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Trump's Quiet AI Meetings Leak 😲
Intel Just Did The Unthinkable 🤯
The Top Is Flashing Red 🚨
The SpaceX IPO Trade Wall Street Is Quietly Making
Before SpaceX files, institutional money is already moving into the suppliers, contractors, and tech plays with direct exposure to the listing. We've mapped the cap table to publicly traded proxies — names retail can buy today in any brokerage account. Get the breakdown free.
Trump's Quiet AI Meetings Leak 😲
Washington just looked at the AI gold rush and thought: what if we owned half of it?
Here's the deal.
Trump has been quietly meeting with AI bosses, including OpenAI's crew, about the government taking voluntary equity stakes in their companies.
Voluntary. As in, "we'd love for you to hand us some shares, pretty please."
Then Bernie Sanders entered the chat.
The senator wants to skip the polite part entirely. His new bill would force the government to grab 50% of the big AI companies.
How? A one-time tax. But not on profits.
Paid in stock.
Think of it like the bouncer demanding half your poker chips before you even sit down at the table.
Why should you care?
Because this doesn't just hit OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. It splashes onto the public stocks everyone actually owns.
The usual suspects:
Microsoft $MSFT ( ▼ 1.18% )
Nvidia $NVDA ( ▲ 1.73% )
Alphabet $GOOG ( ▼ 1.2% ) / $GOOGL ( ▼ 1.36% )
These three are basically the stock market's AI mood ring. When the sector sneezes, they catch the cold.
What Wedbush Is Saying
Analyst Michael Piccolo calls this a "pre-IPO policy overhang." AKA a storm cloud parked over the whole sector before the big party even starts.
A voluntary deal? Manageable. Annoying, but survivable.
A mandatory Sanders-style 50% grab? That's a different beast.
He says it would slap a ceiling on how much private value these companies can create. Imagine building a rocket and being told you can only fly half as high.
The timing is spicy
OpenAI is reportedly eyeing an IPO at a jaw-dropping $830B to $1T+ valuation.
It's pulling in roughly $2B a month in revenue right now.
It's also projected to lose around $14B this year. Growth ain't cheap, apparently.
Anthropic already filed its IPO paperwork quietly, but it's skipping this week's White House meeting. Awkward, given its very public spat with the Pentagon earlier this year.
The thing to actually watch
OpenAI's public S-1 filing.
If they hand the government any equity before going public, it gets baked right into the IPO. And that could mess with the valuation everyone's drooling over.
So keep one eye on Washington and the other on that filing.
TL;DR
Trump is courting AI companies about voluntary government equity stakes.
Bernie Sanders wants to go nuclear: a bill forcing the government to own 50% of big AI firms, paid in stock.
The fallout would hit public proxies hard: Microsoft, Nvidia, and Alphabet.
Wedbush says voluntary = manageable, mandatory = a structural ceiling on the whole sector.
OpenAI is prepping an IPO near $1T, making ~$2B/month but losing ~$14B in 2026.
Watch OpenAI's S-1 filing, any pre-IPO equity deal lands straight in the valuation.
1. Position Around the OpenAI S-1
The article flags OpenAI's IPO filing as the real catalyst. Any government equity concession gets baked into the offering and ripples to the public proxies.
📌 Action: Build a watchlist of the AI infrastructure names $MSFT ( ▼ 1.18% ), $NVDA ( ▲ 1.73% ), $GOOGL ( ▼ 1.36% ) and set price alerts now. When the S-1 drops, you'll be ready to act on the volatility instead of reacting late.
2. Separate the Voluntary Noise From the Mandatory Threat
Wedbush says a voluntary deal is "manageable" but a Sanders-style mandatory 50% grab is a sector-wide problem. These are two very different outcomes wearing the same headline.
📌 Action: Treat short-term dips driven by voluntary equity headlines as potential entry points into quality AI proxies. Treat genuine momentum on the Sanders bill as a reason to pause and reassess.
3. Diversify Away From Single-Name Policy Risk
Right now $MSFT ( ▼ 1.18% ), $NVDA ( ▲ 1.73% ), and $GOOGL ( ▼ 1.36% ) are the market's AI mood ring, all exposed to the same Washington overhang. Concentrated bets here mean concentrated headline risk.
📌 Action: Consider broad AI/tech ETFs over single names if you want AI exposure without betting on how one bill plays out. Spread the policy risk across the basket.
Wall Street’s New Shopping List
Big money is rotating into a select group of stocks for the second half of 2026.
MarketBeat’s analysts tracked the move and identified 10 companies attracting fresh capital right now.
The updated 10 Best Stocks to Own in 2026 report lays out the tickers, trends, and catalysts.
Everyone's running from crypto. But we’re interested in one specific name.
There's a company sitting on 5.4 million ETH that just got cut in half by panic selling, not broken fundamentals.
Its chairman? Tom Lee, the guy Wall Street actually listens to.
And here's what the headlines missed: while Ethereum cratered to $1,500, this company quietly built a fintech machine projecting $258 million in annualized staking revenue.
That's real income. Not hopium. Not "number go up" prayers.
The stock has crashed into the $15s, dragged down with crypto's worst month in recent memory. The Fear and Greed Index is screaming Extreme Fear at 15.
You know what smart money calls Extreme Fear? A sale.
This isn't another Michael Saylor story. Strategy is dumping Bitcoin to cover dividends and turning gains into losses. This company is doing the opposite, generating yield and funneling cash into more ETH at fire-sale prices.
But there's a catch buried in the numbers that could change everything, and a single risk that could torch the entire thesis.
In today's Premium+ deep dive, we break down:
Why the crash made this stock more attractive, not less
The staking math behind that $258 million figure (and what ETH price breaks it)
The one balance-sheet move that signals where management really stands
What to watch in the Q2 update landing early July
This is exactly the kind of setup Premium+ exists for.
The crowd panics. You position.
Intel Just Did The Unthinkable 🤯
Remember Friday? Chip stocks got taken to the woodshed.
Then Monday happened. And Intel ripped as high as 17%.
Intel ripped higher on market open today
Why the mood swing? One word: backup.
The big scoop: Google reportedly ordered over 3 million of its Tensor chips (TPUs) from Intel, per The Information. Delivery date? 2028.
It’s great for Intel. They’re becoming the spare tire the whole industry wants in the trunk.
And it's not just Google. Nvidia is reportedly kicking the tires too.
Nvidia hasn't actually ordered anything yet. It's testing whether Intel can build a beastly new chip that fuses four GPUs into one unit.
Think of it like the AI giants suddenly realizing they shouldn't depend on a single factory. Intel is the second factory.
Why this matters: For years, Intel's foundry business was the punchline. Now analysts at GF Securities think it gets aggressive.
They see massive capacity expansion across Intel's plants. Better yields too, with their flagship 18A process possibly hitting 80%.
The verdict? They think Intel's foundry arm finally turns a profit in late 2027.
For a business that's been bleeding cash, that's huge news.
The Rest of the Chip Party
The good vibes spread everywhere.
Nvidia rose about 1%. CEO Jensen Huang is doing a South Korea victory lap, signing deals with SK Telecom, SK Hynix, Naver, and LG.
Marvell soared nearly 15% on news it's joining the S&P 500 this month. Index inclusion is basically free money from forced buyers.
Other movers:
Micron up about 11%
AMD up about 5% (after pledging up to £2B for the UK)
Arm and Lattice each up around 5%
TSMC and GlobalFoundries each up around 4%
Broadcom up around 3%
Corning jumped about 7% after Amazon signed a deal to boost US fiber optics manufacturing.
Chip equipment makers feasted too. KLA surged around 10%, while Applied Materials, Lam Research, and ASML all climbed 7% to 9%.
One party-pooper: Ciena fell about 4% after announcing a $2B convertible note offering. Nothing kills a vibe like new debt.
TL;DR
Intel jumped ~17% on reports that Google ordered 3M+ chips and Nvidia is testing Intel as a backup manufacturer.
The "backup factory" story matters because AI giants want to stop relying on one supplier.
GF Securities turned bullish, predicting Intel's foundry business turns profitable in late 2027.
Marvell soared ~15% on S&P 500 inclusion, the easiest catalyst in the book.
Nearly the entire chip sector rebounded after Friday's selloff, from Micron to ASML.
Only Ciena spoiled the fun, falling ~4% on a new $2B debt offering.
The Top Is Flashing Red 🚨
After a monster rally, the bank is quietly nudging clients toward the exit. Not screaming. Just... gesturing.
Here's the spooky part.
70% of BofA's bear-market signals have flipped on.
That's the same level that's lined up with past market tops. The smoke alarm is beeping.
So what's setting it off?
Valuations look stretched
Speculative trading is heating up
A tiny cluster of stocks is doing most of the heavy lifting
Sound familiar? It should. It's the classic "everyone's piling into the same five names" move.
Meanwhile, the market keeps partying near record highs. The fuel: AI hype, solid earnings, and dreams of rate cuts.
But BofA's basically saying: great party, watch the punch bowl.
Their advice isn't "run for the hills." It's "be picky." Think scalpel, not chainsaw.
And here's the twist.
They're not calling a crash. Far from it.
BofA still sees winners in specific stocks and sectors with solid risk-reward. They're even holding a year-end S&P 500 target of 7,100, which leaves a little gas in the tank.
So the message is less doom, more discipline.
TL;DR
BofA says consider taking profits after a big equity run
70% of its bear-market indicators are now triggered, a level tied to past peaks
Red flags: high valuations, rising speculation, gains driven by a few stocks
Market's still near highs on AI optimism, earnings, and rate-cut hopes
The play: get selective, not broadly exposed
No crash call though, year-end S&P target stays at 7,100