where do IonQ, D-Wave and Rigetti get their chips?
Anderon, IBM's Albany quantum foundry, signed its final $1 billion CHIPS award on Wednesday and named no outside customer. D-Wave's Advantage2 prototype came from a SkyWater fab that IonQ bought in July, Rigetti runs its own fab in Fremont, and neither IonQ nor Quantum Computing Inc received an award.
IBM (IBM) unit finalizes $1 billion quantum foundry award. Government equity terms remain undisclosed.
Anderon, the IBM company running a quantum wafer foundry in Albany, has signed its final $1 billion award with the Commerce Department. It was the largest of nine proposed in May. Commerce made minority equity stakes a condition of the funding. Anderon's release does not spell out its terms.
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.
US takes stakes in D-Wave (QBTS), Rigetti (RGTI) and Quantinuum (QNT) at a 15% discount to Friday's close
D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum each signed a CHIPS Act research award worth up to $100 million and each is issuing the Commerce Department shares priced about 15% below its September 4 close. The shares carry no vote on most matters and can't be sold to a competitor. All three stocks rose.
GlobalFoundries (GFS) finalizes up to $375 million for quantum chips as $300 million photonics award awaits agreement
GlobalFoundries has signed a definitive agreement with the Commerce Department for up to $375 million over five years to expand its quantum chip business. The money is tied to milestones the release does not list. A separate $300 million silicon photonics award is still a letter of intent.
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.
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.
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.
Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital held 20 million Infleqtion (INFQ) shares in February. Now it has 1.4 million left.
Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital has reported about $266 million of Infleqtion (INFQ) stock sales since May, and Friday's filing shows the wind-down is nearly finished. A stake that started at 20 million shares in February is down to 1.4 million, and an August misstep means Maverick owes Infleqtion a $299,922.51 check.
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.
13 of Jim Cramer's last 15 tech calls beat the Nasdaq. The stocks he told people to avoid did even better.
I built a page to track how wrong Jim Cramer is. Right now 13 of his last 15 tech calls are beating the Nasdaq, and the stocks he waved people off are doing better than the ones he liked.
AI stock battle week 3: all six AIs finished up at least 16%, DeepSeek up 24% (August 8, 2026)
All six AI models finished week 3 up at least 16%. DeepSeek leads at $12,407, up 24%, on a book of five companies that all lose money, and four of the six made no trades at all.
Rigetti (RGTI) and D-Wave (QBTS) report earnings Thursday. Rigetti's last profit was a warrant revaluation.
D-Wave reports Thursday morning and Rigetti Thursday afternoon, with IonQ going first on Wednesday. The Street wants about $4 million of revenue from D-Wave and $5 million from Rigetti, against market caps of $8.1 billion and $5.8 billion.
I run an Inverse Cramer tracker. Jim Cramer just went 6 for 8, led by Astera Labs' 30% rally.
I built a page to track how wrong Jim Cramer is, and I like the guy anyway. Six of his last eight tech calls beat the Nasdaq, and the one that didn't is the one holding my whole tracker up.
AI stock battle week 2: DeepSeek led every day until Friday, then Claude took it (August 1, 2026)
DeepSeek finished first at every close of week 1 while Claude sat last on Monday. Then Ambarella rose 16% on Friday and the order flipped. Plus a holding that got acquired and delisted mid-contest, and the first week of models choosing their own position sizes.
We gave six AIs $10,000 each to pick small-cap AI stocks. Five bought the same one.
Six AI chatbots each got $10,000 for small-cap AI stocks. Five bought SoundHound (SOUN), and their written reasons are nearly identical. DeepSeek leads week one.
I gave six AIs $10,000 for AI stocks. Five bought SoundHound (SOUN), one bought a construction company.
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI each got a paper $10,000 and five slots, capped at $10 billion. Five bought SoundHound. Claude bought a gas-plant builder. Two of them broke the rules on the first try.
All seven Magnificent Seven stocks fell today. Here's where that money actually went (July 23, 2026)
All seven Magnificent Seven stocks were red by late morning Thursday, led by Tesla's 14% drop on an earnings miss and Alphabet's close-to-7% slide despite beating estimates, on another capex raise. Amazon and Meta sold off too ahead of next week's reports. The money didn't just leave, it rotated: into defense on Lockheed's earnings beat, and out of quantum, SaaS and space.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 4: It's 0 for 4, then it passed on IREN's 17% jump, and watched it run higher
Claude AI is 0 for 4 with my $100 and the account is down to $74.59. On Monday it built an order for IREN at $39.45, then found that the same stock had popped on the same news back on July 6 and given back 23%, and walked away. IREN ran higher without it.
The Close, July 14: IBM lost a quarter of its value, and SK Hynix's Nasdaq stock jumped 27%
IBM lost about a quarter of its value in a single session after a weak preliminary report, and the damage spread across enterprise software. SK Hynix's brand-new Nasdaq stock went the other way, jumping 27% on a day chips broadly rallied.