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Who in Big Tech Is Ready for Agentic AI?

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Who in Big Tech Is Ready for Agentic AI? In this podcast, Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Rachel Warren discuss: Amazon goes after Perplexity's agents.Meta's scattered AI strategy.Oracle's earnings…
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  • Oracle is essentially an AI construction company right now racing to plug in chips faster than the competition

    60% confidence
  • AI agents are tireless shoppers that won't be distracted by deals or browse sponsored results that fuel Amazon's advertising machine

    60% confidence
  • Meta's desperate attempts to get users to use their AI are pretty pathetic right now

    60% confidence
  • If you invested $1,000 in Netflix on December 17, 2004, you'd have $503,861 as of March 28, 2026

    60% confidence
  • If you invested $1,000 in Nvidia on April 15, 2005, you'd have $1,026,987 as of March 28, 2026

    60% confidence
  • Meta is struggling to develop what they need in house and have found that acquiring outside talent is the best move

    60% confidence
  • Meta's next act isn't just smarter chatbots, it's a whole infrastructure for AI agents to interact and transact

    60% confidence
  • The status quo benefits Amazon and it makes sense to preserve it as long as possible

    60% confidence
  • If third party AI becomes the primary shopping interface, Amazon's advertising mode could start to dry up

    60% confidence
  • If Oracle can go from $60 billion revenue now to $90 billion in 2027, that's really good

    60% confidence
  • A lot of Oracle's RPO customers may not know if they need all the capacity they've secured

    60% confidence
  • Amazon's entire flywheel is built on owning the entire commerce journey from first search to package delivery

    60% confidence
  • Oracle's debt of $135 billion is about two times sales and five times EBITDA, which is not unreasonable

    60% confidence
  • Instant and complete comparison shopping could be the killer app for consumers

    60% confidence
  • Alphabet has spent about $40 billion on AI related acquisitions

    60% confidence
  • Moltbook is essentially allowing people and bots to communicate with AI agents in natural language through chat apps

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  • This is more of an admission that the AI strategy is pivoting toward autonomous agents

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  • Oracle is betting they can convert the significant backlog into high margin profits before interest on debt catches up

    60% confidence
  • When a shift happens, the incumbent usually isn't the beneficiary

    60% confidence
  • Until AI models are big enough to force the issue, retailers like Amazon have no incentive to give in to Perplexity

    60% confidence
  • The facts on the ground for Oracle right now are really good and the stock is reflecting that

    60% confidence
  • Meta has all the cash in the world and is using it to assemble the brightest minds they can

    60% confidence
  • The 10 best stocks for investors to buy now don't include Meta Platforms

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  • Meta doesn't know how to get customers to pay for what they're building outside of in-house improvements

    60% confidence
  • Oracle is seeing its highest growth in 15 years but it's coming at a staggering cost

    60% confidence

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