AI News: AI Could Make Stocks Obsolete, Driving Investors to Bitcoin, Analyst Warns

Key Takeaways:AI will compress innovation cycles, making public companies inefficient long-term investments, says analyst Jordi Visser.Bitcoin, as a “belief” asset like gold, may outlast equities and become the dominant store of value.Eric Trump predicts BTC could reach $1 million as corporations and nations increasingly adopt it as a treasury reserve.AI may disrupt traditional equity investingArtificial intelligence will accelerate innovation cycles so rapidly that public companies may struggle to deliver sustainable returns, making stocks a poor investment compared to Bitcoin, according to Jordi Visser, president of Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers.“If the innovation cycle is now sped up to weeks, we are in a video game where your company never hits escape velocity, and in that world, how do you invest? You don’t invest, you trade,” Visser told Anthony Pompliano in an interview on Saturday.Visser argued that Bitcoin outperforms stocks as a long-term store of value, because it operates as a belief system rather than an idea:“Bitcoin is a belief. Beliefs last longer than ideas. There are no companies in the S&P 500 from 100 BC; gold has been around since then. Bitcoin will be around for a long, long time.”He added that AI may compress centuries of progress into just a few years, creating further disruption across traditional finance.Bitcoin adoption accelerates among companiesWhile AI challenges the relevance of public companies, more corporations are moving reserves into Bitcoin. Firms are increasingly rebranding as pure-play Bitcoin treasuries, mirroring the early playbook of MicroStrategy.At the Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference in Hong Kong, Eric Trump predicted that BTC could hit $1 million per coin, citing adoption by nation-states, wealthy families, and corporations.“Companies are buying BTC directly as treasury assets,” he said, adding that the shift is siphoning capital from traditional equity markets into crypto.Bitcoin vs. gold as the next store of valueWith a market capitalization above $2.1 trillion, Bitcoin continues to gain ground against gold, which remains the benchmark safe-haven asset.Crypto industry leaders argue that Bitcoin’s borderless design, programmability, and ability to generate yield through DeFi give it an edge over gold in the long run.If adoption accelerates as predicted, Bitcoin could eventually overtake gold’s market cap and establish itself as the world’s dominant non-sovereign store of value.