How do you produce a ball of wool? Pull on the thread of a woollen jumper! What was once a fine, handmade piece of clothing can quickly become a jumbled mess on the floor, and all one has to do is pull on the thread.

I wonder whether that’s a fitting metaphor for what’s going on in equity markets right now. Continue…

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Investors around the world are desperately trying to discern the future, and in particular, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on it.

On the one hand, you have the hyperscalers warning of an apocalyptic future involving mass layoffs, business collapse and the creation of an omnipotent AI god.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says we’re nearing “the exponential”, where AI generates trillions of dollars and the economy grows 10-20 per cent a year. At the same time, Amodei says this new force with God-like abilities, requires regulation around “AI safety.” Continue…

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This week on ABC Statewide Drive, I spoke about how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping sharemarkets, prompting investors to reassess which business models are likely to benefit and which may face disruption.

Major technological shifts tend to reshape markets in unpredictable ways. In times like these, broad diversification and exposure to strategies that are uncorrelated to markets may help build more resilient portfolios. Continue…

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I joined Juliette Saly on Ausbiz to discuss how AI-generated content is becoming so hyper realistic that it is increasingly difficult to distinguish from reality.

For investors, this pace of improvement highlights both the extraordinary power of the technology and the speed at which competitive advantages can erode. If breakthroughs are emerging globally and alternative approaches reduce reliance on massive chip and data centre buildouts, the dominance and pricing power currently assumed for some AI leaders may not prove as durable as markets expect. Continue…

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It’s a shot across the bow. In recent weeks, short, sharp sell-offs across the largest global artificial intelligence (AI) hyperscalers have woken investors from their technology and AI-inspired slumber. In just six trading sessions, Microsoft fell 18 per cent. Meanwhile, Amazon has declined 14 per cent in eight sessions, and Google parent Alphabet has fallen 8 per cent in just four sessions. Elsewhere, Meta fell 10 per cent, and Tesla has declined almost 12 per cent in 10 trading sessions.

This article was first published in The Australian on 11 February 2026. Continue…

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Recognising this isn’t the first time I have expressed concern about the ultimate fate of humans in an artificial intelligence (AI) world, I pondered several AI-related questions over the weekend. 

The first is that if many, and maybe most, of us are using AI already – and some very effectively – with existing infrastructure, how many more data centres do we really need? Flipping the question, if the competition among AI agent providers is driving the cost of AI access down to zero – many use Google’s Gemini daily, and it costs nothing – for what purpose are a thousand more data centres really being built?

The second question is related: AI tools are already so ubiquitous and cheap they amount to a commodity. Consequently, AI infrastructure players may believe that to make any money, they’ll have to race to be the first to create something dangerously powerful. Continue…

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Another week, another artificial intelligence (AI) powered disruption. This time, two big announcements from China that may threaten the valuations of the big U.S. hardware-centric tech giants. 

The news

First, the release of AI-produced hyper-realistic movie-quality video from the Chinese company ByteDance-owned AI Seedance 2.0 has gone viral and simultaneously rocked Hollywood by completely reframing what the movie industry thought was possible. Continue…

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For years, the financial markets operated under a “lower for longer” mantra that pushed investors further and further out on the risk curve. Starting with bonds, then equities, as a tidal wave of money pushed prices higher, investors were forced to consider alternatives such as private equity, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible-tokens (NFTs), and collectables. But as the tide of cheap liquidity slows, we are witnessing a classic sequence of correction. It begins at the most speculative fringes – the “canaries in the coal mine.” We’ve seen Bitcoin tumble from its speculative heights and the tech-heavy NASDAQ ease as investors quietly take money off the table, often driven by broader, unarticulated fears of a structural shift in liquidity and the global economy. Continue…

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