123 million shares! NVIDIA discloses its SpaceX holdings for the first time, becoming the latter's sixth-largest shareholder

① NVIDIA disclosed for the first time on Friday (local time) that it held nearly 123 million shares of SpaceX as of the end of the second quarter this year; ② This further underscores the intricate financial relationships between the chipmaker and some of its largest customers.

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In the final month before the liquidation event, the "AI Stock God" increased positions in Micron and SanDisk.

Regulatory filings show that Situational Awareness significantly increased its holdings in memory chip makers Micron Technology and SanDisk during the second quarter. The combined position in these two companies amounted to approximately $11 billion, representing about one-quarter of the fund's net assets at the time. Meanwhile, the fund also reduced its short option positions in NVIDIA, Broadcom, and AMD.

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"AI-Driven Financial Innovation": CDO vs. CCO = 2008 vs. 2026?

The current AI boom is not fundamentally a technology cycle, but rather a credit and real estate cycle driven by the concept of "compute as collateral" (CCO). NVIDIA and private sector giants have established a $500 billion financing platform to securitize and distribute risk. Given that the inflection point in the growth rate of capital expenditure (second derivative) among hyperscale cloud providers has already emerged, and key borrowers such as OpenAI are overly reliant on refinancing, this credit architecture—highly isomorphic to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis—is highly susceptible to fracturing amid slowing growth.

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NBIS, SMCI, CRWV and More: 5 Stocks Investors Couldn't Stop Buzzing About This Week

Retail investors talked up five hot stocks during the week (Aug. 10 to Aug. 14) on X and Reddit's r/WallStreetBets, driven by retail hype, earnings, AI infrastructure momentum, and corporate news

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U.S. Market Close | Trump threatens to declare the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. territory; three major indices close slightly lower. Optical communication stocks strengthen: AAOI surges 15%, Lumentum rises over 5%; drone stock UMAC jumps 25%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.2%, the S&P 500 Index declined 0.17%, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.28%. Most large-cap technology stocks retreated, with the Mag 7 Index down 0.17% and Amazon falling nearly 1%. SpaceX shares also dipped by close to 1%. In contrast, memory chip stocks broadly rose against the trend: SanDisk surged 7.39%, bringing its weekly gain to 35.38%; AMD advanced 6.50%; and NEBIUS climbed 8.88%. Meanwhile, Applied Materials and Broadcom each fell more than 5%.

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Express News | NVIDIA discloses $21 billion stake in SpaceX

According to its filing documents, NVIDIA disclosed holdings of SpaceX shares valued at $20.97 billion. NVIDIA also disclosed holdings of Intel shares valued at approximately $30 billion.

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