The show and its hosts
Compound’s What Are Your Thoughts, hosted by Josh Brown and Michael Batnick, reviews Apple and Palantir earnings and the tech-stock sell-off. Original English title: The Death of AI Has Been Greatly Exaggerated | WAYT?. The subtitles cover 0:00–65:36; this article summarizes the full discussion.
Key takeaways
- Apple’s earnings call was the starting point for a discussion of the market’s reaction after earnings and whether analyst optimism had peaked. 11:52
- The show discusses investors hedging their AI exposure, including hedging within XLK, illustrating active risk management during the sell-off rather than a one-way flight. 15:18
- Concerns about AI spending at companies including Meta and OpenAI’s financing difficulties are important background to the show’s discussion of divergence in the AI trade. 12:36
- The show devotes attention to the return of the HALO trade, contrasting Apple’s unexpected resilience with concerns about Meta’s AI spending. 35:43
Background and notes
Compound’s What Are Your Thoughts reviews Apple and Palantir earnings, the tech-stock sell-off, the HALO trade, Apple’s resilience, concerns about Meta’s AI spending, and OpenAI’s financing difficulties. The subtitles cover 0:00–65:36; this article summarizes the full discussion. The views and timestamps are paraphrased from the original subtitles; each timestamp marks the beginning of the corresponding passage.