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Kim Kahn

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Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

Monday.com is tumbling after fiscal Q4 revenue outlook came in below estimates.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

Pagaya Technologies' stock is surging as the AI infrastructure provider for the financial ecosystem raised its full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance after boasting 91% year-over-year growth in Q3.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

And Papa John's is active on a report that Triartisan Capital, which recently agreed to buy Denny's, is close to buying the pizza chain.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

But a source told Seeking Alpha that the report is not true and shares are off their earlier highs.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

In other news of note, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a new idea to make your car work for you.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

At the annual meeting, Musk floated a plan to pay customers $100 to $200 a month if they let the company use their parked vehicles for AI workloads when they're not driving.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas did the math.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

He points out that there are more than 300 million light vehicles on U.S.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

roads and about 1.2 billion worldwide.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

If every one of them had the power of a single NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, that's about 9,000 trillion operations per second.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

The numbers get staggering fast.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

300 million Blackwells in the U.S., 1.2 globally, and potentially 2 billion within 15 years.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

And that's before you add what Jonas calls the rest of the fleet.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

Humanoid robots, electric vertical takeoff and landing carriers, drones, construction and manufacturing bots, and even surgical robots.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

He says it's not a stretch to imagine a world with tens of billions of Blackwell-class computers at the edge, each one humming away with its own cooling system, data centers, and AI jobs to do.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

And in the Wall Street Research Corner, investors should consider shorting bonds of hyperscalers, but hold off on major shorts of the broader AI trade, according to B of A. Strategist Michael Hartnett said hyperscaler cash flow is no longer sufficient for Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle to sustain the ongoing AI CapEx arms race.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

He pointed out that more than $120 billion in bonds have been issued over the past seven weeks, and that even the AI kings are hinting at the need for a government backstop to help lower funding costs.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

Hyperscaler credit spreads have widened from 50 basis points in September towards 80 basis points, suggesting the lows are in.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

Hartnett also added that U.S.

Wall Street Breakfast
AI becomes a major e-commerce player

tech bond prices fell 8% in the 12 months leading up to the March 2000 bubble peak.