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🚨#BREAKING: The "NVIDIA Challenger" arrives: Cerebras set for massive Thursday IPO. • Cerebras Systems $CBRS will go public on Thursday, May 14, 2026 • Due to overwhelming demand (20x oversubscribed), the company is raising its price target to $125–$135/share • The debut follows a landmark $10B deal with OpenAI, positioning Cerebras as the primary "wafer-scale" alternative to NVIDIA.

🚨#BREAKING: The AI infrastructure rally just handed Lumentum a seat at the big table Lumentum $LITE will officially join the Nasdaq-100 $QQQ on May 18, 2026, replacing CoStar Group $CSGP. Driven by a over 1200% rally and record AI-fueled revenue, the optical tech leader now commands a $70B ($70B) market cap. Inclusion in the $QQQ will trigger significant passive fund inflows as Lumentum cements its status as a core AI infrastructure play.

🚨#BREAKING: “Go out & buy a Dell! They're great.” — President Trump said this, and shares of $DELL surged 13% today

🚨#BREAKING: Elon Musk shares a new photo alongside the CEO of Intel $INTC after visiting their Oregon fab this week • Intel will serve as the primary foundry for "Terafab," a $119B Austin-based facility designed to build next-gen AI5 and D3 chips for $TSLA and SpaceX using Intel's 14A process • This deal cements Intel as the domestic manufacturing hub for the next phase of AI, robotics, and orbital computing. Elon Musk just posted this photo with the CEO of Intel $INTC

🚨#BREAKING: Inspire Brands, the owner of Dunkin’, Arby’s, and Sonic, filed confidentially for a U.S. IPO on May 8, 2026 • Targeting a $2 billion raise, the deal is led by JPMorgan and Bank of America • With $33.4 billion in 2025 sales and over 33,300 locations, this is set to be one of the largest consumer IPOs of the year as Roark Capital looks to exit its multi-brand platform

🚨#BREAKING: Amazon $AMZN is investing in a major geothermal and solar-storage portfolio in Nevada to secure 24/7 power for its AI data centers Utilizing the "Clean Transition Tariff" with NV Energy, Amazon is funding its own carbon-free firm power to bypass grid congestion The move ensures stable energy for high-demand AI clusters while aiming to hit Amazon's 100% renewable goal by the end of 2026

🚨#BREAKING: SoftBank Group Corp. has reportedly downsized a massive margin loan intended to fund its next wave of artificial intelligence investments. According to Bloomberg, the Japanese conglomerate has slashed its borrowing target from $10 billion to $6 billion after creditors raised concerns about the volatility and valuation of its collateral: a 13% stake in OpenAI.

🚨#BREAKING: The AI chip shortage has gotten so bad that Big Tech is now offering to buy factories and equipment for a memory chip maker just to get guaranteed supply. What is happening: • SK Hynix, the world's leading maker of AI memory chips, is being approached by major technology companies with offers to directly fund new chip factories and pay for the manufacturing equipment needed to build them, according to Reuters citing six people familiar with the matter • One specific proposal involves customers offering to fund purchases of $ASML EUV lithography machines, the specialist tools used to etch circuits onto silicon chips, each of which costs between $210 million and $350 million • One source described SK Hynix's current available production capacity as "essentially zero", meaning there is simply nothing left to allocate to new customers, no matter how much they offer to pay Why this has never happened before: • Memory chips have always been made speculatively, manufacturers produce them and sell to whoever pays, the same way a farm grows grain and sells it on the open market. No single buyer funds the farm • That model has broken down. AI has created such extreme demand for high-bandwidth memory that the usual rules no longer apply. Buyers who used to negotiate prices down are now volunteering to build the factories • SK Hynix's DRAM chip prices jumped more than 60% in a single quarter in early 2026. NAND flash prices rose more than 70% in the same period. The company's stock is up 154% this year alone • SK Hynix already placed a record $8 billion order for ASML EUV machines in March 2026, planning to add approximately 20 new machines by 2027 to double its current capacity The deal structures being proposed: • Companies are proposing price agreements that lock in minimum and maximum prices for years ahead, ending the quarterly price negotiations that have defined memory markets for decades. Separate proposals involve customers paying 30% to 40% of a contract's total value upfront in cash before a single chip is made • The offers specifically target the first phase of SK Hynix's new Yongin semiconductor cluster in South Korea, expected to come online in May 2027 and eventually add 350,000 wafers of production per month Why SK Hynix is not simply saying yes: • Accepting the money would tie SK Hynix to specific buyers at fixed prices, potentially at a discount to where prices might go, and could draw regulatory scrutiny for appearing to favor one customer over others. It also risks the company becoming a captive manufacturer for a small number of tech giants rather than a supplier to the whole market FactSet • SK Hynix said it is reviewing "various approaches and structural alternatives that differ from conventional long-term agreements", a careful non-answer that keeps its options open The simple version of what this means: The world's most valuable technology companies cannot get enough AI memory chips at any price. They are now offering to build the factories themselves. That is not a supply shortage in the traditional sense. That is a structural mismatch between how fast AI infrastructure is scaling and how long it physically takes to build the capacity to support it.

🚨#BREAKING: $GOOG latest 13F as of the end of Q1

🚨#BREAKING: Gaming giants Nintendo and Sony have issued urgent warnings regarding the "severe" impact of skyrocketing memory chip prices on their bottom lines. In a move that signals the end of the subsidized console era, both companies have implemented significant hardware price hikes so far in 2026 to offset multibillion-dollar increases in manufacturing costs - Reuters

🚨#BREAKING: The "Warsh Era" at the Fed could trigger a 2026 rate cut cycle

🚨#BREAKING: Is $NVDA one of the most strategic allocators of capital? Nvidia does not just make chips. It systematically maps every layer of the AI infrastructure stack, invests directly in the companies it needs most, and turns those bets into performance Here are the 10 layers it operates across, and how it plays each one: Architecture: • $ARM — the chip blueprint firm Nvidia tried to acquire for $40B and now partners with deeply for CPU-GPU integration • $CDNS — deepened AI chip design alliance with Nvidia and TSMC in April 2026 Foundry: • $TSM — manufactures every advanced Nvidia GPU. Nvidia is now co-investing in US manufacturing with TSMC in Arizona • $INTC — Intel Foundry is an emerging secondary option as Nvidia diversifies manufacturing Memory: • $MU, SK Hynix, Samsung — supply the HBM (high-bandwidth memory) stacked inside every Nvidia GPU. SK Hynix is the primary supplier, with HBM sold out through 2026 Packaging: • $AMKR, $ASX (ASE Technology), $FN (Fabrinet) — advanced chip packaging partners that assemble the final GPU products Semiconductor Equipment: • $ASML, $AMAT, $LRCX — make the machines that manufacture Nvidia chips. Without them, TSMC cannot produce a single GPU Networking: • $ANET, $GLW, $MRVL, $AVGO — connect GPU clusters together inside data centers • $LITE (Lumentum) and $COHR (Coherent) — Nvidia made a $2 billion direct equity investment in each in early 2026, acquiring stakes in the optical networking companies that its data center customers need most Servers: • $DELL, $SMCI, $CSCO, $HPE — package and distribute Nvidia hardware into data center racks globally Cooling and Power: • $NVT, $VRT, $ETN — manage heat and electricity for data centers running Nvidia chips • Siemens — Nvidia and Siemens expanded their strategic partnership for industrial and physical AI in January 2026 Cloud: • $MSFT, $AMZN, $GOOG, $ORCL — hyperscaler customers committing hundreds of billions to Nvidia-powered infrastructure • $NBIS (Nebius) — Nvidia invested $2 billion in March 2026. Nebius stock is up more than 400% over the past year • $IREN — Nvidia received a warrant to purchase up to 30 million shares at $70 in May 2026, a potential $2.1 billion stake Enterprise: • $PLTR, $SNOW — enterprise software companies building on Nvidia's AI infrastructure Some of these are companies Nvidia has made direct equity investments in. In January 2026, Nvidia invested an additional $2 billion in CoreWeave at $87.20 per share, a follow-on to prior investments dating to 2023, including anchoring CoreWeave's March 2025 IPO. In December 2025, Nvidia purchased $2 billion of Synopsys $SNPS common stock at $414.79 per share. In March 2026, it invested $2 billion each in Lumentum $LITE and Coherent $COHR, and another $2 billion in Nebius $NBIS. The IREN $IREN warrant announced today adds up to $2.1 billion more Among others in the ecosystem map - $TSM, $ASML, $CDNS, $DELL, $HPE, are supply chain partners and customers where Nvidia has no equity stake but deep commercial dependency

🚨#BREAKING: $RKLB is up 4% after trading hours after dropping four major announcements at once, with the Anduril hypersonics contract being the headline. The Anduril deal, explained simply: • Rocket Lab has been awarded a $30 million contract by Anduril Industries for three hypersonic test flights using its HASTE rocket, launching from Virginia • Anduril is one of the most prominent US defence technology companies, building AI-powered weapons. The key detail: Anduril is paying for all three flights from its own money, no government budget involved, so it can test and develop new technology without waiting years for government approvals • Hypersonic means flying faster than five times the speed of sound, so fast that most existing defence systems struggle to track or intercept it. That is exactly why the US military considers hypersonics a top national security priority right now • The first launch is planned within 12 months. Rocket Lab has a 100% mission success rate across all HASTE launches since the program began in 2023 • This contract, combined with a $190 million deal Rocket Lab signed with the US Department of War in March 2026 for 20 hypersonic test flights, means these two customers alone account for nearly one third of Rocket Lab’s entire backlog of 70+ launches Everything else Rocket Lab announced today: • Q1 2026 revenue hit a record $200 million, up 63.5% year over year, beating every guidance metric the company set. Total backlog crossed $2.2 billion • Q2 2026 revenue guidance of $225-240 million is well above the $205 million analyst estimate • Rocket Lab was selected alongside Raytheon to develop space-based interceptor technology for the US Space Force as part of the Trump administration’s Golden Dome missile defence initiative • A confidential customer signed what Rocket Lab says is its largest single launch contract ever, covering multiple Neutron and Electron missions between 2026 and 2029 • Rocket Lab is also acquiring Motiv Space Systems, a robotics company whose technology has already operated on Mars, to add space robotics capability to its growing portfolio. Stifel raised its price target to $105

🚨#BREAKING: $IREN also announced today it is acquiring Mirantis, a cloud software company, further signalling its shift from a pure hardware infrastructure operator toward a broader technology business

🚨#BREAKING: $IREN is up ~19% in after-hours trading after announcing a major deal with $NVDA, and Nvidia has been given the option to invest up to $2.1 billion in the company. What was announced: • Nvidia and IREN, an AI data center operator, announced a strategic partnership today to build and operate up to 5 gigawatts of AI infrastructure together • As part of the deal, IREN gave Nvidia the right to buy up to 30 million IREN shares at $70 each over the next five years. If Nvidia exercises that right in full, it would be investing $2.1 billion into IREN • This is not a cash payment today, it is an option. Nvidia can buy those shares at $70 any time over the next five years, but only if regulatory and other conditions are met. The $2.1 billion represents the maximum possible investment, not a guaranteed one • The first major project under the partnership will be IREN’s Sweetwater campus in West Texas, a 2-gigawatt facility that will serve as the flagship site for Nvidia’s DSX architecture What DSX means in plain terms: • Nvidia’s DSX is essentially a master blueprint for building massive AI data centers, specifying exactly how the power systems, cooling, networking, and chip racks should all fit together to work efficiently at enormous scale • IREN brings the land, the power connections, and the operational team. Nvidia brings the blueprint, the chips, and the customer relationships • The result is supposed to be AI data centers that can be built faster and run more efficiently than if each company tried to do it alone The important caveat: • 5 gigawatts is an aspirational long-term target, not something being built today. The real near-term anchor is the 2-gigawatt Sweetwater campus • The $2.1 billion Nvidia investment is conditional, regulatory approval is required and Nvidia has no obligation to exercise the warrant

🚨#BREAKING: Apple’s “AirPods Ultra” may soon give Siri eyes for the real world $AAPL is in advanced testing for “AirPods Ultra,” featuring built-in infrared cameras. Designed for “Visual Intelligence,” these sensors won’t take photos but will allow Siri to see and identify objects in real time.