Siri Surrender Party, Bagholders Getting Hardy
Tim Cook literally stood up and said "WE CAN'T DO AI FOR SHIT" and Wall Street threw $80 BILLION at them like he just cured cancer! This is the most regarded market reaction I've ever witnessed - and I've seen Tesla gain 20% because Elon tweeted a rocket emoji. Meanwhile while HOOD's generational adoption story continues with S&P inclusion expected September 5th and tokenized stock trading launching in Europe before Americans get access.
🖥️ TECH CORNER
Apple's $80B Admission of Defeat This is peak market absurdity turned up to fucking eleven! Apple just admitted they can't build competitive AI to save their lives and the market rewarded them with an $80 billion market cap bump. Bloomberg dropped the news that Apple is considering replacing Siri with either Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's ChatGPT - basically waving the white flag on their internal AI development after burning through more free cash than most countries' GDP.
The institutional buying was absolutely bananas. One regard spotted 600k/minute volume entering Apple 12 minutes before the Bloomberg article dropped. Coincidence? Sure, and I'm the Easter Bunny. The tape showed off-market volume exploding the second the news hit - institutions couldn't buy fast enough.
Here's the kicker that makes my brain hurt: THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE BULLISH?! A $3 trillion company admitting they've made Siri worse over 15 years during the AI revolution somehow translates to moon mission. The corporate disaster that is Siri management just got rewarded because they're finally admitting defeat and outsourcing to companies that actually know what they're doing. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!
The NVDA Angle All roads lead to NVDA, as one astute observer noted. Whether Apple uses Anthropic or OpenAI, all that Siri inference is getting processed on NVIDIA silicon. Sometimes the best play is just owning the picks and shovels while everyone else figures out they can't mine for shit.
AMD's Quiet Momentum The chip maker continues gaining serious traction against NVIDIA in enterprise deployments. With projections of a $500B annual data center market by 2035, AMD only needs 20% market share to justify current valuations. Their MI300 chips are making legitimate inroads - this isn't hope, it's happening in real deployments.
TSLA Contrarian Signal: Tesla sales in Canada reportedly dropped to "nearly zero" with analyst expectations of losses starting 2026. Somehow the stock will probably go up 20% on this news - that's just how TSLA rolls.
Quantum Computing Momentum: Grayscale filed for a Quantum Computing ETF, adding institutional validation to the emerging sector. NVIDIA's CEO says quantum is reaching an "inflection point."
📈 HOT PLAYS & EMERGING TRENDS
Currency Chaos: USD down 10%+ vs EUR while SPY is flat YTD. European travel just got expensive for Americans, but U.S. exports are 15% cheaper for Europeans. Trade deficit implications are massive.
Tariff Deadline: 90-day pause ends July 9th. Trump's messaging is contradictory as usual, but markets are hitting ATHs assuming he'll delay again. Don't try to predict this one - be ready to react quickly by sector.
Know Labs ($KNW): The Bitcoin-Healthcare Convergence Play This is where things get spicy. New CEO Greg Kidd (early investor in Coinbase, Twitter, Ripple) just injected 1,000 Bitcoin (~$109 million) into a company with a $20 million market cap. The math alone makes this compelling, but there's more.
KNW holds the world's largest patent portfolio for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring with 300+ patents. Stock gapped from $0.50 to $1.50 on the CEO announcement, now consolidating around $3 in what looks like a textbook bull flag formation.
Target valuation: $15-$20+ per share based on Bitcoin assets alone, excluding the patent portfolio value. This is either the most regarded play of the year or absolutely genius convergence of crypto treasury strategy with legitimate healthcare IP. Risk Level: YOLO YOUR KID'S COLLEGE FUND TERRITORY!
MARA Options Printing Multiple traders reporting 70%+ gains on MARA calls over 4-day periods. One systematic trader turned $8 into $15.12 (89% profit) using a disciplined exit strategy across multiple days. The crypto mining sector is showing sustained momentum, not just pump-and-dump action.
DMAC Biotech Inflection Point DiaMedica Therapeutics is approaching the Phase 2/3 transition for their pancreatic cancer diagnostic. This is the massive inflection point where biotech stocks either moon 300-600% or disappear entirely. They have FDA Fast Track status and are targeting acute ischemic stroke treatment - a space with huge unmet medical need.
Recent precedents: Scholar Rock jumped 300% on Phase 3 success, Seres Therapeutics gained 600% on strong Phase 3 data. If DMAC's data drops right, it could go from "who?" to "wow" real fast. Risk Level: Binary Outcome
💰 FINTECH & CRYPTO
HOOD: The Generational Play That Keeps Delivering Our coverage of Robinhood's momentum continues paying dividends. The stock has tripled in two months and just broke through $100k in gains for multiple traders. This isn't just another fintech pump - HOOD is positioning itself as the financial ecosystem for the next generation, and the numbers are backing it up.
The catalysts keep stacking: S&P 500 inclusion expected September 5th, blowout earnings coming August 6th (crypto was way up in Q1), and they just launched their Ethereum L2 blockchain with tokenized stock trading in Europe. Yeah, you read that right - Europeans can now trade tokenized shares of private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX through HOOD before Americans can access them.
The generational adoption story is real as fuck. Most of Gen Z doesn't even know other brokers exist for trading. When the next generation needs a financial ecosystem on par with Apple's, HOOD is positioned to be that platform. Current market cap: $81 billion. This will probably be the largest asset broker in the world by the time we're 50. DIAMOND HANDS FOREVER!
Solana ETF Goes Live Wednesday The first Solana ETF just got approved and starts trading Wednesday. The interesting part? It includes staking functionality, though the dividend structure details are still murky. This represents major institutional validation of SOL as an investable asset class beyond just speculation.
Solana DApps continue to dominate revenue metrics across all chains since the start of 2025, though some regards are rightfully questioning whether scam activity is inflating those numbers. Speed and low fees are compelling, but due diligence on the underlying activity quality remains critical.
Circle (CRCL) - Bagholders Assembly Line Our "full bubble mode" coverage from previous newsletters continues aging like fine wine. Classic pump and dump behavior with one regard planning to 50/50 his entire portfolio between SPY 0DTE calls and CRCL puts. The pattern remains textbook - create bagholders at the top while shorts remain impossible to borrow
🛰️ SPACE & FUTURE TECH WATCH
ASTS: The Satellite Company That Doesn't Launch (But Still Prints Money) Our space coverage continues delivering as ASTS maintains its relentless momentum despite operational challenges. One regard just banked $23,000 on ASTS options by correctly anticipating launch delays. The company that was supposed to launch 15 satellites in 2025 has only managed 5 since September 2024, with their latest launch now 7+ months behind schedule.
But here's the twist - the technology actually works. They're doing video calls across multiple countries with just 5 satellites, something Starlink takes 5 minutes to send a single text. The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Space Command are all successfully testing with their current constellation.
The institutional buying continues with most volume being professional money. SpaceX is reportedly doing everything they can to delay AST launches because this tech could seriously disrupt Starlink's market position. Verizon deal worth $100M+ expected in days/weeks.
ACHR Getting Institutional Love Cantor Fitzgerald just reiterated their $13 price target on Archer Aviation (~30% upside) based on three key catalysts: new Jetex partnership providing access to 40+ private terminals, global certification alliance expanding beyond just FAA approval, and deployment agreements in Indonesia adding to UAE and Ethiopia deals.
The company has nearly $2B in liquidity post-$850M raise, enough to fund through certification and launch. This isn't your typical startup move - they're setting up global scale operations before most competitors have working prototypes.
