Before the pandemic, most parents limited screen time at home and many schools were nearly screen-free. Now it seems that screen-free schooling is never to return: an October report found that 8 in 10 middle and high school students had devices assigned to them, and if you’re not a parent, the time the kids are spending on those devices might surprise you. 

Stocks wiped out early gains from post-Nvidia earnings euphoria, as the chip designer’s blowout earnings weren’t enough to ease investors’ concerns of bloated valuations and an AI bubble

It was a wild session, with US stocks suffering one of their most stunning reversals in decades. Only four times in the more than 32-year history of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF has the fund opened at least 1.5% higher only to end the session down 1.5% or more.

One of those days was April 8 of this year, when the White House said tariffs on China were going up to above 100%. Two of those days occurred in October 2008 (on the 7th and the 9th), as the fallout from the unfolding financial crisis was spreading after the prior month’s collapse of Lehman Brothers and the VIX Index — Wall Street’s so-called “fear gauge” — was routinely above 50.

The fourth time was yesterday. Ouch!

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This week has seen the nascent fight between the two flagship robotaxi plays — Google’s Waymo and Tesla’s Robotaxi — escalate to a new level. 

Waymo currently operates its autonomous service with more than 2,500 vehicles in five markets, and has plans to expand to more than 20. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has said he expects Tesla to operate 1,500 cars in its two markets, Austin and the Bay Area, by the end of the year, when he says the service will be available in a total of 8 to 10 markets.

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Nvidia’s Q3 results and Q4 outlook provided an emphatic statement that speaks for itself: it’s still boom times for the company at the heart of AI.

Heck, they even had a response to concerns about whether Nvidia’s customers are understating depreciation. Sure, the idea that Nvidia’s chips remain very useful for a long time is something that, on the surface, seems much better for Nvidia’s customers than its sales outlook, but it’s really hard to nitpick that given how much demand is in the pipeline.

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