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BREAKING: Verizon CEO admits he assumes everything SpaceX says it will do, it will do, and execute flawlessly, and says he takes its terrestrial moves "quite seriously"
Dan Schulman (CEO): “I also operate under the assumption that everything SpaceX says they will do, they will do, and that they will execute flawlessly. That’s my operating assumption on it. I think to assume anything else, makes no sense from my perspective."
"And everything that we’ve seen so far, all of their announcements, everything we’re hearing in the market, and I’ll talk about that in just a second, is so far the path that we’ve basically predicted that they would do."
"We always knew that they needed a terrestrial network to have any chance at providing a competitive service. I don’t really need to re-review the satellite beam physics, but just suffice to say that without a terrestrial network, their addressable market for broadband services is relatively small.”
"It’s in very rural areas, and their service just can’t compete with a terrestrial network. In suburban and urban areas where like 98% of our revenues are, we’re somewhere between 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than they are. And when you think about wireless, it’s even more difficult with them to compete on a satellite basis."
"And so I think that SpaceX realizes this, and they’re exploring a potential path to creating a terrestrial network. It’s not surprising they said it on their call, so I think we should take it quite seriously.”
Elon Musk explains how to build AI satellites on the moon from lunar silicon and aluminum, and says 500 to 1,000 terawatts a year cannot be launched from Earth
“Well, the lunar soil is 20% silicon or something like that. So you can mine the silicon on the moon, refine it, and create the solar cells and the radiators on the moon. So get the radiators out of aluminum. So there’s plenty of silicon and aluminum on the moon to make the cells and the radiators. The chips you could send from Earth because they’re pretty light. But maybe at some point you make them on the moon, too."
"Like I said, it does seem like a sort of a video game situation where it’s difficult but not impossible to get to the next level. I don’t see any way that you could do 500 to 1,000 terawatts per year launched from Earth.”
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$GLW
🚨 CORNING'S AI FIBER BUSINESS IS NOW ITS PROFIT ENGINE: OPTICAL EARNS 1.6X WHAT GLASS DOES, AND EVEN THE LOW END OF THE Q4 GUIDE CLEARS THE STREET
CORNING, N.Y., Oct. 27 - Corning ($GLW) reported third-quarter 2026 results before the open. Core sales grew 19% to $5.08 billion, its fastest growth since the Springboard plan began, and core EPS grew 36% to $0.91, against a $0.88 consensus.
- Optical Communications sales $2.38 billion, up 44% from a year earlier and 15% from Q2
- Enterprise Networks up 84%, with Gen AI product sales more than doubling
- Core gross margin 40.5%, up 150 bp; core operating margin 22.7%, up 310 bp
- Q4 guide: core sales $5.2 billion to $5.3 billion, core EPS $0.96 to $1.00, against a $0.93 consensus
- Four long-term, multibillion-dollar customer agreements signed in Q3, including Verizon and AT&T
CEO Wendell Weeks said Gen AI sales doubled in the quarter, "outpacing GPU unit growth."
I put this quarter's segment table next to Q3 2025. A year ago Glass Innovations, the old display and specialty glass businesses, earned $363 million and optical earned $295 million. This quarter optical earned $532 million and glass earned $328 million. Optical also supplied about 90% of Corning's sales growth, both from a year earlier and from Q2.
A year ago glass paid the bills and fiber was the growth story. Now fiber is both.
Alex A.C. retweeted
I think it's very important to start distinguishing vocabulary between what's known as the neocloud sector.
The mistake many are still making is mixing in together every company that buys, builds, or hosts GPUs and datacenters.
There are significant differences between players like $NBIS that are pulling together full stack software and hardware cloud and managed inference services and companies that are simply providing bare metal, or even some that are just accumulating energy.
There are a number of subcategories within this space that need to start being broken down; to be transparent the moats are completely different, as will be there access to financing through any squeeze in capital markets.
Will be posting more on this soon. @SMASIMHO has done a great job of pushing more individual language when it comes to Nebius in particular.
As we are seeing with the basket selling across the sector and even confusion surrounding posts by @elonmusk , it's never been more important to educate both retail and institutional investors (many of which are STILL just taking revenue and guessing on a multiplier to model out this buildout).
We have always believed, at Northwise, that not all of these players will make it and that there will be a period of consolidation. This can be seen in every sector to have ever existed. There's nothing wrong or unusual about it.
During every sectorial boom there is VC like period where investors bet on a quantity of horses rather than the pack leaders. Every time there is a shift, once investors begin to realize that there are clear quality leaders.
This Short term period of anxiety surrounding the markets is a phenomenal time to reevaluate our approach as independent viewers of the sector.
You'll see shortly how massive the capex is going to be in 2027-2028 in our eyes.
It's our responsibility to better educate why companies like Nebius are not going to struggle to raise tens of billions, but also acknowledge this is the exception not the indefinite norm.
Alex A.C. retweeted
I am shocked, absolutely shocked, that Anthropic ARR has likely gone vertical in October after they cut token prices.
Except the exact same thing happened for the entire AI market, which is why GPU rental prices have surged while token prices declined.
$100b plus in year-end ARR looks possible again.
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Congrats to Team @AnthropicAI on another important milestone! Altimeter looks forward to continuing our partnership w major participation in the IPO on top of our existing ownership. Day 1. 🇺🇸🚀 sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
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It has been fascinating to watch this term go from niche to normal, both within institution and sovereigns.
Replying to @EricFine123
The takeaway
“Fiscal dominance" is now the dominant frame for every sovereign. We've used it since 2012. The G-10 colleagues who called it extremely unlikely in DMs now say it themselves. That's the beginning of the end of denial, not the end.
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This raises an obvious question: If CPO represents the future of optical connectivity, why would NVIDIA invest in reinventing pluggable optics?
The answer is not necessarily that NVIDIA has lost confidence in CPO. Rather, the AI infrastructure industry is entering a new phase in which the economics of optical interconnects can no longer be evaluated solely in terms of energy consumed per transmitted bit.
tspasemiconductor.substack.c…
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Didn't Elon say in the earnings call to not get too excited about a potential merger? Curious to know why the odds are remaining so high since then.
$SPCX
🤝 Paid partnership
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The present structure is unsustainable. The end-user cost of a barrel of oil has reached levels that cannot be maintained, while producers receive only a small share of the final delivered price—another imbalance that is equally unsustainable.
✴️Oil travels around the world only to be burned!
✴️The current Saudi oil route to Taiwan for this tanker goes like this:
✴️Move it from the east to the west coast via pipeline, then ship it from Yanbu to Ain Sukhna in Egypt. Transfer it through the SUMED pipeline to Sidi Kerir, then ship it all the way around Africa to Taiwan.
✴️Under normal conditions, it should take the much shorter yellow route.
✴️The world is wasting enormous resources because of this war.
Alex A.C. retweeted
$AXP American Express CEO: "Right now, we're helping to shape the standards for trusted agentic payments. The principle is straightforward. We need to know who the agent is, what the customer has authorized it to do and have a secure way to complete the payment. The transaction of the future will carry more than a payment credential. It will carry context."
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Palmer Luckey reveals Oculus repeatedly found wiretap electronics hidden inside product samples from Chinese factories, and says they would listen in and transmit voice samples over cellular radio
“Here’s another example. How many computers exist in the Japanese government, critical utilities, infrastructure and the military? Millions, at least millions of computers.
“So then the question becomes: how many of them are compromised by Chinese intelligence operations placing listening devices or false components in them? Some people would say zero, and I think they’re crazy.
“I actually have personal experience with China placing listening devices into sample products that I would receive from Chinese factories. This was at my previous company, Oculus VR. My first company was a virtual-reality company I started when I was 19 years old.
“There were multiple times when we discovered actual wiretap electronics in product samples that were given to us. They would listen to us and transmit the voice samples over a cellular radio.
“If I experienced them trying to steal our technology and our decisions even as a small company, surely they’re targeting every government, every military, and every company.”
Palmer Luckey tries on Meta's new VR Glasses in a demo and says "wow"
"What's the weight on this." [100 grams]
"These optics are doing a great job of projecting ambient reflections."
"Wow, wow, that's way out there. Look at that."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. This supports DisplayPort over USB-C? There's a lot of people who have been asking for that for a very long time."
"Wow."
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$CCI is up 9% today because $SPCX could be the next next big wireless carrier.
$SPCX reportedly wants at least 80,000 U.S. cell sites which is about every U.S. tower $CCI and $AMT own combined.
Towers are already built so adding a new tenant is almost pure profit on long contracts with yearly price bumps. Interesting to see how seriously the market is taking $SPCX's entry into telecom.
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BREAKING: SpaceX, $SPCX, is seeking access to at least 80,000 US cell tower sites as it prepares to launch a nationwide wireless carrier, per Bloomberg
Alex A.C. retweeted
“At some point, [more] analysis becomes counterproductive…sometimes when the opportunity is so big, and you know it, you’ve just got to plunge in…”
— Stanley Druckenmiller
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$MU $SKHY $SNDK $NVDA
SK just put a number on AI demand: $350 billion for data centers in Korea.
SK Hyper, SK Group's data center arm, is in talks with big tech and financial investors to fund it, per Bloomberg. Target is 15GW in Korea by 2035. First outside money by end of this year or early 2027. A 900MW project in Ulsan. First data center done in 2029.
2029. That's the exact year a Korean column on Oct 15 said memory turns into a "red ocean" and the supercycle ends. Memory stocks have been dumped on that story for two weeks.
Then Jensen at GTC Berlin yesterday, to CNBC: he sees no sign of a 2029 glut. "You can always use more of it." HBM stays in use for years, and Nvidia will keep putting LPDDR, the memory in your phone, into data centers in "abundant amounts."
Jensen is the biggest HBM buyer on the planet, so read that as the buyer talking. Fine. But the same group that makes a huge share of the world's HBM is now out raising money to build 15GW of new demand on its own soil. Both ends of the trade are saying the same thing.
The 2029 glut call is early!
Unimicron's chairman explains substrate demand in an accessible way:
"In recent years, each generation of TSMC’s advanced process technology has been accompanied by corresponding advances in packaging technology.
As package sizes increase and I/O interconnects become denser, substrate manufacturers must simultaneously make substantial improvements in factory cleanliness, equipment precision, and the number of substrate layers.
That means installing entirely new equipment and building new factories capable of meeting the requirements of each generation.
... virtually every new TSMC factory creates demand for a corresponding new substrate factory.
... TSMC said it would build 13 fabs in Taiwan and another five to six overseas over the next several years.
This effectively means that 18 new ABF substrate factories for AI applications will need to be built before 2030."
































