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Analyst boosts Google price target, saying it should be the most valuable company on the planet

Google is not the most valuable public company in the world; that distinction goes to Nvidia, which currently has a market cap of $4.3 trillion. But analyst Michael Nathanson of MoffettNathanson thinks it should be, thanks to its AI prowess.

The analyst says its “combination of market leadership, diversification, and scale positions Alphabet not only as a winner in the GenAI era but as a company that should rightly be considered for the title of most valuable company in the world.”

Nathanson raised his price target on the shares to $295 from $230 and laid out four ways AI will “separate Alphabet from peers.” Currently trading at about $242 and with a market cap of nearly $3 trillion, Google just has to rise another trillion-plus dollars in market cap and pass the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia to actually take the title of most valuable company.

The analyst says its “combination of market leadership, diversification, and scale positions Alphabet not only as a winner in the GenAI era but as a company that should rightly be considered for the title of most valuable company in the world.”

Nathanson raised his price target on the shares to $295 from $230 and laid out four ways AI will “separate Alphabet from peers.” Currently trading at about $242 and with a market cap of nearly $3 trillion, Google just has to rise another trillion-plus dollars in market cap and pass the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia to actually take the title of most valuable company.

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Tesla is back in the negative this year

After falling more than 6% yesterday in its biggest drop since July, Tesla is once again in negative territory for the year. Elon Musk’s company posted record earnings last month, buoyed by pulled-forward demand tied to the final quarter of US federal EV tax credits, but its margins slipped as steep discounts were used to clear inventory.

Now the stock, which only turned positive for the year in September, is under renewed pressure amid a broader tech and AI sell-off, as investors grow concerned that the Federal Reserve may pause its rate-cutting cycle. Adding to the drag are soft sales in Tesla’s second-largest market, China, and news that longtime bull Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest unloaded roughly $30 million in shares this week.

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Meta overhauls Marketplace with AI insights and collaborative shopping

Meta announced Thursday that it’s giving its buy-and-sell platform, Marketplace — arguably the best part of Facebook and the most appealing to young people — a “glow up.” Each day in the US and Canada, one out of four Facebook daily active young adult users go to Marketplace, according to Meta. The overhaul includes the ability to create collections of listings you can share with friends or the public.

The site will also offer AI suggestions on what to ask sellers about your potential purchase. Unfortunately for all involved, the much-hated, easy-to-accidentally-press default message to sellers — “Hi, is this available” — remains unchanged.

Most promising, to us, for comedic purposes: “You can now react and comment directly on Marketplace listings, helping others learn about item quality and discover unique finds.”

The site will also offer AI suggestions on what to ask sellers about your potential purchase. Unfortunately for all involved, the much-hated, easy-to-accidentally-press default message to sellers — “Hi, is this available” — remains unchanged.

Most promising, to us, for comedic purposes: “You can now react and comment directly on Marketplace listings, helping others learn about item quality and discover unique finds.”

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s other company, xAI, has raised $15 billion in its latest funding round, CNBC reports. That’s $5 billion more than the company had raised in that same round in September. Its valuation remains at a sky-high $200 billion.

Tesla shareholders recently voted to invest in xAI but, due to a large number of abstentions, the board has yet to approve the proposal.

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Microsoft to use OpenAI’s chips to improve its own in-house chips

As part of Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI, the company is using OpenAI’s development of custom AI semiconductors to help improve its own in-house chips, which have lagged behind peers, according to an interview with CEO Satya Nadella by podcaster Dwarkesh Patel.

“As they innovate even at the system level, we get access to all of it,” Nadella said. “We first want to instantiate what they build for them, but then we’ll extend it.” Under their updated agreement, Microsoft has access to OpenAI’s models and products — excluding the Jony Ive-designed AI device — through 2032.

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