📈 **BlackRock: Cheaper AI, New Earnings Questions**

• Gartner projects **$64B** in worldwide AI model/platform spending for 2026 — up **63%** YoY.
• Chinese AI models now process ~23 trillion tokens/week on OpenRouter, nearly double the ~12 trillion for top US models.
• S&P 500 earnings are on track for a second straight quarter of **20%+** growth, though Alphabet's free cash flow just turned negative for the first time.
• _BII stays overweight AI but tilts toward infrastructure (power, data centers) over the increasingly crowded model layer._

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