May US retail sales came in hot:
+0.9% month-over-month (expected +0.6%)
+6.9% year-over-year (expected +4%)
The American consumer just keeps surprising us 💪
@Ragequeen__ Been saying for a while that the real moat isn't the model architecture but who can secure the hardware and energy first. Vera Rubin is a beast.
@omgitsbunnie Sounds nice in theory but distributing AI gains across 330 million people is a logistical nightmare. Wonder how they'd even pull that off without just handing out checks.
🚨 AI might become the biggest political bet of the next decade.
Trump now wants everyday Americans to get a piece of the AI boom.
Not just Wall Street.
Not just VCs.
Not just early birds.
Every single American.
The idea is simple:
If companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI become the most powerful ever, the public should benefit too.
This isn't your typical policy news.
This is a hint.
Sam Altman first brought this up.
Bernie Sanders wants an even bigger public AI wealth fund.
Trump is now saying the government will look into it.
Think how wild that is:
Bernie has fought billionaires his whole career.
Trump built his image defending them.
They rarely agree on money stuff.
But now both sides are eyeing AI and saying the same thing:
This tech is too huge for just a few people to own.
That tells me one thing:
AI isn't just a tech story anymore.
AI is becoming a story about national wealth.
The private players are obvious:
OpenAI
Anthropic
xAI
But the public market play is where investors should pay attention:
$MSFT — OpenAI ecosystem
$AMZN — Anthropic + AI cloud
$GOOG — AI models + cloud + infrastructure
$NVDA — AI chips
$AVGO — custom AI chips
$AMD — AI GPU challenger
$META — AI platform + data centers
$TSLA — xAI / robotics / autonomy angle
$ORCL — AI infrastructure demand
The market still treats AI like a regular growth phase.
I don't think it is.
When politicians from totally opposite sides argue over who gets AI's upside, it means the real money is already too big to ignore.
My take is simple:
Don't chase every AI headline.
Don't blindly buy hype.
Watch the companies controlling compute, cloud, chips, data, and distribution.
That's where the real power lies.
AI isn't just changing tech.
AI is changing who owns things.
Not financial advice.
@saffronroseacts ASML bringing in Musk for a private meeting sounds like a leak to pump the stock more than anything. I'll believe the Terafab details when I see actual fab timelines.