What changed
The OpenAI .gov incident is not a cute demo. Agents touching government sites before enterprise controls are real is a regulatory tripwire. This is $MSFT's biggest AI distribution bet, and it now has a governance problem.
$AKAM up 9.0% on a massive Anthropic AI cloud deal. This is the quiet tell: AI infrastructure demand is spreading beyond Nvidia GPUs into edge/CDN/cloud plumbing. Watch whether $AVGO custom silicon and networking follow.
China is playing a different AI game. U.S. export controls force workarounds, and that usually means domestic chips, domestic models, and more state coordination. Bad for a clean global AI stack; good for China/HK semiconductor national champions.
Nvidia's CEO is pushing back on the 'AI apocalypse' narrative, but the risk of a slowdown remains. $AMD is the only credible second source in accelerators, yet Micron's warning that Rubin impact won't kick in next quarter shows timing risk for the whole supply chain.
Micron earnings next week could be a teet