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Portfolio Watch and personal columns from AIStockWire writers, with positions disclosed.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood week 8: its first winning trade was worth $1.87
After seven straight losses, Claude AI finally booked a winning trade. It sold most of a SoundHound (SOUN) position into a rally for one dollar and eighty-seven cents, then bought a quiet chip stock, Navitas (NVTS), on its own read. The account is still down about 32%.
Kioxia spent its entire $5 billion buyback in six trading sessions
Kioxia had until October 30 to spend $5.0 billion buying its own stock. It finished on August 10, six sessions in, at an average of 49,586 yen ($312 USD) a share. Toshiba sold into day one and lost the largest shareholder spot. What the pace and the September guide say for SanDisk (SNDK) and Micron (MU).
13 of Jim Cramer's last 15 tech calls beat the Nasdaq. The stocks he told people to avoid did even better.
I built a page to track how wrong Jim Cramer is. Right now 13 of his last 15 tech calls are beating the Nasdaq, and the stocks he waved people off are doing better than the ones he liked.
AI stock battle week 3: all six AIs finished up at least 16%, DeepSeek up 24% (August 8, 2026)
All six AI models finished week 3 up at least 16%. DeepSeek leads at $12,407, up 24%, on a book of five companies that all lose money, and four of the six made no trades at all.
Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) did a double beat and guided up 42%. Why did the stock tank to $115 before clawing back?
AAOI did a double beat and guided Q3 up 42%. After the report the stock spiked to $142, tanked to $115, then clawed back to around $125. I own it, I'm holding, and here's why I think next week is the real move.
Ondas (ONDS) is up 16% this week on three straight wins, and the loudest trading day wasn't the biggest price move.
Ondas jumped 12% the day David Barnea joined, then posted its loudest volume of the week on the Army order without much price movement at all. I own ONDS at $9, and here's the honest math on backlog, dilution and what August 13 needs to show.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 7: It wrote a longer risk memo than the trade was worth
Claude AI ran five-minute bars on four stocks, caught an earnings call that had been quietly postponed, computed a risk-reward ratio and wrote a memo against its own trade. Then it bought four shares of a battery company and went red in twenty minutes.
SpaceX (SPCX) beat on every line. The 911 million share unlock Thursday took the whole rally back
SpaceX beat on revenue, EPS and every segment in its first quarter as a public company. The stock rose 9.4%, then handed the whole move back. The reason is Thursday, when 911.5 million shares unlock against a float of about 646 million.
The FCC may ban Chinese optical transceivers. Photonics stocks exploded, and Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) has run nearly 70% in four sessions.
Reuters says the FCC is drafting a rule that would ban imports of all new optical transceiver models, then exempt many non-Chinese suppliers. The photonics group repriced on it Tuesday morning, and AAOI, down 66% since May, ran the hardest.
I run an Inverse Cramer tracker. Jim Cramer just went 6 for 8, led by Astera Labs' 30% rally.
I built a page to track how wrong Jim Cramer is, and I like the guy anyway. Six of his last eight tech calls beat the Nasdaq, and the one that didn't is the one holding my whole tracker up.
AMD gave Meta and OpenAI warrants on 320 million shares at a penny. They're now worth about $152 billion.
AMD issued Meta and OpenAI warrants on 160 million shares apiece at an exercise price of $0.01, vesting on 6 GW of Instinct shipments and a $600 share price. At Friday's close the pair is worth about $152 billion against $3.2 million to exercise. AMD's Q1 10-Q says none of it has vested or touched the financial statements yet.
SanDisk (SNDK) beat every line and guided way above consensus. The stock fell anyway.
SanDisk (SNDK) reports fiscal Q4 on August 5 with Goldman's target at $2,200 and the stock at $1,214.87 after a 5.1% Friday drop. SK Hynix printed a 76% operating margin on July 29 and Seoul still closed down 9.61%, because revenue missed consensus by 5.5%.
AI stock battle week 2: DeepSeek led every day until Friday, then Claude took it (August 1, 2026)
DeepSeek finished first at every close of week 1 while Claude sat last on Monday. Then Ambarella rose 16% on Friday and the order flipped. Plus a holding that got acquired and delisted mid-contest, and the first week of models choosing their own position sizes.
SpaceX (SPCX) took every space stock down with it, and it started the day it filed, not the day it listed. Rocket Lab (RKLB) is the one I'd own
SpaceX filed its S-1 on May 20 and space stocks went vertical, then broke. Every name in the group now trades below its pre-filing price. Why Rocket Lab (RKLB) is the one I'd buy out of it.
The Nasdaq fell six days straight, then chips ripped. Microsoft, Samsung, and Citadel buying out Aschenbrenner all landed inside 18 hours.
The Nasdaq's six-day losing streak ended at exactly six, which our own history piece said was the single most likely outcome. Microsoft's $678 billion backlog, Samsung's call that the chip crunch runs to 2028, and Citadel buying the bulk of a leveraged $24 billion book all arrived between Wednesday's close and Thursday afternoon.
Microsoft (MSFT) grew Azure 43% with $678 billion already booked. That is what Nvidia (NVDA) and Micron (MU) needed to hear.
Microsoft held its capital spending outlook near $190 billion, grew Azure 43% and rose 7.6% after hours. Meta raised its capex range by $10 billion at the low end, missed on earnings at $6.18 against a $7.14 estimate, and fell 9.0%. The market stopped scoring hyperscalers on capex announcements and started scoring them on whether the revenue arrives. That is a better setup for Nvidia, Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor than another spending headline, though it does nothing about the memory supply problem that actually caused July.
SK Hynix (SKHY) missed consensus by 5.5%. I sat through the call and I'm still holding
I was signed into the SK Hynix earnings call last night, watching SKHY drop and trying to figure out why. The company came in 5.5% under estimates on the best quarter it has ever had, but the margin held at 76% and the shortfall was HBM4 shipments sliding into the second half. Seoul took the stock down 19.6% intraday. I own SKHY at $154 and I'm not selling this one.
Citadel says the Fed hikes Wednesday. All 104 economists Reuters asked say it won't (MU, NVDA, July 28, 2026)
I was sure Citadel's rate call knocked the Nasdaq down 2% Tuesday morning. Nvidia (NVDA) was green while Micron (MU) fell 7.69% and the 2-year yield never moved, so it was not the Fed at all. It was Seoul. Here is the split that actually matters at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Michael Burry posted three charts making the AI bear case. Two of them show the selling already happened.
Burry shared three Bloomberg charts on the AI trade. One maps the circular deals around Nvidia (NVDA). The other two show big tech forward multiples back at or below their 10-year averages, with Apple (AAPL) the lone expensive name and the only megacap missing from the circular map.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 6: It swapped CleanSpark (CLSK) for D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) and quit 23 minutes later
Claude AI's CleanSpark (CLSK) stop fired Monday for a $2.36 loss and was right, since CLSK fell another 10% after. Then it bought D-Wave (QBTS) at Tuesday's open into a chip crash, sold 23 minutes later for $1.80, and filed a report two minutes after that saying it had not traded.
Michael Burry's picks: the Micron (MU) bet is up 17%. He has been averaging down on Lululemon (LULU) since 2025.
Burry deregistered Scion, so the 13F trail stopped and his trades now surface first on a newsletter with 300,000 subscribers. Here is everything he has disclosed since June, priced as of July 27. The point of laying them out together is that he is not always right.
Nasdaq futures were up over 1% and things looked good. Then chips tanked and took the whole gain with them, led by ASML, Micron (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) (July 27, 2026)
Futures pointed to a strong open on the Iran ceasefire and a 6.79% drop in oil. QQQ opened up 1.09% and was negative within the hour. Three chip headlines did it, and two of them came out of China: a domestic DUV lithography report that hit ASML, and CXMT's Shanghai debut that hit Micron.
If I had $1,000 for one AI chip stock, I'd buy SK Hynix (SKHY) over Nvidia (NVDA), Micron (MU) and AMD
Nvidia and SK Group signed a $500 billion AI infrastructure deal late Friday night, after both New York and Seoul had closed for the week. Given $1,000 for one of the four AI chip stocks, I'd put it in SK Hynix, which trades at 5.6 times forward earnings even after its 28% ADR premium against 6.4 for Micron.
Michael Burry sent readers to a BIS report on AI's poorly disclosed deals. Oracle (ORCL) reports $638 billion in one line.
Michael Burry spent July 23 pointing his readers at a Bank for International Settlements report on how AI deals get financed. The clearest illustration sits in an Oracle (ORCL) filing: a $638 billion backlog reported as one aggregate line, with the customer split left to S&P to estimate.