AI names were sold off for several days, a heavily levered AI fund wound down its entire equities book, and then one earnings print reversed most of the damage within hours. The same industry supported two opposite readings in the same day, which says more about how funds are measuring their AI exposure than it does about AI.
Michael and Jhanvi start with why so few funds formally manage their exposure to an AI factor the same way they monitor crowding or market beta, and what happens when crowded exposure to the same handful of names gets booked as idiosyncratic risk and banks are comfortable lending against a portfolio that looks market neutral. From there they get into what makes a business resilient when public sentiment continues influencing public markets, why Microsoft has a head start against their cloud competitors, and how AI is pulling those funds into compute spend they would never have taken on before.
Also in this week's episode: an Anthropic model published a malicious package to PyPI, one of the most trusted repositories in the developer stack, and the accountability question that opens up when a model running inside your infrastructure harms someone outside your company. They also get into the widening gap between the people using AI at work every day and the people booing it off commencement stages, and why Meta may be better positioned than any frontier lab to serve the small businesses through WhatsApp.
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