Day: August 18, 2026

Applied Materials revenue rose 15% sequentially to a record $9.1B, with spending growing slower than the top line.

Front-end equipment is an early read on fab capacity, and this pace confirms the semiconductor build-out is still widening. $AMAT

Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reportedly reached $65 billion in July, ahead of a planned IPO.

Morgan Stanley $MS, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are reportedly working on the listing, which could come as soon as this fall.

$META fell 3.8% to $547.50 as an Oakland trial opened, with 29 state AGs alleging Facebook and Instagram were designed to drive compulsive use in young users.

Meta pegs max exposure near $1.4 trillion, close to its market cap, but a lawyer put it nearer $193 billion.

$12.7 trillion. That is Futurum's new number for cumulative AI capex, with chips alone near $5 trillion by the end of the decade.

Episode 52 breaks down why the dollars keep rotating between constraints: memory, power, compute, and now capital itself.

Bank of America lifted its hyperscaler AI infrastructure estimate 17% in a single month, to $3.6T through 2028.

The pace of the upward revisions matters more than the headline number: forecasters are still chasing demand, not capping it. $BAC

Amazon's Anthropic stake is now marked at $190B, up from $60B in Q4 2025 and a 214% gain in three quarters.

The strategic value compounds as Anthropic trains and runs inference on AWS silicon, keeping the return inside Amazon's own stack. $AMZN

"They're growing at a constant 50% plus rate, but people are worried if it's too good to be true." -@StockSavvyShay

That question opens the $APP deep dive with @StockMarketNerd.

$NBIS is showing just how tight AI compute still is as its first Blackwell capacity auction cleared 15% above the company’s previous record price and management says it could already sell out planned 2027 capacity today.

That scarcity is translating directly into pricing power

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