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Invitation (11am ET, Friday, August 7: ‘The Next Wave of AI Growth – Cheap, Opensource, Safe, and Sovereign’ ( $NVDA $GOOG )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. 3 days ago 475Views 0Likes

“Sovereign AI” is quickly moving from buzzword to policy priority as governments realize that renting intelligence from hyperscale clouds is not a long‑term strategy when data, defense, healthcare, and financial systems are at stake. Platforms like Seven Boson Group Ltd. are positioning…

Google’s Eric Schmidt Says Kill the Switch; Sovereign AI Says Build Your Own Control Room -( $GOOG $GOOGL )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. 5 days ago 376Views 0Likes

Wall Street is finally admitting what Eric Schmidt just said out loud: if AI is going to be powerful enough to “pull the plug” on us, it had better be built in a way that lets nations and investors keep their hand…

Aug. 5, 2026 | Dow Climbs as Nasdaq Sells Off: Daily Market Recap, AI Earnings, and Macro Update -( $AMWL $FMC $HPP $LPL $MU $NVDA $SMWB $SOC $YSG Rise!)

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. 5 days ago 2480Views 0Likes

Daily Market Recap: August 5, 2026 U.S. equities finished Wednesday, August 5, 2026, mixed, with the Dow and gold catching a strong bid while the Nasdaq and small caps faded into the close. Investors weighed easing oil‑price pressures, elevated AI expectations and…

Aug. 4, 2026 | U.S. Stocks Surge Across the Board as AI Earnings and Macro Data Fuel August Rally -( $AMD $AMWL $DOCS $EPRX $FMC $LPL $SMWB $SPCX Rise!)

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. August 4, 2026 2300Views 0Likes

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) closed at 7,736.52, up 1.79%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) finished at 54,085.88, gaining 1.71%, while the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) surged 2.59% to 26,584.99. Small-cap stocks also joined the move, with the Russell 2000 (^RUT) rising 1.85%…

Amwell Stock Enters Tuesday, Aug. 4 Earnings Release With a Platform, a Market, and Something to Prove -( $AMWL )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. August 4, 2026 227Views 0Likes

Amwell’s setup going into Q2 2026 looks like the kind of telehealth story Wall Street loves to rediscover right after it has ignored it for too long. The company’s August 4 aftermarket earnings report and 5 p.m. ET webcast arrive with a…

The new AI trade has entered the sovereignty era

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. August 4, 2026 96Views 0Likes

If the first wave of AI was about raw horsepower, the next wave is looking more like a procurement decision. Reed Hastings’ TED conversation (below) about AI’s accelerating importance underscores the scale of the opportunity, but the real market question is now…

China’s Robot Economy Is Already Here, and Beauty Is Learning the Same Lesson -( $YSG )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. August 2, 2026 162Views 0Likes

The BBC’s recent look at Geek+ makes one point very clearly: the future of retail is being built in warehouses, not just in boardrooms. At Geek+’s factory in Hefei, fleets of autonomous robots are assembled and tested before heading to warehouses around…

Robots Learned to Feel. Markets Are Paying Attention -( $AMD )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. July 27, 2026 128Views 0Likes

At an AMD conference, a humanoid robot named Gene.01 did something that would have felt like science fiction a decade ago: it sensed a human hand before contact, registered touch with unusual precision, and reacted with a kind of mechanical politeness that…

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang’s AI Vision Meets the Market’s Very Expensive Doubts -( $GOOGL $NVDA $PLTR $SPY )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. July 26, 2026 223Views 0Likes

Nvidia says the AI trade is still alive and kicking, while the market’s skeptics keep sharpening their pencils. The result is a familiar Wall Street tableau: one camp sees an infrastructure supercycle, the other sees a very expensive game of musical chairs.…

Elon Musk Says Money May Not Matter by 2036: What AI, Robots, and Deflation Could Mean for Tesla and the AI Trade -( $AMZN $MSFT $NVDA TSLA )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. July 25, 2026 303Views 0Likes

Elon Musk’s latest The Insider turn is vintage Musk: audacious, unsettling, and just coherent enough to make everyone in the room check their assumptions. In his conversation with Zanny Minton Beddoes, he argued that AI and robots could make work optional, money…

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Invitation (11am ET, Friday, August 7: ‘The Next Wave of AI Growth – Cheap, Opensource, Safe, and Sovereign’ ( $NVDA $GOOG )

Google’s Eric Schmidt Says Kill the Switch; Sovereign AI Says Build Your Own Control Room -( $GOOG $GOOGL )

Aug. 5, 2026 | Dow Climbs as Nasdaq Sells Off: Daily Market Recap, AI Earnings, and Macro Update -( $AMWL $FMC $HPP $LPL $MU $NVDA $SMWB $SOC $YSG Rise!)

Aug. 4, 2026 | U.S. Stocks Surge Across the Board as AI Earnings and Macro Data Fuel August Rally -( $AMD $AMWL $DOCS $EPRX $FMC $LPL $SMWB $SPCX Rise!)

Amwell Stock Enters Tuesday, Aug. 4 Earnings Release With a Platform, a Market, and Something to Prove -( $AMWL )

The new AI trade has entered the sovereignty era

China’s Robot Economy Is Already Here, and Beauty Is Learning the Same Lesson -( $YSG )

Robots Learned to Feel. Markets Are Paying Attention -( $AMD )

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang’s AI Vision Meets the Market’s Very Expensive Doubts -( $GOOGL $NVDA $PLTR $SPY )

Elon Musk Says Money May Not Matter by 2036: What AI, Robots, and Deflation Could Mean for Tesla and the AI Trade -( $AMZN $MSFT $NVDA TSLA )

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