I said earlier in the week that $MSFT could be the catalyst that reminded investors the AI buildout was nowhere near over.
That is exactly what happened as Microsoft’s June fiscal year-end gave the first major look into first half of 2027 spending and confirmed demand remains above capacity across chips, memory, networking, optics, packaging, power and equipment.
Then this morning we learned why the suppliers sold off since Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness ran ~$24B at up to 4x leverage with $NBIS, $SNDK, $CRWV, $IREN, $BE and $TE among its largest positions and was forced to dump its entire public book in one block.
The AI infrastructure thesis never broke but the leveraged fund behind the selling did.