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Luke Vargas

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WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Hannah, thank you as always for the update.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Well, if you thought that the hyperscalers behind leading AI products are immune from that trend we just discussed, think again.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Microsoft dipped almost 3% yesterday on concerns that AI tools could make enterprise subscriptions less necessary.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

The company's co-pilot assistant is a key part of its growth plans, but new data from Recon Analytics shows that subscribers who use Microsoft's co-pilot as their primary option almost have in the last six months, while Google's Gemini gained in popularity.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

According to Citi Research, some companies are using just 10% of the co-pilot subscription seats they've paid for.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Well, it's also a bad week for crypto, with Bitcoin now down nearly 40% since hitting a record in October.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

The ongoing slump is also starting to hurt trading platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood, as well as companies previously rewarded for hoarding cryptocurrencies like Michael Saylor's Strategy.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

And as markets reporter Alex Osipovich explains, that could hurt crypto prices even more.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

For strategy, a Bitcoin price below $76,000 is largely loss-making because that's the average price that it paid for the crypto over the years.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Bitcoin is today trading right around that price.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Shares of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk are plunging this morning after the maker of weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovi shaved its sales forecast yesterday.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

and warned of unprecedented pricing pressure.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Journal Heard on the Street columnist David Wehner told me that Novo is facing intense competition from Eli Lilly, reshaping a GLP-1 drug market that looked vastly different just a few years ago.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

David, these GLP-1 pills may be, as you say, an exciting new frontier, but the list prices we're seeing for them kind of underscores the pricing pressure you've been talking about.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Novo selling them for $149 a month in the U.S., Eli Lilly planning to do the same.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

That's a far cry from the $1,000 or so a month that these companies have been charging for shots.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Eli Lilly, the maker of Zepbound, is set to report earnings later this morning.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Coming up, we'll look at President Trump's diplomatic pivot with Colombia and why China is banning retractable car door handles.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

Those stories and more after the break.

WSJ What’s News
Why AI Fears Are Suddenly Hitting Tech Stocks

President Trump is doubling down on his view that Republicans should nationalize voting in the U.S.