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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing back hard on AI job destruction fears, calling the narrative quote exactly backward. Huang argues AI automates tasks, not careers, pointing to radiology, law, and software engineering as fields where disruption drove growth rather than decline. It's a bullish frame from the man most invested in selling that future.
Shifting to Amazon, the e-commerce giant is overhauling its artificial intelligence strategy in a significant way, winding down most of its Nova in-house flagship models and reorganizing its AGI team following layoffs. SVP Peter DeSantis is narrowing the company's focus onto a new strategic direction, signaling that Amazon is choosing depth over breadth in a crowded and expensive AI race.
And in memory chip land, Micron has delivered a staggering six hundred seventy one percent run over the past year, prompting analysts to ask whether individual stock risk now outweighs the upside. The conversation is shifting toward diversified exposure through memory-focused AI exchange traded funds as valuations at current levels demand a harder look at concentration risk.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
