Recent market sentiment shows AI investing strategies outperforming traditional fund management, with S&P 500 tech constituents leading gains by an average of 2.4% over the past week. Analysts forecast AI-driven portfolio selection could enhance quarterly returns by 5–8% amid rising semiconductor demand. And despite all the economic downturns that have occurred since, not one has remotely recalled the ferocity of the Great Depression, said Lynch. “We had a lot of tests. We had many opportunities to have a big one. We’ve had bad presidents, bad Congresses, but we made it through.” Besides, Reddit is aware of the problem of losing user engagement to the encroachment of AI answer engines and is pursuing creative ways to get around it. If AI systems are becoming less reliant on Reddit inputs, one strategy is to make Reddit content even more useful and, in turn, valuable. Quantitative AI investing scripts predicted a short-term rally in European semiconductor companies, mapping sector earnings beats to price action within a ±1% error margin.