CF40 Forum: China AI Supply Chain in ‘Marathon’ First Half, K-Shaped Rally Masks Bubble in Long Tail
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CF40 Forum: China AI Supply Chain in ‘Marathon’ First Half, K-Shaped Rally Masks Bubble in Long Tail

While Anthropic’s annual recurring revenue rockets toward $1.2 trillion and US AI capex tops $800 billion, a CF40 forum ...

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Meta Plans to Sell AI Compute to Rivals Amid Investor Pressure
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Meta Plans to Sell AI Compute to Rivals Amid Investor Pressure

Under pressure to justify its $145B annual AI spending, Meta is pivoting to offer computing power directly to other AI f...

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SpaceX's AI Spending Spree Drags Its Shares While Nvidia Gains
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SpaceX's AI Spending Spree Drags Its Shares While Nvidia Gains

SpaceX beat Q2 estimates but its $18.4B capex sent shares down 7%; Nvidia rose as Musk made it the exclusive AI chip par...

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Equinix Nearly Doubles Capex Outlook as AI Inference Demand Accelerates
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Equinix Nearly Doubles Capex Outlook as AI Inference Demand Accelerates

Equinix raised 2026 capex to as much as $6B and lifted long-term revenue growth targets, betting the AI shift from train...

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Jefferies: China Will Win AI's Consumer Market Despite Chip Stock Rout
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Jefferies: China Will Win AI's Consumer Market Despite Chip Stock Rout

A new Jefferies note argues China is best positioned for AI's mass market, even as semiconductor stocks wobble and big t...

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Amazon Crushes Q2 Estimates, Raises AI Capex to $220 Billion as AWS Surges
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Amazon Crushes Q2 Estimates, Raises AI Capex to $220 Billion as AWS Surges

EPS of $5.75 vs. $1.82 expected and AWS growth of 37% powered a blockbuster quarter. CEO Andy Jassy says even $220 billi...

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AI Spending Under Microscope: Alphabet, Tesla, Intel Deliver the First Verdicts
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AI Spending Under Microscope: Alphabet, Tesla, Intel Deliver the First Verdicts

Investors are no longer rewarding AI ambition with blind capital. As Alphabet, Tesla and Intel report, the market demand...

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Amazon Jumps 9% After Hours on Strong Q2, AWS Growth; Capex Raised to $220bn
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Amazon Jumps 9% After Hours on Strong Q2, AWS Growth; Capex Raised to $220bn

Amazon shares surged after Q2 revenue topped estimates and AWS growth accelerated to 37%. But free cash flow turned nega...

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Amazon’s AI Bet Delivers a Blowout Q2 as AWS Growth Hits 18-Quarter High
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Amazon’s AI Bet Delivers a Blowout Q2 as AWS Growth Hits 18-Quarter High

Amazon’s Q2 net sales reached $200.6bn, operating income surged 43%, and AWS grew 37%—its fastest pace since 2021. The s...

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Microsoft’s Azure Surges 43%, AI Capex Discipline Sends Stock Soaring
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Microsoft’s Azure Surges 43%, AI Capex Discipline Sends Stock Soaring

Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure posted its strongest growth in four years, while CFO Amy Hood signalled a more measured...

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Meta Free Cash Flow Nears Zero as AI Capex Hits $31.1 Billion; Zuckerberg Teases Cloud Business
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Meta Free Cash Flow Nears Zero as AI Capex Hits $31.1 Billion; Zuckerberg Teases Cloud Business

Meta's capital spending nearly doubled to $31.1B, eating almost all operating cash and leaving free cash flow at $784M. ...

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'The Market Would Crash': Big Short Investor Steve Eisman Warns AI Capex Dependency Could Trigger a Nvidia-Led Selloff
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'The Market Would Crash': Big Short Investor Steve Eisman Warns AI Capex Dependency Could Trigger a Nvidia-Led Selloff

Steve Eisman warns that the stock market's reliance on AI infrastructure spending is so extreme that any pullback by hyp...

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US Corporate Cash-to-Value Ratio Drops to 20-Year Low as Capex Booms
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US Corporate Cash-to-Value Ratio Drops to 20-Year Low as Capex Booms

U.S. corporate cash swelled in Q1 2026, yet aggressive reinvestment pushed the cash-to-enterprise value ratio to a two-d...

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