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This Week's Picks2026-08-24
This week's pulseThis week, institutions engaged in intense debate over the capital cycle and valuation divergence in AI infrastructure. Sands Capital believes the recent sell-off was driven by technical pressures, with fundamentals remaining strong, and is bullish on core beneficiaries such as Nvidia and Google. In contrast, Damodaran and Oakmark’s Nygren warn that AI has shifted from “hype” to “business validation,” with the latter explicitly avoiding high-valuation AI stocks and focusing on value opportunities like Booking. In the gold sector, Rick Rule notes that despite price volatility and rising costs, major miners’ AISC margins still stand at 58%, with ample industry cash flow. However, Seabridge Gold’s KSM project faced a reversal in indigenous support, highlighting non-technical risks. Energy bottlenecks have become a consensus: Matthew Smith warns that the U.S. natural gas market will face “unbounded and convex” upside price risk after 2028, while Ben Thompson and Benchmark’s Vishria both view energy as a “binding constraint” on AI development.
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Aug 2026
26 Aug 2026Lex Fridman PodcastPodcast~22 min
#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
In this podcast, DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails) says that since late 2025, he has stopped writing most code himself. Instead, AI tools like Claude and Cursor now generate 80-90% of the code, while he…
Author · Lex FridmanSource: Podcast transcript
25 Aug 2026Colossus (Invest Like the Best / Business Breakdowns)Podcast
Neil Movva - Making AI 10x Cheaper - [Invest Like the Best, EP.488]
Neil Movva, founder of Sail, stated on the podcast Invest Like the Best that his company positions itself as a "token factory," focusing on building inference infrastructure for AI agents that run over extended periods (hours to days). The core argument is that as AI shifts from real-time interactio
Author · Patrick O'ShaughnessySource: Podcast transcript
24 Aug 2026Patient Capital ManagementArticle~4 min
Opportunity Equity Strategy Update for 8/14/2026 – 8/21/2026
This report covers Patient Capital's fund performance for the week ending August 21. The fund gained 0.51% vs the S&P 500's -1.39%. No explicit market view from the manager, but holdings show bets on…
Source: Fund website
21 Aug 2026Rick Rule (Rule Investment Media)Article~15 min
Paul’s Notes #12 — News commentary
This piece covers two main themes in mining: copper's long-term structural deficit (BHP sees a potential 10 million-tonne annual shortfall by 2035) and gold M&A opportunities, while warning about indi…
Source: Fund website
21 Aug 2026Baillie GiffordDeep research~5 min
Beyond the primes
This article says to avoid big defense contractors because they're like regulated utilities with limited profits. Baillie Gifford prefers niche suppliers with pricing power. They highlight three holdings: AeroVironment (makes loitering munitions proven in Ukraine, cheap and effective), RBC Bearings (makes precision parts with sticky customers, ~70% revenue from sole or primary supply), and Axon Enterprise (sells police gear, bought again after it…
Source: Fund website
21 Aug 2026Baillie GiffordDeep research~9 min
How we assess dual-class share structures
This piece explains how Baillie Gifford evaluates dual-class share structures (where founders have more voting power per share). They say the structure itself isn't good or bad—it depends on the controller's quality, the company's stage, and checks and balances. Their framework focuses on whether the controller is trustworthy and aligned with shareholders. If yes, dual-class can protect long-term strategy; if no, it risks value destruction. No sp…
Source: Fund website
20 Aug 2026Aswath Damodaran (Musings on Markets)Article~32 min
AI's Bar Mitzvah Moment: From Hype & Hope to Business Questions!
This piece says AI has moved from hype to a 'bar mitzvah' moment where it must prove it can make real money. The author, Damodaran, is cautious because AI companies have invested $1.7 trillion but onl…
Source: Fund website
20 Aug 2026Oakmark FundsDeep research~7 min
Bill Nygren, Portfolio Manager and Co-CIO U.S. on value investing in the AI era
This article explains how Oakmark fund is avoiding high-priced AI stocks like Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and Palantir, comparing the AI boom to the dot-com bubble. Instead, they focus on companies with…
Source: Fund website
19 Aug 2026Rick Rule (Rule Investment Media)Article~11 min
Paul's Notes #11 — Gold continues to shine for producers
This report covers the gold mining industry. The author is cautiously optimistic: despite falling gold prices and rising costs squeezing margins, miners still have strong cash flow and generous shareh…
Source: Fund website
18 Aug 2026Colossus (Invest Like the Best / Business Breakdowns)Podcast~10 min
Ben Thompson on Big Tech, China, and the AI Boom Running Out of Money - [Invest Like the Best, EP.487]
This interview argues that capital, not computing power, may be the real bottleneck in the AI race. Ben Thompson says the US winning AI completely would be dangerous, and the current 6-9 month gap wit…
Author · Patrick O'ShaughnessySource: Podcast transcript
17 Aug 2026Patient Capital ManagementArticle~6 min
Opportunity Equity Strategy Update for 8/07/2026 – 8/14/2026
This report covers Patient Capital's fund performance for the week of August 7-14. The fund fell 1.28%, lagging the S&P 500's 0.39% gain. The manager's view is that the market is very picky: companies…
Source: Fund website
17 Aug 2026Sands CapitalDeep research~13 min
AI Sentiment Versus Fundamentals
This report says the recent AI chip stock sell-off is a technical correction, not a fundamental downturn, and the author remains bullish long-term. The author thinks the market overreacted, as Google,…
Source: Fund website
14 Aug 2026Baillie GiffordDeep research~7 min
The market’s short memory
This report says memory chip companies like Micron are making huge profits now (revenue $41.5B, 85% gross margin), but the author thinks it's just a temporary shortage. Once new factories come online, prices will crash—it's happened three times before. So the author doesn't own Micron and instead bought more Arm and KLA during July's chip stock dip. Arm designs chips for phones and data centers, benefiting from AI growth; KLA makes inspection equ…
Source: Fund website
13 Aug 2026Baillie GiffordDeep research~8 min
Edinburgh Worldwide enlightenment: has the long-term case changed?
This article says the July sell-off in AI infrastructure stocks was mostly about positioning and emotion, not a change in the long-term story. AI computing demand remains strong, so the fund stays bullish. Three key holdings: Astera Labs (makes chips for connecting GPUs, revenue doubled), BESI (chip packaging equipment, revenue up 69%), and IREN (AI cloud computing, expects over $4 billion in future revenue, most already contracted). The author s…
Source: Fund website
12 Aug 2026Rick Rule (Rule Investment Media)Article~47 min
British Columbia's mining revival — Rule Investment Newsletter #19
The article says British Columbia's mining sector is enjoying a revival, helped by faster permitting, big mergers and fresh capital. The author is cautiously optimistic for the medium term but warns t…
Source: Fund website
12 Aug 2026Scottish Mortgage (Baillie Gifford)Article~16 min
Baillie Gifford Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Factsheet
This monthly update covers Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, a fund that buys and holds world-class growth companies, including private ones. It gives no market forecast, only restates its long-term…
Source: Fund website
11 Aug 2026Colossus (Invest Like the Best / Business Breakdowns)Podcast~15 min
Eric Vishria - A Decade of Lessons Investing in Software & Hardware - [Invest Like the Best, EP.486]
This piece covers investor Eric Vishria's decade of lessons in software and hardware. His main point: AI is adopting faster than cloud computing, but the market is so big that no single company will d…
Author · Patrick O'ShaughnessySource: Podcast transcript
10 Aug 2026Hosking PartnersReport
Merryn Talks Money - The Capital Cycle Is Turning
This document constitutes the regulatory and legal disclosure statement of Hosking Partners LLP. The firm is registered in England and Wales under registration number OC382151, with VAT number 167151705, and its registered address is 11 Charles II Street, London. Hosking Partners is regulated by the
Author · Luke BridgemanSource: Fund website
10 Aug 2026Aswath Damodaran (Musings on Markets)Article~26 min
The Situational Awareness Blow-up: The Collateral Damage from Investing Conviction!
A finance professor uses the crash of AI-star fund Situational Awareness, which lost two-thirds of its public stock holdings in four weeks and was forced to liquidate, as a warning: markets give and t…
Source: Fund website
10 Aug 2026Patient Capital ManagementArticle~12 min
Opportunity Equity Strategy Update for 7/31/2026 – 8/07/2026
A fund manager's weekly update says the fund gained 5.29% after fees last week, beating the S&P 500 (a U.S. large-cap index) by 1.7 percentage points; it is up 18.55% this year, still ahead of the ind…
Source: Fund website