AI Selloff Tests Investor Confidence — Ritholtz on CoreWeave, Valuations, Tesla

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Barry Ritholtz says AI is transformative but investors must pick winners amid CoreWeave selloff, stretched AI financing and valuations, and rising EV competition squeezing Tesla.

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Barry Ritholtz argues AI is still a transformational technology while warning that investors face a hard task separating durable winners from speculative darlings, he points to CoreWeave’s sharp drop as a real-time example of what can go wrong. He also flagged stretched financing and high valuations in the AI space, and raised concern that rising competition in electric vehicles is creating trouble for Tesla. The clip stitches a macro theme (AI hype versus reality) to concrete names and recent price pain.