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Investors continue to scramble for artificial intelligence plays, and price appears to be no object. Exhibit A in this phenomenon is Nvidia (ticker: NVDA), the primary supplier of chips used for training large language models and running AI-based systems. Nvidia stock is up 180% this year, reaching $1 trillion market value on Tuesday morning—the first chip company to ever hit that mark and the fifth U.S. company with a current 13-digit market capitalization...
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Benzinga BHP and Microsoft: An Unlikely Duo Boosting Copper Mining with AI BHP Group Ltd (NYSE: BHP) is collaborating with Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve copper mining. The use of new digital technology to optimize concentrator performance at BHP’s Escondida operation in Chile is expected to improve copper recovery. BHP estimates the world would need to double the amount of copper produced over the next 30 years, relative to the past...
Continue ReadingAuthors whose books are being adapted into movies and TV shows are the latest to be affected by the Writers Guild of America’s strike...
Continue ReadingThe company reshapes the way businesses use data and develop applications, and it's currently breaking new ground in the artificial intelligence (AI) arena. Snowflake stock went public in 2020 with an impressive list of investors, including Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by Warren Buffett. Investors seem to be concerned about slowing revenue growth, which could get worse given management just reduced its guidance for the full fiscal 2024 year (ending Jan. 31, 2024)...
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Amazon.Com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently delayed its pledge to make 50% of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030. The company disclosed plans to defer its carbon emission goals across all its operations by 2040, a decade later than the 50% goal, which was called "Shipment Zero" at the time. Reportedly, the company had immensely underestimated its carbon footprint. At the time, an Amazon spokesman reiterated the company's commitment to cutting emissions, including ordering a fleet of electric deli...
Continue ReadingKey Insights Significantly high institutional ownership implies Amazon.com's stock price is sensitive to their trading.....
Continue ReadingFundsmith's 13F portfolio value increased by 6% to $23.17B in Q1 2023. Read more to see the portfolio's full Q1 2023 update...
Continue ReadingI missed the Nvidia Corporation move but I don't think it is wise to chase it now. Cloud data center capex is a key NVDA monitorable. Click for more on NVDA...
Continue ReadingVisa, along with Mastercard, effectively form a duopoly in the payment-processing market. A recent study shows that Visa (53%) and Mastercard (32%) make up 85% of credit cards. Mastercard is also a terrific company, but Visa's market share is superior...
Continue ReadingI compare NVDA against other trillion-dollar firms when they hit that. Click here for more on NVDA stock...
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