PR

ShittyUsernane1222

I hope one day Palantir gets a proper PR campaign to un fuck their stock price.

ShittyUsernane1222

And it doesn't help that thiel/karp keep delivering one PR disaster after another. they seriously also need to work on their PR/Advertising techniques.

Fit_Significance8598

None of the deplorables will ever be invited to that ballroom nor ever set foot in it. I never understood why people adore celebrities who never will want to hang out with them and who they never will get to know personally, only the public image their PR machine creates.

EmbarrassedPart1256

I think a spike to put them on the map & then settling down to a level a few multiples higher than current valuation is reasonable, a lot like what happened to $CTM (although it's continuing to bleed, as they're not growing the business like $CAPS is). I keep going back to what happened to $OPEN a year ago, & I don't care if I'm crazy. With \~21M shares OS, a huge portion controlled by insiders/institutions, there can't be too many people along for the ride with me, even after dilution. The stock is barely even traded; a couple thousand of today's volume was from me, & I accidentally sold 1K too 🤣 damn Schwab interface & trying to trade while working. I really don't think the dilution risk is that high; they're approaching a self-sustaining (by organic cash flow) business & have had the debt in check for a while now. Who knows? Maybe they used the recent dilution to pay off some of their debt & are just dragging their feet on a PR about it. There haven't been going concerns in their ERs for a while now; check out [page 19 of the most recent one](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000887151/000143774926027150/caps20260630_10q.htm). Then again, I'm not really trying to sell you on this, but I appreciate you taking me seriously when I've gotten a lot of shade from this one in the past. There're a lot of way worse businesses on the NASDAQ with way better valuations than $CAPS'; that's where this starts, & I'm being greedy when others are fearful. I want 50-100K shares & hopefully can get there...

Substantial-Fun9958

OpenAi already fumbled with their contracts to the Trump administration's military strategy and yet they maintained a dominant market share. Most people dont give a shit about these bad PR. They used an app and now they're used to it. It's like how Netflix can now keep increasing their price of their stupid subscription and people just go along with it.

Techman659

Markerplier doing a pump and dump sounds crazy but if it turns out that way then that would be a big PR hit on him.

NappyDougOut

Shadow marketing is really not a new practice at all. Companies like Uber grew by creating campaigns and lobbies that elevated costs of owning cars & they advocated online heavily for restrictions on car ownership, like the downtown congestion fees in NYC as well in order to boost rideshare use. Companies hire marketing teams & PR bots as they lay off employees because it's a lot less expensive and more profitable than developing better and less costly to provide goods & services. Large corporations work hand in hand with social app platforms, celebrities, & "influencer personalities" to create & deploy complex psychologically manipulative ads, many large platforms know exactly what is going on, they only stop it when there is no profit for them involved. These huge companies have many employees that even work to file complaints against individuals who post complains online now too -- for large companies and even governments now too, controlling online image & PR control has taken over the goal of actually being better at business & support. This is exactly why posting most complaints against large companies & policy on social apps feels totally powerless & falls flat now, and why companies no longer pay attention directly & respond "cordially" to consumer complaints, like they used to when apps like Twitter were new. The social app ecosystem is so large & there is so much money involved, there's no way for it to operate fairly, uncontrolled, & transparently.

thoughterly

The wording of the PR was odd and the proxy statement doesn't seem to have been released yet. If you assume the 10% is a legitimate undiluted holding, then it's worth something. But no one knows how much since Starman is private.

New_Ad_1682

Bloomberg was kinda like that too this morning, though more subdued. British John was all, "Data Centers have the worst PR of any advancement I've ever seen. No one complains about how much water and energy golf courses use." After Mango went all in, I think the message got the the media.

Pristine_Afternoon96

Any reason for it tanking in the first place. The PR looked very good

Ok_Ground9015

When good and very good PR doesn't help, because the market baboon ass red. 

SteakEater137

Seeing an abnormal amount of data center propaganda all of a sudden claiming that they wont be using up power or resources, costs outweigh the benefits, so on and so forth repeated talking points Listen, part of my job is involved with connecting upcoming data centers to the grid. I can see all the equipment thats going to be used, where theyre going to go, what needs to modified, etc. So this is straight up PR bullshit lol Using AI drum up support for data centers for more AI is so dystopian and yet it's basically a guarantee that it's happening.

gran_lexu

Have you heard about Lamine Yamal and Messi? Spain and Argentina? You can re-check World Cup and see which brand won. Mbappe is leaving Nike, btw. Vinicius has a super bad PR overall. Nike is not winning football right now, sorry to say.

JC_Hysteria

It’s tongue-in-cheek, because they know it impacts their business from a strategy lens…all while their *PR* strategy literally calls for their competitors \[in attentive hours\] to “join them in supporting teens”

betonneron

Thanks, went and tested the concrete stuff instead of just nodding. The 50% profit target actually made things worse, return roughly halved and drawdown went up. It only trims the winners, and the settlement losers still ride out at full width, so it was the wrong lever. On the worst-days point, you were dead right. The ten worst days outweigh the entire net profit, and 2024 was basically flat while 2025 did almost all the work. The clean curve was hiding that. I also checked the event-day idea and got a surprise: only 2 of the 10 worst days were FOMC days. So a Fed-day filter wouldn't have saved the tail, most of the damage is ordinary reversal days. What did work was adding a 2x-credit stop and dropping the inverse-vol doubling for flat one-lot sizing. Drawdown fell from 16% to about 3%, Sharpe went 0.89 to 1.30. Lower total return, but a lot cleaner per unit of risk. Turns out the problem was never the winners, it was no stop plus sizing up in the calmest tape. Results: [https://tradelunatic.com/s/Sq13PR61Z4-hWpKRJckzEQ](https://tradelunatic.com/s/Sq13PR61Z4-hWpKRJckzEQ)

TrumpsCummyOnahole

I'm thinking of doing this after getting PR, what are some of the pitfalls of this? I imagine it'd be hard to get a mortgage, credit card, etc... after retiring and having no work income. Unless you can show your brokerage tax return investments as income.

roke34442

The POET bag holders think September is going to be great. The company put out a PR that said they were going to make an announcement in September. Now that’s the kind of PR that should make the price pop. /S

ButtonNo7686

Yup that’s how it used to be in most places I went to but for the last 2-3 years they’re priced much higher and a lot of MENA + Muslim Asian region countries are boycotting Israel related goods & services (the funny thing is McDonalds has no Israel association but at the beginning of the war their Israeli franchisee said they would donate free meals to the Israeli military for as long as the war continues, which caused such a PR backlash for McDonalds that the parent company ended up buying back everything from the franchisee). I think that part of the world accounts for a decent portion of income, probably around 13-15% but their prices in the EU are what turns me off from going into the stock, with the struggles most people in EU are having with inflation and wage stagnation in the region I don’t think their sales will be any good.

eightbitfit

Look at it this way: Why would a country want you to stay forever if you cannot secure work substantial enough to get a solid work visa? By to be frank many of us long term PR holders transition from a marriage visa. Have family makes a big difference in many ways. Flying solo can be tough.

eightbitfit

I have had PR so nice 2009.

Stylux

Look at any Japanese or English article in the past year regarding PR restrictions. In another comment you even said, "PR was easy at the time \[a decade ago\]." Ok, what am I missing?

Stylux

Look at any Japanese or English article in the past year regarding PR restrictions. In another comment you even said, "PR was easy at the time \[a decade ago\]." Ok, what am I missing?

eightbitfit

I was married before moving to Japan. Lived here a few times. 20 years ago I got a job offer from an international finance firm over the phone and took it. Those deals died with the GFC. PR was easy at the time with over ten years marriage and a family, years of living here, and a high paying career.

Stylux

It's not even a safe bet you get to keep your PR even if you're married with how quickly the tide is turning over there and the country is run by morons. The latter part isn't anything new though.

eightbitfit

Retired with PR myself. Here 20+ years now and not going back.

SanDisk_Made_Me_Rich

From a value perspective it's totally brain dead idea... the moment you shoot a billion dollars of server racks into orbit you’re stuck with unserviceable setup and consumer and server chips like vera are not radiation hardened so you're talking about a lot of extra weight for all the shielding. To me this is just another Elon Musk PR stunt.

ReindeerTypical2538

Nike is just one rebrand away from relevancy. If they can accept a winning PR campaign that’s more modern, they’ll come back. If they don’t, they’ll continue a slow death.

MtGloomy0420

Guarantee not one share or dollar of that “$300M share buyback” will get executed on. Thats just public PR lies to try and move the stock price.

EmbarrassedPart1256

Going into September, you may want to check out $CAPS. $CTM was flat-lined just like this, @ \~$.18-.20 for months, with nothing but good news. I saw value (& an explosive share structure) where others saw nothing. $CTM’s sentiment on ST was also pretty down in the dumps at that time. [I think $CAPS’ business is a lot stronger than $CTM’s too](https://www.reddit.com/r/pennystocks/s/tONtXPgM62). I’ve been DCAing for a bit now, since the earnings selloff, trying to only average down & not get too carried away with shares so cheap. It’s interesting when the ask disappears sometimes & goes from, say, $.1885 to $.20. *That thin trading & hollow order book is the same thing I saw in $CTM.* Breaking key levels on bullish sentiment & allowing them to convert the rest of their debt would lead to a legendary PR, as would getting over $1 in terms of NASDAQ compliance. It’s very similar to $OPEN’s setup IMO. (I think they’re trying to trigger NASDAQ MVLS noncompliance too, which I saw would *not* mean immediate delisting for now, so it’d be another cure period at play)

PaperHandsTheDip

PR's on github are up \~1400% since mid 2025, driven by agentic programming. If that isn't a signal to you, idk what is. Commits & LOC tends to be a "shitty" metric, but in real world output I'm seeing a massive increase in productivity. Computer science is very theoretical... CS itself is basically a math degree. I wrote very little code when I was studying it, it's all theory. Of course AI isn't going to help the theorists that much (although that's starting to prove false too - ie, see how much it's impacting the mathematics field). For more evidence of impacts - look at entry level jobs & layoffs in the sector. Entry level jobs are more or less non-existent in the sector anymore, and layoffs have increased. It's being driven by productivity gains...

Vast_Dare8583

They do, but I honestly think that was just smart PR and they'll be flying Athletes into the stadiums with the world watching. Expect a pop in stock price then for sure.

renothedog

I’m sure US Oil producers are thrilled. LOoking at you PR

SignificanceLate7002

OWL just put out PR for $2.4b financing deal with IREN. Not sure if that was known about already.

lookingforfoldie

these things can do something but so far they are not even close to what PR had been pushing . 

trustfundkidotaku

Ikr beyond meat PR must be regarded

old_copper_kettle

This has nothing to do with snowflake v chud mentality stuff, it’s just an all around PR disaster from anyone who sees it short of maybe manosphere clowns.

-CaduceusRex

Hey not saying they're about to moon or anything, but if you're good with price action take a look at the $AAME chart. Really curious movement over the the last day. There was a compliance PR but if anything I would think it would have a neutral or slightly negative effect on immediate share price. Subsequently, they have gone to zero borrow. Make of this what you will but it's acting decidedly weird and, for me, a weird \~4M Float is worth watching. https://preview.redd.it/vtev9b32nylh1.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=077d823e5a8371c1fa8385bed5ce9b3b1ad571d2

Vlisa

Zitron is a PR guy who found his niche in being the the anti AI voice. (And there absolutely is an audience.) He has been saying the bubble is going to burst everyday for years. He has no positions though so he can hand-wave it and push back his bubble date as long as he wants. Maybe he is eventually right, but since there is no set timeline he can wait as long as he wants before claiming victory. You could have gone heavy into semis in 2022 and you would have been up huge. Meanwhile if you had bet against semi since then by taking positions according to Zitron you would be down tremendously. Getting the timing wrong is the same as being wrong. As an investor you take all the risk and Zitron has none because he can move the goalposts where he wants. I want to stress, I inherently dislike sell-side analysts/grifters like Tom Lee or Zitron. Their only job is to appear on talk-shows that retail watches and help shape the narrative of the day to sell commercials. No one ever holds them accountable if they are wrong because it doesn't matter if they are right or wrong. As long as they have an audience who hear the things they want to hear they will continue to exist like leeches.

hombredesal

Adding to this — We are waiting for updates on three distinct government procurement tracks for $LASE’s LSAD product: MEIA Vulcan Call for Solutions (technical exchange stage; no news since June 2026 AFAIK), SOCOM (live testing seemed to be successful based on today’s PR), and Shaw Air Force Base Battle Lab (pitch session will be conducted no later than 9/14/26). The price fell over the summer due to the combination of a lack of news and new warrant inducements from earlier in the year that went live.

SPAC_Time

[Alpha Modus Advances Transaction to Add More Than $200 Million in Bitcoin Assets to Its Balance Sheet](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/27/3352031/0/en/alpha-modus-advances-transaction-to-add-more-than-200-million-in-bitcoin-assets-to-its-balance-sheet.html) \- AMOD AMODW Looks like AMOD is now essentially a Bitcoin treasury company. PR skips the details, but they also filed an 8-K. [On August 26, 2026, Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) ](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1862463/000149315226040333/form8-k.htm#:~:text=On%20August%2026%2C%202026%2C%20Alpha%20Modus%20Holdings%2C%20Inc)entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “SPA”) with **the non-U.S. investors named therein** (the “Investors”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Investors, and the Investors agreed to purchase from the Company, an aggregate of (i) **51,621,560 shares of Class A Common Stock** (the “Shares”), and (ii) **warrants to purchase an additional 51,621,560 shares for a $4.36/share exercise price** (the “Warrants”), **for an aggregate purchase price consisting of 3,170 bitcoin** (such transaction the “PIPE Financing”). **51,621,560** shares @ $4.36 = $225,070,001 worth of stock 225,070,001 divided by 3170 = $71,000 per bitcoin. If the other 51.6 million warrants ever get exercised, AMOD gets another $225 million in cash. AMOD had 4,876,593 shares outstanding on July 28, 2026, and [8,426,593 shares of common stock assuming the issuance of all 3,550,000 of the Pre-Paid Purchase Shares](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1862463/000149315226035003/form424b1.htm#:~:text=8%2C426%2C593%20shares%20of%20common%20stock%20assuming%20the%20issuance%20of%20all%203%2C550%2C000%20of%20the%20Pre%2DPaid%20Purchase%20Shares) registered for resale on July 28. So it looks like 60 million total shares, 51.6 million are from the Bitcoin purchase at $71k per BTC, or roughly 86% of the outstanding stock is the BTC purchase PIPE. "Management further believes the transaction should be evaluated based on the value of the Bitcoin assets being added to the Company’s balance sheet relative to the consideration issued in the transaction, rather than the issuance of securities in isolation."

-M-o-X-

Is it too tin foily to think of these “omg AI so scary” stories about it hacking through the own company are all PR but the instance of Hugging Face getting attacked was not and this is a bit of a cover to make sure no more details pop out?

aphel_ion

There’s plenty of power, it’s just a matter of rerouting it from residential homes to AI data centers. Really it’s just a PR problem if you think about.

stockratic

From the PR: "Our target is break-even, profitability, and a cash-positive operating position by the second quarter of 2027." In a YouTube interview I included in a recent prior post, the CEO stated breakeven to profitable by the end of 2026 to Q1 2027. So, I believe "**BY** the second quarter" leaves him some execution room, he will surely be trying to over-deliver and likely means by April 1. In any event, you are correct, they will have losses. The current share price currently indicates about an $11M MC. It's an issue of interpretation and outlook but in my book, under the circumstances, that is very undervalued. The old saying is that the stock market values stocks 6 months ahead. Here's a company that is in very recent growth mode by the acquisition that afforded them 800 more customers to sell their cybersecurity solutions to (this is huge; no money/time spent prospecting; just presentations) and the $54M 10-year deal closing. And their current pipeline is very strong in addition. I want to buy a stock before the market values it in January 2027 and sends it much higher based on the outlook through Q2 and even Q3 2027 -- and I have done so. **More importantly at this time**, is the DFNS comparison that is worth paying attention to. Reverse split on July 20. From their Q2 10-Q, they had 758,660 shares outstanding on July 20 right after they did the reverse split (super low). CYCU will have a very low \~3.23M (25.8M/8) shares post-split. I queried AI to calculate the float per the 10-Q and it said 19.46M shares, so divide by 8 for the split yields only 2.43M shares of float. **Reverse split dynamics for CYCU could easily function in a similar fashion as DFNS did.** Q2 **DFNS** had about $7M liquid assets, Q2 operating loss of $(7M), Q2 burn rate $(9.79M). Today, with 1.66M outstanding shares (as of Aug 14) and a $12 share price, their MC is $20M. I'd argue CYCU is in a much better growth position, and their MC should be far higher than $20M now.

probablydeadsooon


yourfanboynick

$VRRM hertz PR

Senior-Purchase-538

Not here to really convince anyone, just share my conviction and setups I like. This one needs the positive PR to explode. At least I'm in before bliss gets procured or not. We will see. Things are lining up fairly well so far.

YTLupo

Or that they lie and most of the PR out of china is state side approved

sundaypleas

Add up the sociology + marketing department budgets of every university in the US, along with mass psychology, and consider this is what's spent every year, to train those students in understanding and manipulating consumer behavior. And that's before a single dime is spent on traditional or online marketing & PR. These companies don't spend billions of dollars for shits & grins.

Senior-Purchase-538

Shorts often flock to names that had a big pop and a dilutive raise. They also tend to overstay their welcome out of greed. But as you say aswell, they can be right betting it's going down. Defsec had two raises now, one in june at US$2.63 and one in August at $2.04 after announcing that us army trials are progressing. I bought it at $1.65, pretty clear discount to both $2.04 and $2.63 where institutional money placed their bets. However, this does need the bliss evaluation end of this month to sail fairly smooth as it has done so far. Until then, it'll be choppy. Another positive PR and it'll pop in my opinion.

makeaccidents

PR article. It'll literally just burn money for them to sell their next grift idea.

Tea-Swiz

As a techie the whole "AI data centers in space" pisses me off. Sure, it sounds cool, but runs into physics problems that don't get solved by better PR. Here's the facts: **Heat rejection:** No air in vacuum means no convection. The only way to shed heat is radiation, which is far less efficient. That means huge radiator surface area per rack of compute, adding mass and fragility to every launch. **Radiation hardening:** Cosmic radiation causes bit flips and degrades chips over time. You either shield heavily (more mass/cost) or accept shorter lifespans, and there's no tech to swap a failed node like on Earth. **No servicing:** Terrestrial DCs stay competitive by constantly refreshing hardware. In orbit, a failed unit is dead weight until the satellite deorbits. You're stuck with whatever generation you launched, in an industry where hardware ages out in 2-3 years. You think RAM and GPU prices are our of control now? Just wait. And the delivery problem is still unsolved. SpaceX just moved its orbital data center timeline up to Q4 2027, but Starship, the rocket meant to carry these payloads, still hasn't reached the orbit needed and has only landed its booster so far. Even Wall Street (JPMorgan) is modeling real scale as a 2029+ thing, timeline announcement notwithstanding. Might make sense for niche cases eventually, but as a real alternative to terrestrial DCs, the thermodynamics and maintainability problems are the actual obstacle, not funding or hype. This business model, at this point in time, is absolute horse shit.

mrmrmrj

The issue with Remington is that many banks got bullied into not working with gun companies. Bankruptcy is always a financing issue. The PE owner also failed to find a buyer due to the bad juju of guns at the time. Other PE firms did not want the potential PR headache.

TheKaiserAlpha

September is just August with better PR

Vlisa

Zuck hires a whole ass PR firm to make him more likeable and fails. Meanwhile he is handed an easy PR win with the stranded boat and then throws it away. And he wonders why people think he is a lizard-person

KB_Sez

Good start. It seems to be Burger King's main PR campaign focus right now. Best thing they could do is publicly say they will not buy any of trump's mystery ground beef

SuitableChapter1

That’s a pretty dated view of the company. Victoria’s Secret wasn’t founded by Les Wexner. It’s not part of L Brands anymore. Wexner left the board in 2020, the company went public in 2021, and virtually the entire leadership team from that era is gone. The board is different, the executives are different, the current CEO wasn’t running Victoria’s Secret during the Wexner era, and the company has spent the last several years loudly pushing diversity, inclusion, and broader representation in both leadership and marketing. Whether you think that’s genuine or corporate PR is a separate conversation. You can dislike the brand all you want, but acting like buying something from Victoria’s Secret in 2026 is somehow supporting Wexner doesn’t really make sense. At this point you’re talking about a company with different leadership, different governance, different ownership, and a completely different corporate structure. The logo is basically the only thing that survived.

fastlapp

So BRUN issued redemption notice in July that warrants would be redeemed last Thursday, 8/20. But the warrants continue to trade. No PR or filing indicating the redemption was extended afaik.

Ok_Ad_9305

New PR this morning. Starting phase 2 of patent program and audit nearing completion and form 10 will be filed before the end of q3... https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/24/3349643/0/en/american-ecofuels-inc-otc-aefi-launches-phase-2-intellectual-property-expansion-program-for-gtl-and-ctl-technology-platforms.html

Prestigious-Duck-189

That’s the most ignorant thing I’ve ever read. If you look into all their PR’s, calls and filings you’ll conclude the same. Please let me know if you can find a genuine beat thesis because I didn’t see one in almost two years time.

Outlier_Economist

They didn’t stop the mRNA trial. The readout is a planned readout and the trial is continuing. From the PR: “At a pre-specified interim analysis, intismeran in combination with KEYTRUDA as adjuvant therapy demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in RFS and DMFS compared to KEYTRUDA alone for patients with completely resected stage IIB, IIC, III or IV cutaneous melanoma who had not undergone prior treatment with systemic therapy. In accordance with the trial protocol, the study will continue in order to evaluate other key secondary endpoints, including overall survival (OS).” https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/20260819675697/merck-and-moderna-announce-phase-3-interpath-001-trial-of-intismeran-autogene-plus-keytruda-met-endpoints-of-recurrence-free-survival-rfs-and-distant-metastasis-free-survival-dmfs-in-patients-with-completely-resected-stage-iib-iv-melanoma

More_Advertising_383

Brother… share price is up 500% since the 72 event PR on 12/26. It already has skyrocketed.

Prestigious-Duck-189

SLS just started it’s next run up. Last time it took it from $5 to $15.80. This time we should see $15 (current SP) to $25-$30,-. In case of possitive PR (imminent) I’m expecting a halt and a continuation somewhere in the $50-$100 range. Exciting times!

Ok_Ad_9305

As soon as we get the PR about the audit being done and the filing of the form 10 we'll see some movement. Also waiting to hear if we got any takers from the offtake agreement meetings and also waiting to hear who they chose to build their test facility. All those will make it move.

2020isgreat

AI PR would be so much better if they replaced Dario and Altman with a Jensen

2020isgreat

OpenAI and Anthropic's entire PR strategy being to doom post Why are citizens opposing our data centers???

AFGummy

Yes melanoma is aggressive but it’s also often caught early when it’s very treatable and newer treatments including Keytruda have dramatically improved survival rates. It’s no longer a death sentence even at stage IV disease. I surmise your wife is like a OBGYN or something along those lines. Certainly not a dermatologist or oncologist or she would surely know this. Everyone in medicine has tragic stories including myself. Doesn’t make the statistical evidence (or lack thereof) any less of a fact. Is it promising? yes. Is it worth 40 billion? Nothing they’ve shown so far suggests that. It was a one year trial with the end points of recurrence and distant met free survival of which the survival rates are quite good with Keytruda depending on stage. A “statistically significant” 1 year RFS may be like a month. Only getting 30 days more before a metastasis pops up isn’t exactly something to jump and down for. I find it odd they haven’t released any hard data but were willing to come out and say they met endpoints. Feels like a PR move before the reality of the data.

lukesmit695


2020isgreat

OpenAI and Anthropic tanking AI PR for fun lmfao

Just-Joshinya

It’s an attempt to manipulate the market with PR. Neither of us are incorrect, it’s just what issue you are looking at. The reality is this (in my opinion) the administration is going to do whatever it takes to bolster the station Market before the midterms. It’s really their only talking point. They know this. This move, like You say, is net neutral, in appearance upfront. But as we saw today, the bond market isn’t impressed. If I’m not Not mistaken, there is something like 400 billion coming due in the next 6 weeks. Buying 4 billion isn’t shit. The market sees this. In the credit card analogy, you were focused on the rate. Here’s the reason the analogy works. The mortgage is on a 750,000 house. They payed the mortgage with the credit card. The credit card has a 10,000 limit.

HystericalSail

Because 4 billion is a mouse fart in a hurricane when the backdrop is 40 trillion of USG debt. Treasury is wanting to sell more than that just to paper over the burgeoning budget deficit. Now, if he said they'd do a 100 billion x 8 long bond buy? That might attract some attention. Thinking about it overnight had people catch on that this is just a PR stunt. But of course, if they announced a meaningful move no amount of overnight rate cuts would keep money market funds from blowing out.

Many_Appeal1184

At this point CNC might be calling your PR department

deliriousfoodie

100% I been saying this. Zuck stole Facebook, bought successful companies, took the credit for it, BUT, for his own projects failed at 100% of them. Remember facebook phone? WTF is this delusional cartoon thats lower quality than 20 year old video games? And you spent how much? And you sued hawaiians off their land so you can have a bunker away from people who you think are stupid? and you need to pay PR to make you look like a bro because everyone laugh at his alien physique. Add this all up, I know of no bitch greater than Zuck

Sober_Alcoholic_

Banks like blue owl will fund it and hoard cheap private shares until they go public. Then they can unload their bags on retail. They’re in too deep now, it’s full send on accounting tricks, circular financing, narratives and PR until Anthropic and ChatGPT IPO.

NervousChemistry7401

Micron PR day not working.

Limp_Career6634

Those constant leaks are part of their promotion strategy. Always been this way. They make much more on negative PR historically.

NiewinterNacht

Yes, that was also possible with the earlier leak. But the broader public can't play it, consoles are locked down. This isn't the first leak for a game that has happened, there's not going to be an early release. If anything, this is great PR.

Ok_Cry7572

$MRNA The company makes a positive PR, releases no data, at all, no overall survival benefit listed in a very small therapeutic area of a treatable cancer Goes on a massive PR push, CNBC, NYT, and since it’s shorted it goes parabolic, generalists rush in, now does retail? The real question is does it work in other disease states and will people wait years to find out? Retail has no idea what they’re talking about but “cancer vaccine” "AI cures cancer” is an easy concept

JoseLunaArts

A badly written comic character. Even Skeletor helped some kids in a Christmas special. I have not seen him or his wife visiting a hospital to bring relief to patients. or giving a prothesis to a disabled, even if it was for PR hypocrisy purposes.

oneeyedziggy

I used to assume he must because any sane PR person would make corrections and sanitize / just not post it, but he's long since surrounded himself with cronies 

greyenlightenment

feels bad when realizes you could have bought modera at the open and captured the same gains as b4 the PR and selling at open.

idkuhhhhhhh5

The problem is that the market it serves is, at its core, not the people they’re trying to sell it to. Vegan/Vegetarian people have a decent selection of food already, their advertising specifically is how it’s “just as good” as meat, as a meat substitute, for meat eaters. They did that whole collab thing with Burger King for that reason. The amount of people considering going vegan/vegetarian who currently eat meat is pretty small, and when you start pushing that as the core audience, you instead just end up with negative PR from the rest of the meat-eating crowd, and indifference from the vegan community. It’s exactly how car manufacturers have made the same mistake. Tesla broke into the EV market strong, GM has sold a pretty decent amount of Blazer EVs, and there are 5.5mil to 6mil EVs on the road in the US. You know how many Dodge Charger EVs have been sold? In total? In two years? About 8,000. Nobody who wants an EV wants a Dodge Charger EV, and nobody who wants a Dodge Charger wants an EV.

Vincent_van_Guh

Incredibly generous of META to give up it's early gains day after day.   Must be part of a PR campaign.

stockratic

EDIT was made soon after this post was made, in the Share Price section, under the 8/4 PR subsection.

FuckleUp

Let’s play Occum’s Razor !🪒 🥭 out of the blue announces a halt on 🇨🇦 tariffs primarily regarding Keystone oil pipeline. The razor indicates 🥭 received some very very bad economic news about oil spiking and this is his PR about local oil. Or simply he’s attacking 🇮🇷 Razor also says buy calls because ‘tard market gonna ‘tard

Dew_Dilligence

# Summary of AIXC’s News Today On **August 18, 2026**, AIxC Holdings, Inc. (**NASDAQ: AIXC**) released a major PR announcement detailing a fundamental pivot in its corporate strategy: 1. **Abandoning Digital Assets:** The company announced it is moving away from its "Digital Asset Treasury" (DAT) strategy and will orderly liquidate its crypto holdings. 2. **Pivot to Physical AI & Robotics:** AIXC is refocusing its capital and operations entirely on building a "Physical AI" and robotics commercialization ecosystem. 3. **The Catalyst Headline ("RoboShare"):** The core driver of today's press release was the claim that their online rental platform, **RoboShare**, completed its **"first paid commercial order"** on August 15, marking its transition from development into commercial operations. # How AIXC Ties In with Faraday Future ($FFAI) AIXC and Faraday Future are deeply interconnected through **shared strategic initiatives, cross-promotional ecosystems, and complex financing deals**: * **The $12M Investment & Tokenization Deal:** Earlier this year, AIXC acted as the facilitator for a designated investor (Gold King Arthur Holding Limited) to execute an amended **$12 million Securities Purchase Agreement with Faraday Future**. This agreement involved purchasing FFAI common and preferred stock, as well as warrants tied to the delivery of Faraday's FX Super One vehicles. * **Web3 / Real-World Asset (RWA) Integration:** AIXC’s core pitch has been using its crypto/blockchain architecture to "tokenize" Faraday's equity and physical assets (like vehicles and robotics) into Real-World Asset (RWA) tokens. * **Shared "Embodied AI" Narrative:** Both companies rely heavily on identical buzzwords—*"Embodied AI," "Physical AI," "Open-Source Robotics,"* and *"Decentralized Edge Devices"*. They frequently cross-promote each other's updates to validate their respective pivots toward robotics. # Should This News Be Taken with a Grain of Salt? **Yes—with an entire salt shaker.** While the headline reads like a major operational turning point, examining the financial reality underneath reveals massive red flags: 1. **The "First Paid Order" Fluff:** Micro-caps frequently use the *"first commercial paid order"* PR tactic to imply market validation. The filing does not disclose the dollar value of this order. In many micro-cap cases, a "first paid order" can literally be a single $500 rental transaction arranged between friendly parties to generate a press release headline. 2. **Zero Historical Revenue:** Financial metrics show AIXC carried **$0 in reported revenue** over the trailing twelve months, a **GF Score of 25/100**, and negative operating cash flows. 3. **Abandoning Crypto at the Bottom:** AIXC previously touted its "Digital Asset Treasury" as a core pillar. Liquidating crypto holdings to chase the latest market buzzword ("Embodied AI / Physical Robotics") is a classic indicator of **trend-chasing corporate survival** rather than a well-funded, organic business expansion. # Was AIXC’s Price Movement Suspicious? **Yes, today's price action displayed classic signs of an engineered micro-cap "pump and dump" (or headline liquidity trap).** # 1. The Sudden Morning Spike (The Pump) * **Pre-Market / Open:** AIXC closed yesterday around **$0.71**. * **10:45 AM – 11:00 AM:** Following the 9:54 AM press release, the stock exploded upwards by **over +320%**, reaching a high of **$3.14 to $3.26** on massive volume (over 65 million shares traded on a micro-cap). # 2. The Afternoon Collapse (The Dump) * **11:25 AM onward:** Immediately after hitting $3.00+, the stock faced aggressive market sell orders. * **Close / After-Hours:** By the regular session close at 4:00 PM, the stock crashed back down to **$1.32**, giving back more than two-thirds of its gains in a matter of hours. In after-hours trading, it drifted even lower toward **$1.23**. # 3. Why It Looks Suspicious / Engineered * **Volume Out of Nowhere:** Trading 65+ million shares on a company with no prior revenue and a tiny market cap indicates intense algorithmic and momentum-chasing participation. * **The "Exit Liquidity" Pattern:** The parabolic vertical spike straight into a relentless afternoon fade is the textbook footprint of insiders, warrants, or early noteholders using a high-visibility press release as **exit liquidity** to sell their shares directly into incoming retail buy orders. # Bottom Line AIXC's news and price action closely mirror the playbook used by Faraday Future ($FFAI): **using high-concept PR headlines ("Robotics," "First Commercial Order," "Embodied AI") to manufacture a sudden intraday volume spike, which is then immediately used as liquidity by sellers before the stock fades back down.**

_kuremensu

Or 4. It’s just PR. It could easily be a headline about a target that has existed as planned since day 0 (and their PR squad is on point).

Grandmaparty

Institutions have been buying. Retail is tired of getting fucked by their failure and their lies. They need the PR for retail.

Geteamwin

There hasn't been a specific PR, just the announcement during earnings. A seperate PR likely will come with the finalized details. That being said, it'd just be algos responding to it, I don't think institutions are waiting for the PR here. If they're waiting at this point they'll be watching for the specific details provided by Japan.

DoinIt4DaShorteez

**Kaplan Fox Broadens Its Investigation of Alignment Healthcare, Inc. (ALHC) for Possible Securities Law Violations** *On July 8, 2026, news emerged that a former Alignment Healthcare executive had filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the Company engaged in "accounting irregularities" that "artificially inflated" Alignment Healthcare's previously reported and projected financial results, including "Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA"), a key non-GAAP financial metric central to the Company's reported financial performance and executive compensation structure." According to the lawsuit "millions of dollars in operating expenses had been systematically misclassified as capital expenditures."* *Following this news, on July 8, 2026, the price of Alignment Healthcare stock fell $4.02 per share, or 16.7%, to close at $20.03 per share.* There's nothing in the main body of the PR that looks different from their other ones, or that says what "broadening" means. And there's nothing in any of them that says what their "investigation" consists of. Sounds like hyperbole, I don't know why use of the word "broadening" would extra-scare someone who already knew they're trying to put together a class action. Maybe it was the first time some people heard about it. Or maybe something completely else happened. Their website has a list of their suits and "investigations" and some of them have a "Join Investigation" button which goes to a form where you just put in your contact info. So in that sense, "broadening its investigation" could be construed as nothing more than: A) putting out more press releases B) a few more people gave them contact info https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/309856/Kaplan-Fox-Broadens-Its-Investigation-of-Alignment-Healthcare-Inc.-ALHC-for-Possible-Securities-Law-Violations

Sea_Ad4791

At this rate the stock might go below 1 USD before their Sept deadline. Shorters are having a field day. CXAI surely needs a better PR Team.

davewritescode

Not likely until there’s a change in macro. We have a uniquely bad set of circumstances that’s likely to put bearish pressure on the markets. 1. Inflation has been rampant for 5 years and the consumer is completely tapped out. The current administration has only added to the to the fire. Consumers and tapped out and business are laying off while demand cools. 2. Oil prices are at risk, we’ve been able to mitigate energy prices short term but without a long term plan we’re 3. Interest rates are climbing even as the fed holds rates meaning the fed will be forced to raise rates by the market 4. We have an administration that’s run completely on vibes and treats every problem as if it’s solvable with better PR. Until tariffs go away, we’re heading towards a bear market.

Proudrugby

Nahhh this is BS. They dropped the ball against competitors and still charge a premium. Nike is the Tesla of the trainers / clothing market. Early mover, loyal following and good PR / marketing. Now they're more players and better products in the space that's captured a huge market share, all while Nike still price their brand at a premium

NobodyGotTimeFuhDat

OP, you barely had any money to begin with. Also, look on the bright side: it’s not a total loss. You still have $0.35! You can donate it to a homeless person or something. 

derprondo

This is why you review every plan with a fresh context window, and review every PR with separate context as well.

Vlisa

idk about Altman, but iirc Zuck paid for a while PR campaign to make him more likeable last year. That's where we got the great clip of Zuck saying he doesn't drink coffee because he "prefers to rawdog life."

Novel-Camera-840

He actually did. For how much noise and PR he gets he acts like he beats SPY by 5x consistently but nope

shared_ptr

I have a feeling you likely struggled because you need to first build tools to work with this data and then skills and instructions around how to interpret it, then tools that the AI can use to verify it. There isn’t anything that is different from normal software engineering and the stuff you’re trying to do other than you having success criteria that isn’t encoded so that the model can read it. It’s like the equivalent of using Cursor to create a PR for an app; if you ask a model to just go for it, you’ll get something. But it only becomes really good when you setup Cursor with a full dev environment and seeded data plus a headless Chrome that the AI can use to fully test its output. I could be totally wrong but my experience with these models makes me more inclined to believe this is setup vs the models not being capable.

IntelligentMarch6827

Microsoft’s cloud offering sucks, and the core business is threatened because it’s all about seats that will be eliminated by AI. Their delivery of copilot hasn’t been a rousing success. Oracle is fully leveraged and the legacy business is predicated on high friction for customers which AI dramatically reduces.  Amazon is selling services but doesn’t own the IP. Google is vertically integrated. They own the facilities, models, applications, user accounts and gatekeepers for the internet.  They own the consumer AI journey end to end and deliver value with AI natively with Google.  They own pieces of Anthropic and SpaceX. When Claude wins, they win. When Grok sells capacity of PR nightmare dirty data centers, they win. They have  huge customer base that can easily consume enterprise AI APIs. The tech itself moves so quickly you need to think of the big picture. In January, Gemini was king. Today, Anthropic is the mindshare winner.

GregBahm

I feel like I'm living in a totally different reality from reddit this year. Certainly in 2024 or 2025, AI wasn't that big a deal. "Saving 15% off dev time" was a reasonable scope and limit. But here in 2026? Dude. I can do in days what used to take years. I got designers who will have the AI vomit up a design application for themselves because it takes less effort than going through the expense tool to buy Maya or After Effects or Photoshop or whatever. I've been managing PRs for my team for over a decade, but this year the process has become completely absurd. Giving someone a note in a PR is like telling someone to google something for you. It's invariably faster to just have the AI do everything stem to stern. The only reason to lie about this is to get upvotes on reddit, but upvotes on reddit ain't all that valuable...

Upset-Motor-2602

Negative PR works, but I think all the high-profile departures from OpenAI probably spooked him.