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Expert Call | Corning

Corning’s NVIDIA-backed 10x fiber expansion, enterprise connector demand and carrier capacity plans frame its optical communications outlook through 2030.

GLW $126B
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Serenity on X

Everyone is asking "Where is Serenity" or "Who is Serenity". But nobody is asking... "How is Serenity"? I do read things from $AMD $8.2B acquisition of World Labs... but feeling pretty sick right now, so taking a little break. I remember saying physical AI + world models would major shift way back when, so maybe I should have invested in private companies at the time... Apart from that... other interesting news: - Some channel checks from ECOC was that $NVDA apparently secured 50% of $LITE Greensboro UHP laser capacity? And possibly contracts that allow them to secure the remaining capacity per Barclays. That's $5B in lasers (annual capacity)... so it's hilarious to see Nvidia go out and bottleneck the rest of the industry by doing this. But this just puts more strategic value on other merchant laser suppliers + more visibility for Lumentum. It's kinda game theory over allocation, since if you secure all the HBM, lasers, and others it inadvertently makes it much harder for competitors to scale their programs. - Then there's your massive $150B Nvidia authorized buybacks (just look at $AAPL when they did buybacks..) They're printing too much. - What's also interesting is that Samsung Electro-Mechanics is expanding their FC-BGA substrate capacity today... but customers are the one funding this. I also remembered $MRVL in SEC filings cited large body substrates as one of the core bottlenecks of their program (alongside $TSM sole source dependencies). So they also went out and did some other expansion agreements with related companies like AT&S recently. - OpenAI delaying Astra-6.1 October release over safety concerns just now. Nvidia also happened to launch an AI safety platform. I don't think this is meaningfully bearish that the models are just getting 2 good.
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Convequity on X

The $PLTR and $NVDA work on Nemotron, NVIDIA's open model family, is still under the radar, unlike partnerships that promise more than they deliver. In our view it could be industry-transforming, because each side needs the other: Nemotron is the Western open model that fits, and Palantir is the only vendor that can put a model into an enterprise securely, safely and privacy-first, and limit it to what each person may see and change, which is why AIP, Palantir's AI platform, took hold and why NVIDIA needs Palantir. Palantir has no proprietary model and leans on closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Chinese open models are almost certainly off the table for a U.S. government contractor. On August 26 Jensen Huang said every major company needs its own proprietary AI, and open models make that possible. On June 29 Palantir launched an engine that runs custom Nemotron models for U.S. agencies and critical industries on networks cut off from the outside. The customer can train this American open model further on its own data and keep the weights, the trained model. On September 10 they announced a supply-chain stack, first on NVIDIA's own supply chain. On July 14 NVIDIA said other companies already specialize Nemotron for their own domains. The test is whether that stack moves from NVIDIA to named customers in manufacturing, energy, healthcare, automotive or aerospace.

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Vicor Update, Part Two

Vicor uses ITC exclusion-order cases to license power-module patents, with published royalty multipliers rising from 1.0x before filing to…

VICR $10B
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Expert Call | Nebius

Nebius’s 1 GW annual active-capacity target from 2027 is realistic, according to a former product manager, with greenfield data centers…

NBIS $56B
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Dell's Tailwinds

Dell booked $131.7B of AI server orders in four quarters and held a $95B backlog as enterprise AI demand accelerates.

DELL $301B
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A Month with Muse

Meta’s Muse automated website fixes and design changes for a solo publisher, illustrating how $20-per-month AI agents can reduce…

META $1.9T
MBI Deep Dives 3 clicks
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Amadeus It Group SA

Amadeus IT Group turns long after shares fell more than 20% since a November short call.

AMADF $25B
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LQDA: finer powder, higher doses

Liquidia’s Yutrepia sales reached $170.4 million in Q2 2026, while a patent ruling threatens its PH-ILD label but leaves PAH sales and a…

UTHR $24B
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“Is Ralph Lauren Still Relevant?”

Ralph Lauren’s 2017 CEO change put Patrice Louvet in charge of reversing nine quarters of same-store sales declines and restoring the…

RL $22B
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