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Consider the alchemy of artificial intelligence, that modern philosopher’s stone. Nvidia, the sultan of silicon, commands the GPUs that fuel the data centers’ engines, those digital crucibles where artificial minds are forged. The recent earnings report, a Gatsby-like affair, drew the gaze of all who ponder the future of artificial intelligence. Herein lies the crux: the world’s titans-Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta-now plot their capital expenditures like generals surveying a battlefield, their ambitions stretching toward the $3 trillion to $4 trillion AI infrastructure opportunity Nvidia has forecasted. A sum that would make even the most austere investor’s heart flutter.

Buffett’s strategy has always been the financial equivalent of bringing a spoon to a sword fight. While Wall Street’s bulls charge headlong into the AI-fueled Magnificent Seven, Berkshire has been a ghost in the machine, holding just Apple and Amazon. It’s a curious dance-like watching a chess grandmaster sit out a game of checkers. Does Buffett know something we don’t? Perhaps he’s simply bored with the current board and waiting for a new game to begin.

Herein lies my purpose: to illuminate three such titans whose destinies may well shape the next half-decade. These are no ordinary ventures; they are crucibles of existential conflict, moral ambiguity, and unbridled aspiration. They beckon us to peer into the abyss-and dare to leap.

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Among the throngs of companies hitching their wagons to AI’s star, Nvidia (NVDA) has ascended like Icarus on a rocket, its market value swelling by $3.8 trillion since 2023. A 1,070% surge, even after a 10-for-1 stock split, suggests either a parable of hubris or a stock ticker infected with witchcraft. Yet, as the company soars, its most intimate confidants-those who whisper in its ear-seem to be murmuring warnings into the wind.

In a rather reflective gesture, Nvidia’s board authorized a $60 billion addition to its share repurchase program, a maneuver that serves, much like the restructuring of a forgotten library, to reduce the outstanding shares and thereby elevate earnings per share over time. Yet, it is perhaps the presence of China, both a looming specter and an elusive potential, that defines the duality of Nvidia’s present state. The company’s story, with its victories and setbacks, reminds us of a greater truth: that to understand the present, one must look not only at the numbers, but also at the infinitely recursive labyrinth that is geopolitics.

Here’s the deal: Credo didn’t just post growth; they detonated it. Revenue for their fiscal Q1 of 2026? FOUR TIMES what it was last year. FOUR. Let that sink in while you’re sipping your lukewarm coffee and wondering if today’s going to be another dumpster fire of a trading day. We’re talking about $233 MILLION-up from a paltry $59 million in the same quarter last year. Product sales alone hit $217 million, which is basically the GDP of a small country. IP licensing? That went from $2.4 million to $6 million. Not as flashy, but still respectable enough to make Wall Street analysts blink twice.

Now, when Guggenheim Securities’ Brad Canino rode into town Wednesday after market hours, he didn’t just hang his hat on Relay’s porch-he declared it a “Buy” with a $15 price target that stretches nearly four times the current share price. That’s the sort of optimism that makes even the weariest investor perk up like a hound dog catching a whiff of fresh game. The analyst dubbed it his firm’s “Best Idea,” which is Wall Street’s way of saying “bet your bottom dollar, but keep your boots by the door.”