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Some 5.1 million shares have been acquired, translating to a stake of approximately 3%, a figure that, when viewed against the backdrop of a $12 billion market capitalization, feels less like a strategic maneuver and more like an eccentric whim. One pictures Mr. Buffett, or perhaps one of his appointed lieutenants – the mysterious Mr. Combs or the equally enigmatic Mr. Weschler – idly flipping through a financial report, their gaze landing upon The Times, and uttering, with a shrug, “Purchase a few. For amusement.” The notion of a meticulously calculated investment strategy seems, frankly, a bit much.

Nebius, you see, isn’t in the business of selling dreams or magical potions. They build and operate data centers, crammed full of glowing, humming GPUs.² Think of them as the logistical backbone of the AI revolution. They provide the ‘cloud’ – a rather optimistic name, considering it’s mostly just warehouses full of hot air and spinning disks – where these digital brains can think, learn, and occasionally demand more RAM. Major hyperscalers, those entities that control the flow of information (and, increasingly, our lives), are signing long-term contracts with Nebius, and the resulting revenue spike is… noticeable. It’s the sort of growth that makes accountants weep with joy and regulators start twitching.

Apparently, industrial demand – particularly from those solar panel things (photovoltaic cells, they’re called) – is the really important bit. Who knew? Here’s a breakdown, in case you’re keeping score (I am. I have a spreadsheet. It’s colour-coded):

The Q4 numbers weren’t pretty. Revenue down 26% year-over-year to around $1.3 billion. It’s a bit like going to a party and realizing you’ve accidentally worn two different shoes. Awkward. And yes, they lost money. A lot of money. But, and this is where it gets interesting, the losses weren’t quite as bad as the analysts feared. A small victory, I suppose. Like finding a tenner in an old coat pocket. It doesn’t solve your problems, but it’s a nice surprise.

Taiwan Semiconductor, as its name suggests, is not merely a manufacturer of silicon, but a weaver of the very fabric of our digital existence. It is the unseen hand that shapes the logic of machines, the silent partner in the creation of artificial intelligences that may, one day, surpass our own. To understand its power is to glimpse the underlying architecture of reality itself. Recent reports – meticulously compiled, I assure you – indicate a revenue increase of 26% in the final quarter of 2025, with high-performance computing – the domain of these nascent intelligences – accounting for a significant 55% of its earnings. The margins, too, are noteworthy – 62.3% gross, 54% operating – suggesting a company that has mastered not merely production, but the art of extracting value from the ephemeral currents of technological progress.

The cause, it seems, is not a failure of yield, but a deliberate sowing. Management speaks of an extraordinary outlay – two hundred billion dollars committed to the earth, a vast irrigation project for future growth. Artificial intelligence is the promised bloom, and the expenditure, a necessary deepening of the roots. The market, however, views this with a caution bordering on skepticism. It is a familiar dance – the tension between present harvest and the promise of a future, more abundant yield. They see the cost of the tending, not the beauty of the eventual flower.

By the closing of the market, the price had ascended by more than three percent, a figure which, while perhaps insignificant to the detached observer, represents fortunes gained and lost, dreams realized and dashed, for those whose lives are bound to the fate of this singular enterprise.

Rigetti Computing, a name now echoing through the halls of speculative finance, embodies this precarious hope. They fashion themselves as pioneers in this nascent field, building not merely machines, but a potential future. They possess a fabrication facility, a testament to ambition, and a programming language, Quil, born of necessity. They even offer access to their quantum capacity, a cloud-borne offering to those willing to gamble on the unrealized. It is a complete, self-contained ecosystem…a fragile one, perhaps, but complete nonetheless.