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.
The FCC moved to ban Chinese robots. Agility Robotics (CCXI) rose 12% in half an hour while the humanoid ETF (KOID) fell.
The FCC moved July 28 to bar new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, plus connected power inverters, from the US market. Four small robotics names did all the moving: RoboStrategy (BOT) closed up 17.6% and Churchill Capital XI (CCXI) rose 12.3% in the half hour after the headline. Teradyne then jumped after hours on earnings. The robotics ETFs closed lower.
Jim Cramer's tech calls are still lagging the rest of his book. Intel is 1 for 5, and IBM crashed the day after his second buy call.
Jim Cramer's tech calls are still his weak spot. Intel is 1 for 5 since June, IBM is down nearly 30% since his back-to-back buy calls, and his tech picks trail the Nasdaq-100 by more than three points a call even after Tuesday's chip bounce.
Which robot stocks can you actually buy? Tesla (TSLA) and Nvidia (NVDA) are on the list. Figure, Apptronik and Unitree are not.
Physical AI is the next leg of the AI trade, but the famous humanoid makers are mostly still private. Here is what is actually listed, what each company builds, and where the risk sits, updated with Goldman's revised 2035 forecast and prices as of September 1, 2026.