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Nvidia is making a six billion dollar bet on open-source artificial intelligence, acquiring Poolside's model factory in a deal that signals Jensen Huang's conviction that cheaper, widely available AI will drive chip demand higher, not lower. A Goldman Sachs report backs that logic, arguing broad AI adoption ultimately outweighs any margin pressure at the frontier labs.
Turning to Washington and the bond market, Treasury Secretary Bessent's move to increase debt purchases is putting him on a direct collision course with the Federal Reserve. With incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh already signaling a hawkish posture on inflation, Treasury flooding the market with additional supply risks undermining that effort and complicating the rate outlook for fixed income investors.
And in a story worth watching for what it says about global capital flows, private banks across Europe are in an aggressive bidding war to serve a new generation of wealthy Italians, a cohort largely created by a decade of private equity activity in the country. It's a reminder that where buyout firms plant seeds, wealth managers eventually harvest.
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