"AI is a fad, they are spending all this money to build data centers with no revenue models. It's all going bust."
Source: Lance Roberts, The Daily Shot, A16Z
$GOOGL Alphabet owns ~6% of SpaceX and 14% of Anthropic with its long-term investment portfolio now above $100B.
That portfolio was marked up by ~$40B this quarter as Google now has direct ownership in two of the hottest potential IPOs in market history. Source: Shay Boloor, Fiscal.ai
If the rumored Anthropic at $900 billion round goes through, Anthropic will be the first company in history to cross the $900 billion mark with negative Free Cash Flow.
Source: Packy McCormick
AI CapEx is the largest area of year-over-year cash use growth, followed by research and development.
> up 42% year-over-year > accelerating from 22% Buybacks, on the other hand, are out of favor. 🧐 > Falling to just 1% year-over-year > Had been up 6% Source: Markets & Mayhem
GAMESTOP CEO COHEN SAYS OFFERING TO BUY EBAY FOR $56B: WSJ
Cohen offering $56B for $EBAY, or a 20% premium to the closing price on Friday. He already has a 5% stake Offer is $125 / share in cash and stock. He has a letter from TD Bank to provide $20B in debt financing. According to Cohen: “There is nobody who is more qualified, based on my experience, to run the eBay business," "It could be a legit competitor to Amazon," Source: Negligible Capital
Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A has now dumped stocks for 14 consecutive quarters, the longest selling streak in its history
Source: Barchart, FT
S&P is considering rule changes that would let newly public companies join its indexes faster with Nasdaq weighing a similar move.
The shift could pull index demand forward for mega IPOs like SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic & Databricks. Current requirements for S&P 500 inclusion include the following, including positive GAAP earnings for the last 4 quarters AND the most recent quarter must also be positive, something SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic all definitely do not have currently. Source: Negligible Capital, Bloomberg Intelligence
The market is already pulling forward the next wave of buyers.
Source: TME
