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What is HBM? The memory chips powering the AI boom
Only three companies make high bandwidth memory, the chips every AI accelerator depends on, and supply is sold out through 2026. What HBM is, who makes it, and how to invest in it.
My $100 Claude AI trade in RCAT: still holding, week 2
The Robinhood Agentic AI's first pick, Red Cat (RCAT), is down about 5% heading into week 2. Here is why I am not selling, the real drone-program news that came out over the holiday, and where the cut line and target still sit.
Astera Labs (ALAB) rallies again, and Wall Street's targets can't keep up
ALAB surged again as chip stocks rallied broadly on July 6, extending a two-week run built on a Q1 beat and Nasdaq-100 inclusion. Even Bank of America's Street-high $450 target, set nearly two weeks ago, can't keep pace with the stock.
Broadcom (AVGO) and Apple (AAPL) extend their chip deal through 2031, and AI is part of it now
Broadcom filed two sentences with the SEC about extending its Apple chip deal to 2031. The 3.7% pop came from reporting about an unconfirmed AI chip, not from anything Broadcom actually said. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.
Ondas (ONDS) buys DZYNE for $875 million: bigger platform, more dilution
Ondas (ONDS) is buying DZYNE Technologies for $875.8 million, mostly in stock, and raised its 2026 revenue guidance to at least $525 million. It's also the biggest dilution event yet in a year of stock-funded acquisitions. Here's what the deal means and what to watch next.
SemiAnalysis says Nvidia's Kyber AI rack is delayed to 2028: what it means for NVDA, AMD, and the photonics trade
SemiAnalysis says Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 rack is delayed more than a year to 2028, its backup design was scrapped, and Rubin Ultra was quietly cut in half. NVDA barely moved and AMD jumped instead. Here's what it means for the wider photonics trade, from Coherent and Lumentum to POET Technologies.
TeraWulf (WULF) stock jumps 18% on a 20-year, $19 billion Anthropic data center lease
TeraWulf signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic worth about $19 billion in contracted revenue at its Kentucky data center campus, and sold its Abernathy, Texas stake to a Fluidstack-led group for about $530 million the same day. WULF stock jumped as much as 17%, reversing a hard slide, right after Anthropic's reported $15 billion Australia data center plan.
Oracle (ORCL) stock crashed 59%: is it near the bottom?
Oracle keeps beating earnings and keeps falling anyway, down from $345.72 to around $140. Here is why, the debt and cash burn behind it, the $638 billion bull case, and whether the stock is bottoming.
Hyperliquid's Sunday tape shows chip and memory stocks bouncing hard
Western Digital, SanDisk and Micron are all up more than 6% from Thursday's close on Hyperliquid's 24/7 stock perpetuals. Here is the Sunday snapshot, and why it is not the same as Sunday night's real reopen.
Why I bought a small position in SharonAI (SHAZ)
I picked up a small SharonAI (SHAZ) position Thursday near the lows. Here is the Nvidia deal, the Leopold Aschenbrenner and Anthropic angle, and the real risks a short report raised.
Uber's $20 million Lime (LIME) buy is now official, and its stake tops 23%
A July 2 SEC filing confirms Uber Technologies bought $20 million of Lime stock at its $25 IPO price, following through on a pre-IPO commitment. The same filing shows old convertible notes converting into equity too, taking Uber's total Lime stake to about 23 percent of the company.
How to buy SK Hynix stock (SKHY), the leveraged tickers, and two symbols that no longer work
SK Hynix trades on the Nasdaq under SKHY, and any US brokerage account can buy it. Here is how to place the order, which stocks actually give you this trade, the six leveraged tickers, and why the leveraged ones lost more than double.
Anthropic's $15 billion Australia data center plan, and why Leopold Aschenbrenner's real bet might be SharonAI (SHAZ), not IREN
Anthropic is reportedly weighing a $15 billion, 1.4 gigawatt data center buildout in Australia. Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund owns both IREN and SharonAI (SHAZ), but his SharonAI stake, nearly 20 percent of the company, dwarfs his roughly 3 percent stake in IREN, and he's engaged to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's chief of staff.
How to read an earnings report: EPS, margins, and what actually matters
Earnings reports look like a wall of numbers. Here is how to read the lines that matter, from revenue and EPS to margins, guidance, and whether a stock is cheap or expensive.
Made in America stocks: how to build a reshoring portfolio
A plain-English guide to the reshoring trade: the steel, machinery, power, automation, and chip stocks behind the Made in America push, and the catch the headlines skip.
Micron (MU), Nebius (NBIS) and chip stocks jump on Hyperliquid's weekend tape
Real markets are closed for July 4th, but tech and chip stocks are trading green right now on Hyperliquid's 24/7 stock perpetuals. Micron, Marvell and Nebius lead the bounce, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq perpetuals are up too. Here is the full read, and why Monday could look nothing like this.
AI's water problem: real towns, real complaints, and the stocks built to fix it
Residents near data centers in Georgia and Oregon have raised real water complaints, one reaching Congress, but Meta and Amazon both dispute that their data centers are the cause. Here is each side, the numbers, and the stocks positioned to profit from fixing the bottleneck.
Bullish Watch, week of July 6: four oversold names, and one that already bounced
This week's Bullish Watch: CleanSpark (CLSK), Nokia (NOK), Teradyne (TER), and Ondas (ONDS) are oversold; AeroVironment (AVAV) already bounced on a beat-and-raise plus a fresh Army contract.
Nokia and BlackBerry got AI multiples. Ericsson (ERIC) still hasn't, and earnings are July 14
Nokia and BlackBerry made real AI bets and the market paid up for them. Ericsson chose custom silicon over Nvidia and has barely budged in 2026. Here is the gap in the numbers and what to expect from Ericsson's July 14 earnings.
Congressman Gil Cisneros bought Argan (AGX) on its highest day of 2026
Congressman Gil Cisneros disclosed a $15,001 to $50,000 purchase of Argan (AGX) dated June 30, 2026, the stock's highest close of the year. It is down 27.4% since. Five Argan insiders sold $84.0 million in June, none of it under a prearranged plan.
Samsung and SK hynix lead a 5.8% Kospi rebound after Thursday's chip rout (July 3, 2026)
Kospi crashed toward 7,300 early Friday before ripping to a 5.76% gain as Samsung and SK hynix reversed a brutal chip rout, a strong finish to a week that was still down about 3.65% overall.
Did Ondas (ONDS) just win a NASA contract? What the new filing actually says
A NASA filing on July 2 named Ondas's (ONDS) World View unit alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin. Here is what it actually is, and why it is not the NASA contract win some are calling it.
Michael Burry shorted Micron (MU) from $1,052, a bet the chip pain is not over
Michael Burry disclosed a new short on Micron (MU), reported near $1,052, even after the stock had already crashed from $1,255. It closed July 2 at $975.77, so the short is working, and it fits his wider bet against AI chips.
Do politicians actually beat the stock market? What the data says
Nancy Pelosi, David Rouzer, Ro Khanna and more: do members of Congress really beat the stock market? What the research and the yearly reports actually show, and whether copying their trades works.