Following Google's (GOOGL) announcement of details on it's cloud video game streaming platform, "Stadia," Baird analyst Colin Sebastian said he views the announcement as positive both for Google and for game publishers such as Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Electronic Arts (EA) and Take-Two (TTWO). The gaming platform has "impressive technical capabilities" and will support third-party game development, noted Sebastian, who added that he views the hiring of Jade Raymond as a sign Google sees significant long-term opportunity in digital entertainment.

The promise of AI has already driven a massive market rally. The irony is that Apple (AAPL), the company with more context about our lives than any other, has been left behind, Alex Eule writes in this week's edition of Barron's. Unlike Big Tech rivals Meta (META) and Alphabet (GOOGL), or the start-up OpenAI, it has yet to create its own large-language model. The switch to AI, to be sure, is more complex than making a larger-screen phone. But Apple's dominance hasn't changed. And that puts it at the center of any shift - real or artificial, the author says. Reference Link