Can AI Trade Stocks?
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Can AI really pick winning stocks? In this episode, we dive into the wild world of AI trading—where agents like ChatGPT and Perplexity aren’t just talking about the market, they’re playing it. From bold bets to biotech wins, we explore the surprising ways AI is learning to invest, hold steady, and sometimes even outperform the pros.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, can AI trade stocks? Before then, in the headlines, a bunch of |
| 0:06.1 | indicators that AI is making oodles of money. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video |
| 0:11.2 | about the most important news and discussions in AI. All right, friends, quick announcements |
| 0:19.3 | before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitsey, and Vanta. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com slash AI Daily Brief. And if you're interested in sponsoring the show, shoot me a note at NLW at Breakdown. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. |
| 0:38.0 | If you've had your ear to the ground, you might have heard an increasing dint of concern |
| 0:43.1 | around bubble-type dynamics around AI. And this has a lot to do with broader market things |
| 0:48.2 | that are happening right now. Spacks are back on the table. Crypto treasury companies are all the |
| 0:52.6 | rage. So there's a general sense, |
| 0:54.7 | I think, of heatedness creeping into markets and given how much AI drives a lot of market |
| 0:59.7 | narratives, it's natural for it to get pot up. However, if there is one takeaway from this set of |
| 1:04.3 | headlines, it's that bubble or not, AI is making a lot of money. Yesterday, META did their |
| 1:10.1 | quarterly earnings and just absolutely |
| 1:12.3 | crushed analyst expectations. They reported 22% revenue growth and 18 billion in quarterly |
| 1:18.0 | income. And what they're going to do with all of that is very clear. The company reiterated |
| 1:22.4 | plans to double infrastructure spending this year to reach up to 72 billion in CAPEX. They |
| 1:26.9 | forecast a similarly |
| 1:27.8 | large increase next year writing that they've decided to, quote, aggressively pursue opportunities to |
| 1:32.3 | bring additional capacity online to meet the needs of artificial intelligence efforts and business |
| 1:36.4 | operations. CFO, Susan Lee, noted that although external financing is being considered, |
| 1:41.5 | meta expects to fund most of the build-out from cash flows. |
| 1:47.9 | Now, one of the things that's really important about this is that this is not just meta doing well over here and doing AI over there. |
| 1:51.0 | There is a direct connection. |
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