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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Mid-Morning -- August 26, 2026

Locator: 51550COMPUTE.

Tim Curry: age 80, dies. 

Compute: a new asset class. What an exciting time to be alive!

  • timeline
    • Jensen Huang introduced the asset without knowing it.
    • Larry Ellison appeared to have stumbled into it.
    • Becky Quick asked the question -- August 2026.
    • Everyone now talking about it today.
  • "Compute" is a new financial asset class.  
  • other financial asset classes:
    • equities
    • bonds
    • real estate
    • gold
    • oil
    • crypto (bitcoin, others
    • compute 

Think of it this way:

  • the price of oil (WTI, Brent) great affects 100's (maybe 1,000s) of other companies (and the general economy
  • the quarterly earnings of NVDA will affect 100's of other companies, and the general economy
    • some say Jensen Huang / Nvidia is the Federal chief of AI 

Apple

  • more and more it looks like Apple is the gatekeeper:
  • the app for "everything" 
  • 2.5 billion  
  • big announcement coming September 9, 2026
  • up nicely today but well off it's recent highs

AAPL, ticker