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Robinhood Grants Trading Access to AI Agent, Goldman Sachs Predicts 24x Increase in Agent Compute Demand. Market Prices in US-Iran Peace Premium, While Trump's Terms Toughen.

1｜Robinhood Opens Trading to AI Agent, Goldman Sachs Predicts 24x Increase in Agent Compute Demand

Robinhood has announced the opening of stock, cryptocurrency, and options trading access to AI Agent through the MCP protocol, along with the launch of an Agent-exclusive credit card (3% cashback). Non-human traders have for the first time gained formal entry to a retail brokerage. On the same day, Goldman Sachs released a report predicting that by 2030, the token consumption of AI Agents will grow 24 times, with Agents accounting for 70% of the total compute demand.

These two pieces of news connect to form a causal chain: as the Agent evolves from a chatbot to an independent economic actor, it needs a financial account, compute power, and a credit line. Robinhood has provided the first key, and Goldman is calculating how much resources it will consume. The Agent economy is no longer confined to whitepapers; it is now generating real trading instructions and resource demand curves.

(Source: Fortune / Goldman Sachs / CNBC)

2｜Snowflake Locks in $6 Billion with AWS, Anthropic Drives Cloud Titan's Profit Inflection Point

Snowflake has signed a five-year $6 billion cloud service agreement with AWS, upgrading to the Graviton chip, causing a 30% surge in stock price after hours. According to SemiAnalysis, Anthropic's explosive ARR growth is reshaping AWS' profit structure, with AWS EBIT margin increasing by 213 basis points quarter-over-quarter, and AI inference revenue acting as a key driver of growth. Marvell and Salesforce earnings reports exceed expectations concurrently, leading to a collective rise in AI concept stocks.

Over the past three years, cloud providers have been telling the AI story of "burn money first, reap rewards later," and now the time to reap rewards has come. The value of Anthropic to AWS has shifted from a technical partner to a profit contributor. When an AI company begins driving the profit margin change of a cloud giant, the power dynamics in the supply chain are reversing. Three years ago, no one believed AI could become a profit center, but this quarter's earnings reports are rewriting the narrative.

(Source: CNBC / SemiAnalysis / GeekWire)

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