Summary
The weekend news program covers U.S. defense commitments in Asia, the Iran standoff, and the ongoing Ebola outbreak. A tech segment highlights legacy hardware stocks surging on AI infrastructure demand, with specific bullish theses on Dell and Snowflake from Bloomberg Intelligence's Mandeep Singh.
- Defense Secretary Hegseth reaffirms Pacific alliances but does not mention Taiwan in his speech.
- President Trump leaves situation room without a decision on an Iran deal; missile strike injures Americans in Kuwait.
- Former CDC Director Tom Frieden warns the Ebola outbreak in DRC is at high risk and U.S. preparedness is weakened.
- Legacy tech stocks like Dell, Intel, and BlackBerry surge as focus shifts to physical AI and infrastructure upgrades.
- Mandeep Singh highlights Dell's 40% topline growth from AI servers and Snowflake's advantage in agentic AI.
- Anthropic hits a $965B valuation, overtaking OpenAI in growth rates, but remains private.
- Cisco's chief product officer describes a networking super cycle driven by AI agents and physical AI.
- Texas Senate primary ends with Ken Paxton defeating John Cornyn; general election expected to be expensive.