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The Agentic AI Roadmap for SaaS

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Short Report Review: $EQPT - Blue Orca @blueorcainvest https://t.co/YigE14K6Rw

@irbezek Sep 30

Ian Bezek on X

@NthObject89773 @pradeeepk Given $APP's sketchy history of using data, rather ironic that they would complain about a little turnaround of their tactics.

@finphysnerd Sep 30

Myles on X

Corporates (spreads are tight, if this gets rly bad spreads should blow out). Long breadth, consumer exposure and small caps through stuff like $IWM, $RSP, $XSHQ, $RSPD. Short the narrow winners like $QQQ, $SMH, $AAPL, $CRWD, $ILMN, $NBIS. Also shorting long crowded bio longs

@SowingAlphaSeed Sep 30 1 click

Farmer on X

@svrnco @ASchulz888 @irbezek Hmm... $TLT implied vol is <15% for the January '29 expiry. Looks like an ATM straddle pays off if rates move by at least 1.5 percentage points in either direction. Probably not a bad trade.

@convequity Sep 30

Convequity on X

Anthropic's biggest near-term threat isn't the S-1 or AI-safety language. It's competition, especially an OpenAI price war. The S-1 is public, and the timing lines up with OpenAI DevDay. My read is that it isn't a coincidence. That's my read, not something either company has said. What surprised me more came out of DevDay: OpenAI is ending its price war. Here's what that means in practice. OpenAI removed the Pro 20x subscription at $200/month and plans to cut usable tokens on that $200 plan by about half. The allowance was also more generous than it looked. Over the past quarter, OpenAI did roughly 2.5 manual usage resets per week. So heavy users didn't only get a big allowance. It got refilled before they hit the wall, over and over, for about three months. That's a price war fought in tokens instead of list prices, and it is expensive to fund. Why it mattered for Anthropic: for heavy users, cheaper tokens beat a better model. Once a model is good enough, what limits you is how much work you can push through it per dollar. A better model you have to ration loses to a good-enough model you can run all day. Anthropic went the other way and raised margin. That's the right posture for an S-1. It's the wrong posture when a competitor is paying for volume. That left Anthropic in a trap going into the IPO: - Match the pricing, and margin thins just when margin is the story you're selling. - Hold the line, and growth slows as heavy users drift to wherever tokens are cheapest. Either way the numbers get worse at the worst possible time. Ending the price war takes that trap off the table for now. Anthropic gets a cleaner tape into the IPO. Why did OpenAI stop after one quarter? I see two reads, and both are mine, not confirmed: 1. The burn. My read is that OpenAI postponed its own IPO because of how much it was burning, and investors pushed it to stop. 2. OpenAI's own later IPO. If it wants to list, its numbers have to look like a business too. One quarter of subsidized tokens is a campaign. A year of it is a problem in your own filing. The second-order point is that in both reads OpenAI stopped because of its own finances. Anthropic didn't win the war. It ended because the side paying for it chose to stop. The playbook still exists and it ran for a full quarter. It can be turned back on. That's the risk that remains. OpenAI restarts it. Or a rival like $SPCX xAI ships a next-gen model and discounts tokens hard to buy share. It's a bit like Uber's cash burn: a well-funded player can keep subsidizing longer than a margin-focused company wants to wait. I don't think that's fully priced in.

@ACapitalLP Sep 30

A Capital on X

$CODI < $11 with a potential major asset sale coming is too cheap given underlying value. This thing moves on like $2mm of volume. Illiquidity is both a blessing (dislocations) and a curse (violent gaps)… 🤷‍♂️

@junkbondinvest Sep 30

junkbondinvestor on X

Fitch just assigned Tesla a 1st-time BBB rating and people are already speculating about a big inaugural IG bond deal Remember when they had JUNK bonds? The coupon on the 2017 deal was 5.3% (not a typo). In retrospect, that's cheaper than what they'd pay for IG money today $TSLA

@KEDM_COM Sep 30

KEDM.com on X

Both Up Fintech $TIGR and Futu $FUTU benefited from Asians YOLO-ing into 3x levered long MU and SPCX ETFs, with FUTU now up significantly since the regulatory crackdown in May. They only started throttling Mainland accounts in mid-June so the real impact won't be visible until next quarter. ~12x P/E ex-Mainland if you annualize Q2, although Q3 is bound to be a little weaker.

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