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Research notes on earnings, market structure, and financial statements. Each piece starts with the conclusion, then lays out the evidence and implications.

2026-06-28

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Market Analysis
QQQ•8 min read

AI Profit Reset

Wall Street's latest AI pullback is not a denial of the theme; it is a reset of the payback timeline. The market just recorded a weekly losing streak in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq while investors started asking whether massive AI capex can convert into cash fast enough to justify the current valuations.

S&P 500 week: -2.05%Nasdaq week: -4.7%
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2026-06-26

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Policy
OPENAI•8 min read

AI Access Review

OpenAI and Anthropic are limiting access to their newest cyber-capable models while government review runs its course. That slows broad rollout, but it also shows frontier AI is starting to ship like a regulated security product.

OpenAI access: ~20Anthropic access: Vetted cohort
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Earnings Analysis
MU•8 min read

Micron Q3 FY2026 Shock: $41.46B Revenue, 84.6% Gross Margin, and the AI Memory Regime Is Still Underpriced

Micron's latest quarter was not a normal beat. It showed a rare combination of hyper-scale revenue, extreme margin expansion, and free-cash-flow power that argues the market still underprices AI memory.

Revenue: $41.46BGAAP EPS: $24.67
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Meeting Analysis
NVDA•9 min read

NVIDIA’s 2026 Shareholder Meeting Confirmed the Hardest Truth in AI: The Moat Is Moving Up the Stack

NVIDIA's 2026 annual shareholder meeting was less about corporate housekeeping and more about a roadmap signal: Blackwell is scaling now, Rubin is next, and the AI stack is becoming even more system-level.

FY2026 Revenue: $215.9BData Center Revenue: $193.7B
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Capital Markets
ORCL•10 min read

OpenAI IPO Delay

OpenAI may wait until 2027 to go public instead of listing into a weak tape. That is a valuation choice, but it also stretches the private-capital bridge that supports Oracle, CoreWeave, SoftBank, and the Stargate buildout.

Potential timing: 2027Target valuation: $1T
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2026-06-25

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AI / Policy
BABA•9 min read

Anthropic vs Alibaba Shows AI Distillation Has Become a Border and Balance-Sheet Problem

Anthropic's Senate letter accusing Alibaba-linked operators of 28.8 million Claude interactions across roughly 25,000 fake accounts turns model extraction into an IP, security, and trade-policy issue.

Reported exchanges: 28.8MFake accounts: 25k
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M&A
ON•9 min read

Onsemi Physical AI

onsemi's $7 billion all-stock purchase of Synaptics is a bet that the next wave of AI will be physical, not just digital. The company is trying to combine power, sensing, compute, connectivity, and control into one stack for automotive, industrial, robotics, and edge devices.

Deal value: $7BPremium: 19%
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2026-06-24

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Infrastructure
AVGO•9 min read

OpenAI Broadcom Chip

OpenAI's Jalapeño announcement with Broadcom is bigger than a chip launch. It moves more of the inference stack in-house and changes how value is split across silicon, networking, and rack integration.

Chip: JalapeñoTape-out: 9 months
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Strategy
QCOM•10 min read

Qualcomm Data Center Pivot

Qualcomm used Investor Day to reframe itself as an AI infrastructure company. The targets are aggressive: a $40B non-handset business by fiscal 2029, more than $15B from data centers, and a software stack broad enough to challenge the idea that AI silicon has to be vertically owned by one vendor.

FY2029 target: $40BData center target: $15B+
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Semiconductors / Memory
MU•10 min read

Micron's Record Q3 Shows AI Memory Is Still the Tightest Bottleneck

Micron reported record fiscal Q3 2026 results, with revenue of $41.46 billion, non-GAAP EPS of $25.11, and a fiscal Q4 outlook for $50.0 billion of revenue. The read-through is that memory is no longer a commodity footnote in the AI cycle; it is one of the scarcest and most strategically valuable parts of the stack.

Revenue: $41.46BNon-GAAP EPS: $25.11
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2026-06-22

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AI Infrastructure
MU•9 min read

Micron Anthropic Pact

Micron's new strategic agreement with Anthropic turns memory and storage into a front-line AI infrastructure input. The deal ties HBM, DRAM, and SSD supply to one of the most capital-intensive frontier labs while Micron also takes an equity stake in Anthropic's latest funding round.

Memory scope: HBM / DRAM / SSDAnthropic valuation: $965B
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AI / Robotics
NVDA•10 min read

NVIDIA Halos for Robotics Turns Physical AI Safety Into a Platform

NVIDIA says Halos for Robotics is the industry's first full-stack safety system for robotics and physical AI, built on 18,600+ engineering years of autonomous-vehicle safety work and already adopted first by Agility Robotics. The market implication is that the next leg of physical AI will be decided less by raw model skill than by who can package compute, sensors, inspection, and certification into one deployable platform.

Engineering base: 18,600+ yrsFirst adopter: Agility
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2026-06-11

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AI / Software
ADBE•10 min read

Adobe's Q2 AI Monetization Is Turning Creative Software Into a Usage Meter

Adobe reported record Q2 FY2026 revenue of $6.62 billion, said AI-first ARR tripled year over year to more than $500 million, and raised FY2026 targets. The market read-through is that Adobe's AI story is no longer about feature launches; it is about whether its installed base can keep converting into recurring, usage-driven revenue.

Revenue: $6.62BAI-first ARR: $500M+
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2026-06-08

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Semiconductors / AI
AMD•10 min read

AMD's £2 Billion UK AI Push Turns Compute Into Industrial Policy

AMD says it will invest up to £2 billion over five years in the United Kingdom, pairing sovereign AI infrastructure with university partnerships and photonic networking research. The market implication is bigger than one country: compute is becoming a geopolitical asset, and the companies that can sell the full stack get more leverage than the ones selling chips alone.

Investment: £2bnResearch partners: 2+
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Evidence-first notes with a visible point of view.

This section collects sharp takes on earnings, shareholder meetings, and market structure. Each new piece should make the thesis, the facts, and the implications obvious within the first few screens.

Expect direct analysis, not generic commentary.

Expect the data to be explicit and the argument to be easy to follow.

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