DBS Bank says the global AI arms race is driving a multi-year capex supercycle extending beyond semiconductors into energy, networking, infrastructure and data centres. The bank expects AI spending, sovereign AI investments and rising power demand to create new investment opportunities while reshaping portfolio allocation amid persistent inflation and geopolitical risks.

What is often framed as a race to develop smarter AI models is, in practice, a massive industrial expansion. Data centers require dense clusters of advanced chips,...

Macquarie expects the AI investment boom to unwind through a series of "rolling bubbles" rather than a single crash, as different segments of the AI ecosystem heat up and cool…