🚀 AI Stocks Launch Markets to Orbit While Tesla Trips Over a Charging Cable

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Wall Street just picked its new favorite child—and it’s wearing an AI badge, not a SpaceX jumpsuit.

In a week that felt more like a tech-themed soap opera than a market cycle, investors watched the S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch fresh all-time highs, propelled by AI darlings Nvidia, Alphabet, AMD, and Broadcom. The logic? If it plugs into the cloud and whispers the word “inference,” it must be worth another 10% premium.

Alphabet lit the fuse with better-than-expected earnings and an upbeat forecast, noting that cloud AI demand is growing faster than a YouTube ad you can’t skip. Nvidia, which now trades like it’s been elected President of Earth, continued its gravity-defying ascent. Even AMD and Broadcom joined the ride, because if you can spell “semiconductor,” you're halfway to a trillion-dollar valuation.

Meanwhile, Tesla investors got smacked with a sobering reminder: not all tech is invincible.

⚡ Tesla's Power Flickers

On Wednesday, Tesla reported a 23% drop in year-over-year earnings per share, sending its stock tumbling 8.2%. The company warned of “a few tough quarters ahead,” citing a looming expiration of EV tax credits and persistent pricing pressures. Elon Musk, never one to understate a crisis (or overstate a delivery schedule), said demand would likely suffer once U.S. incentives fade this September.

The market reaction was swift and cold. Investors, who once priced Tesla like it had solved transportation, energy, and consciousness itself, responded as if someone had unplugged the gigafactory mid-charge.

For context:

• Tesla’s gross margins fell.

• Delivery growth has stalled relative to expectations.

• Full autonomy, promised every year since 2016, still requires drivers to, inconveniently, drive.

So while Nvidia is busy turning data centers into literal money printers, Tesla is looking more like a used-car dealer with rocket science branding.

This week’s tale isn’t just about earnings—it’s about narratives. AI is the new crypto, cloud is the new frontier, and “scalable inference workloads” is the new “move fast and break things.” If you’re selling picks and shovels to the algorithmic gold rush, you’re in. If you're selling EVs during an election year with shrinking tax perks, you're in trouble.

Nvidia stock is now up over 25% year-to-date.
Tesla is down 15% year-to-date.

📉 Musk vs. Moore's Law

In a surreal twist of fate, Elon Musk—once the undisputed poster child of tech-fueled valuation—has been temporarily benched by the very trend he helped popularize: irrationally exuberant innovation. The market seems to have decided that training a large language model is more valuable than revolutionizing transportation. At least in the next quarter.

Of course, this doesn’t mean Tesla is doomed. Just that, for now, Wall Street prefers chips over cars, servers over sedans, and the promise of infinite AI utility over the reality of EV margins.

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