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Nvidia's Jensen Huang is cementing his role as Washington's go-to voice on artificial intelligence, emerging as one of the Trump administration's closest allies in the AI safety debate. As CEO of the world's most valuable company, Huang carries the kind of institutional weight that earns a seat at the table when policy gets written, and right now that table matters enormously.
Shifting to Berkshire Hathaway, Greg Abel, Warren Buffett's chosen successor, recently deployed four point two billion dollars into Berkshire's own stock through share repurchases, a pointed signal of confidence in the conglomerate's intrinsic value. It wasn't Apple, it wasn't a new position — it was a bet on the house itself, and that tells you something about where Abel sees value heading into year-end.
And SpaceX investors have a key date approaching as a December lock-up expiration opens the door for insiders to sell a significant block of shares. Three things will determine the pressure on valuation: the pace of insider selling, secondary market liquidity, and whether institutional appetite can absorb the supply without repricing the stock meaningfully lower.
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