Thursday, January 22, 2026

Davos: Tech Execs Sound More Bullish Than Ever -- Barron's -- January 22, 2026

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Micron: to buy a chip plant for $1.8 billion. Link here

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Amazon

Amazon: hits back at Walmart with new megastore; it won't be easy. Link to Barron's.  
 

  • location raises more questions than answers: 

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Barron's: Tech Execs Remain More Bullish Than Ever 

Link here

Four takeaways:

  • early innings; pushing back on "AI bubble" narrative
    • almost impossible eve to rent a Nvidia GPU these days
    • Larry Ellison's (Oracle's) business model
  • AI demand is still incredibly strong
  • arguing against large job losses
  • enterprises now ramping up whereas before it was all consumer-driven

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Folks Using Chatbots To Manage Their Portfolios

I saw this coming. Link here

Chatbots being compared, top five, in order of performance:

  • Grok 4 (x)
  • Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic)
  • Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) -- Anthropic's 4.5 flagship model
  • Deepseek V3
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google)
  • GPT 5.2 (OpenAI)
  • GPT 5.1 (OpenAI)
  • Owen 3 (Alibaba)