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Hype cannot destroy the hope of artificial intelligence,

even though many investors have begun to turn on the entire concept of machines

that you can talk to or even replace your workforce with.

But perhaps hype has taken stocks involved with artificial intelligence too high versus reality,

have expectations at last gotten too high versus reality,

have expectations at last gotten too high to be equal, let alone beaten?

Well, you know what? That is tonight's quandary.

As I survey the battlefield.

The negative drumbeat, kind of working like white noise in the background,

wafted center stage this afternoon as Nvidia. The, the king of AI, reported earnings the market didn't like.

While the averages matter, with the Dow gaining 147 points, has to be advancing 0.24%, NASDAQ edging up 0.21%. The looming Nvidia quarter dominated the market, because it's mindshare in a very negative way.

So when Nvidia actually reported it to the close, it was kind of a climax. The company

imported a healthy top and bottom line beat with robust guidance for the current

quarter. That's including any new Chinese business now that they can sell

decent chips there. But in video's all-important data center sales came in a tiny bit

light surprising and frankly fitting the negative wrap that we've been hearing.

So the stock got dinged the NFDAI's trading.

I think that's mostly because it was up 35% for the year going into the quarter, and expectations were indeed sky high.

But that's the charitable explanation.

The damning one, things are slowing, and perhaps the $4.4 trillion emperor has, I don't know, fewer clothes than we thought.

All in all, though, in reality, it's a quarter. It just wasn't decisive enough to settle the biggest

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