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Speaker 1: Bloomberg, Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Another week, another title weight of AI news, major investments.

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Speaker 3: The Disney story, a billion dollar investment from this iconic

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Speaker 3: from the House of Mouse in open AI.

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Speaker 2: And some significant share drops.

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Speaker 1: Oracle sank fourteen percent.

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Speaker 3: Investors are worried about whether all the money Oracle is

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Speaker 3: spending on AI technology will pay off.

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Speaker 2: There's an enormous amount of money flowing in and out

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Speaker 2: of the AI industry right now.

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Speaker 4: It's just such an all encompassing, all pervasive theme.

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Speaker 2: Suzanne Woolley covers personal finance for Bloomberg.

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Speaker 4: It's what everyone's talking about, It's what everyone's worried about.

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Speaker 3: We've heard a lot of promise, but not a lot

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Speaker 3: of actual revenue coming from the companies that are spending

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Speaker 3: so much on building out AI. If a few of

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Speaker 3: these big AI hyperscalers have a bit of a hiccup,

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Speaker 3: we could see a lot of the other market taken

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Speaker 2: Every few weeks, Suzanne asks experts to share their advice

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Speaker 2: about where people should be investing their money. And right now,

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Speaker 2: you'd be hard pressed to find a company or a

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Speaker 2: sector to invest in that isn't AI exposed.

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Speaker 4: It's a little hard for me to think of a

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Speaker 4: pure investment where AI wouldn't at least be embedded in

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Speaker 4: the operations of a company.

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Speaker 2: So Suzanne and I called up some investment experts to

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Speaker 2: help assess when, whether and how to bet on AI

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Speaker 2: in the most strategic way possible. Because things are moving quickly,

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Speaker 2: and alongside all the excitement about getting in on the

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Speaker 2: AI race, there are also a lot of concerns about

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Speaker 2: being too exposed. I'm Sarah Holder, and this is the

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Speaker 2: big take from Bloomberg News Today. On the show The

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Speaker 2: Risks and Rewards of Investing in AI right Now, we

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Speaker 2: talk to investment experts about what they think are the

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Speaker 2: smartest AI plays and the ones you should avoid, depending

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Speaker 2: on who you talk to. AI is poised to revolutionize

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Speaker 2: healthcare and technology or destroy jobs and natural resources. It's

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Speaker 2: the most profitable investment opportunity we've ever seen, or an

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Speaker 2: industry bubble that's about to burst. Suzanne said, the topic

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Speaker 2: stirs up a lot of anxiety.

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Speaker 4: We know it feels transformative and we're seeing big changes,

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Speaker 4: but we can't look out ten years from now with

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Speaker 4: any sort of crystal ball and say these are the

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Speaker 4: stocks I should have invested in and you know this

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Speaker 4: is how it's going to reshape finance or insurance or journalism.

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Speaker 4: We're seeing it in our personal lives when we read

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Speaker 4: about stories of like layoffs and the entry level jobs.

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Speaker 4: So there is this sort of excitement over the promise,

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Speaker 4: but worry over the impact on one's life and just

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Speaker 4: the uncertainty about what it might lead to.

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Speaker 2: I mean, does that remind you of any other sorts

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Speaker 2: of investments that you've written about. I guess, like the

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Speaker 2: dot com bubble, investing in tech stocks back in the

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Speaker 2: early aughts.

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Speaker 4: That kind of enthusiasm and the fear about hype and

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Speaker 4: all the bubble talk is reminiscent of those times. But

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Speaker 4: I feel like with AI it's sort of that on

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Speaker 4: steroids in a way. It's seen as a much bigger,

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Speaker 4: potentially life altering breakthrough for.

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Speaker 2: The AI bulls. That's exactly the reason to put your

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Speaker 4: Getting in now and riding this wave is how you're

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Speaker 4: going to make the big money going forward. We've seen

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Speaker 4: incredible valuations on companies connected to AI, and that is

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Speaker 4: people are worried about these valuations. There's waves, massive waves

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Speaker 4: all of the money that's being spent on it.

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Speaker 2: That's unclear for a lot of investors, though the idea

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Speaker 2: of all this untapped potential makes this moment feel like

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Speaker 2: the perfect time to strike.

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Speaker 1: I have never seen more fear about innovation than I

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Speaker 2: That's Kathy Wood, the CEO of ARC invest She's someone

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Speaker 2: who's investments are closely watched by retail investors, so when

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Speaker 2: Suzanne was looking for experts to pull, she wanted to

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Speaker 4: She has such an interesting history in investing in innovative

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Speaker 2: Kathy said that as she tracks the number of users

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Speaker 1: If you think about the Internet and how it evolved,

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Speaker 1: we think we are in nineteen ninety five. For the consumer.

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Speaker 2: The hope is that as the user base grows so

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Speaker 2: will the money that she's invested in companies leveraging AI,

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Speaker 1: It is the robotaxi year. We believe that the autonomous

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Speaker 2: Investing in a highly valued MAG seven tech company like

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Speaker 2: the infrastructure that supports the AI ambitions of MAG seven businesses.

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Speaker 5: For example, semiconductor, you know you can easily access it

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Speaker 5: via ETF and it's something that you know it's a

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Speaker 2: In addition to physical technologies like semiconductors, Tasha said, investors

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Speaker 2: With finite supplies, but the prospect of increasing demand, we

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Speaker 5: Talking about copper, and we can be talking about things

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Speaker 2: Our third expert agreed that anything related to power is interesting.

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Speaker 6: That is the bottleneck right now.

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Speaker 2: Michael Smith, who runs the Growth equity team at all

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Speaker 6: When you look at the commitments that have already been

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Speaker 2: But Michael also advised being more forward looking in predicting

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Speaker 6: To use the surfing analogy. Don't chase the wave that's

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Speaker 2: Another way to think about categorizing AI related investment opportunities

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Speaker 2: comes from Denny Fish, who's head of Technology research and

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Speaker 2: a portfolio manager at Janis Henderson.

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Speaker 4: Denny Fish use the buckets of enabler, enhancer, and us

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Speaker 3: Going to see waves of adoption and evolution. We are

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Speaker 3: clearly in the enablement phase of AI and the infrastructure

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Speaker 2: In this enablement phase, Companies like Microsoft or Amazon, which

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Speaker 2: use liquid cooling systems for data centers. Denny Fish's next

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Speaker 3: There will be companies that will embrace AI in a

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Speaker 4: A more sort of motley crew of companies that can

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Speaker 3: You could listen to the transcript of every company in

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Speaker 3: I don't know, sixty seventy percent of them mention artificial

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Speaker 3: pick your poison in financial services, healthcare, agriculture, insurance and

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Speaker 3: find unique companies that are actually benefiting from this trend

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Speaker 2: Take John Deere, the agricultural services company that's using AI

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Speaker 1: That's in our top ten, which we think could become

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Speaker 2: But what happens if all the plans to make AI

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Speaker 2: Taosha Wang at Fidelity believes it makes sense that investment

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Speaker 5: But after that, the boost you know, through investment, needs

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Speaker 2: That wide scale adoption and proven profitability are what Tashaw

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Speaker 2: whether it's more like a bubble that could pop.

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Speaker 5: One can never time haul on the bubble is going

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Speaker 2: Those bubble concerns are being driven in part by the

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Speaker 2: other words, companies like open ai, Video and Microsoft all

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Speaker 5: I would generally caution against things from a cash flow

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Speaker 6: There are a lot of companies that want a piece

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Speaker 6: and just be very careful investing in companies that can't

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Speaker 2: As you may have noticed, the investment experts we spoke

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Speaker 2: to tended to be bullish on AI. They've already bet

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Speaker 1: A lot of people are saying, well, you know, this

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Speaker 1: AI movement or opportunity is exploited. Let's move to the

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Speaker 1: next thing, which is quantum computing. They've skipped over thematically

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Speaker 1: thematic portfolio teams or what have you. They think AI

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Speaker 1: has been exploited. We think it's barely begun.

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