Berkshire's Q2 net profit doubled, with its single-quarter share repurchase amount reaching the largest in five years, and Google entered its top five holdings.

In the second quarter, Berkshire Hathaway repurchased $4.527 billion of its own shares, compared to approximately $235 million in the first quarter. In the first half of the year, the company repurchased a total of approximately $47.6 billion, with the vast majority occurring in the second quarter. Additionally, the company’s net purchases of equities in the second quarter amounted to approximately $19.8 billion, including about $10 billion spent to acquire Alphabet common stock, which propelled Google into Berkshire’s top five holdings.

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As AI model-related security incidents continue to rise, the cybersecurity industry is poised for a paradigm shift in its technological approach.

① OpenAI announced that it has paused certain development activities related to its next-generation AI model, Astra, following an assessment indicating the potential for the model to possess capabilities enabling critical-level cyberattacks; ② The cybersecurity industry is evolving from 'AI-assisted security' to 'AI-native security': security products are no longer treating AI as an add-on feature, but are deeply integrating large-model reasoning capabilities, knowledge graph-based correlation analysis, and autonomous agent decision-making into the core of their security architectures.

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NVIDIA targets the power provider behind OpenAI’s 'Stargate,' investing $3 billion for a direct stake

NVIDIA is reportedly planning to invest up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure provider that supplies electricity to OpenAI’s 'Stargate' AI campus and has already secured 4 gigawatts of power capacity in Texas. The initial $2 billion investment would grant NVIDIA approximately a 20% stake, which would increase to around 30% following additional funding.

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After AGI, Silicon Valley has found another justification for capital expenditure.

① The Chief Strategy Officer of Google DeepMind stated that RSI is becoming the core investment rationale behind AI capital expenditures. ② Both OpenAI and Anthropic have already placed bets on this direction. ③ “The arrival of RSI may come sooner than most institutions anticipate.”

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AAOI's earnings surged, lifting the entire optical communications sector.

AAOI reported second-quarter revenue of $191.9 million, an 86% year-over-year increase, with its data center business surpassing the $100 million mark for the first time. This strong performance drove a collective rally in shares of optical communications companies including Coherent, Lumentum, and Corning. Analysts view AAOI's better-than-expected results as a positive indicator for Lumentum and Coherent, both of which have significant exposure to AI data center optical interconnects and are scheduled to release their earnings reports next week.

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