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Weekly Market Outlook: Gold, Bitcoin, Oil, Silver and the AI Quantum Cycle

A Sunday strike on Larak Island put the Hormuz premium back on, Warsh put a September hike back on the table, and Friday NFP decides both. Full daily-chart levels for stocks, gold, silver, oil and Bitcoin, plus three figures from the KXCO ontology showing what actually breaks the AI trade.

Latest News in AI and Quantum

Nvidia bids for Hugging Face, 700 rogue agents, a $37.5 million error-correction institute, a DOJ botnet seizure and an industry letter a day late. What moved in AI and quantum this week, read through the live KXCO sector graph, and why post-quantum security is now an operating requirement.

What's Next in AI and Quantum

A 5,000 word assessment of the dual revolution as of August 2026: who leads in AI and quantum, which breakthroughs are genuinely close, and why electricity is now the binding constraint on both.

Economic Calendar and Trading Strategy This Week: August 17 to 21, 2026

A titanic tug-of-war between AI momentum and rate fears. Here is the calendar that matters this week, the way institutional money actually rotates when the data runs hot, and how the KXCO Ontology maps the AI, Quantum, Semiconductor and Compute names that will dictate your P&L over the next five days.

The Agentic Hangover, the Grid Breakpoint and the Quantum Breakout

Two sectors moved today and both moved hard. In AI the story is no longer the GPU, it is the power to run it: agentic workloads have multiplied inference by 15x, the capex bill is compounding faster than the revenue behind it, and Northern Virginia is load-shedding. In quantum, a logical-qubit milestone has halted the pure plays. Shayne Heffernan walks the live tape, the architecture wars and the exact portfolio directives, with the dependency graph both trades share.

Short Squeeze AI Stocks: Testing the Thesis Against Fintel Data and SEC Filings

High short interest is not a short squeeze. Shayne Heffernan tests the AI squeeze thesis against FINRA settlement data, borrow costs and Regulation SHO, and finds one of five conditions met. $IONQ is the most shorted name in the complex at about 22.4% of float, yet its borrow fee is 0.46% and the position covers in two days. $SPCX is SpaceX, not a Super Micro proxy, and it unlocks about $123bn of insider stock on 6 August. Includes the five gates a real squeeze has to pass.

The AI-Quantum Convergence Hits Critical Mass

AI infrastructure spending and quantum roadmaps are converging in August 2026. The real edge now sits in mapping concentration risks — especially $NVDA’s dominance and $BABA’s role in the Chinese stack — through a live, verifiable ontology rather than isolated headlines.

This Week in AI Stocks

The July 2026 earnings wave, mapped layer by layer. About $750 billion of hyperscaler capex guided for the year, SK hynix at a 76% operating margin, Micron at 84.9% gross, TSMC packaging sold out into 2027, and Andy Jassy saying $220 billion still will not be enough. Shayne Heffernan on which AI stocks sit in the constrained nodes, with the numbers and the sources.

AI and Quantum the Race With China Just Accelerated

A trillion dollars is flowing into AI compute, quantum error correction finally scales, and China is closing the gap in months not generations. Shayne Heffernan on the latest AI and quantum news — and why KXCO built for exactly this moment.

Who Is Who in the AI Space: The Definitive Guide to AI Stocks in 2026

The definitive 2026 guide to AI stocks: $NVDA, $GOOGL, $MSFT, $AMZN, $META, $TSM, $AVGO, $ORCL and $PLTR in the US; $BABA, $TCEHY and $BIDU in China — each mapped to its layer of the AI value chain, with cashtags, market caps and the investment thesis for each.

AI and Quantum Computing Latest News

AI and quantum computing are converging into a single US-China contest. A fact-checked, investor-focused map of the model gap, the quantum milestones, the security imperative, and the stocks positioned across both — NVDA, GOOGL, MSFT, IBM, IONQ, TSM. By Shayne Heffernan.

Quantum Computing Hits Commercial Reality

Quantum computing hit commercial reality in 2026: $2B in US foundry funding, Quantinuum's $14B IPO, and violent rallies in IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave. Shayne Heffernan explains the AI–quantum flywheel, tables the stocks in the space (IONQ, RGTI, QBTS, QUBT, QNT, IBM, GOOGL, MSFT, NVDA, GFS, HON), covers China's LineShine supercomputer, and closes on KXCO's post-quantum solutions.

AI Is Still Early. Quantum Is Real.

Forget the lab feud. The week's real story is earnings — Micron's $100B order book proves AI demand is committed, not speculative. My featured US stocks: Micron, Amazon, a buy on Palantir, plus the government-backed quantum names.

LineShine: When Raw Speed Breaks Encryption

LineShine topped the June 2026 TOP500 at 2.198 exaflops using only CPUs. The lesson is that raw speed — not only quantum — is the real threat to legacy encryption, and it tightens the clock on Q-Day.

Wall Street Outlook: Stocks, AI, Oil and Bitcoin (June 22-26)

Our Wall Street outlook for the week ahead: a thin macro calendar puts Micron's earnings and the May PCE inflation print centre stage, against AI capital spending, the SpaceX debut, the Iran-driven oil round trip, a firm dollar and a sliding Bitcoin.

USA vs China: The Quantum Computing Race

The U.S. still leads quantum computing, but China has closed the gap fast — on hardware scale, supply-chain self-reliance and quantum networking. A category-by-category scorecard as of June 2026.

The New Economies: Space, AI, and Quantum

Three new economic layers are taking shape: space is becoming an industrial domain, artificial intelligence is evolving into continuous infrastructure, and quantum technologies are moving into operational use in simulation and sensing. While technical and energy constraints remain significant, the period through 2035 is likely to see these layers expand in parallel, creating new requirements for verifiable trust and post-quantum security. KXCO is positioning its infrastructure as the transaction

The New AI-Quantum Arms Race

The world’s leading tech CEOs are now aligned on one thing: AI and quantum computing are converging into hybrid systems that will unlock new capabilities in markets, scientific discovery, and strategic competition. The companies that build the most effective infrastructure layers will define the next era of computational advantage.

10 Best Stocks to Buy Right Now in June 2026 – My Current Watchlist

AI spending continues as the dominant long-term theme, but capital is rotating toward companies with strong earnings, reasonable valuations, and real infrastructure exposure.

Quantum AI Is Already Reshaping Markets

I've traded through enough hype to know quantum AI won't flip everything overnight. But the 2026 signals — funding, hybrids in finance, hardware progress — say it's accelerating. The players and platforms that nail security and optimization will carry the edge.

AI and Quantum Computing Merge: The Next Technological Revolution

AI and Quantum Computing Merge: The Next Technological Revolution $NVDA, $IBM, $GOOGL, $AMZN, $IONQ, $RGTI, $QBTS

US Govt Invests in Quantum Computing

The funding supports two domestic quantum foundry projects and seven quantum computing companies. In return, the government will receive minority, non-controlling equity stakes in each recipient.

Quantum Computing 2026: Where We Are, What’s Next