Google continues to build on its Gemini 3 tailwind vs OpenAI, Anthropic et al LLM AI companies, now with Developers in the Enterprise AI market. Regular readers may remember my piece this past Fall, where the news was about Google’s headwinds with...

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Markets Small caps are leading YTD. (stockmarketmedia.com) Japanese government yields continue to soar. (ft.com) Strategy Why market timing is so difficult. (ofdollarsanddata.com) Five questions for Warren Buffett as he retires. (kingswell.io) Crypto...

Research Alpha is a conditional measure. (papers.ssrn.com) Are S&P 500 deletions predictable? (larryswedroe.substack.com) The median biotech stock loses investors money. (mailchi.mp) Investors focus on different corporate...

In the iconic words from ‘Jaws’ (1975), ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat’. That’s been the non-stop message message from the LLM AI companies over the last few years. The refrain led by OpenAI in particular, whose founder/CEO Sam Altman has been saying...

NEWS OF THE WEEK: Apple+Nvidia 40%+ of Taiwan Semiconductor’s (TSMC) Business: AI-RTZ #964: AI: Reset to Zero AI: Closer look at the Apple/TSMC chip partnership. RTZ #964 I’ve long discussed the criticality of Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) for the global...

Podcasts Michael Batnick talks investment management with Zack Conway, founder and of Seeds Investor. (youtube.com) Frazer Rice talks with Mark Tepsich, who runs the family office governance practice at UBS. (podcasts.apple.com) Private investments Why...

We’ve long discussed the AI Talent Wars accentuated by Meta last year, that have become a key supply constraint at this point in the AI Tech Wave. Most of that focus has been on super high priced AI Researchers who build the massively scaling AI training...

Sponsor this newsletter The Weekend RipHappy Weekend! U.S. markets navigated a chaotic mid-term election year kickoff, swinging from a DOJ investigation into Fed Chair Powell and 10% credit card rate cap threats to a massive AI-fueled recovery. While big...

Good morning from Coronado I am headed east this week, first to the Orlando PGA show with Max, a few other stops in Florida and than New York. Trump and his bootlickers believe he is playing 4D chess and I believe it is more like the child’s game...