US momentum factor GSPRHIMO up 7%, sharply outpacing EU high beta momentum basket which gained less than 3% over 2 days
@GoldmanSachs sales desk flagged a notable factor dislocation on September 9: the US momentum factor (GSPRHIMO) is up 7%, while the comparable EU high beta momentum basket gained less than 3% over 2 days.
That divergence is sharp even accounting for normal US/Europe factor spread. Within the US momentum move, semis are higher and software is lower, suggesting the rotation is sector-specific rather than a broad risk-on lift.
The EU momentum basket's relative underperformance over the same window suggests the factor catch-up is a US-specific dynamic rather than a global reflation trade.
@Broadcom reaffirms $115bn/$230bn FY27/FY28 AI revenue targets as constraint shifts from demand to power and permitting.
Broadcom's Hock Tan reaffirmed FY27/FY28 AI revenue targets of $115bn and $230bn at the @GoldmanSachs Communacopia Technology Conference Day 1, September 9, 2026.
The message: demand isn't the problem anymore. The constraint has explicitly shifted to physical infrastructure, specifically power, permitting and data-centre construction timelines.
Eaton US Data Center Backlog Grows to 307 GW, or 15 Years of Build Backlog at 2025 Rates
Eaton Corp reported that its total US data center backlog has grown to 307 gigawatts, equivalent to 15 years of backlog at 2025 build rates, up from 12 years in its last update.
Only roughly 20% of this backlog converts near term, with the majority translating to 2028 and beyond deliveries.
@CrowdStrike's SafeMind cuts AI security query cost to $0.03 vs. $10 for frontier models, a 99% reduction
At Fal.Con 2026, CrowdStrike introduced SafeMind, described by @GoldmanSachs as the clearest example of the company moving from AI security vision to product architecture.
SafeMind is built on CrowdStrike's Cyber Superintelligence Lab, which takes @Nvidia Nemotron open-source and open-weight models and trains them on CrowdStrike's 15+ year history of kill chain datapoints and human reinforcement labelled data.
Specifically, remediations with SafeMind now cost as little as $0.03 per query, versus frontier models at $10/query, a 99% reduction in cost per the report. CrowdStrike plans to monetize SafeMind through token packs supported by Falcon Flex.
Goldman Sachs argues that domain-specific SLMs may offer a more compelling value proposition to enterprises than frontier models, as pairing LLM foundations with proprietary domain-specific training data can yield better results.