February 2, 2026 | Daily JAM |
A Next Big Thing doesn’t need to start with a blank slate. Yes, it can be a whole new industry or sector–as is true with quantum computing or nuclear fusion. But it doesn’t have to be. Artificial intelligence, for example may look like it came out of nowhere but here were precursor companies and technologies such as neural network computation. And sometimes an existing sector can get a big jolt that serves to accelerate grow to such a degree that it makes it see like the sector came out of nowhere. And where the acceleration to growth is big enough so that it reorders the ranks of the companies that had been dominating the sector. Right now I think that’s a good description of what’s about to happen in the cyber security sector. Thanks to AI and the coming emergence of quantum computing we’re about to see a huge surge in growth for the companies in the sector.
January 25, 2026 | AAPL, Daily JAM, GLD, GOOG, Jubak Picks, Long Term, Mid Term, MSFT, NVDA, PAAS, SCCO, Top 50 Stocks, WPM |
A week of Big Tech earnings reports will confirm or reverse what sure looks like a sector rotation away from tech shares and into metal and mining company stocks.
January 23, 2026 | AVGO, Daily JAM, GOOG, Morning Briefing, NVDA, Top 50 Stocks, TSM |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) has told Nvidia (NVDA) and Broadcom (AVGO) that its advanced capacity is effectively fully booked through 2026 and that it cannot meet all of their requested AI chip volumes.
January 20, 2026 | AAPL, AMD, Daily JAM, GOOG, Jubak Picks, MSFT, Short Term, Top 50 Stocks |
Prices for memory chips are forecast to soar in 2026. but what just as bad/even worse it looks like chip customers are looking at serious supply shortages during the year.
Higher prices and supply shortages could be enough to put earnings at risk at some high multiple cloud and AI companies.
January 12, 2026 | Daily JAM, Long Term, Special Reports |
A suggested quantum computing portfolio. If you want a piece of this Next Big Thing, but with less risk and less upside than a pure-play quantum stock, I’d suggest Alphabet/Google (GOOG). Among pure plays I’d include D‑Wave Quantum (QBTS), up about 235% year‑to‑date as of late 2025; Rigetti Computing (RGTI), up34% YTD by late December; and IonQ (IONQ), up around 25% year-to-date by late December.
January 8, 2026 | Daily JAM, GOOG, Top 50 Stocks |
Alphabet/Google’s Gemini AI is rapidly gaining momentum, with 30% growth in monthly active users versus ChatGPT’s 6% growth between August and November 2025.
December 3, 2025 | Daily JAM, GOOG, Top 50 Stocks |
CEO Sam Altman has declared a “code red” at OpenAI to improve ChatGPT as the company faces intense competition from rivals, such as Alphabet (GOOG) with much deeper pockets.
To my mind the question of whether any AI startup can “win” against Big Tech competitors such as Google, Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) is as important to investors as the questions raised by short sellers about depreciation accounting and potential debt bombs.
According to a report by tech news site the Information, the CEO of the San Francisco-based startup told staff in an internal memo: “We are at a critical time for ChatGPT.”
OpenAI has been rattled by the success of Google’s latest AI model, Gemini 3, and is devoting more internal resources to improving ChatGPT.
November 2, 2025 | AMZN, Daily JAM, GOOG, Jubak Picks, Mid Term, MSFT, Short Term, Top 50 Stocks |
No slowdown on plans for AI capital spending in earnings results this past week from Big Tech. Alphabet/Google (GOOG) said it was increasing what it planned to spend on A.I. data center projects this year by $6 billion, after spending nearly $64 billion over the past nine months. Microsoft (MSFT) said it had spent $35 billion in its latest quarter, $5 billion more than it had told investors to expect just a few months ago.
Amazon (AMZN) said it would be “very aggressive” in adding more data centers and would spend $125 billion this year-— and even more next year. Meta Platforms (META) raised its spending forecast to at least $70 billion by the end of the year, which would be nearly double what it spent last year. The stock market reaction wasn’t unalloyed joy. Investors seemed generally positive on spending plans from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon. And skeptical of Meta’s strategy and spending.
September 2, 2025 | Daily JAM, GOOG, Top 50 Stocks |
In his decision of the remedies in one of Alphabet’s (GOOG) anti-trust cases, Judge Amit Mehta ruled late Tuesday, September 2, that Alphabet must open up competition in online search by sharing more data with competitors, and said that the company could not enter exclusive contracts for search. But Mehta ruled that Alphabet did not have to divest its Chrome the browser, the world’s top browser by market share. Today’s decision followed Mehta’s ruling last year that Alphabet held an illegal monopoly in online search and search advertising. Shares in Alphabet rose after hours, gaining 5.7%.
August 30, 2025 | Daily JAM, GOOG |
The courts take center stage for investors this week. First, there’s the appeals court decision invalidating the bulk of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. That has thrown the global system of trade into chaos. Second, there are two antitrust cases against Alphabet (GOOG).
August 17, 2025 | Daily JAM, GOOG, Long Term, Top 50 Stocks |
Perplexity will, reportedly, make a bid to buy Alphabet’s (GOOG) dominant Chrome search engine for $34.5 billion. So what’s that all about?
August 5, 2025 | Daily JAM, GOOG, Jubak Picks, MSFT, Top 50 Stocks |
For the coming fiscal year, big tech’s total capital expenditure on AI is slated to balloon, leaving the total for 2024 in the dust. In total, the four tech companies will spend more than $400 billion on capex in the coming year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
