PR

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.

DenimChicken50

Cancelled my sub last month because it became useless and I’d have to tell it to answer every prompt 2-3 times with useless info that’s generally wrong now. I requested my data be deleted yesterday cuz of Cami and haven’t heard back. I imagine I’m not the only one, esp when the app now provides zero value compared to Gemini Flash 3, lmao. Maybe it affects the stock, maybe it doesn’t. I can’t imagine it’ll be fun doing PR for Anthropic otw to IPO.

shared_ptr

Our engineering team really don’t write code anymore, we use Claude to do all of it. So we’re on Opus and Fable. The open source models aren’t as good but are catching up fast. It’s likely if you don’t feel they are that useful that either your codebase isn’t well configured to leverage the tools (my talk covers this, you need docs, good architectural patterns and investing in your toolchain) or you could get better at the prompting side (this is a real thing). Several times a day I’ll raise a PR from a message or thread in Slack via Cursor and it gets it right first time no additions needed, can just merge and done.

Scared_Brilliant6410

USA spending announces new contract awards all the time. It’s faster than waiting for companies to make a PR announcement.

SteakEater137

I work in an aspect of powering data centers and I can assure your rumors of "only 28% of planned data centers will be connected to the grid" is complete bullshit. They only say that for PR reasons, and as a partial-truth just to get them built before anyone can stop them. The reality is that will they **immediately** be connected to the grid? No, so theyll bring in those portable gas turbines and such. But there are absolutely plans to connect them to normal utility grids in the long term, its just that it takes a longer time to get the power lines and extra generation up. But theyre full of shit otherwise. Its way more expensive to have these inefficient and costly power generation sources like BE compared to just connecting to the local utilities, and data centers usage already burns through cash at an alarming rate. And yes, residential customers are going to have to deal with the rate increases down the line because of peak demand issues. Dont believe me? Look for example at the 20 year deal Microsoft made with Chevron recently to power their biggest data center, which will run primarily off of natural gas. And a lot of these utility connections are going up way faster than people think by the way, I personally can see their in-service dates due to my job, so...yeah. The market is retarded though and have wildly overvalued these neoclouds, which are a stopgap measure at best to get data centers powered before they start leeching off of conventional generation. You can make money off of them riding the euphoria, but buy at your own risk.

fomoandyoloandnogrow

A reckoning is coming for big tech. This surveillance state shit is bad PR

mightyblend

Yeah, I got hosed by that too. Took a bad hit. It was extra frustrating because all they had to do to keep that price going higher—albeit slowly—was like the *bare minimum* PR and they just... didn't.

SoloOutdoor

Calculated the cost of a PR bot in consumption. A million dollars a year in a small company. Devs are sending the entire codebase as context. Code created by bots, reviewed by bots and blanked approved by people who dont give a fuck anymore.

Consistent-Kale-8776

RDDT is all hype at this point its only an ad hoc inclusion in the sp500 sounds like a PR hype im throwing my bag lol

Possible-Highway5684

perimeter solutions ticker PR

SPAC_Time

The PR says they won't be listed on NASDAQ, *maybe* they will be listed on OTC Pink, and still traded. We'll see next week. If they aren't, the warrants are still valid, and if/when they are in the money, can be exercised.

yourfanboynick

$VRRM going up out of nowhere.. reeks of some good PR coming out soon

Secret_Block_8755

It's possible but the missteps hurt, is the point being made. Momentum trading relies on the momentum and volume. One bad PR can drop a pennystock 100% in seconds. So you need to avoid those. If you make 10 trades at a 3% gain, it only takes one drop of around 25% to wipe most of your gains. That would be 10 days of work wiped out. If you can avoid those sorts of losses and do good risk management, then it's theoretically possible. So the commenter you're replying to is pretty bang on. The point of a goal like this isn't that you actually achieve it every day. It's that you achieve it often enough with good risk management so that your wins out pace your losses.

AtillaTheHyundai

PR firm. Had an opportunity and was fortunate to barely have the cash to buy in lol

ShittyUsernane1222

\> US navy sailors going overboard due to shitty conditions on aircraft carriers \> US treasury trying to bail out Japan, Korea while having to deal with high treasury yields due to structural issues in the US \> US getting humiliated by Iran militarily, diplomatically and in the PR war \> 🥭 alienating US allies and exiting from many intergovernmental organizations which the US led here an quote from 🥭 itself, by we to who is he referring to? 🏳️‍🌈🐻's of course. >

brock_lee

This company is a scam run by the same guy, just to manipulate their stock. He ran a scam electric car company that never produced cars. They merged with a health and beauty products company and "pivoted" into HR. They make all the rosy PRs but do not actually have the product they claim. All their PRs use weasel words like "Signed a contract with so-and-so ^to ^determine ^feasibility. " That's nothing. And, they are REALLY bad at it currently in the AI space, becaus no one is falling for their bullshit. With every new awesome PR, no one blinks an eye.

Gunk_Olgidar

>So what's your game plan for August? Buying the dip? What dip? This week you're seeing the effect of Huang's new hype train. He's trying to convince wall street credit rating agencies, banks, and regulators to increase the service life assumptions of his hardware (currently likely 2-3 years). That's why he's trying to redefine data centers as "a utility." He's trying to extend service lifetimes of his hardware -- and making a pitch against his own business -- to allow the banks to build more leverage to support more short term hardware sales. So answer this: Is a CPU the same as an electric turbine generator with the same 30+ year service life? Jensen wants you to think so. The 2-5 year service life of server blades (CPUs memory, etc.) in data centers is a financial problem for the AI segment. It's the single largest component of data center capex -- and the amortization requires a net >2% monthly payment on borrowed capital for the entire data center. And all of Jensen's weekend PR begging is for only $500B in new capital borrowing. So let's do some financial napkin math: That means for a total forecast (by the AI folks) market capex investment of $5 trillion through 2030 with a 2.25% monthly repayment plan, that's a $112 billion monthly mortgage payment for the global AI industry. So to cover just that payment alone, every man, woman, and child on the planet (8 billion people) would have to spend \~$14 per month on AI services just to cover the loans. And that's just the loan repayment, not the rest of the operating costs of all of those businesses. So presuming that if 70% of those businesses' total expense is data center capex repayments (which is extraordinary), and those same businesses can survive with the remaining 30% of revenue covering MRO, utilities, taxes, labor, profits and all the rest, then every living human on the planet would need to spend $20-23 ON AVERAGE for AI data center services over and above everything else they spend today for cell phone and internet. And this of course ain't gonna happen. Why? Because right now after 40 years of wireless telecom infrastructure development, the average human on the planet spends \~USD$12 monthly on data and telecom services (cell phones & internet). $1.2T / 8 billion / 12 = $12M/mo. So are \*YOU\* gonna pay 200% \*MORE\* than you already pay for your monthly cell phone bill, just for AI? The segment has already raised $1 Trillion to spend on data centers, which is going to cost every human \~$10 per month unless the banks go bust. So unless the rules are changed to extend the financial service life of his hardware to reduce those monthly payments, the hyperbolic growth and capex spend plans aren't even close to realistic. Jensen knows all of this, and now you do too. So you go right ahead and go buy your dip. I am using trailing stops on everything I buy now, regardless of segment, because I'm not a trader.

Garbage-Disposal-938

Fair.  But what made me skeptical is that they announced it. Why did they feel that was useful at this time? Also, I heard that it’s just a memo of understanding and not really concrete. So it’s mainly PR? Why do they think the public needs this reassurance now? 

deja-roo

Generally speaking, yes (on most months). I use it for a lot of personal project stuff. I use it for work here and there. As an example, I have a tablet mounted on my wall using ESPHome with a custom interface. If I want a change made to it, I'll pull my phone out, open claude code, with a remote connection to a session running on my server, tell it what changes I want done, it'll confirm how those changes should be made, then it will make the configuration changes, rebuild the binary (a custom software compilation), connect to the tablet over wifi, reflash it and restart it. I have a Gitea server running and a few programs that are custom made on a server cluster running docker swarm. I can write up work items in Gitea, assign them to claude code. Claude code will pull the work issue, do a planning session using Opus, then start an agent with Sonnet to do the coding. Haiku will check it in, open a PR, write out the changes based on the git commit. Then an Opus agent starts, does a code review, and loops with another Sonnet agent to implement any requested changes, then Haiku comes back to do the closing the PR and merging. Once it merges, Git build actions do the rest of building and deploying, no more AI involved. Sonnet is my fallback model for my security cameras when my locally running vision models can't agree on a conclusion on what they're seeing. I may get a second job soon, and for that I'll need more session credits to help carry the load, so that will easily pay for itself.

tenfthigher

Fuck Jensen. His PR team does a good job, but he’s a performative mountebank who will say and do anything for a share pump. Do people not realize his commoditization of chips is the exact same strategy Enron tried to pull with bandwidth?? Right before the collapse?? The veil will be lifted soon

acoupleofshowoffs

https://preview.redd.it/tewlm1z06rih1.png?width=387&format=png&auto=webp&s=b128cbf2bdf66ef66467af51e8a405b769459a0f Right after PR

GuyOnTheCouch420

What's the history re: Aurora and Cronos? Just that they are both OG LPs and so prob know each other or something else? I think Cura made an unsolicited bid for Cronos a few years ago too. And Cronos either didnt respond or said no based on the PR they put out IIRC. But i think pretty easy for Cronos to defend against a hostile because of Altria.

Interesting_Debate57

Yep. The price of an error, in combinationatoric terms, is exponential with the number of chained events that need to go right all at once to prevent disaster. Any horse gambler knows this: predicting a chain of events all ahead of time is worth much more money than all of them singly with no extra penalty for a zero outcome. Let's say that the error rate of a typical software engineer, before chatGPT and friends, for just an arbitrary PR, was (averaged however you want to weigh experience and topic) 25% for a non-critical error, 10% for a critical error that existing tests don't find, and 75% for a critical error that tests find. (The remaining are false positives and false negatives). Choose which step of this process you'd like to replace with a chatbot. Imagine that any single one or two (error) steps gets more likely to happen, all else being equal. Even if there's only one point of failure that gets worse, if it's dropped into an existing chain that needs to work with, say, maximum \alpha probability of being incorrect, (unless all of the modified steps are new steps) it will make the failure rate exponentially worse. In simpler terms, going from a 20% failure rate to a 25% failure rate (under the advice of an AI engine) will be much much worse than expected. Put this on any critical system (for instance, a part in a NASA build) and forget about reliability altogether.

lookachoo


BenjaminHamnett

The part most people leave out is politics. Some mention “bailouts”, but it could just as easily be public pushback for policy that would make them unprofitable. But the nature of this technology to reshape humanity makes that so nebulous. Seems very likely that key powerbrokers on the inside will do well, like Elon with X, while shareholders and speculators will get played. This has been pretty well foreshadowed by these AI CEOs who’ve already said investing in AI should be seen as a social good like Philanthropy than speculation. Also the long forgotten “no moat” warnings. The moat I see is from authenticity, trust and transparency built by people like Dario and Mo Gawdat and others at times. I think these AI executives in general have actually been a lot more authentic and transparent than they get credit for. Every thing they say that isnt self serving is twisted and seen as PR lies. It may be PR, they have incentives and are humans, but they’re doin a lot to sound warning alarms every week to let everyone know we’re playing with fire My prediction and hope is that power and talent will gravitate toward whoever seems like the best stewards of this technology, along with public consent

BuenoMuch

SKYX issued the PR for their upcoming earnings call. [SKYX Announces Corporate Update Call](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/10/3341842/0/en/skyx-announces-corporate-update-call.html)

Kcole7

Genuinely what would be the purpose? Do you think they need to run PR like in the west it’s a dictatorship. Clearly the regimes still functioning by the fact they control the strait

NoOneMan79

Im going to paste AI Slop from my agent. It **DOES NOT make decisions/determinations**. All numbers come programmatically and the trade heuristics are deterministic. It simply narrates/explains the 800+ heuristic trading signals in combination with the prompt, stock news, and text books by subject matter experts. In the future, I will try to make the agent a bit more involved in choosing reranking the signals contextually. ====== ## Bottom Line Up Front **This is a live social-media pump attempt riding on genuinely elevated short interest — not a confirmed short-squeeze setup, and not obviously becoming one.** There's real fuel: **29.7% of float shorted**, ~10 days-to-cover at current volume, **~$328M net cash, $0 debt**, and a pending Nasdaq compliance decision. But the three ingredients that turn a candidate into a squeeze — **volume ignition, a tape-moving catalyst, and crowd coordination** — are all absent. Friday's restatement + earnings release (the "biggest news in months") bought the stock just **+5.9% on one-third of its average volume**. And the options market has already priced the squeeze in: **IV ~123% vs realized 64%**. You'd be paying 2–7× "fair" volatility for a lottery that is fighting a down-trend. ## Market Context - Price: **$1.61** (+5.9% Friday) · 52W range: $1.30 – $7.43 (**−78%**) - IV: **122.7%** (Aug 21 ATM), 104.8% (Aug 28) — **inverted term structure** - Realized vol (20-day Parkinson): **64.4%** → IV/RV ratio ≈ **1.9×** - Daily 1σ expected move: **$0.124 (±7.7%)** - Below SMA50 ($2.00) and SMA200 ($2.92) — primary trend is down - Avg volume 10.6M (50-day) · Friday volume 3.6M (**RelVol 0.34**) - Open interest: $2.00 Aug 21 calls **3,820** · $3.00 Sep 18 calls **9,013** · $3.00 Jan 2027 calls **13,661** **Volume is the story:** it has collapsed from 30M+/day in May to 3–6M/day. The reversal is unconfirmed. ## The Financial Reality Check | Metric | Value | Read | |---|---|---| | Market cap | ~$360M | vs $4.93M TTM sales → **P/S ≈ 73** | | FQ2 revenue / net | $1.5M / −$276K | Tiny; negative margins (-417% TTM) | | Net income TTM | −$20.6M | Op margin −524% | | Cash + ST investments (restated 8/7) | ~$328M | Cash/sh $1.47 vs price $1.61 | | Debt / total liabilities | $0 / $7.4M | Balance sheet genuinely clean | | Book value | $1.59/sh | Trading essentially at book | | Employees | 55 | IPO Nov 2023 | **What the Reddit DD got right:** the cash pile is real (~89% of market cap — the market values the whole operating business at ~$40–46M). A "runs out of money" short thesis is weak. **What it glosses over:** - **SEPA (Standby Equity Purchase Agreement)** — named in the restatement itself. A death-spiral facility: the company can print shares at a discount into any rally. May's $38.7M offering at $2.60–3.20 shows management will absolutely sell into strength. **This caps squeezes.** - **Class action** over allegedly misleading Microsoft-partnership statements. Restatement of FY2024/FY2025 + multiple quarters. **Nasdaq delisting notice pending** on the 7/20 compliance plan. - **Insiders have been distributing the entire ride:** COO sold ~$1.3M at $2.48–5.11 (2025); former officers sold at $2.68–3.00 in Feb 2026. Zero insider buys. - History (from an ex-holder in the threads): the "NVIDIA collaboration" — hype tweets before Jensen's keynote, then no mention, no partner-board listing. A repeated pattern of statement-driven pumps, now the subject of litigation. ## The "DD" — What's Actually In Those Four Threads Same author, same essay pasted **verbatim into 4 subreddits in 5 days**, self-described: *"I write this all to increase exposure of course."* No position disclosure. An "update" version went up 2 hours before I priced this. | Claim in the DD | What the data says | |---|---| | SI 37.64% / 63.81% of active float | Official: **29.72%**. "Active float" math is self-inconsistent (84.6M in part 1, 125M in part 2) | | 11.8 days to cover | 5.08 on trailing volume; **~10.3 on current 20-day volume** (partial credit — volume did dry up) | | "$2.00 call → $0.15–0.25 if RR hits $1.85" (4–7x) | Black-Scholes at 110% IV: **$0.10**. At realized 64%: **$0.04** — overstated 2–5× | | 2,394 contracts at $2.00 | Actually **3,820** (they undercounted) | | Cash: "$35M" → "$250M + $110M" → "$328M" | $328M is real — but the story changed 3 times in a week | | "Gamma ramp forming" | Call OI is real but small: full delta-hedge of the $2.00 stack = ~80K shares vs **54M short** vs 10M daily volume. Gamma is a spark, not the engine | | "OBV/ADL mathematically proving accumulation" | Unverifiable; author admits AI-generated analysis | | "450 deployments, 100% renewal, global retail giant MSA" | Unverifiable PR claims, none in filings | **Community reception is the tell:** total engagement across all four threads is ~60 upvotes. The DeepFuckingValue one scored **1 point (55%)**. Top comments are skeptical ex-holders ("hobby projects cobbled together with Temu parts", "repeatedly misleading statements", "same BS every few days"), Glassdoor complaints, and one r/Shortsqueeze user calling it out directly — *"write an article to convince people to throw money at my bagholder stock, then I'll buy calls, then spend 2 weeks spamming forums."* One commenter admitted buying $50 "because this came on my feed." That's the cohort these pumps farm — and there aren't enough of them yet. ## Squeeze Scorecard (against the standard screening framework) - ✅ Short interest / float: 29.7% (≥20% = candidate, >30% = extreme) - ✅ Days to cover: ~5–10 (elevated-to-high) - ⚠️ Cost to borrow: unknown — not verifiable - ✅ Float concentration: 31% institutional + 18.7% insider → shorts may be ~43% of actively traded float - ✅ Dense call OI near/OTM ($2 and $3 strikes) - ❌ **Catalyst moving the tape: restatement + earnings → +6% on ⅓ volume** - ❌ **Volume ignition: RelVol 0.34, 3 months of declining volume** - ❌ **Coordination: ~60 upvotes, skeptical comments, 4 crossposts** - ❌ **Dilution machinery: SEPA + demonstrated ATM selling** Most heavily shorted stocks **do not** squeeze: without a catalyst, high SI gets absorbed gradually; and IV on high-SI names already prices in squeeze probability, eating the edge. RR matches the profile of a candidate that never ignites — and it's down 78% for real reasons (litigation, delisting risk, restatement, fake-partner history). The systematic read (819 trading-rule heuristics evaluated on live data): **trend DOWN, strategy affinity: long puts > long calls**, top fired rules: exit longs in a bear trend, prefer the short side in a downtrend, use a probability calculator, keep positions small. The play being pitched (naked near-the-money calls) is **counter-trend**. ## The Long Call Menu — Premiums and Break-Evens Prices are last-trade 8/7. ⚠️ **Bid/ask is essentially absent on this board** — expect brutal spreads; the DD's own $0.03/$0.04 quote is the only live two-sided market I saw. | Expiry | Strike | Prem | Break-even | Move needed | Δ | Note | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 8/21 | $1.50 | $0.20 | **$1.70** | +5.6% | 0.67 | closest to money; 5 sessions; theta + IV crush risk | | 8/21 | $2.00 | $0.04 | **$2.04** | +26.7% | 0.21 | the DD's example — fair value at $1.85 is ~$0.10, not $0.15–0.25 | | 8/28 | $2.00 | $0.06 | **$2.06** | +28% | 0.26 | | | 9/18 | $2.00 | $0.15 | **$2.15** | +33.5% | 0.39 | best outright-call risk/reward | | 9/18 | $3.00 | $0.04 | **$3.04** | +88.8% | 0.13 | pure lottery | | 11/20 | $2.00 | $0.28 | **$2.28** | +41.6% | 0.49 | | | Jan'27 | $2.00 | $0.36 | **$2.36** | +46.6% | 0.54 | longest cushion | | Jan'27 | $3.00 | $0.22 | **$3.22** | +100% | 0.36 | fair at 123% IV, **7× its 64%-vol fair value** | **The math behind the warning:** at $1.85 — the DD's own "if" — the 8/21 $2.00 call is worth **$0.10** even with IV held at 110% (a 2.5×, not 4–7×). If IV mean-reverts to the 64% realized level on the bounce — the normal sequence on these names — it's worth **$0.04, exactly what you paid, after the stock rallied 15%**. The squeeze scenario is already in the option prices. ### If you still want to be long the squeeze Defined-risk structures only (this is also the standard guidance for squeeze participation): - **Sep 18 $2.00/$3.00 bull call spread** — debit ~$0.11 · break-even **$2.11** (+31%) · max profit $0.89/contract · max loss $0.11 → **~8:1 reward:risk** - **Jan 2027 $2.00/$3.00 bull call spread** — debit ~$0.14 · break-even **$2.14** (+33%) · max profit $0.86/contract · max loss $0.14 → **~6:1** - 8/14 $1.50/$2.00 (6 DTE) — debit ~$0.16 · BE $1.66 · max profit $0.34 — tempting, but that's a 6-day gamma/theta lottery Position size: **1–2% of the account, one spread, predefined exit.** Squeezes end abruptly and reverse sharply — most commonly within days of the peak. Don't hold a winner through the top. ## Verdict - **Pump-and-dump in the making? Yes — and a weak one.** Same author, four subreddits in a week, undisclosed position, self-admitted exposure motive, AI-generated "741/GME" numerology bait, inflated and self-contradicting stats, and a comment section full of people this company's press-release game already burned. - **Real short-squeeze setup? Not yet.** Genuine SI fuel and a genuinely cashed-up balance sheet — but no volume, no catalyst confirmation, no crowd, insider selling, and a SEPA sitting ready to sell into any rally. Friday was the tell: the single best news in three months produced a 6% bounce on sleeping volume. - **The flip that changes the call:** a Nasdaq compliance **approval** announcement *with* volume >30M and a weekly close above **$1.70**. Then $2.00–2.05 (SMA50 / max-pain / volume-node confluence — the only part of the DD I'd credit) becomes live gamma territory. Until that prints, the odds are on the side of the stock doing what it's been doing. *Data: last-trade option quotes 8/7 (illiquid board — confirm executable prices before committing), Finviz snapshot cached ~10h, 20-day Parkinson realized vol from daily candles. Not financial advice — and the "DD" author's own closing line applies: don't get attached to a stock.*

temotodochi

Nice PR. One worker out of 2000 who needed it?

RedPlumpTomato

My AI Slop Analysis: **GCTS -- GCT Semiconductor Holding, Inc.** Real 5G chipset technology, partnerships with legitimate satellite players, and a financial structure so fucked that $49 million of the $58 million debt stack comes due before December — against $7.2 million in cash — while earnings land in two days on a stock that's already up 26% this week. Hard avoid. GCT Semiconductor makes fabless 5G and 4G chipsets — transceivers, modems, system-on-chip solutions for fixed wireless, IoT, and satellite connectivity — and the technology is real enough that you'll want to buy it on the pitch alone. In Q1 2026 the company shipped 3,000 5G chipset units, 58% more than the quarter before, and pulled in $1.92 million in revenue at a gross margin that finally turned positive, coming in at 49.3%. That gross margin flip is genuine — the company isn't losing money on every chip it ships anymore — and the 287% year-over-year revenue pop sounds like a rocket ship until you remember it's 287% growth off a $500K quarter, which is to say it's the percentage math of climbing out of a hole, not launching from a platform. The enterprise value sits at $285 million. The company earned $1.92 million last quarter. You do the P/S math and then you sit with it for a moment. The satellite narrative is what has this stock trading at a $285 million enterprise value instead of wherever technically-insolvent 5G chipset companies normally trade, and it deserves an honest accounting early. GCT signed a licensing deal — expanded in Q1 2026 — with what the market believes is Skylo Technologies, for satellite-terrestrial chipset integration covering 36 countries, and a separate Iridium partnership for NB-IoT development. The problem is GCT has never named the satellite partner in any SEC filing, referring to it only as "one of the world's largest satellite communications providers," a piece of corporate coyness that has kept retail speculation running hot on zero primary-source confirmation. More importantly, the commercial 5G chipset shipments to this unnamed partner are expected to begin in the second half of 2026 — not last quarter, not this quarter, the second half — meaning the entire satellite thesis is still aspirational. Not one dollar of satellite revenue has hit the income statement. You are pricing in a future that has not happened yet, on a partner that hasn't been publicly named yet, at a valuation that assumes it all goes right. Q2 2026 earnings land on August 10 — two days from now — with the conference call at 4:30 pm Eastern. The stock is up 26% this week on pre-earnings positioning, which means the trade was buying at $2.02 on Monday and selling into this strength; that window is already closed. Buying at $2.55 going into a binary where you are already late is not a thesis, it's chasing someone else's setup and hoping the news is good enough to make it not matter that you arrived two days after the doors opened. Now let's talk about what's actually inside the balance sheet, because this is where the story stops being a speculative chip play and starts sounding like a restructuring filing with good PR. Total debt is approximately $58 million. Cash is $7.2 million. Net debt is roughly $51 million, which is already a criminal ratio to $1.92 million in quarterly revenue. But the part that should make you put down your coffee is buried in the Q1 10-Q maturity schedule: $49.1 million of that debt is due in the remainder of 2026. This calendar year. Before Christmas. These are primarily Korean bank term loans guaranteed by a related-party Korean entity called Anapass, and those banks don't give a flying fuck what the Skylo partnership looks like in a press release — they want their money by year-end. The company has seven million dollars. The quarterly operating burn is roughly $4.2 million, so by the time Q4 rolls around there may be around three million dollars in the account when the bank shows up for fifty. Total stockholders' equity is negative $73.9 million against total assets of $22.4 million. The company owes more in current-due debt alone than it has in total assets. That is not a tight balance sheet; that is technical insolvency wearing a satellite partnership as a costume. There is a February 2026 8-K that got some airtime about extending a smaller convertible instrument — roughly $5 million face value — to a 2028 maturity, sweetened with 500,000 warrants at $2.50 as a thank-you to the noteholder for not pulling the plug. That is a $5 million cosmetic patch. The $49 million due this year is the structural collapse. The way that collapse gets addressed is the same way every other problem at GCTS has been handled: the ATM machine prints new shares and sells them into the market. The share count has gone from 40.6 million at the end of 2024 to 91.97 million today — a 126% increase in eighteen months — meaning every person who owned GCTS stock at the start of 2025 has had their ownership percentage cut nearly in half by sequential dilution. Three separate 424B5 ATM offerings in 2026 alone. The board obtained explicit shareholder approval to issue shares beyond NYSE's 19.99% dilution cap through their equity line, which is the governance equivalent of getting the neighborhood to formally vote on whether you're allowed to keep pissing in the water supply as long as you promise it'll eventually be good for everyone. The dilution does not stop until revenues cover the cost structure. At current run rates that is years away. The one insider who put real personal cash into this story is a director named Shin Hyunsoo, who bought from June through November of 2025 — eight confirmed purchase dates, roughly $746,000 total at an average cost of approximately $1.17 per share. His position is sitting on an unrealized gain of about 118% and he has not bought a single fucking share in 256 days. Not one. While the company ran three ATM offerings in 2026 alone and added 51 million shares to the float since the start of 2025, while the stock ran from under a dollar to a $3.73 swing high and back down to $2.55, this man sat completely still. That is ambiguous at best — maybe he's satisfied, maybe the thesis changed — but it is sure as shit not a buy signal from someone who sees something brewing. The CEO, John Schlaefer, has never filed a Form 4 for an open-market purchase. The CFO, Edmond Cheng, same. The people with the most current visibility into the actual satellite revenue pipeline have looked at everything they know — the Skylo deal terms, the Iridium timelines, the MaxLinear collaboration, the balance sheet underneath all of it — and collectively decided that their stock grants are enough and their personal checking accounts should remain elsewhere. In a company asking you to pay $285 million in enterprise value for a satellite story that hasn't generated a dollar yet, the silence of the people who know most is the loudest thing in the room. The retail crowd caught this trade in May and June when the satellite partnership news first broke, ran it from 99 cents to $3.73 on the back of speculation about who the unnamed partner was, and has mostly checked out. The last thirty days have been essentially dead — one post from August 4 that attracted four upvotes, calling for a load-up before earnings and a $5 target. Four. That is not a crowd building a position. That is the last guy at the party trying to restart the music after everyone else went home. The setup going into August 10 is a coin flip with elevated expectations already baked in. If Q2 revenue beats $1.92 million meaningfully and the company offers concrete news on the satellite partner or confirms commercial shipment timelines, the stock tests the $3.73 prior swing high. The analyst price targets from HC Wainwright and B. Riley run $3 to $4, implying 17% to 57% upside from $2.55 — but those targets were set before anyone fully processed that $49.1 million maturity schedule coming due this calendar year. If Q2 is fine but not spectacular and the satellite color is vague, the stock retraces the full 26% pre-earnings move and lands back in the $1.80-$2.00 range, roughly a 20-30% loss from here. You are gambling on two good things happening simultaneously — a revenue beat AND a debt-resolution update — going into a binary you are two days late to. Even the most generous possible bull case — $20 million in 2026 guidance, satellite partner confirmed, commercial shipments beginning — still leaves you with a $285 million enterprise value, $49 million in bank debt due this calendar year, five months of cash runway, and a cost structure that requires $50 million or more in annual revenue before anyone breaks even. The path from $8 million annualized to $50 million runs through years of continued dilution, additional ATM tranches, and a satellite market that hasn't paid out yet. **Hard avoid as a position. If August 10 delivers a material revenue beat AND explicit confirmation that the 2026 bank debt has been refinanced or otherwise resolved — two pieces of good news landing simultaneously — revisit the thesis with clean eyes at that point. You do not buy a binary you are already two days late to, into the worst balance sheet in the sector, hoping for both things to land at once.**

lolexecs

For you yobos that can't be bothered to google the source material: [https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm) I think this is always the place that the BLS publishes the monthly jobs report. As such you can use that feature in chrome called "bookmarks" to save the URL so you can revisit it at any time. Also, this PR is where you can find the revisions: >The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised down by 66,000, from +129,000 to +63,000, and the change for June was revised down by 37,000, from +57,000 to +20,000. ***With these revisions, employment in May and June combined is 103,000 lower than previously reported.*** (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.) Slowing/stagnating employment coupled with the current admin's inflation maxxing strategy (import taxes, deficit maxxing, and war), it's starting to stink of 1970s inflation.

MuhammadGhod

My thoughts on Ai: There is a lot of misinformation and propaganda surrounding ai. China obviously influencing some of that. Most people do not understand it. No one has provided a precise, succinct, and formal overview of ai to the gen pop. 90% of people hear about ai from the internet, and 90% of what they hear is negative! It has been framed as scary, dangerous, and life endangering. Data centers and flock cameras being the two largest vignettes of ai that gen pop rejects. Ai cannot replace our rights no matter how big the race with China is. Figure out a better way to implement it environmentally and without building skynet to control us all and watch us 24/7. I disagree, most people do want to work more efficiently, just not at the cost of their job, home, privacy. Ai has a major PR problem. Also re sunscreen and cancer, whether it causes it or not, there has been a massive erosion of public trust and authorities, especially in the products we consume category, and in consumer safety. Ai is suffering from that same distrust because it's being forced upon us with no explanation by the very powers that have lied to the gen pop over politics, money, and consumption. You can choose to buy most new tech over time (tv, cars, vid cams, phones, etc). Ai is forcefully entrenched in ALL of our lives and no one asked for it, or bought in! I use it, but we don't yet know the full cost. We live in the most advanced country in the world, in history. No reason ai can't be deployed safer, smarter, kinder and cleaner. Let gen pop participate in the rollout and adoption of ai to build up some usable data and earn some trust.

Zealousideal-Bug-944

Better management and higher profits can raise the price of the stock. This doesn't necessarily include the PR.

Particular_Rice9607

always trust your gut, and your friend in the PR agency

Particular_Rice9607

wel timed PR

Funny-Spend-464

Btw I have 605 karma, please don't disrespect me!! I copied and pasted one of the phrases from their PR, which, I believe it's quite powerful, they were able to do it in months and not in years.

Marketspike

I called up Investor Relations on the bottom of the last PR and asked. Why did you think it was today? They did not report early last quarter.

Effective-Spring-545

I have no clue why options of all seem to have such negative PR, I see regards lose money in ''underrated stocks'' all the time. Lol, if anything equities make people lose more money

prana_fish

Zuck, I swear to fuck, how pathetic you gotta be to PR pretend whatever shitty model you released also just "happened" to escape and "hack a company". Bro, your models are not in the big leagues, get over it.

FML_FML_FML_

..."transparency". LMFAO. You people have never been transparent...and never will be. Just like you weren't transparent last month, when you PR'd about cancelling the warrants, only to quitely blindside your shareholders afterwards with million upon millions toxic convertibles right after that. Transparency would be disclosing in the PR that this new floor will only go into effect if your toxic lenders even agree to it. And if they do, it would most likely involve deal sweeteners that dilute shareholders again and distress your financial situation and increase your bankruptcy probability even higher than it already is. Transparency would be acknowledging all the suppliers you've left hanging when they asked to get paid. And informing shareholders as to why you would rather continue burning cash and resources on your stupid robot summer camp for dweebs than pay the people you need to keep your supply product line going. Transparency would be admonishing shareholders with a cost basis average of more than $5 that they are unlikely to ever be able to break even. Because every time the price hits $5, the toxic converters will be there there waiting to offload with more dilution. Transparency would be admitting that the only way to profit off your stock is to short sell it. Because your toxic lenders sure have made a boatload off money doing just that. You and your loser grifter CEO [u/YTJia\_FFAI](https://www.reddit.com/user/YTJia_FFAI/) need to really STFU about "transparency". It's getting embarrassing at this point. I really hope that nobody in the general public actually believes that this measure will put an end to the dilution. Add you all should be ashamed of yourselves for trying to paint it it out to look like it will. Just admit, that you have abandoned yet another round of "investor" victims, knowing very well that you simply just repeat your vicious cycle again with another fresh new round of them. The dilution probably won't never stop, so take your Chinese robots and shove them up your asses. Nobody is eating up your BS anymore. https://reddit.com/link/p1yptci/video/nmbqibi0enhh1/player

prana_fish

ngl, really pathetic PR attempt from Zuck especially lmfao. "Oh oh, ME TOO GUYZ!! See our model is legit!"

RedditPoster05

A multi billion dollar PR manager?

Fit_Feedback5981

He’s the PR manager

Gold_Victory3435

oh yes, i heard of that. was wondering why Tim Cook didn't highlight that in the call. We mainly heard of the 100 year flood. It was a PR disaster. An opinion, and a negative one at that.

Confident_Tree42

Yeah which has created a lot of baggage, a toxic culture, horrible PR, corporate bloat, and too big to fail level arrogance. A company with well established IP can survive with those things going against them but they can't thrive. Their long term growth prospects are effectively zero

GeoLogic23

I ended up on Aurora's website earlier looking for financials. Was just curious so I checked out their beverage lineup, as I know ACB had a drink they released a while back. It looks like Aurora's brands are "leaving soon" while all the "new releases" are [Organigram's brands](https://www.auroramedical.com/collections/ready-to-drink-beverages). They're pretty much only selling Organigram drinks. This could just reflect ACB moving out of all recreational channels. If they expect drinks to expand to regular retail, there's not much benefit to medical-focused ACB to continue pursuing a drink format. Since drinks in dispensaries won't stand a chance against drinks if they are in regular retail. I personally think it's not far in the future Canada will make that shift. The US has proven drinks sell when they are in regular retail, and Canada replacing American liquor with Canadian-made THC drinks is an easy PR move.

Ohhmama11

Burry always has PR on any run either way

julian_jakobi

The AEC is installed at Lake Stockholm, New Jersey. The article is PR is Newswire. The screenshot is stocktitan. I hope this answers your question

Routine-District-588

Good PR move.

CBarkleysGolfSwing

Partnership with $MXL PR'd today. Earnings are tomorrow I believe.

CBarkleysGolfSwing

Partnership with $MXL PR'd today. Earnings are tomorrow I believe.

BoopinSnoots24-7

It is not insider trading. It's corrupt as hell for the man in charge to be profiting from this, but it is not a securities violation. They are providing an API that allows visibility into posts in actual real time, while the social platform itself shows them milliseconds later. The key here is that \*anyone\* can buy access to this API, it is not material non-public information. It's the equivalent of paying for the Wall Street Journal to be dropped off at your house first on the paper route, with your neighbor getting it a few seconds later. Business Wire and PR Newswire did this a decade ago for advanced access to press releases, it was frowned upon but not illegal.

SignificanceLate7002

SanDisk and SK Hynix dropping an after hour colab PR. Sandisk and SK hynix Advance Global Standardization of High Bandwidth Flash with Release of First OCP Technical Specification

Thysanopter

It’s not in production vehicles, like Volvo, and I do not find any PR confirming they will continue with MVIS. Logically, if Volvo couldn’t make it work it would give me a long pause about deploying it.

KeythKatz

They are also a Disney-scale PR nightmare when they are inevitably jailbroken for "other purposes".

AlwaysCurious8080

Let’s see… there was that grooming thing that half the country never got over. I understand if you’re cool with it, but you’re not everyone, and about half of everyone was not cool with it. Someone I work with calls HULU ‘the AIDS Channel’, almost all of there endless ads are about sex, AIDS drugs, or condoms. And there shows are that great. ESPN is a mess. They decided to start doing politics instead of just sports, and it alienated most conservatives and a lot of liberals who just want sports from a sports channel. Firing Ryan Clark will help their brand, but they have to purge all political discourse and stick to sports. People on both sides would appreciate it if we could just get sports. They’re making money, but the PR for this company has been a shit show. If the new guy comes out and says they’re going to refocus their companies on entertainment and not only show favor to ether political party, but not discuss politics at all, try to attract a wider audience with HULU, the. I think they start to rebound.

EmbarrassedPart1256

For sure; thanks for taking it seriously, as for some reason this sub has hated on $CAPS for almost a year now. Low-float Chinese P&D? Yes please. Legitimate US business with an interesting turnaround story, subsidiaries with 30 years experience in dominating their industry EACH (one in the US, one in Canada, now together as Capstone), low float & locked up share structure, etc? No thanks... Nobody realizes that they only pivoted to their current business model in March 2025, so the rest of the chart being negative is irrelevant; yes it's negative, but not as exaggerated. Seriously, if you take out a few days in the past year the average volume of this stock has been below 1M for a year straight. People think low volume is such a crime but most of these stocks that pop off are low-volume before they pop off. Again, if it's a company that has a legit thesis, the pop could start to stick, kinda like what's happening to $STAK. I could go on & on; I was deep into this stock at one point, have done serious DD. It has its bad qualities too (financing more than anything) but FWIW, as a penny stock, it's one of the cleanest setups I've ever seen. PR is solid, shows nonstop positive developments, management is transparent, even doing a Q&A earlier this year. Thanks again for taking it seriously & for letting me share. I said this a while ago & I'll keep saying it: the only thing this stock needs is more people looking at it. A comment about $CAPS in the thread from a few different people & not just me goes a long way. They've got my number & instantly downvote anything I post about it to shit. I could make a full-blown post but those also get downvoted or taken down & it's not worth my time. It's almost as if there are some people trying to load up or get it as low as they can to load (or get it delisted). Ther're serious forces at work but don't get me started 🤣

FuckleUp

Tehran PR responses are getting shorter next one is probably “nope”

VacanyeraYT

$600M unexpected cash flow straight into Q2 earnings While returning a fraction of it to customers makes for great PR, the rest is just going straight into boosting bottom line margins and AWS expansion. Win-win for AMZN shareholders!

Kervandos

**Debt is just leverage with good PR**

C130J_Darkstar

Maybe a PR on Monday? We’ll see

skipperseven

And the guy who filed the allegations fabricated the whole thing, but knew that JP Morgan would pay him off to get rid of the bad PR.

Partial-Hydrangea

Shitty AI looking bio documentaries galore that are glorified PR shills. Its content sucks.

pl0m

This is peak Reddit economics! You keep saying "it's priced in," then in the next breath admit it could go up if sales beat expectations. Congratulations! You've just explained why it isn't fully priced in. And the "gaming companies usually don't release sales numbers" line is just flat-out wrong. They do it all the time. Publishers regularly announce milestones like "10 million copies sold in 3 days," "50 million units sold," etc., especially when the numbers are impressive. Take-Two, Rockstar, and basically every major publisher have been doing this for years because it's good PR and investors care. Your entire argument boils down to: "Everyone knows GTA 6 is coming, therefore nothing after launch matters." By that logic, earnings reports wouldn't move stocks, product launches wouldn't move stocks, and guidance revisions wouldn't move stocks because "everyone already knew." That's not how markets work. Markets price expectations. If reality exceeds those expectations, the stock moves. If it disappoints, it moves the other way. "Priced in" isn't a magic spell that freezes a stock price on launch day.

outworlder

That's what I suspect, he's just a PR person with a very specific job.

Prestigious-Ebb-6408

Let’s break the PR next week!

Chuck-AP

Still a PR for me!

d-crow

Nah he was always an awful human being he just used to have a PR and branding team.

zvbg13

> Maybe someone young like Dwarkesh who hasn't personally achieved as much as them or studied these issues to the extent they have are just rubbed the wrong way by it. I'm sure they understand that an interviewer is supposed to be a voice for their audience. They are just asking what their audience is thinking and wants to know. I think the problem is that the expectation around interviews has changed. Many people treat it as a personal PR exercise where they get air time to broadcast their talking points and go on their way. So when faced with an actual interview, they get upset that this is not what they signed up for.

DrHarrisonLawrence

They currently don’t do it because companies feel that the comment section is bad for PR. So companies signing on the ad space ask for it to be disabled as a default. They are absolutely right to do that lol there will be more negative than positive for the majority of ads. Half of the ads would include a top comment that explains why you should never buy the product AND why the company should fail. Which could be good for our lives in general but will NOT be good for the ad revenue lol. Reddit’s not running a charity here

PicklePot83

The C suite absolutely needs PR training. Not saying they should lie, but come on man. That was also a complaint of mine over the past year of holding. Some FUD article would come out, stock dips, silence from executives.

skyplt29

It's why I am blocking guys like this. They obviously have a chip on their shoulder. The challenge for me is sifting through the real news. I went to SEDAR and pulled the report Tilray filed (minus all the PR fluff). It's "okay". In the short term BrewDog was a win. It took about 100M to buy it and get it on the rails. Will the business continue to improve after The World Cup? About a third of Tilray's business comes from cannabis. They are losing rec market share in Canada. Perhaps margins are better in medical. Share count went up again this quarter. I just saw another SEDAR filing for more share compensation to boardmembers. Bottomline for me? Tilray will likely continue to lose money (pre-EBITDA) for the foreseeable future. Despite the 10:1 reverse split, they did not amend the total share count they can dilute to. That's going to be interesting. I would like to see them get the 50 some odd brands they have acquired up and running (profitable). I think they may pull it off...but so far it is taking longer than I had hoped. Pertaining to your 100B companies...following SPCX closely. I guess next week will be the telltale with 20% more shares about to be unlocked. Thinking this may hit double digits (in a bad way).

JapowFZ1

The entire “easily revoking PR” thing is just fear mongering at this point. People are not losing their PR status en masse. It is still extremely rare and not something that is worth worrying about. The slight changes in how PR can get revoked is scoring political points and little else…for now.

yggdrasiliv

Yeah, i'm in the middle of a PR application and I was far more positive about the outcome of the application and about whether I even wanted PR just a few months ag.

Michael_Kansai

Preach brother. Unfortunately I have am payed very well so it is difficult for me to leave, but once the shit gets too tough I am 100% using my US passport as my emergency button. Them making PR harder for those of us that are paying shit tons in taxes is fucking insane.

unixtreme

Honestly seeing the way everything is going to shit I'm very tempted to leave back to Europe... If I stay here I'll just feel my work devalue every year. Even if I have a well paying tech job the yen going to shit is gradually bringing me down to an average salary in reality. The main problem is I have PR so they'll want to take half of my shit on the way out. Fucking robbery.

Due_Bar_7247

No it doesn’t. I was actually on HSP 1(b) when I left Japan. I had planned on getting PR but now…it’s just not worth it. HSP 2 is special because you get the non-permanent tax resident treatment and all of the goodies that go with HSP 1 like sponsoring parents or a “nanny” to watch the kids. However, you still need employment for HSP 2, whereas PR you don’t at least currently. That seems like it might change though relatively soon.

Due_Bar_7247

“Failing to pay taxes/pension/health insurance premiums” \-AKA if they tax audit you and tell you that you owe xyz, but you actually owe abc they can revoke it now without a criminal conviction “Hiding assets overseas” \-Japan is one of the highest tax regimes in the world for permanent tax residents. They have a 55% top income tax rate and 55% inheritance tax and a similarly high exit tax for unrealized capital gains when you own stocks or bonds or crypto above ¥100 million. You are technically required to report assets in excess of ¥50,000,000 overseas annually on your tax return, but that’s a low amount for basically any upper middle class foreign resident. It just sets up the pretext for revocation without a criminal conviction. Previously, you needed to be convicted of a crime + sentenced to 1+ years in prison to be placed in removal proceedings. Expect more changes to come. They might charge more for re-entry permits, require something like 3/5 previous years resident in Japan to retain PR, revoke it for people who fall on public assistance. They’re just getting started.

bbusiello

How are they revoking PR? Asking for a friend.

Due_Bar_7247

They’re scaring away all of the highly skilled foreigners too with their anti-immigrant agenda. I lived there and me and a bunch of other white collar foreigners up and left once they made PR easily revocable and damn near impossible to get while raising visa fees 20x.

Sejare1

Maybe Apple and Reddit can team up and capture Jimothy and fix his spina bifida, would make great PR

diff_engine

Oh undoubtedly the tech will definitely continue to improve - in the long run all things may be possible - but starting with the humanoid form is a PR strategy, not a rational engineering decision

Persistent_Dry_Cough

PR

Bubsters13

Yes but proves on a micro scale the implications of adding "saying we do AI" in valuation. Strong uptick and then bam back down. Been a PR scam for most all the way down. Some will succeed but mostly losers.