
Cerebras showed up in 16 hedge fund filings at once, worth $4.6 billion. Insiders just filed to sell $49 million in stock.
Altimeter reported $1.60 billion of Cerebras and Coatue $1.55 billion. Between them that is two thirds of the $4.64 billion disclosed across 16 funds.

Michael Burry says Etched is 'serious competition' for Nvidia. The catch is what its chip can't run.
Michael Burry, who has bet against Nvidia (NVDA) all year, called AI chip startup Etched 'serious competition' on Tuesday. Etched's Sohu chip is 10 to 20 times faster at one job, but it can't run several of the model types teams deploy most, and it's raising at up to $21 billion before shipping at scale.
For the first time, more money is going into running AI than building it. What that means for Nvidia (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), Marvell (MRVL) and AMD
Inference, running AI models, now costs more than training them, and that rewards custom chips and memory over raw GPUs. Here's what it means for Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvell, AMD and Micron.

SK Hynix’s (SKHY) HBM4 may cost Nvidia (NVDA) nearly twice as much as HBM3E. Samsung wants the same deal.
Two research firms estimate SK Hynix's HBM4 costs Nvidia about twice as much per gigabyte as HBM3E. SK Hynix has not confirmed the number, and Samsung Electronics is chasing the same price for its own HBM4.

Leopold Aschenbrenner's latest filing shows he closed 13 of his 16 options positions and moved more than half his fund into SanDisk and Micron
Situational Awareness LP reported $8.46 billion of put positions on March 31 and one on June 30. The money went into SanDisk, Micron, Nebius and STMicroelectronics.

An AI model trains across 100,000 chips that all have to talk at once. The stocks that wire them: Arista (ANET), Broadcom (AVGO), Coherent (COHR) and Astera Labs (ALAB)
Tens of thousands of GPUs have to act like one machine, and the network that connects them is a fast-growing slice of every AI buildout. Here's what Arista, Broadcom, Marvell, the optics makers and Astera Labs each do.

ECB researchers say an AI stock market correction is likely, even if AI delivers. European households hold €440 billion of US tech stock.
Five European Central Bank researchers wrote on Aug. 17 that "a correction of current stock market valuations is likely," even if the technology succeeds. European households hold around €440 billion of US tech stock, and the authors say there is less room to cut rates against a crash than in 2000.

Druckenmiller bought $4 million of IREN. Bridgewater sold 96% of its stake the same quarter
Druckenmiller's Duquesne opened a small first-time IREN stake last quarter. We pulled every fund we track: who sold IREN, who kept it, plus the $788 million co-CEO grant and a share count that has grown 6.5x since 2022.

Nvidia (NVDA) is now backing OpenAI's data-center lease in Ohio
Nvidia said it will guarantee part of the cost of an 8-gigawatt AI data center in Ohio that OpenAI will lease and fill with Nvidia chips, and invest $1.5 billion in builder SB Energy. The move locks in demand and revives the circular-financing debate.

The AI trade rotates to a new sector every week. Which one is it going to be this week?
The AI trade has rotated by sector almost every week: software, then photonics, then memory. So which corner of AI runs next? I make the case for the one group that keeps riding along without ever leading.

AI GPU arrives in weeks. The power gear behind it takes years: GE Vernova (GEV), Vertiv (VRT), Eaton (ETN), Quanta (PWR) and Powell (POWL)
The chip is the easy part. Data centers are stuck waiting on turbines, transformers and switchgear that take years to build. Here's what GE Vernova, Vertiv, Eaton, Quanta and Powell each sell into that shortage, and how big their order books have gotten.

The oddest stock in Trump's portfolio is Korean: 18 Coupang (CPNG) trades as Washington challenged Seoul
Trump's disclosures show 18 Coupang (CPNG) trades across two accounts in eight months, the biggest of them landing while his own administration was accusing Seoul of persecuting the company.

You can trade single-stock options premarket starting August 17 at 7:30 a.m. ET. The first session includes Nvidia (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Apple (AAPL) and 18 more.
Cboe Options Exchange begins trading single-stock options at 7:30 a.m. ET on Monday, Aug. 17, two hours before the regular open. Limit orders only, no market or stop orders, and trades in the new sessions do not count toward the day's high and low.

Unitree's $1.2 trillion IPO frenzy says China is winning the robot race. Here's the US stock trying to catch up (CCXI)
China's Unitree IPO was oversubscribed 8,288 times and the US is behind, so the money will come. Agility Robotics (CCXI) is the highest-upside US humanoid play, and here's how to weigh it against TSLA, NVDA and TER.

Nebius (NBIS) soars 27% as explosive AI demand burns Michael Burry's short
Nebius grew Q2 revenue 454% to $582 million, swung to a profit, and jumped about 27% as CEO Arkady Volozh said AI demand keeps growing exponentially. The whole data center trade rallied, and Michael Burry's fresh short went underwater.

Bitdeer (BTDR) filed to sell up to $1 billion of stock six days after its $4.7 billion Norway lease. Its remaining cost to finish the site is $500 million.
Bitdeer registered up to $1 billion of Class A shares on Monday, six days after announcing a 16-year, $4.7 billion colocation lease at Tydal. The tenant can walk at 10 years with no fee.

Intel (INTC) is selling $15 billion of new stock. The US government paid $20.47 a share last August
Intel filed a preliminary prospectus on August 10, 2026 to sell $15 billion of common stock, with the price still unset. Here is the dilution math, and what the government, SoftBank and Nvidia paid for the same stock in the low $20s.
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.

Naver posts record revenue, but AI spending squeezes profits and sends shares down 7%.
Naver’s revenue hit a record, but AI Factory spending squeezed profit and sent the stock down 7.1% anyway, even after a trillion-won buyback. Kakao had the opposite week.

Max your 401k match, Roth IRA and HSA before you touch a single stock. Index funds come next, individual stocks come last.
The order I'd actually go in: 401k match, then Roth IRA and HSA, then a broad index fund (or X Money if you want zero market risk), then mega-caps and dividend ETFs, then single stocks last.

Michael Burry shorted Oracle (ORCL) at $144.63 and Nebius (NBIS) at $211.77. This time it's the stock, not puts.
Michael Burry shorted Oracle at $144.63 and Nebius at $211.77 on August 6, this time selling the shares short instead of buying puts. His argument: their AI-era earnings are inflated by understated chip depreciation.

Korean investors dumped SK Hynix (SKHY) after a report on Nvidia's Rubin Ultra chip. Some analysts say the selloff went too far.
A report says Nvidia is testing versions of its next AI chip that carry less high-bandwidth memory than planned, some with an older kind. SK Hynix, which makes most of that memory, fell about 15% in two days, though some analysts in Korea think the reaction is too big.

SharonAI (SHAZ) signed its third cloud deal of the year. It took the smallest one to make the stock go up.
SharonAI’s third cloud deal of 2026 is its smallest, and the first the stock rose on. The five-year, $373 million contract deploys 2,048 Nvidia B300 GPUs in Australia for an unnamed AI platform.
Anthropic is building AI chips and paying up to $850,000 to teach Claude how to design them.
Anthropic confirmed Wednesday it is building an in-house Custom Silicon team for Claude, the first time it has said so publicly. The job listings pay $320,000 to $485,000 for the chip designers and $500,000 to $850,000 for the researcher teaching Claude to do the design work.