Berkshire Hathaway bought up more VeriSign shares as the final days of 2024 ticked away. Warren Buffett’s company paid $15.6 million from Dec. 26 through Monday for 76,487 more shares of VeriSign, a provider of internet domain-name registry services.

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) owns a stock portfolio worth roughly $300 billion with about four dozen individual stocks in it. Legendary stock-picker Warren Buffett himself hand-selected many of them,

Warren Buffett went a buying spree in late December, purchasing VeriSign stock in multiple sessions through Dec. 24.

Excitement about artificial intelligence (AI) has driven market gains this year, and investors have piled into companies developing or using the technology -- from chip designer Nvidia to electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla.