SpaceX, OpenAI Windfall Spurs Asian AI Investment Boom

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Excerpt from TheStreet: “A stock usually rises or falls on its own news. You report strong earnings, the shares climb. You miss, they drop. That is the deal investors think they are signing up for. The artificial intelligence (AI) trade has quietly broken that rule. It now moves in layers. Chipmakers…”

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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “SoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of artificial intelligence data center capacity in France, saying the country is poised to become a top European hub for AI infrastructure.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Bloomberg Intelligence Global Head of Technology Research Mandeep Singh joined Christina Ruffini and David Gura on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss so-called "legacy" tech companies like Dell, Intel and Nokia seeing their stocks surge as they turn to AI. (Source: Bloomberg)”

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