PR

geek180

It’s not intended to be. It’s probably already paid for itself in PR and marketing.

V2inMyGym_DA_

You guys are retarded if you think this has been developed with teslas in mind. Probably will be used by SpaceX vehicle and just presented in a Tesla for PR.

YoungBockRKO

You do realize the McMurtry Speirling exists right? A car using the same concept for downforce as the roadster. The flying stuff is all PR and to look cool, the actual function of the fan vacuum and thrusters can be put into a production vehicle for track use. The McMurtry Speirling is also capable of being upside down, has 1000hp and for a paltry 1.2m can be yours! Also street legal with another 250k in mods. This, if the numbers are accurate, is just an extreme version of McMurtry.

sb8948

No way there is a person in there. Tesla obviously has the self driving tech to just go in a straight line, and there's no way a human was operating the flip and landing. It would just add an unnecessary human factor, more weight and the chance for an absolute PR disaster if something goes wrong.

avdpos

Having it as a fun PR thingy about what they can do is a bit fun and silly. Saying it will be in production is stupid

Garin999

When you've been teasing "something special" for months, have a stagnant product line, falling sales, and a major PR issue. Yeah, a non-functional gimmick that belongs in a monster truck show isn't going to get serious people to invest.

DetectiveUnited1036

PR stunt the stock was tanking so they pulled a money shot and instead the market came all over their ticker, love to see it

No_Dingo2476

Agreed. Fantastic PR stunt, its all over my social media. I thought it was cool and I'm not into Tesla vehicles whatsoever

fmaz008

*slightly faster* is an understatement. It's A LOT faster... As in, if I was to 100% trust AI, not audit much and just vibe code everything away, I could tackle a few months long project in 2-3 days. And that's not even talking about automating maintenance. For example: monitor errors logs, if more than X users encounter an error, have an agent analyze it against the code base and submit a pull request with a patch and a detailed bug report. Only need an experience person to review the PR and approve it if it's valid. There are definitely real massive avantage to AI. The problems are mainly: - the cost for the business using AI - the AI companies needs to be profitable - losing a human understanding of your code base. (AI slop is real and as it adds up, it tend to overcomplicate implementations) - I could foresee some liability concerns as well when something goes wrong and everyone blame the AI.

yobroseidon

TBF, it's the roadster it's not meant to be owned by the general populous - He unveiled a crazy package that you'll have multi-millionaires buying, but no one else. This was a PR Stunt, and a damn good one at that. Give credit where its due.

EthanielRain

Looks like they can actually have people drive them Nobody will ever drive the car you're so amazed about. It's a death trap/PR stunt

yobroseidon

Holy shit, this was a PR Stunt?! No WAy! Wow, you're so smart! /s redditors are genuinely fucking retarded - like no shit sherlock

catfromgarfield

tfw when the flying car PR stunt you spent billions of dollars on doesn't move the share price

jasperCrow

Kick flip roadster PR stunt, the perfect exit liquidity pump 🤣

Special-Bet1141

Meh. Just another stupid PR stunt for the brand recognition. 

TheAndyGeorge

an automatic PR bot cost us $28 to approve a whitespace removal. thanks clod!!

usercb

My thought was… how unprepared. Why does the richest guy in the world do a presentation hem hawing around like a 6th grader? Use your PR TEAM for God’s sake. It’s a real job. They prepare presentations for their jobs. Jesus F Christ. Not cool at all. Embarrassing the US on the world stage. Thanks a lot. \\s

M3rch4ntm3n

tesla and spacex PR-stuntcar

jasperCrow

LMAO Tesla already dumping. Guess Elon needs to work on the next PR stunt so the stock price can pump. Tired of the price being the same it was 5 years ago

Available_Pie_7758

All PR. This isn’t coming out anytime soon. When it does it won’t do any of it. Cuz it won’t be street legal

MILF_Goddess740

The military. If he got up there and showed off rocket trim on a small UGV (robot tank the size of a car), it would be terrible PR. Putting it on a regular car hypes up the market while showing off to the *real* customer- the government. I don't like Elon Musk. And I have no idea how well the rocket trim would work. But I'm betting Pete Hegseth will see the video and react like a whiskey soaked 12 year old.

ComfortableNumb9669

This is just how algorithmic trading works though. The PR stunt paid off because a lot of people are talking about that company and using words like innovation, engineering, achievement etc. System believes that this company is going to go up, so it recommends calls.

badboybk

Pure PR stunt, nothing more

krakoi90

>driving off a cliff There're the driving assistant features that should prevent you from that. >the bridge collapses under you Yeah, well real life is not a James Bond movie. The tech is cool, the demo was cool, I think this is a really good PR stunt personally for Elon and for the whole Tesla brand. Way more fitting than the dumb cybertruck was. Almost on the level of the roadster flying into space and then the rockets returning. But is this a useable, sellable product? Nah. They will probably ship some of these as toys/collector cars to rich people but that's it. It's just a matketing stunt.

CommanderFlapjacks

Opus and fable burn way higher, fable spent $40 on a pretty simple PR review the one time I tried it. Opus could easily be $50 to make a design doc for a new feature. I think either opus 5 verbosity or their harness is just inefficient, company switched to cursor and using far less now. That said I could see myself spending like $1k/month using the higher tier models, I don't really know how people spend 5 figures.

MelangeBot

The first part of a long PR series to hype up and justify merging all his companies in to one.

ooqq

The incredible thing is that thing even exists. It doesn't matter it's just a PR stunt.

TitusImmortalis

You don't know what a libtard is, apparently. It is a neat PR stunt for sure. Innovative... I mean, as far as making something which gets people gawking then I guess it's innovativeish.

arbors_vitae

And if you think this PR stunt of driving upside-down was impressive, know that the [McMurty Speirling did it first](https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64459542/mcmurtry-speirling-can-officially-drive-upside-down/) (with less pomp)—in the daylight with a real driver. Although both of these examples seem incredibly silly to a driver on US streets, perhaps in the long term, we can look back on both these achievements as one step toward the dream of pushing past geographical restraints. Everyone shares the dream of moving from one place to another in less time. No matter how much tech has advanced, we remain limited to traveling from airport to airport, and then by car (or train, if you're not in the US) to another geographic location. Anything that can put us on the path to pushing that limitation of desired location in faster time is an advancement. Electric vertical take off and landing vehicles can also be a step. Faster, more efficient passenger jets could be a step. More bullet trains, more exploration of magnet tech and trains could be an advancement. Maybe the biggest advancements in this will be on the ground. But my money is on the idea of it happening in the air. Of course, this Tesla car is a silly (but cool for anyone who grew up on the Dukes of Hazzard) stunt. Perhaps it will be a step for someone else to take to a practical level.

OccasionMU

Great question, wish you didn’t downvote me before asking: \>> Tesla has received over $3 billion in direct government subsidies, grants, and state/local awards, alongside billions more in regulatory credit sales and early federal loans. [Link](https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc) Assuming you’re in the US, your tax dollars helped fund this PR stunt. $3B!

StandSeparate1743

All grok bots, no people. Tell me about the octavalve and cold gas thruster. This whole comment section is just Tesla PR keywords

daffydubs

Why yes - I’m in a leadership position in a Fortune 500 company managing a $500 million book so I feel like I have a pretty good idea understanding corporate America…. Its extremely rare to find a CEO who actually knows what it takes to drive their strategy. And more often than not, it’s not their strategy. It’s a board who utilizes consultants that say “doing x will generate the greatest return for shareholders” and that becomes the direction. Musk has no idea how this car works. He just said “we need a flying car because it will be great for PR” and then a team of engineers had to now spend overtime for months on end to figure this out by a deadline for a PR stunt.

Acceptable_Taste9818

We will see just how real it is 2028. Time dispels all stories. I’ll hold my breath for the flying car. But I ain’t buying the PR or the fan testimonials. I remember how all that turned out for the cyber truck.

Western_Coffee_5445

that was an expensive PR stunt

TitusImmortalis

I'm in a group chat with some buddies and they're popping off about how this is so revolutionary and they need it "cause traffic is so lame". I am... trying to explain that this is PR to drum up investor interest but it's... well. I'm typing a lot.

wotton

This is a publicity stunt for cheap PR. Sure it’s cool, but entirely useless and serves no purpose. So… good job I guess?

RosieDear

How can Tesla, which makes about zero profit (4% that of Apple, Google, etc.) and has basically one vehicle....be worth more than Samsung? At least these AI companies are growing and some will likely make very large profit margin percentages. But we live in a crazy world. The answer, BTW, for what Tesla is worth that much....is twofold. First, PR and BS. But, prob more important at this point, it's not a company. It's a stock that turns over a couple times per year! That is, it exists at that price because a certain number of people trade it and options and calls on it. Those people don't care if it makes a single car or profit. It's a "meme" stock. The "solution" to it is for another meme stock to buy it (SpaceX) before it fails totally. Again, at least these AI companies are actually making something which is of immediate use and COULD result in large profit margins. That has value - although I am with you when it comes to "trillions".....

cultoftheclave

Guy was doing just fine, enjoying a fantastic public reputation that most CEO figures would dream of, until he started his own downward fart-sniffing spiral with the completely avoidable thai cave rescue PR disaster. just had to fish for every last scrap of praise - with lives on the line - and then threw a very public tantrum when he didn't get what he thought was rightfully his. And he's been doubling down ever since.

EmergencyFair6786

I want to know if this tool bag will apologize to bag holders when CRWV goes under? Him coming out running cover for a sinking ship could be extremely ill placed future PR. 

BenjaminHamnett

Haters please, Jensen is the man. I don’t know how this is gonna all unfold, if we’re all gonna die or end up in dystopia or this utopian fantasy, I dunno how many of them are Epstein club, and maybe they’re all just heavily PR coached, but these people, especially Jensen are angels compared to the villains that have been running the world my whole life. The worst of them is about in par with the best of our old war industrialist boomers that made a mess of the world

MGSfan

Not criticising you specifically but something's not right with this way of working if the time saved using AI is then being used up having to actually read all of the code. The person raising the PR should have gone through testing, alleviating some of your concerns. If you know what the functionally is supposed to do, debugging allows you to see what it is doing much quicker than trying to read and understand it all. Then there's unit testing. It sounds like this is not being done.

bwaxxlo

I made a 3k loc change this week in a single pull request (took me 2-3 days). Last big change I made was a 1.5k loc in a single PR, it took 1-2wks (this was back in 2023). There is no chance that 3k change can be written and reviewed fully in a couple of days without something slipping by

FastYetSlow

Godspeed. After heavily using these tools mainly for software engineering, the differences between models between companies, and even model releases within a company, it's obvious that many of the western AI companies are clinging onto doomerism as a form of PR and through washing their image through these cutesy personal AI models. Unless we somehow hit AGI within the next 5 years, investors are gonna want their money back and its not gonna come from selling the tokens of the models which OpenAI and Anthropic have spent billions in R&D training. I think there def is still some underrepped sectors in terms of energy, natural materials, and infra respectively though.

A_Typicalperson

lol that fluff PR video? You know 17 to 19 is suppose to be done, but it looks like they haven’t been worked on all sept

TF_Sally

i suppose that the cohort of extremely wealthy people who work and develop and support it should have perhaps employed a different PR tactic than "look how many jobs it will eliminate for the already struggling plebians'

swd120

The developer working with the AI to write the code should be the expert.  In my experience, you get a much better product when you use AI as a pair programmer - you need to look through everything it spits out and understand it before submitting a PR.  Yes it takes longer than vibe coding some slop, quickly "testing" it and then saying "ship it!" But then you get a much better product.

GregGirthman

Saudi Arabian PR

CA042

The "shipping more code" bit threw me, because that's not something you'd usually establish as a metric, especially not as something you'd work toward. Just doing more indiscriminately is usually not a good thing. I'm also a developer and my experience has been very different. The more code people produce, the worse it gets. The amount of drift from one PR to another between devs working on the same repository is mind-boggling. I guess if you're working alone you've got nobody but yourself to worry about? Either way, AI has improved nothing about my job, it only made the bad parts worse.

Ok_Ground9015

I'm in on BMEA for the AH Phase 1 results PR. It's a high risk/ high reward play. The Phase 1 results are expected to be good. Likely a spike/sell the news type play. The volume is decent. Sell the top type play.. So your own DD.

SuperEngineering1448

i see this as a PR stunt to drum up midterm votes, but the real effect on the workforce is negligible: companies still hire H‑1Bs and can offshore jobs, so the American labor market stays unchanged.

SPAC_Time

A few reasons. The price of XRP is down 9% in the past week, Evernorth updated the share count, and there are "Company Units" which we didn't count earlier., Also, XRPN put out a PR yesterday to announce "the appointment of its new Chief Investment Officer and ***an updated number of shares of Class A common stock***. " Today Evernorth [put out an 8-K with the updated share counts](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2092592/000119312526419605/d118629d8k.htm). Shares of Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding as of Closing: 23,638,882 Shares of Class C Common Stock issued and outstanding as of Closing: 31,392,746 Total Company Units issued and sold by Pathfinder in the private placements that consummated as of Closing: 22,953,128 Can't find a description of the "Company Units" yet, but guessing that is common + warrant. Those mostly went to Ripple. 55,031,628 total shares; but there are also the units, so 77,984,756 total shares if standard unit. Holding approximately 473 million XRP @ $1.36 per token = $643.28 million at current price. 643,280,000 / 77,984,756 = $8.25

bighawksguy-caw-caw

Then they’re doing it like retards. There’s 0 brand recognition outside of ChatGPT. They’re changing the model names and theme constantly. There is 0 stickiness. Once you have the output you can take it wherever you want. Switching models is the easiest thing in the world. None of them give a shit about UX except Google who will probably win the whole thing just by leveraging their existing stickiness. They have the world’s worst PR team for anything but an IPO. There’s no company or set of CEOs with more people rooting against them right now. They’ve purposefully made their existence a political issue so now they’ve got to play that game forever and they’ve probably invited the wolf into the hen house on that one. Getting AI integrated into everything and everyone dependent on it doesn’t mean shit if they are not dependent specifically on you. They’ve spent billions creating an industry and they haven’t even given themselves a head start. When they inevitably try to jack up rates, Apple and Google are going to eat their consumer share and, shit, Microsoft or Oracle probably figure out a way to eat their enterprise share using their entrenchment.

mightyblend

I'm going to hold for the PR this morning. Then I'll come back to let you know how much I regret that and you'll feel even better!

BoJo_Nose6969

whatever happened to dispo's acceptance of credit cards for payments? that was thrown out there a couple weeks back but no mention of it sense. these companies have a PR problem.

No_Feeling920

He's a former gaming "journalist" and a PR "specialist" (whatever the fuck that means). He sure is a great smooth talker, but that alone tells you nothing about the depth and the quality of his underlying fundamentals analysis. Being skeptical towards the AI build-out/hype is IMO rational, but he just goes berserk and says nothing positive to balance out his arguments. Nothing is black-and-white, all-good or all-bad. There are always some shades of grey. Quality journalism contains an element of devil's advocate, steel manning etc.

Dont_Use_Ducks

It is because in the US having lots of money is being seen as higher in the ladder. Like you see TV priests telling people on tv that God wants the viewers to pay the priest all their money, while he is sitting in the yard of his own luxery villa. Telemarketing was respected way more than in most other countries. And the weird world of endorsements, where people say who they support before elections. Where I live, if a celeb says they endorse a certain candidate, most people will think 'so, what? keep it to yourself', while even the news in the US makes endorsements a big deal. It seems harmless, but it is a legal way to bribe famous or 'important' people into PR and their influence on elections seems to be effective. To me, and it is probably exaggerated, it seems like the loop is something like 'this guy is rich, let's give him more money' and therefor 'this guy is poor, let's keep an eye on him and don't give him money'.

thisisjacksparrow

I’ve been swing trading for months. Buying value non AI stocks and shorting the market (and yes losing money), but I will continue because I’ve done a lot of research and that’s what I believe. Sounds like you are believing billionaires which isn’t very wise. Everything is a PR game.

Le7emesens

Well numbers and financial analysis aside, yesterday that Chinese firm pulled out the exact cloned BS!%@ poopoo noisy PR crap stunt vid of any materiality, out of the DeepSeek playbook who used it against NVDA about 1.5 years ago. These Chinese firms must feel real desesperate. NVDA recovered write quickly and now look at where NVDA is, just 1.5 year after that DeepSeek news that rocked wrongly the world and provided a once in a lifetime cheap entry point for late people. If history repeats itself like NVDA, BUT I'M NOT SAYING IT WILL, then y'all know what to do! I personally believe it's an extremely strong signal.

ecuat

It’s pure PR. Stocks go up. People think they got something free, and by the time they can cash it in , it’s worthless.

i_empathetic

This dude is literally the worst of the AI buildout CEOs from a PR perspective. Just non-stop negative charisma.

lemontoga

> It just solved hundreds of open math research problems. No, it didn't. OpenAI just dumped hundreds of them out without verification. Multiple have already been retracted or proven incorrect. Keep falling for their PR moves, though. > "Some guy" is one of the most influential people in the tech industry. I don't care if he's Alan fucking Turing. Why would I give a shit what he's seeing on his twitter timeline? Who cares? I just want data. Actual data. Not a tweet. Numbers. Studies. Anything. You guys just post these walls of text about your own experiences or you link to twitter posts of other people doing the same thing. Give me something real. Anything.

WorldLeader

I'm actually trying to be helpful here by warning you that your priors are outdated. Tech companies (especially in SF) are deathly afraid of public backlash from AI growing, so they have all shut the fuck up about what's actually going on behind closed doors and continuing to plow ahead. The composition of companies has changed a ton, and entire divisions are getting chewed up and laid off, but they are absolutely NOT attributing any of this to AI publicly. They are lying to you, but not in the way you think. It's absolutely AI causing these layoffs and reorgs and hiring freezes. They just cannot afford any of the negative PR to say or publish anything about it.

UnethicallyMaterial

Always skeptical of these PR pieces hitting right when the stock needs a push, feels like they're testing the waters for a raise before anything's actually built. The Houston drone frame angle is interesting though, if they can actually land a DoD sub-contract or something through that location it stops being a penny stock pipe dream real quick. Been burned too many times by composite companies promising automated facilities then diluting into oblivion, so I'm watching from the sidelines for now. Anyone actually dug into whether YMAT has existing reveneu or is this still pre-revenue hype?

EyeNakaNaka

the "20 miners" number... source? they haven't disclosed fleet count yet. DCMT just closed and the nov 3 PR says mining started, that's all we've got. real question is power cost per coin and expansion timeline, not a comp to LUXX at 10x the valuation

Glittering_Dig3798

Banning paying users for being "mean" to your chatbot doesn't bode well for Anthropic's decision making. Their PR has been an endless shitshow. I bet they've become a laughing stock in tech and wall st.

wilson0x4d

global events outside of man's control and PR news are the only two "reliable" types of news for a trader. unfortunately that's such a small percentage of broadcast media because media outlets are forced to produce content to keep viewership numbers up. even bloomberg peddles 'hype' and 'drivel' now and again, unfortunately no news giant is immune.

Witty-Gur-6577

you got the wrong side of the deal, they’re more about keeping licences for the big hitters than actually protecting 9‑11 users. if anything that repo is just a PR stunt for openai’s cash drum.

Known_Celebration_43

Holding both my spacex and tesla shares long-term. History repeats itself (look at original automotive industry and residential/commercial electricity PR hate). "Time waits for no man."

GrapefruitDue9103

No you don't, all you need is to begin non-cooperation as a government cannot function without the people. If a majority of US citizens and PR would just stop, literally do nothing, the entire administration would crumble almost instantly. If no one shows up to work, no one enforces his stupid bullshit policies and stops enabling their actions, it would be over in a heartbeat and the entire administration would collapse. Like a general strike essentially, taking civil disobedience to its conclusion, but that would actually take brave souls to accomplish and y'all are way too endoctrinated to do so

Significant-Tea-8801

i think this is mostly a PR move, not a big market shift. it only cuts the green‑card hook, H1Bs still flow, so companies keep hiring abroad when that’s cheaper. most tech folks will still get those visas, just without the PERM path, meaning a longer wait or a different route. for the few already in the queue it slows them, but ultimately the green card flow still happens.

Senior-Purchase-538

They do have some real big customers though. Lets see if the pivot to mainly SaaS will turn this sinking stinker around. A little PR about Amazon and its gone. https://preview.redd.it/hyufcq12liuh1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55220175075bc7296e6c97784c04a50e52b97efe

wrestlingchampo

You could see a bump if a good PR report comes out involving their partnership with Palantir Foundry. I think whats more likely is they are an acquisition target for someone like Andruil

Individual-Muscle102

looks like a classic PR play more than a stock‑dump tactic—this 800 MHz chunk does a lot for cross‑sell coverage, but that timing is purely a nice headline before the lock‑up, not a cryptic sell‑off signal

JohanLiebert92

ASTS CEO doing some PR on his twitter account right now

PassableForAWombat

I specifically stated SWE instead of coder for the title callout, because that’s basically where the AI “demand” is. I am admittedly only a journeyman for coding and not professionally, and only use AI there to create my flowcharts for logic. I’ve seen the PR reqs some of the recent updates. I’m sorry.

Weekly-Mission-7622

i’ve been looking at the 800‑MHz band for a bit: it’s the low‑band spectrum that actually gives indoor and dead‑zone coverage, so for Starlink Mobile it’s a pretty big win position wise. and i get the timing angle – announcing it just before the lock‑up pops does smooth the perception of any potential dump, and we’ve seen the stock not tumble when lock‑ups expired before. so it’s less a pump & dump and more a smart PR nudge that may have kept the momentum alive while the real work of building nano‑cells and doors still a long road, but the headline definitely helped keep the price on a positive trajectory.

ynglink

I mean, Musk is only the bank roll here. He doesnt do any actual work. Its why he invests and takes over compsnies, then pretends he built them. Its okay to do that, but to pretend hes a super genius or some shit is dumb as hell. Hes killed the reputation of a lot of his companies between bad QA and PR over the last decade and has tried to spread nationalism to multiple countries.

shiny0metal0ass

Dude, you don't get it. Their CFO was in the news talking about how they use ChatGPT to run their numbers. This isn't a "top AI company", these are the same fuck-nuggets that couldn't close a PR.

Few_Organization9094

I would need to see where this “pledge” actually goes. A lot of maga hot air gets blown about their philanthropy but a lot of it is B.S. Time will tell. My bet is this is just another PR stunt while they support the Trump agenda of defunding education, healthcare and many other important government programs - to fund their tax cuts for billionaires.

zeruch

No, they want the PR of appearing to do so, but otherwise will either A. write very diluted, meaningless policy, and/or B. write something that boatanchors their competitors as much if not moreso than themselves. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either in on the grift, or deeply gullible.

Aware_Result_5361

1. THAT isn’t aging, lmao 2. If you think this was blind altruism, you are naive. You should see the 9.7 billion dollar contract Dell landed with the US government in May of this year. This is just a $6.25 billion dollar tax deduction that was meant to buy them some good PR, which has hilariously backfired instead.

gargeug

Wow, you clearly feel this is some anti Indian movement and are coming off like some triggered iinsecure diot. You realize there have been structural changes in the department of labor geared for a long fight and this is the first shot. The government is putting their foot down that these tech companies cant subsidize their profits using US taxpayers. Our utilities skyrocket for datacenters while we pay unemployment for those laid off while they fraudulantly hire H1B workers without actually trying to find US hires first as the law requires. You quote a microsoft PR response as proof against the claims of a well funded US govt dept who has presented sealed evidence strong enough that this major action was sanctioned to move forward. You dont seem as intelligent as you say you are.

star744jets

yes, I know but having followed this development for 11 years , the investment thesis has jumped into strong territory since yesterday as confirmed by the latest NWBO ( rare ) PR. Furthermore, a new study of combo treatment Keytruda/ DCVAx has demonstrated high efficacy ( PR coming OCT18 ). The world should know!

SentenceDowntown591

SpaceX 120 day IPO unlock for insider investors literally starts tomorrow, which basically makes this seem like a PR stunt to pump the stock for a sale to help insiders

SurgicalDude

Keep crying cause you took an L. No PR? Lol. Junkie is hallucinating in daytime. Go suck Elmo dick you dog water

Grandmaparty

There's NO FUCKING PR. ZERO. This is pathetic. Suck my entire dick, you fuck boy. They don't give a fuck about you and this company is circling the fucking toilet.

SurgicalDude

They don't need to give you dates, they will launch once the integration is done. Did you forget how launches work? There's enough PR and actual work being done. Eat shit.

Brepp

Hard to suss out if those are marketing stunts dressed up like genuine news. Or if they were facilitated outbreaks for the sake of "oh it's so powerful" PR. We were getting unrelenting AI CEO proclamations for so long that it's genuinely hard to tell now.

FullofLovingSpite

I don't think they have recovered the customers they lost and the changes are too new to know numbers yet. But when a big place like McDonald's fucks up and has to have PR out there about prices coming down it's not a good sign for them.

rweber87

I just don’t believe it. The rich are o ox motivated to continue to increase their wealth. They are never incentivized to randomly be generous and share their wealth. This is all a PR stunt until funds are actually transferred.

Urabraska-

A better question is. Is she even telling the truth? Pretty much everyone who "pledged" anything in this administration has been lying their asses off and only did it for good PR in the moment.

createthiscom

You will ignore all of the progress and incredible discoveries AI is making because the marketing PR timeline slipped? You sound like my ex complaining about something I did 12 years ago.

hoopaholik91

Not with how cheap the models are these days. I can spend a full day writing what ends up being a 2000 line PR (yeah I hate myself that it's that large to begin with, although 70% are tests), and it costs about $10.

Ok_Ground9015

I've switched from buying to holding and watching VEEA. We're gonna need some more news on that merger. Possibly stick some of the merger news in with the compliance PR.

Ok_Ground9015

There is nothing, but positive news here and zero percent chance that the CEO has any remorse for the shorts. Compliance PR on the way. More good news from the TROLLEE Agreement for Phased Deployment of VeeaONE to 1,000 Unattended Stores, Smart Community Agreement with La Estadia Community for Agentic Real-time Aware and Secure Community, and possibly some other big news that we are not yet privy to.

Ok_Ground9015

Because they just became fully Nasdaq compliant yesterday and a PR usually follows that. Compliance PRs are historically bullish and usually cause a spike. Add the squeeze potential and it could get out of control.

Ok_Ground9015

VEEA compliance PR on the way. It looks to be bottomed out here. That PR should send it. The shorts have not covered yet. I still think it will see $7+. It really depends on if the shorties are willing to stick this out or accept their defeat.

Ok_Ground9015

Yep. The infamous walls at 50 cents and $1 are historically troubling. Without epic PR, high volume, and retail who knows how to hold, they are near insurmountable. 

Charming_Program_651

but i think there's also a PR angle—after that big loss spill last year, people started calling RH 'the casino for options' and the execs wanted to clean up before the next quarterly report.

oaksapollo

Yep, historically when they hold a CAC meeting, they make a decision faster (usually within 1 year). However, what is unique to Lucid's situation is just putting the transcript together took 4 months, which is 3 months longer than usual, so the transcript likely pushed the timeline out by a whole quarter. If a decision normally would've come early September 2026, now we're looking at early December 2026, in which case, it likely gets pushed to 2027. I'm just assuming it's a January event and if we hear before then, I'll be pleasantly surprised. With the 9/22 PR though, the story has really shifted to revenue growth, so the whole Moldx thing is not as critical.