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Michael Burry attends “The Big Short” New York screening Ziegfeld Theater on Nov. 23, 2015, in New York City.Astrid Stawiarz | Getty ImagesMichael Burry said Tuesday he has placed a bearish wager against Caterpillar, believing the construction-equipment maker has become one of the market’s most overvalued beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence investment boom.The famed investor said he shorted Caterpillar shares at $1,060.98, alongside new bearish positions in Nvidia, Applied Materials, Tesla and the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX), as he prepared for what he believes is an increasingly overextended rally in AI-linked stocks.”Caterpillar jumped out at me,” Burry wrote in a…
Palo Alto Networks and Crowdstrike signage.Stanislav Kogiku | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Chris Jung | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIt’s been a good quarter for technology stocks, and cybersecurity leaders Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike have both joined the historic rally.CrowdStrike and Palo Alto rallied 95% and 113%, respectively, between April and June for their best quarter on record, as new artificial intelligence tools have spiked demand for more sophisticated cyber defense. Those tailwinds allowed the sector to shake off early concerns that it would falter with the death of software as a service and emerge as a key stack…
TikTok settles with minor plaintiff ahead of second individual trial over social media harm to children, law firm says Source link
There are plenty of AI image-generation models these days, but the ones capable of quality outputs tend to be slow and expensive. Google DeepMind says its new image model, known as Nano Banana 2 Lite, offers the best balance of quality and speed. It’s available today across the Google ecosystem, creating images in a fraction of the time it takes Google’s beefier models. The new model is part of the Gemini 3.1 family—it’s technically called Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image. On one hand, Google says this model is ideal for exploring ideas and “rapid-fire” prototyping, applications in which quality can…
When Healey resigned earlier this month, his allies had claimed that “Treasury trickery” had in effect inflated the money that appeared to be attached to the investment plan.Buried within that plan today were numbers that are likely to cause Sir Keir’s successor as prime minister a headache.It contained confirmation from the Treasury that only £10.3bn of the £15bn that’s been committed has actually been identified.The remaining £4.7bn would have to be found at the next Budget, due in the autumn.That’s a task likely to fall to Andy Burnham and whoever he picks as his chancellor.Today’s investment plan also relies on…
For the second half of 2026, look to the data layer. That’s the segment of the software stack that’s above storage and below applications, where data is cleaned, formatted and organized so that it can be used by artificial intelligence. And it’s where top analyst Heath Terry, head of AI investment research at Citigroup, thinks the next crop of winning companies will emerge in the AI race. “The companies that are winners are the ones that are exposed to consumption. AI is driving massive growth in consumption, particularly at the data layer. The Snowflake s, the MongoDB s, the Datadog…
NASA awards Astrobotic, Firefly, Intuitive Machines lunar lander contracts in moon base project Source link
“Intel is going to $200 like a rocket ship.” That is what Jim Cramer said about this favorite Club stock on CNBC on Tuesday morning. With another 7.8% gain on the session, Intel was trading above its record-high close of $140.95 per share from June 22. On this final day of the first half of the year, Intel is already the third-best S & P 500 performer in 2026, with a gain of nearly 285%. Going to $200 per share would be roughly 40% higher than current levels. While keeping his “own it, don’t trade it” designation on Club stalwart…
Less than 2% of NCAA athletes are drafted into a professional sport, according to NCAA data. Icon Sportswire | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesA bipartisan committee on Capitol Hill scrutinized the role of private equity in youth sports on Tuesday, a potential sign that Congress could be inching closer to intervening.The hearing, titled “Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of American Youth Sports,” comes as Wall Street continues to expand its presence in youth sports. Lawmakers from both political parties expressed alarm at the trend, while appearing to look for solutions to avoid price hikes to youth participation…
A rendering of American Airlines planned Provisions grab-and-go lounge at New York’s John F. Kennedy International AirportAmerican AirlinesAmerican Airlines is planning to open a new grab-and-go lounge at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport by the end of this year, its first new facility at the airport in more than four years as it continues its fight for high-paying customers to close a profit gap with Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.The new lounge, a 3,700-square-foot space, will include a barista bar with hot and iced coffee drinks as well as hot and cold food travelers can grab.Airlines have…