Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang sees a different reality emerging. Speaking on Nvidia’s latest earnings call, Huang argued that artificial intelligence has reached a turning point where generating AI output is no longer just a cost center—it is becoming a profitable business. “The reason is simple. Agentic AI has arrived. AI can now do productive and valuable work. Tokens are now profit...
Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang sees a different reality emerging. Speaking on Nvidia’s latest earnings call, Huang argued that artificial intelligence has reached a turning point where generating AI output is no longer just a cost center—it is becoming a profitable business. “The reason is simple. Agentic AI has arrived. AI can now do productive and valuable work. Tokens are now profitable,” Huang said. He added that model developers are now racing to expand capacity as AI-generated output increasingly translates into revenue. Why Profitable Tokens Matter In simple terms, a token is a unit of AI-generated text, code or content. For years, the concern was that serving AI models would remain too expensive, limiting adoption and weighing on profitability. Nvidia argues the opposite is happening. Earlier in the call, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress highlighted how the company’s latest systems continue to reduce the cost of AI inference. Kress said Nvidia’s GB300 platform delivers a 60% reduction in cost per token compared with systems available just six months ago. Lower costs, combined with rising demand for AI services, could significantly improve the economics for model developers and cloud providers. Nvidia Bull Case Huang’s remarks may also explain why Nvidia remains confident that AI infrastructure spending is still in its early innings. If AI-generated output is becoming profitable, demand for computing power may continue to rise rather than slow. More profitable AI applications would likely require more inference capacity, more data centers and ultimately more chips. That logic underpins Nvidia’s broader view that the build-out of AI factories is accelerating, and that AI infrastructure spending could eventually reach trillions of dollars annually. For investors, Huang’s “tokens are now profitable” remark may have been one of the most revealing comments of the earnings call—not because it described Nvidia’s latest quarter, but because it offered a glimpse i...
Alones Creative/iStock via Getty Images I’ve written about Rocket Lab ( RKLB ) in the past and indicated that the stock was approaching the lift-off stage. Despite the gains in the stock, I think there is still room for the company to grow. Management has been transforming the company into a platform with its most recent acquisitions and strategy of vertical integration. There’s a lot going in the...
Alones Creative/iStock via Getty Images I’ve written about Rocket Lab ( RKLB ) in the past and indicated that the stock was approaching the lift-off stage. Despite the gains in the stock, I think there is still room for the company to grow. Management has been transforming the company into a platform with its most recent acquisitions and strategy of vertical integration. There’s a lot going in the company right now but in this article I’d like to focus on a few key things First Quarter Analysis RKLB Looking at the Q1 2026 financials of Rocket Lab, we can see the benefits of vertical integration and economic scale unfolding. Revenues in Q1 2026 grew from $122.6 million last year to $200.3 million a growth rate of 63.5%. What is even more impressive is that gross profit grew even faster at 117% from $35.2 million last year to $76.5 million in Q1 2026. This implies Gross margin improvement. Operating loss also decreased by 5.4% from $59.2 million in Q1 2025 to $56 in Q1 2026. However that was driven by the increased R&D spend which went up by $25.4 million YoY for a total of $80.5 in Q1 2026. I think this increased R&D spend could be attributed to the upcoming Neutron 1st launch as well as the increased in technological capabilities and verticals of which I will describe more below. Rocket Lab’s balance sheet is also improving as Convertible debt was cut by 2/3 to $36.9 million. Total Liabilities for the company was at $555.6 for a Debt to Equity ratio of 0.25x. Total cash now sits at $1.205 billion with total liquidity of greater than $2 billion. The company also disclosed plans to possibly conduct a large-scale equity offering program that could raise an additional US$3 billion via selling stock in the future. While this will depress RKLB stock price in the near-term (shares dropped by close to 7% on the announcement), management’s track record of aggressive value-adding acquisitions should make this worth it in my view RKLB Strategy of Vertical Integration is Accele...
HDFC Bank TheKaran/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Overview In my previous analysis on HDFC Bank ( HDB ) I had assigned an HOLD rating driven by mixed signals from the KPIs, uncertainty surrounding the repo rate cut and the mixed opinion on the merger. It is now time to relook at the prospects of HDFC Bank at this stage when similar uncertain conditions continue. A Seeking Alpha analysis mention...
HDFC Bank TheKaran/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Overview In my previous analysis on HDFC Bank ( HDB ) I had assigned an HOLD rating driven by mixed signals from the KPIs, uncertainty surrounding the repo rate cut and the mixed opinion on the merger. It is now time to relook at the prospects of HDFC Bank at this stage when similar uncertain conditions continue. A Seeking Alpha analysis mentioned current RBI policies as potential headwinds for the business prospects of HDFC Bank. The figure below shows the price chart for the past 1 year and it is a clear signal about how HDFC Bank has been in a bear run, being down by 31.96%. HDFC Bank Price Chart (Seeking Alpha) Recent events like the merger between HDFC Bank and HDFC and the stepping down of the chairman and independent director Atanu Chakraborty were a major cause of the bear run. This, coupled with the current uncertain macroeconomic scenario added to the pressure on the investor expectations surrounding HDFC Bank. The recent earnings call, however, suggested that operational trends may be stabilizing faster than investors expected. However, immediately jumping in to invest expecting a bull run would be overly optimistic and therefore a deeper understanding is required to understand what could be the forward-looking aspects. Merger Impact The merger led to a significant pessimism regarding the prospects of HDFC Bank because while there was significant cause of optimism regarding the synergy expected from the merger, there were significant downsides as well. One of the primary downsides was the pressure on liquidity. While HDFC Bank is a bank that comes under several government regulations, HDFC was an NBFC which did not come under any of the regulations. Therefore, post the merger, HDFC Bank inherited HDFC Limited’s large home loan portfolio of INR 6.25 lakh crore whereas that of HDFC Bank stood at INR 1.02 lakh crore. However, it did not receive sufficient CASA accounts to fund them and therefore, the merge...
Eoneren/E+ via Getty Images Proving Why A Strong Buy Last Year Was Entirely Justified I remember being met with a fair bit of skepticism when I first issued a Strong Buy for Nebius ( NBIS ) last year. Now about 6 months later the stock is up over 170%. There were real concerns about execution and ensuring that all the GPUs and compute power was actually contracted and locked up. That concern has b...
Eoneren/E+ via Getty Images Proving Why A Strong Buy Last Year Was Entirely Justified I remember being met with a fair bit of skepticism when I first issued a Strong Buy for Nebius ( NBIS ) last year. Now about 6 months later the stock is up over 170%. There were real concerns about execution and ensuring that all the GPUs and compute power was actually contracted and locked up. That concern has been put to rest now with renting prices continuing to rise. This has fueled part of the share price over the past few weeks. I’m still very bullish on the stock and it’s like I said last year: “Nebius: The Only Hyperscaler Worth Buying Right Now” Coverage History (Seeking Alpha) In April this year it was reported rental prices for H100 rose by 40% since the lows back in October 2025. Then in May NVIDIA ( NVDA ) announced it was raising the rental prices by 20% on H100. This goes straight to the top line for NBIS. CFO Colette Kress revealed that rental prices for the company’s H100 GPUs rose 20% in 2026 while older A100 GPUs climbed 15%, signaling severe chip shortages across the entire AI compute stack The most compelling part here though being that even the older GPUs f rom NVDA are seeing a rise in rental prices. The thing is that one of the risks that existed before with companies like NBIS was that the useful life of these GPUs was lower than what was being accounted for. 4 years seems to be the actual lifespan. But NVDA released the A100 back in 2020, and we are 6 years on from that and the rental prices are still quite high. One site puts the rental price of A100 at $1.49/h and H100 at $2.49/h. I’ll be frank and say I don’t particularly care about the exact number here. I care more that the something that should have fully depreciated is still able to pull in over half of the revenues of what the news GPUs are able to. It’s essentially creating a prolonged revenue generation period, with much, much higher margins as well. Previous Unit Economics (Author) In my first a...
Taiwan has overtaken India to become the fifth-largest stock market in the world, driven by the significant surge in the revenue of the semiconductor giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. According to Bloomberg, Taiwan's stock market capitalisation reached $4.95 trillion in market capitalisation, overtaking India at $4.92 trillion, behind only the US, China, Japan and Hong Kong. What i...
Taiwan has overtaken India to become the fifth-largest stock market in the world, driven by the significant surge in the revenue of the semiconductor giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. According to Bloomberg, Taiwan's stock market capitalisation reached $4.95 trillion in market capitalisation, overtaking India at $4.92 trillion, behind only the US, China, Japan and Hong Kong. What is driving Taiwan's rise? Taiwan's meteoric rise is driven by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which now accounts for 42 per cent of the benchmark index TAIEX or Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalisation. The chipmaker's shares have rallied 46 per cent this year, driven by the massive demand in the AI ecosystem, which many analysts are terming as the “NVIDIA proxy effect”. NVIDIA does not manufacture its own hardware; it designs chips. It is reliant heavily on TSMC for its hardware manufacturing. Every time NVIDIA secures a multibillion-dollar contract, its revenue flows into TSMC, triggering immediate and massive rallies. While Foxconn assemble the complex physical AI servers and AI factories that house NVIDIA's components. Taiwan's financial regulator recently changed the regulation about domestic funds that invest in a single stock can hold up to 25 per cent of their net asset in any listed company, up from the previous 10 per cent. This will further attract investors to TSMC. Add WION as a Preferred Source Is India really falling behind? India is falling behind in total market capitalisation of its stock market, mostly driven by the record outflow in the Foreign Institutional Investors, driven by the rising crude oil prices and a depreciating Indian domestic rupee. It has lost $380 billion in market cap from its peak valuation of $5.3 trillion in January 2026. The Benchmark NIFTY 50 has fallen by 8.08 per cent, while the BSE Sensex has fallen by 10.8 per cent. However, Wall Street is divided on the valuation of Taiwan and AI buildout. Analysts view the I...
Classover Holdings ( NASDAQ: KIDZW ) said on Tuesday it had entered a strategic partnership with 1Legion to form Ousia Compute LLC, a joint venture focused on deploying GPU-based AI compute infrastructure. The companies said the venture would seek a first-phase investment capacity of up to $50 million. Classover expects to hold majority ownership of the special purpose vehicle and serve as managin...
Classover Holdings ( NASDAQ: KIDZW ) said on Tuesday it had entered a strategic partnership with 1Legion to form Ousia Compute LLC, a joint venture focused on deploying GPU-based AI compute infrastructure. The companies said the venture would seek a first-phase investment capacity of up to $50 million. Classover expects to hold majority ownership of the special purpose vehicle and serve as managing member, while 1Legion will act as the exclusive infrastructure operator. According to the company, Ousia Compute is in discussions with prospective enterprise customers for long-term GPU compute capacity. The planned infrastructure would include NVIDIA GPU clusters such as H100, H200, B300, and Blackwell systems deployed across Tier 3+ data centers in the United States and other global locations. Classover said the initiative supports its previously announced expansion into AI infrastructure and planned corporate rebranding to KIDZ AI Inc. The company added that any funding under the partnership remains subject to agreement on equipment specifications, deployment schedules, and other terms, and that neither party is currently obligated to commit capital. Source: Press Release More on Classover Holdings, Inc. Classover secures $100M equity purchase facility, to rebrand as KIDZ AI Classover, ICreate to explore AI robotics education partnership in North America Financial information for Classover Holdings, Inc.
vchal/iStock via Getty Images Oklo ( OKLO ) up 10.2% pre-market Tuesday after saying it was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for advanced negotiations under the Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program, which aims to make designated surplus plutonium material available to industry participants and enable the conversion of those materials into fuel for advanced nuclear reactors . The company ...
vchal/iStock via Getty Images Oklo ( OKLO ) up 10.2% pre-market Tuesday after saying it was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for advanced negotiations under the Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program, which aims to make designated surplus plutonium material available to industry participants and enable the conversion of those materials into fuel for advanced nuclear reactors . The company said its selection, alongside four other advanced nuclear companies, supports its broader fuel strategy, which includes multiple pathways to source fuel to support advanced reactor deployment while domestic enrichment and fuel infrastructure continue to scale. President Trump signed an executive order about a year ago ordering the U.S. government to halt much of its existing program to dilute and dispose of surplus plutonium, and instead provide it as a fuel for advanced nuclear technologies. Oklo ( OKLO ) announced a strategic partnership with newcleo in October 2025 to develop advanced fuel fabrication infrastructure in the U.S. , including potential work related to surplus plutonium, with an investment of as much as $2B, subject to mutually acceptable documentation, through a newcleo-affiliated vehicle for such a project. More on Oklo A Buy Rating For Oklo As AI Data Centers Run Into The Power Wall Oklo: Q1 Earnings Is The Inflection Point For The SMR Trade Oklo Q1 2026 Earnings Call Presentation
Do you even like art? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images There's this alarming trend in the Suno subreddit. People aren't just prompting AI songs; they're sitting around listening almost exclusively to their own slop. And in some cases, they proudly proclaim that they don't listen to music on traditional streaming platforms anymore - it's just AI all day. "Does anyone just listen to ...
Do you even like art? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images There's this alarming trend in the Suno subreddit. People aren't just prompting AI songs; they're sitting around listening almost exclusively to their own slop. And in some cases, they proudly proclaim that they don't listen to music on traditional streaming platforms anymore - it's just AI all day. "Does anyone just listen to their own music now and not even music on Spotify anymore.?" "I definitely listen to my own music most of the time now. Why wouldn't I? It's album after album of bangers" "Guilty as charged. It's an infectious addiction, and I love it." "I thought I was the only one that had an addiction to suno. " "Last.f … Read the full story at The Verge.
Robert Way Even though many semiconductor stocks are up sharply in 2026, Bank of America believes there is much more to come, as high artificial intelligence spending is likely here to stay. “We retain high conviction in continued AI infra strength, driven by: (1) 3–5x YoY sales growth at frontier labs, (2) improving AI monetization, exponential token growth (7x YoY at Google), and continued disru...
Robert Way Even though many semiconductor stocks are up sharply in 2026, Bank of America believes there is much more to come, as high artificial intelligence spending is likely here to stay. “We retain high conviction in continued AI infra strength, driven by: (1) 3–5x YoY sales growth at frontier labs, (2) improving AI monetization, exponential token growth (7x YoY at Google), and continued disruption fears among hyperscalers, (3) tight supply with near-full utilization of all deployed infra, and (4) underappreciated sovereign, enterprise and industrial demand,” analysts led by Wamsi Mohan wrote in a note to clients. “We forecast AI TAM tripling to ~$1.7T by 2030E.” Additionally, the analysts noted that the sharp run-up in semiconductor stocks is being led by earnings, as the forward P/E ratio is around 25.6, roughly unchanged year-to-date and below the peak of around 30. “We see limited evidence of speculative multiple inflation, supporting durability of the rally amid secular AI infrastructure growth,” the analysts added. As such, the firm said its favorite parts of the semiconductor market are still compute (led by Nvidia ( NVDA ), AMD ( AMD ), and Broadcom (AVGO)), memory (Micron (MU)), analog (Analog Devices ( ADI ), and Texas Instruments (TXN)), semiconductor equipment (Lam Research ( LRCX ), and KLA Corp. (KLAC)), electronic design automation (Cadence Design Systems (CDNS)), interconnects (Marvell (MRVL)), and consumer. For the compute part of the market, Bank of America said it expects multiple CPU announcements at next month's Computex event, including more details about Nvidia's forecast that CPUs are a $200B total addressable market. On the analog portion of the market, the firm added that ON Semiconductor ( ON ) and Microchip ( MCHP ) also have exposure via ON's emerging AI power pipeline and Microchip's exposure to the aerospace and defense markets. More on semiconductors Nvidia's $81 Billion Blowout Hides A Major Warning Micron: Massive Upside, But A ...
Robert Way Even though many semiconductor stocks are up sharply in 2026, Bank of America believes there is much more to come, as high artificial intelligence spending is likely here to stay. “We retain high conviction in continued AI infra strength, driven by: (1) 3–5x YoY sales growth at frontier labs, (2) improving AI monetization, exponential token growth (7x YoY at Google), and continued disru...
Robert Way Even though many semiconductor stocks are up sharply in 2026, Bank of America believes there is much more to come, as high artificial intelligence spending is likely here to stay. “We retain high conviction in continued AI infra strength, driven by: (1) 3–5x YoY sales growth at frontier labs, (2) improving AI monetization, exponential token growth (7x YoY at Google), and continued disruption fears among hyperscalers, (3) tight supply with near-full utilization of all deployed infra, and (4) underappreciated sovereign, enterprise and industrial demand,” analysts led by Wamsi Mohan wrote in a note to clients. “We forecast AI TAM tripling to ~$1.7T by 2030E.” Additionally, the analysts noted that the sharp run-up in semiconductor stocks is being led by earnings, as the forward P/E ratio is around 25.6, roughly unchanged year-to-date and below the peak of around 30. “We see limited evidence of speculative multiple inflation, supporting durability of the rally amid secular AI infrastructure growth,” the analysts added. As such, the firm said its favorite parts of the semiconductor market are still compute (led by Nvidia ( NVDA ), AMD ( AMD ), and Broadcom (AVGO)), memory (Micron (MU)), analog (Analog Devices ( ADI ), and Texas Instruments (TXN)), semiconductor equipment (Lam Research ( LRCX ), and KLA Corp. (KLAC)), electronic design automation (Cadence Design Systems (CDNS)), interconnects (Marvell (MRVL)), and consumer. For the compute part of the market, Bank of America said it expects multiple CPU announcements at next month's Computex event, including more details about Nvidia's forecast that CPUs are a $200B total addressable market. On the analog portion of the market, the firm added that ON Semiconductor ( ON ) and Microchip ( MCHP ) also have exposure via ON's emerging AI power pipeline and Microchip's exposure to the aerospace and defense markets. More on semiconductors Nvidia's $81 Billion Blowout Hides A Major Warning Micron: Massive Upside, But A ...
Seeking Alpha reports that Bank of America continues to flag Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron Technology, and Marvell Technology among top semiconductor picks as AI-related spending remains strong. Seeking Alpha quotes Bank of America as viewing AI data-center systems as a large addressable market, projecting a $1.7 trillion total addressable market for AI data-center systems by 2030 and citing susta...
Seeking Alpha reports that Bank of America continues to flag Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron Technology, and Marvell Technology among top semiconductor picks as AI-related spending remains strong. Seeking Alpha quotes Bank of America as viewing AI data-center systems as a large addressable market, projecting a $1.7 trillion total addressable market for AI data-center systems by 2030 and citing sustained hyperscaler capex as a growth tailwind. The coverage also notes potential supply-chain bottlenecks that could limit shipments even as compute and memory diversification expands the market. The call is framed as a sector-level bullish outlook rather than a company-specific operational update.