Frank Finance Brief — Intel's AI re-rating, Upstart's bank charter gambit, and the eVTOL revenue race
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The move worth watching is Intel. The Motley Fool's piece, "I've Changed My Mind on Intel Stock," argues a real re-rating is underway after the stock bottomed at $18.97 last year. The bear case had been that Intel couldn't capitalize on the AI supercycle and that hyperscaler capex was bubble-territory. The Fool's revised take: foundry traction plus a more disciplined capex story changes the math, and the recent run isn't sentiment-only. The framing to hold onto — this isn't a bet on Intel beating Nvidia at GPUs; it's a bet on Intel becoming a credible US-based foundry alternative as customers diversify off TSMC. That's a different equity story.