Contrarian take, but Sam Altman / OpenAI is doing something right if he's pissing off every Mag7 like $AAPL.
By building their own ecosystem instead of being sucked into another.
It's been awhile since $GOOGL, Apple, Microsoft, and others had some genuine disruptors.
Why do I have this weird feeling the main reason retail is excited SK Hynix NASDAQ listing.
Is because they can do degen option calls instead of individual stock purchases.
$SBUX is reportedly using AI to build in-house software that could replace parts of its $MSFT inventory and $ORCL POS stack.
CTO Anand Varadarajan told employees “There’s clear opportunities to reduce the spend in software” as Starbucks targets $2B in cost cuts.
Wow, looks like Elon + xAI at $SPCX managed to build an Anthropic Opus-level LLM with Grok 4.5.
That’s much more cost efficient as well…
Kinda emulating what Chinese vendors have been doing to compete on pricing + adoption. (Which is an ideal thing given Chinese model growth among US companies recently)
Never doubt Elon, maybe they might end up leapfrogging Anthropic + Mythos?
MASSIVE CRASH 🚨
$500 billion has been wiped out from the US stock market in just the first 5 minutes of trading.
Markets are plunging after President Trump threatened to strike Iran tonight.