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Semiconductors are 150 percent higher over the last twelve months. That puts the sector four standard deviations above its long-run mean.
Most traders see that statistic and run for the exits.
Gianni Di Poce pulled the historical comparisons this morning and the data tells a different story.
The same setup hit in 2003 and the sector tacked on another 21 percent over three months. When it appeared again in 2021, chips ran another 37 percent over nine months.
Gianni compares the current market to 1998 during the dot-com run. The melt-up has serious room before the reckoning arrives.
In today’s free session replay, you’ll discover:
Why the top 10 percent of households drive 50 percent of all consumer spending. This is the data that explains how the bull market continues even while sentiment craters for everyone earning under 100 thousand. The people moving markets are not the people losing sleep over groceries.
The historical signal behind the recent six-week win streak.Markets finish higher 90 percent of the time twelve months later after this setup. The average gain is 17 percent. The math favors more upside even when the rally feels stretched.
Why technology overtaking energy across every timeframe matters. Tech now leads on weekly, monthly, year-to-date, and one-year measures. Sector dominance like that precedes the parabolic phase of every major bull market.
The roaring twenties comparison that frames the rest of this decade. Gianni thinks technology could grow to 60 or 70 percent of the S&P 500 before the bubble pops. After that comes a lost decade where bonds become the asset of choice.
The bigger picture is about who actually owns the stocks. Wall Street has not reflected Main Street for decades.
The wealthy own equities and equities keep going up. The party continues as long as the structure holds.
Strength compounds before it breaks. Today’s session gives you the historical framework to read exactly where we are in the cycle.
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Blake Young just closed 12 months of live trading with 453 winning trades, 11 winning months out of 12, and a $5,000 account compounded to $14,459 in net profit.
In 25 years at this firm I have never put a track record like that in front of you, and Blake walks through every month of it in the replay.
He also breaks down the March 12th trade, the morning the Dow dropped 739 points and his account still finished green before lunch.
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Brandon Chapman just flagged a volatility signal screaming correction.
The VIX 3-month to VIX ratio hit 1.2 today. Skew is sitting at 130.
Together those readings point to a 5% to 10% correction in the S&P 500 within the next 30 days.
Brandon walked through the catalyst lineup tonight. CPI hits Tuesday. PPI prints Wednesday. Core retail sales land Friday.
Then NVIDIA reports earnings next week.
That report is the real pivot point. Dispersion rocketed up today back to the same levels we saw heading into Mag Seven earnings.
Here is what Brandon is watching in tonight’s video:
SPY 740 is a massive call wall holding price down. Brandon bought a 740/738 put spread for 50 cents and sold it for a buck. He doubled his money intraday as price reversed off the gamma level.
VIX expiration Wednesday and monthly expiration Friday set up a volatility expansion. Brandon expects the real move to accelerate after NVIDIA reports next week.
Options flow is turning bearish in cyclicals and financials. Nike saw 8,700 contracts bought on the June 5th 42 puts. Whirlpool printed 13,000 contracts on the September 18th $30 puts.
Wells Fargo and JP Morgan are absorbing put pressure. XLF is sitting on support and a break opens the door back to 49.
Brandon’s downside math on a post-NVIDIA unwind is a 5% drop on the S&P, 10% on the Mag Seven, and 20% on NVIDIA itself.
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The U.S. dollar index (DXY) is down about 10% since it reached $109.64 in early January 2025. As of May 6, the greenback is trading at a level that investors haven’t seen since 2022. It’s important for investors to answer two questions. Why is it happening and how can they profit from this move?
The first question is simple, but nuanced. However, knowing the why makes the question of how to profit simple to answer.
A key reason for the dollar’s decline is the Trump administration’s focus on restructuring the global trade system. The idea is that the U.S. dollar has been overvalued for decades, leading to chronic trade deficits and the erosion of U.S. manufacturing to countries like China.
Supporting that thinking, the U.S. goods trade deficit hit a record $1.2 trillion in 2024. That was 175% larger than in 2000.
That’s a structural reason for the dollar’s slide. But there are other reasons. First, the Federal Reserve began lowering interest rates at the end of 2024. This has reduced the attractiveness of U.S. debt.
Second, resilient global growth has dampened demand for dollar assets as a safe haven. Here’s how that works. Foreign central banks and institutional investors have been selling U.S. Treasury bonds (dollar-denominated assets) to raise capital to deploy in their own markets.
When foreign holders sell Treasuries, they receive dollars—and when they convert those dollars back into their home currencies to invest locally, it puts downward pressure on the dollar and upward pressure on their own currency.
Analysts anticipate the next few years will see a secular bear market for the dollar, driven by investors diversifying away from dollar-denominated securities and by central banks reducing their Treasury holdings.
Let These 2 Blue-Chip Stocks Do the Heavy Lifting
One area that investors could consider building a position to benefit from this dynamic is heavy machinery and industrials. Both of these markets are getting a lift in the United States due to the onshoring of manufacturing, the data center buildout, and the need to rebuild national infrastructure.
The United States also exports over $57 billion in machinery each year. Companies in this space are already seeing benefits.
Take Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) for example. Nearly half of the company’s revenue comes from outside North America. That makes the benefit of a weaker dollar self-explanatory.
Pricing equipment in a company’s local currency becomes meaningfully cheaper without Caterpillar having to sacrifice margins.
And as the company’s Q1 2026 earnings report made clear, the long-term bull case is also rooted in the United States. Caterpillar is seeing heavy demand for its heavy equipment to build out data centers, and to modernize the nation’s infrastructure.
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is in a similar position. The company generates about 40% of its revenue outside the United States. It has a particularly strong presence in Latin America, which accounts for over $5.5 billion in annual sales.
The dollar tailwind is also helping Deere navigate a cyclical downturn that began in its 2024 fiscal year. DE has already absorbed most of that bad news, and the company is likely to see additional benefits as precision agriculture technology, Deere’s biggest long-term bet, continues to attract buyers regardless of where the dollar trades.
When the SpaceX IPO launches, most retail investors will be locked out. The banks, funds, and insiders get in early – while everyone else waits on the sidelines.
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This Steel Stock Stands Out
Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE)tells a different but complementary story. As the largest steel producer in the United States, Nucor doesn’t generate the overseas revenue that Caterpillar and Deere do. Its advantage from a weaker dollar is more indirect.
Steel is a globally traded commodity priced in dollars. When the dollar falls, U.S.-produced steel becomes cheaper for foreign buyers and more competitive against imports on the domestic market.
Foreign steel arriving in American ports, often from cheaper producers in Asia and Europe, becomes relatively more expensive in dollar terms. That gives Nucor a pricing cushion that doesn’t require it to cut costs or chase volume.
What makes Nucor particularly attractive here is its efficiency story.
The company uses electric arc furnaces powered by recycled scrap steel—a process that is far cheaper and more flexible than the traditional blast furnace model used by most global competitors.
The longer-term demand picture is also building quietly. Data centers require enormous amounts of structural steel. So does grid expansion, bridge replacement, and the kind of industrial reshoring the current administration is actively trying to accelerate. Nucor is already one of the primary domestic suppliers of rebar—the reinforcing steel that goes into essentially every large construction project in America,
Could the Dollar Reverse Course?
There’s a belief by some economists that the flight away from U.S. Treasuries will create demand for the dollar. For example, according to J.P. Morgan, each 1-percentage-point decline in foreign holdings relative to GDP, which equates to roughly $300 billion in Treasuries, would push yields higher by more than 33 basis points. That means if and when these same countries need to rebuild dollar reserves or re-enter U.S. assets, the buying pressure could be significant.
If that’s the case, the currency tailwind for these stocks could reverse. However, each name has a bull case beyond the dollar that makes them attractive choices to hold in a long-term portfolio.
📊 BONUS: BONUS: MU up 38%. Same chart. Different decade.
Micron’s 38% Week Has Me Looking at Applied Materials Thursday
The memory supercycle bull case is real. That’s not the same as the valuation being right.
MU closed at $746.81 Friday. Up 38% on the week — best weekly gain since December 2008, when the stock was trading below five bucks. In December 2008 the only buyers were people who thought it couldn’t get worse. They were right, and the trade was obvious in hindsight. What’s less obvious is what you do with a stock that’s up 124% year-to-date and now carries an $840 billion market cap going into a week where the equipment company reports Thursday.
The bull case is real. Micron told investors last quarter that demand for high-bandwidth memory far exceeds what they can currently supply. SanDisk posted Q3 revenue up 251% year-over-year. SK Hynix is letting hyperscalers pre-fund dedicated production capacity rather than building on spec. The DRAM ETF launched in April and gained roughly 90% before most people realized it existed. Order books stretch into 2027. None of that is manufactured narrative. I’m not dismissing those numbers.
What I keep coming back to is 1999. Cisco Systems was the most valuable company in the world. The networking buildout was real — fiber infrastructure spending was genuinely exploding, enterprise capital was flowing, Cisco’s revenues were real. The gap between what the buildout required and what it could actually return — that part turned out to be fiction. I’m not saying memory in 2026 ends the same way. I’m saying the chart looks familiar, the sentiment looks familiar, and the question is different from whether the demand is real.
The argument for why this cycle is different is supply discipline. Memory manufacturers burned through three down-cycles — 2015, 2018, 2022 — and learned something. SK Hynix isn’t building speculatively. Micron is allocating capacity to committed customers rather than racing ahead of demand. That structural change is real and it matters to the duration of the upcycle. But supply discipline at the company level and a rational valuation at $840 billion are two different conversations, and the market is only having one of them right now.
“Order books stretched to 2027 is exactly what fiber company CFOs were saying in 1999. Most of that backlog was never shipped.”
Tom Lee has been bullish on memory all year. Goldman Sachs just upgraded the sector last week — and Goldman’s upgrades have historically tended to mark the midpoint of moves, not the beginning. Cathie Wood’s ARKK started accumulating SanDisk last month. When those three line up on the same trade, I don’t add. I watch what the equipment companies are reporting. Which is why Thursday matters more than the next two Micron headlines combined.
What Applied Materials Tells You Before the Market Does
Applied Materials reports Thursday May 14 after the close. AMAT sells the equipment that builds the chips. They see the order book before anyone else — what foundries are actually committing CapEx to, what HBM tooling timelines look like, whether the demand stretching into 2027 is backed by purchase orders or by phone calls someone can walk back. The equity market usually figures out what AMAT already knows about six months later.
I’ve been wrong calling cycle tops before. In March 2020 I said the COVID rebound was moving too fast and missed two months of the most aggressive V-shaped recovery I’d seen. The memory supply-demand fundamentals are genuinely the best they’ve looked in this company’s history. But 38% in a week, $840 billion market cap, going into an earnings report from the company that can confirm or crack the demand thesis — that’s not the moment I’m comfortable adding on the open Monday. The bond market is telling you something too. Watch the 2-year this week.
What to watch: Applied Materials (AMAT) reports Thursday May 14 after the close. Watch specifically for HBM tooling order language and the Q3 revenue guidance range. If AMAT confirms demand integrity through 2027 with committed purchase order language, the Micron thesis gets real validation. If the guide softens — even if just the tone around 2027 visibility softens — the market won’t take six months to reprice this.
— David Mercer, Senior Market Analyst
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Another Sunday, another “almost-deal” with Iran…
Iran submitted its formal response to the latest U.S. peace proposal yesterday afternoon. Last night, President Trump rejected it… calling it “totally unacceptable.”
As I write, traders are mostly shrugging at the news. The S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 are unchanged heading into the week. Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, is above $104 a barrel – well off last week’s lows around $96.
If you’ve been following this saga, you’re probably shrugging, too. We’ve seen peace deals unravel repeatedly for months now. The flat open suggests the same confusion we’ve been dealing with the whole time.
And good luck if you’re trying to trade stocks based on Iran war headlines. It’s like running on a treadmill – you’re putting in a whole lot of effort not to go anywhere.
But one trader stopped running on the news treadmill four decades ago.
And right now, he’s watching one key warning signaling the end of the miraculous recovery rally.
It comes from 40-year trading veteran Jeff Clark…
Jeff Clark first cut his teeth as an options trader in the early 1980s.
By 23, he was managing money for some of the wealthiest families in Northern California.
By 42, he had built and sold his own brokerage firm and “retired”… Not from trading, but from the client meetings and strategy sessions that bored him to tears.
He started sharing his ideas with a small group of like-minded traders. And not long after, he started running The Short Report as one of the most popular analysts at Stansberry Research.
Over the past decade, Jeff’s started up his own outfit under the Jeff Clark Trader banner. And last year, he joined us here at TradeSmith.
We brought Jeff on not just for his expertise in the options markets and his technical know-how, but because he knows how to spot the early signs of a shifting trend.
Take Jeff’s recent look at the high-yield corporate bond market – better known as junk bonds. These are bonds issued by companies with weaker credit ratings, so they pay higher interest to compensate investors for the extra risk. Jeff has been pointing his subscribers to one specific junk bond ETF for the past two weeks: the iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG).
Here’s what he told his readers in a recent issue of Market Minute, his free morning column:
High-yield corporate bonds enjoyed a fantastic rally in April. The iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) gained 3% from its bottom in late March to its mid-April high. That’s a phenomenal move for a bond fund.
[The] action in high-yield bonds leads the action in the stock market by anywhere from two days to two weeks. That’s because junk bonds show us investors’ appetite for risk.
In a “risk-on” environment – where investors are willing to chase prices higher – high-yield bonds rally first. When the environment shifts to “risk off” and investors start pulling money out of the markets, junk bonds are among the first assets to get sold.
Jeff goes on to point out HYG has been declining for the past two weeks. The short-term trend has now turned bearish – with the average price of HYG over the past couple of weeks now lower than it was a few weeks back.
Meanwhile, the S&P 500 keeps hitting new highs.
Jeff has seen this divergence before. The last time it showed up was in mid-February, when HYG started rolling over while the S&P held near its top. That was the early warning for the March stock market decline.
According to Jeff, junk bonds are giving us that warning once more.
That doesn’t mean Jeff is heading for the exits.
Quite the opposite – this is exactly the kind of market he’s spent 40 years learning to trade.
Jeff’s “12 Trades to $1 Million Challenge” goes live Thursday…
By his own admission, Jeff is a conservative, low-risk options trader.
That means he likes to use options to generate income and make small, controlled speculations. He also likes to take profits off the table rather than let them ride.
That approach has kept him in the game for over 40 years.
But Jeff’s noticed something about the current market that has him willing to attempt something he’s never tried before.
He calls it a “market disruption window.”
These are rare stretches when the normal rules of the market temporarily break down. Stocks move 20% or 30% in a single session. Sectors reprice overnight. Companies that should be steady become volatile. Companies that should be punished start ripping higher.
We’ve been living inside one of these windows for months. The early 2026 selloff. The April rip higher. The Iran headlines whipping markets in both directions. The AI repricing that’s wiped hundreds of billions off software stocks in single sessions.
These windows are awful times to be a buy-and-hold investor – especially if you own the unlucky stocks that get caught in the crossfire. Even if you’ve got the stomach to hold through such a bout of volatility, it’s not comfortable.
But Jeff thrives in disruption windows like this.
In fact, Jeff identified just two prior windows in his trading record where conditions looked like this.
In both, he ran win streaks long enough that someone rolling a single $5,000 stake from one trade into the next would have ended up with seven figures.
The first was during the 2023 banking crisis. In just nine trades, following his guidance would’ve turned $5,000 into $1.3 million.
The second was during the AI repricing of 2025. Twelve trades would’ve turned $5,000 into $2.6 million.
Jeff thinks another one of those windows is set to start today. And the first warning out of the junk bonds sounds to him like the starting gun.
Now, Jeff will be the first to tell you that the odds of hitting the full $1 million target are low even in the best conditions, and any trading carries real risk of loss.
But the pattern is consistent enough – and the conditions in front of us close enough – that he wants to attempt the same thing again.
This time, on purpose, with readers alongside him.
He’s calling it the 12 Trades to $1 Million Challenge. The goal: Roll a small starting stake from one well-timed options trade into the next, no more than 12 trades total, in six months or less.
Jeff is going live with the full plan onThursday, May 14 at 10 a.m. ET. He’ll walk through the strategy, the two prior streaks trade by trade, and the specific setups he’s watching right now.
This is the only time he plans to walk through the full strategy publicly. After Thursday, the playbook stays inside the Challenge.
I advise you to attend, and especially to sign up for our free VIP reminder service. Once you do, you’ll get access to Jeff’s free convergence and divergence tool as well as access to his exclusive Delta Direct blog until the day of the event, so don’t wait.
Our AI Signals system flagged a critical-element trade just before this run-up…
Now, while Jeff watches the bond market for warning signs, our AI-powered Signals system has been finding plenty of high-probability trades on the long side.
Just last Monday, May 4, we covered one of Signals’ top setups heading into the week: mining giant Freeport-McMoRan (FCX).
Quick refresher on how Signals works: Our AI-powered trading system doesn’t analyze balance sheets, read earnings reports, or follow news headlines. It scans stocks’ historical data for tiny anomalies – and finds statistical connections between them that no human analyst would catch.
Think of it like a thumbprint. Every great trade has one – a unique alignment of technical indicators, price patterns, and market conditions that has shown up before. When those factors line up again, the system flags a high-probability setup.
The signal that fired on FCX was a Sprint signal. It triggers when a stock pulls back briefly during an otherwise strong uptrend – the kind of dip that creates a lower-risk entry before the next leg higher. It exits automatically once the stock rises 6% or after 21 trading days, whichever comes first.
We highlighted the trade because the backdrop was unusually clean. Freeport is one of the world’s largest producers of copper, gold, and molybdenum – and molybdenum is a key catalyst in petroleum refining, used to remove sulfur from heavy crude oil.
Freeport is one of the few major Western producers of it – so when demand for refining heavy crude rises, demand for Freeport’s molybdenum tends to follow.
Earlier this spring, the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro reopened the door for Venezuelan oil exports. And Venezuelan crude – while first known for being vast in quantity – is also some of the heaviest, most sulfur-rich oil on the planet. That gives molybdenum demand a clear tailwind.
On top of that, copper itself was setting up for a record run.
Since the signal fired, FCX is up more than 11%. The trade hit its 6% target and is now considered closed.
That’s how the system is built to work: a precise entry, a defined exit, and a clean close when the target is hit.
But the broader story behind the trade is just getting started.
TradeSmith CEO: This copper move is “glacier-like”…
This weekend, TradeSmith CEO Keith Kaplan posted on X about the broader copper trade — and why he believes the move is far from over.
In his post, Keith pointed out that copper just broke to record highs as supply constraints in Chile collide with demand from AI buildout, power grid upgrades, electric vehicles, and renewable energy. The Global X Copper Miners ETF (COPX) is now up 51% since Keith first recommended it back in September.
His point is that critical resource markets like copper don’t move in short bursts. They move in multi-year megatrends. As Keith put it:
Critical resource markets trend big. Their moves often last 5+ years and produce hundreds of percent in gains because supply takes a decade or more to come online. You cannot code a copper mine into existence. This is a glacier-like megatrend.
Mining legend Robert Friedland says humanity will need to mine as much copper over the next 18 years as it has over the past 10,000 years to sustain even modest economic growth.
Stocks like Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Southern Copper (SCCO), and Teck Resources (TECK) are all riding the same wave higher.
Keith posts insights like this regularly on X – unfiltered, ahead of the news cycle, direct from the CEO of one of the most data-driven investing platforms in the business.
Follow him at @KeithTradeSmith to see what he’s watching before it shows up anywhere else.
To building wealth beyond measure,
Michael Salvatore Editor, TradeSmith Daily
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Vines are often a visual symbol of overgrowth. They can wrap around a building’s exterior, growing and clinging to worn, cracked stone, creating fractures that let further destruction in.
In a similar way, AI is gradually weaving itself into daily life — reshaping how we research, how businesses operate, and ultimately how markets are structured.
That shift is accelerating with the rise of agentic AI, or what I call A-AI: systems capable of independently completing tasks, making decisions, and executing workflows with minimal human involvement.
We’re already seeing agentic AI’s vine-like tentacles reaching into critical areas, including financial institutions.
But overgrowth isn’t always destructive. Sometimes, it signals transformation.
Last week, both Anthropic and OpenAI announced plans to deploy agentic AI specifically for financial services.
OpenAI announced its collaboration with accounting firm PwC to build AI agents aimed at streamlining processes and meeting increasing demands in financial services. OpenAI says the goal is to build AI systems that can automate repetitive financial work, analyze information across multiple platforms, and help human teams make faster decisions.
By combining Codex and Workspace Agents with PwC’s finance expertise, OpenAI plans to roll out AI systems that can handle complex tasks across departments. The AI company presents this as a practical strategy for applying AI in real-world scenarios.
For its part, Anthropic announced the creation of 10 new AI agents specifically designed for banks and financial services companies. These agents will handle basic financial tasks like drafting credit memos and building pitchbooks.
Jonathan Pelosi, who leads Anthropic’s financial services division, says the company wants to narrow the gap between rapid AI development and the financial sector’s ability to adopt the technology effectively.
These finance-focused AI announcements came just before Anthropic partnered with Fidelity National Information Services to create AI-driven software that helps banks monitor accounts for any signs of financial crimes, making the process more efficient and secure.
We are witnessing AI become stronger, smarter, and faster. Its vines continue to creep along walls, reshaping entire business structures – this time, in financial services.
And I’ve identified one fintech company that’s already leveraging agentic AI to its advantage in the A-AI era, which I’ll share below.
But first, let’s take a look at what we covered here at Smart Money last week.
For nearly 50 years, quant investing legend Louis Navellier has built his reputation by identifying fast-growing companies before Wall Street fully catches on. Lately, Louis has been focused on one area of the market he believes could become especially important over the next several years: smaller-cap growth stocks positioned to benefit from a new Fed cycle and expanding AI-driven infrastructure spending.
Louis Navellier says the Fed shift on May 15 could compress years of market gains into months for a select group of stocks. It’s happened four times before. His 53-stock watchlist was created for this exact setup. Get the watchlist for free and learn more here.
There are still a handful of companies that look like Nvidia in late 2022 and SK Hynix in mid-2025. These firms produce crucial AI data center components and are underpriced simply because Wall Street hasn’t yet realized what shortages are about to happen from AI data center demand. Click here to learn more.
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The biggest future AI winners will likely be smaller, under-the-radar infrastructure companies solving real bottlenecks before Wall Street fully notices them – similar to how Bloom Energy quietly surged more than 1,100% as AI data-center power demand exploded.
Louis Navellier says the key is finding companies with improving fundamentals and early institutional buying before the broader market catches on to the next phase of the AI buildout. Read more here.
In this Wednesday Smart Money, we’re looking at a stock that highlights the limits of legacy tech companies struggling to adapt as A-AI accelerates. Then, I’ll break down an AI Applier that is successfully leveraging A-AI to strengthen its core business and gain a competitive advantage. Read on here.
How to Profit From A-AI
Block Inc. (XYZ) helps merchants transact over $200 billion annually. Its point-of-sale systems are found everywhere from farmers’ markets to national retail chains.
Thanks to Block’s sizable multi-year spending on both capital investments and acquisitions, the company has become one of the world’s leading fintech companies.
And the company has expanded to:
Peer-to-peer payments
Small business software
Buy now, pay later
E-commerce
Crypto
And now, AI.
Block recently made a controversial decision to cut a large portion of its workforce while aggressively adopting AI tools internally
Three months after that high-profile layoff announcement, Block reported gross-profit growth accelerating to 27% from 24%. First-quarter gross profit reached $2.9 billion, topping Wall Street expectations of $2.8 billion.
Chief Financial Officer Amrita Ahuja said that growth was driven in part by the company’s ability to develop and launch products more quickly.
And its internal AI tools are speeding up this workflow. The company’s open-source AI agent framework, called Goose, helps employees automate work and workflows.
Block has been prepared for this agentic AI shift.
Back in December, Block, OpenAI, and Anthropic, along with several other big tech players, launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation. The group was created to help companies build open-source AI agents that can work together using shared standards.
And the idea is for AI agents from different companies to work together using shared rules and protocols, similar to how the internet runs on open standards.
Anthropic contributed MCP (Model Context Protocol), which helps AI agents connect to tools and data. OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md, a format that tells coding agents how to behave inside software projects. And Block contributed Goose.
The next wave of AI winners will be the companies reorganizing themselves around AI agents.
Block is trying to position itself as one of the first major companies built around that model.
P.S. A new Fed regime is taking shape, and on May 13 at 1 p.m. Eastern, Louis Navellier will break down why this shift could trigger the next major wave of stock market winners. He’s identified 53 under-the-radar stocks already attracting institutional money… and when you sign up, you’ll get the full list, along with a free pick during his presentation. Save your spot here.
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