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In the shadow of a world where pharmaceutical giants stumbled like blind men through labyrinthine pipelines, AbbVie stood as a figure of quiet defiance, its legacy etched in the alchemy of molecules and margins. To speak of its 12 blockbusters was to recount a fable of modernity-Skyrizi, Botox, and others, each a chapter in a saga of relentless innovation. Their collective revenue, a staggering $47 billion, felt less like numbers and more like the heartbeat of a titan, steady and unyielding.

Now, lest one get too carried away with the euphoria gripping the markets, I likened this exuberance to a particularly spontaneous dance-delightful for those involved but rather perplexing to the onlookers. You see, the U.K.-U.S. agreement is unlikely to directly benefit Oklo-more likely, it will be a cozy blanket for a rival nuclear power enterprise cushioned by the plush cash of Amazon, known as X-Energy.

This morning, the thaw halts. The stock, now sinking like a leaf in autumn, dips 6.7% by midday. One might smile at the cruel poetry of markets: the same hands that lift a stock can just as easily let it fall.

What drives this company, this flicker of hope in the dark? NuScale seeks to reshape the nuclear landscape with small modular reactors, compact machines that could fit in the corner of a field, yet wield the power of giants. These reactors, built in factories and shipped like cargo, promise to bring energy to places where the old behemoths could not. But the path is strewn with the debris of ambition, as dreams of a 462-MW plant in Idaho crumbled under the weight of cost and uncertainty.

But a sensible investor doesn’t have to sit on his hands waiting for magic. Some of the heavyweights in technology-already raking in fortunes from artificial intelligence-are quietly slipping their toes into the quantum waters. Here are three names that merit a closer squint.

One might think the crypto crowd’d be hollerin’ “Hallelujah!” and dancin’ in the streets, what with the Fed finally cuttin’ rates after a winter’s worth of stubbornness. But no, the boys in Washington gave us a “dot plot” that reads like a spider’s web-complicated and liable to sting. They hinted at fewer cuts in 2026 than the gullible masses had hoped, and all of a sudden, the market’s jaw dropped to the floor like a man who just realized his gold tooth was a painted rock.