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Throughout his career, Buffett has invested in some of the most iconic companies on the planet-Apple, Coca-Cola, and the like-but it’s not just the big names that matter. No, Buffett has also championed a more humble, yet incredibly potent, addition to anyone’s investment strategy. It’s the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO). This exchange-traded fund, one of the many tools available to the modern investor, tracks the performance of the S&P 500, a diversified index of the 500 most influential American companies.

The memory chip market, that most fickle of realms, now bears witness to two forces: the insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory, a crucible for AI accelerators, and the quiet erosion of conventional DRAM. The former, a marvel of engineering, is now the lifeblood of colossal data centers, where OpenAI, Oracle, and Nvidia conspire to construct monuments to machine intelligence. Micron, ever the pragmatist, has already secured $2 billion in HBM sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, with its HBM4 in the works. Yet, the promise of such progress is laced with the bitter truth of scarcity, for even as the world clamors for memory, the market’s pendulum swings between excess and deprivation.

Yet the question lingers: will management, like a gardener, prune its branches with a stock split? The answer, as with all things in the market’s garden, is a whisper of possibility. The company’s past splits, like the scars of a tree, were reverse splits-acts of survival rather than growth. A 1-for-100 split in 2007, a 1-for-200 in 2018. Now, at $20 a share, a forward split feels distant, like a distant summer.

The genesis of this investment is a narrative that unfolds like an intricate plot from an unwritten novel. Initially, Buffett’s dalliance with Sirius XM was conducted through the ephemeral prism of publicly traded tracking shares, a strategy devised by the illustrious John Malone, offering a slice of the media’s arcane mysteries at a discounted price. Yet, upon conversion of these shares into Sirius XM stock last year, Buffett did not simply escape the labyrinth; he chose to traverse deeper, investing profoundly in its common stock as well. In a rare paradox, while the tides of investment wisely ebbed, Berkshire Hathaway resolutely increased its position-not without the shadows of uncertainty that loom over the financial realms.

Why the bearishness, you ask? Oh, it’s not just the tax credits vanishing like a magician’s rabbit. Those $7,500 tax credits once made EVs sparkle like a knight’s armor. Now? They’re as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Eric Bradlow, an EV demand oracle at The Wharton School, sighs, “Consumers considering an EV or hybrid are more pragmatic and cost-conscious than current EV owners.” Translation: They’re calculating their budgets like a medieval scribe tallying the king’s gold. Meanwhile, Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, is busy dodging social media arrows and product lineups that resemble a “Twilight Zone” episode-stale, mysterious, and slightly unsettling.

The backstop, a bureaucratic mechanism of last resort, functions as an invisible scaffold for the fragile structures of corporate ambition. It is a promise, veiled in legal jargon, that ensures a buyer of last resort will step forward should the intricate machinery of finance falter. Yet, this promise is not a sanctuary but a noose, tightening with each passing year, its terms etched in the cold script of capital.

Let me break this down. Buffett, the man who once said “our favorite holding period is forever,” has somehow managed to blend his long-term value investing with a nod to the future. It’s like a 19th-century banker using a smartphone. His Berkshire Hathaway has delivered a 19.9% annual return since 1965. If I had invested $1,000 back then, I’d be sipping margaritas in a beach house by now. Instead, I’m still paying rent.

Forget what you thought you knew about UiPath. This isn’t some mere robotic process automation (RPA) firm-oh no, not anymore! What we’re witnessing now is the metamorphosis of a sluggish caterpillar into a magnificent, AI-powered butterfly. No longer will it fumble with data entry or automate the mundane. No, no-this company is now orchestrating the grand, futuristic symphony where humans, bots, and artificial intelligence all dance together in perfect harmony. And those partnerships? They’re not just icing on the cake-they’re the whole darn bakery.