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Hedge Fund Citadel already held every stock in Leopold Aschenbrenner's book before buying it
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Hedge Fund Citadel already held every stock in Leopold Aschenbrenner's book before buying it

Citadel's own quarterly filing, out Friday, already listed every stock in Leopold Aschenbrenner's book, about a month before it bought the book. The catch is what those holdings actually mean.

Aug 14, 2026
How to track what Congress, Hedge Funds and Insiders are buying and selling.
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How to track what Congress, Hedge Funds and Insiders are buying and selling.

Congress, hedge funds and company insiders all have to disclose their trades. Here is where each one files, what the timing means, and where to watch all three live.

Aug 14, 2026
Five more Nokia (NOK) insiders just bought. That is about a dozen this year, and none have sold since April.
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Five more Nokia (NOK) insiders just bought. That is about a dozen this year, and none have sold since April.

Five more Nokia insiders bought shares on August 13, 2026, the latest to land on our insider tracker. That makes about a dozen Nokia insiders who have bought this year, with no selling since April, and NOK is up about 27 percent from its late-July low.

Aug 14, 2026
Aehr (AEHR) is up over 500% on the year, and five insiders just sold $11.15 million without a trading plan
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Aehr (AEHR) is up over 500% on the year, and five insiders just sold $11.15 million without a trading plan

On Aug. 12, five Aehr insiders including the CEO, the COO and the company's founder sold 85,130 shares for $11.15 million, and every one of them picked the date without a trading plan.

Aug 14, 2026
Korean retail investors sent $4.6 billion to US stocks just before the Kospi rebounded
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Korean retail investors sent $4.6 billion to US stocks just before the Kospi rebounded

In July, Korean retail investors made their heaviest bet on US stocks since January, most of it a leveraged wager on chips. It was the month the Kospi bottomed, and it has rebounded hard without them.

Aug 14, 2026
Memory is the bottleneck for AI, and the shortage is real
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Memory is the bottleneck for AI, and the shortage is real

Elon Musk amplified a post calling memory, not compute, the limit for AI, and memory stocks ran. The shortage is real: demand is growing far faster than supply, and the new SK Hynix and Micron plants do not open until 2027 and 2028.

Aug 14, 2026
BIGBANG, BTS and Stray Kids are all on tour at the same time. The four K-pop stocks behind them are still down more than half from their highs.
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BIGBANG, BTS and Stray Kids are all on tour at the same time. The four K-pop stocks behind them are still down more than half from their highs.

The four biggest K-pop agencies have all fallen more than half from their highs. Now BIGBANG, BTS, Stray Kids and aespa are lining up the busiest comeback season in years.

Aug 14, 2026
Unitree's $1.2 trillion IPO frenzy says China is winning the robot race. Here's the US stock trying to catch up (CCXI)
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Unitree's $1.2 trillion IPO frenzy says China is winning the robot race. Here's the US stock trying to catch up (CCXI)

China's Unitree IPO was oversubscribed 8,288 times and the US is behind, so the money will come. Agility Robotics (CCXI) is the highest-upside US humanoid play, and here's how to weigh it against TSLA, NVDA and TER.

Aug 14, 2026
Applied Materials (AMAT) posted a record quarter and guided higher. Shares fell in extended trading
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Applied Materials (AMAT) posted a record quarter and guided higher. Shares fell in extended trading

Applied Materials posted its highest quarterly revenue ever, beat Wall Street on both lines and guided the fall quarter higher. The stock still fell. DRAM is now 26% of equipment sales.

Aug 13, 2026
Bootstrap just exercised its last Sivers (SIVEF) warrants. All that's left is a $5 million loan due 2029
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Bootstrap just exercised its last Sivers (SIVEF) warrants. All that's left is a $5 million loan due 2029

Bootstrap Europe exercised the last of its warrants in Sivers Semiconductors (SIVEF) on August 13, taking 1,659,015 new shares at SEK 4.53. With its $12 million convertible loan already turned into equity in July, the only Bootstrap debt Sivers still carries is a $5 million secured loan due 2029.

Aug 13, 2026
Ondas (ONDS) posted record revenue and raised guidance. The number I care about is Q4.
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Ondas (ONDS) posted record revenue and raised guidance. The number I care about is Q4.

Ondas posted record revenue and raised its full-year target, then the stock fell on a wider loss. I own ONDS at about $9. The Q2 print was never the point, the Q3 and Q4 numbers are.

Aug 13, 2026
Amazon offered $90 for Globalstar (GSAT). Insiders are selling $12 million near $83
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Amazon offered $90 for Globalstar (GSAT). Insiders are selling $12 million near $83

Amazon agreed to pay $90 a share for Globalstar. In one week, three insiders sold or filed to sell about $12 million of GSAT stock near $83, none under a trading plan.

Aug 13, 2026
SK Square rose 9% on Wednesday, more than SK Hynix itself. The difference is a payout SK Hynix hasn't announced yet.
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SK Square rose 9% on Wednesday, more than SK Hynix itself. The difference is a payout SK Hynix hasn't announced yet.

On August 13, SK Hynix rose almost 6% with an overnight US chip rally. SK Square, the holding company that owns about 20% of SK Hynix, rose 9%, more than the chipmaker itself. The difference is a payout SK Hynix hasn't announced yet.

Aug 13, 2026
Bill Ackman buys Netflix (NFLX) again after a $400 million loss
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Bill Ackman buys Netflix (NFLX) again after a $400 million loss

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square disclosed a new Netflix (NFLX) stake in its interim report, four years after selling near the lows for a loss above $400 million.

Aug 13, 2026
Bitdeer (BTDR) CFO buys $226,000 worth of stock in cash which was well below his option strike.
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Bitdeer (BTDR) CFO buys $226,000 worth of stock in cash which was well below his option strike.

Bitdeer's chief financial officer bought 25,000 shares at $9.04 with his own cash, his first stock in the company, and well under the $15.44 strike on the options he was granted six weeks earlier.

Aug 13, 2026
Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) CEO sells $45.6 million in stock after a fivefold rally. But there's a catch.
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Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) CEO sells $45.6 million in stock after a fivefold rally. But there's a catch.

Tower Semiconductor's CEO reported his largest disclosed stock sale, about $45.6 million, but the Form 4 shows it ran on a plan he scheduled back in March.

Aug 12, 2026
South Korea makes first-time leveraged fund buyers practice before risking real money. Trading in those funds already fell to one-thirteenth of its level.
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South Korea makes first-time leveraged fund buyers practice before risking real money. Trading in those funds already fell to one-thirteenth of its level.

From August 19, Koreans buying a single-stock leverage or inverse ETF for the first time will have to complete five days of mock trading, about five hours in all, before they can put in real money. It comes on top of a 30 million won ($21,200 USD) cash deposit that already cut trading in these funds to about one-thirteenth of its level.

Aug 12, 2026
SK Hynix just became the biggest shareholder of Japan's Kioxia. A deal it signed in 2018 blocks it from taking control until 2028.
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SK Hynix just became the biggest shareholder of Japan's Kioxia. A deal it signed in 2018 blocks it from taking control until 2028.

SK Hynix indirectly became Kioxia's largest shareholder through a 2018 convertible-bond deal, but a voting cap and antitrust hurdles keep it from taking control. The same week, its Solidigm unit moved to restart a stalled NAND plant in China.

Aug 12, 2026
Harmonic (HLIT) jumps 18% as broadband growth hits 54% and guidance rises again
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Harmonic (HLIT) jumps 18% as broadband growth hits 54% and guidance rises again

Harmonic's first quarter as a broadband-only company beat on both lines. Broadband revenue rose 54% to $133.5 million and non-GAAP earnings were $0.21 against a $0.16 estimate. Management raised its full-year outlook again, and HLIT rose about 18% after hours. The reported net loss of two cents a share was a one-time charge tied to the Video business it sold to MediaKind in June.

Aug 12, 2026
Coherent (COHR), Lumentum (LITE) and Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) all beat on earnings. Coherent's stock dropped after hours after reporting.
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Coherent (COHR), Lumentum (LITE) and Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) all beat on earnings. Coherent's stock dropped after hours after reporting.

Coherent beat on revenue and profit and guided higher, its seventh straight beat, capping a clean sweep of AI-optics earnings with Lumentum and Applied Optoelectronics. All three beat. But after a 44% run, Coherent's stock slipped after hours, the same sell-the-news reaction the group keeps showing.

Aug 12, 2026
A new Ameresco (AMRC) director and the founder put $1.18 million of their own money into the stock
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A new Ameresco (AMRC) director and the founder put $1.18 million of their own money into the stock

Two Ameresco (AMRC) insiders bought $1.18 million of stock in early August. New director Brian Cox spent $995,279 about a week after joining the board, and founder-CEO George Sakellaris added $180,920, both near multi-year lows.

Aug 12, 2026
Nebius (NBIS) soars 27% as explosive AI demand burns Michael Burry's short
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Nebius (NBIS) soars 27% as explosive AI demand burns Michael Burry's short

Nebius grew Q2 revenue 454% to $582 million, swung to a profit, and jumped about 27% as CEO Arkady Volozh said AI demand keeps growing exponentially. The whole data center trade rallied, and Michael Burry's fresh short went underwater.

Aug 12, 2026
Leopold Aschenbrenner quietly built a $2 billion stake in Japan's Taiyo Yuden (TYOYY) but ended up selling most of it
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Leopold Aschenbrenner quietly built a $2 billion stake in Japan's Taiyo Yuden (TYOYY) but ended up selling most of it

Situational Awareness, Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI fund, quietly built a stake in Japan's Taiyo Yuden (TYOYY) that peaked at 16.61% on July 22, then cut it to 4.41% by Aug. 3 as margin calls forced sales. Taiyo Yuden makes the MLCC capacitors AI servers can't run without, up to 28,000 per server. Nine reports filed Aug. 12 revealed the round trip.

Aug 12, 2026
CoreWeave (CRWV) crushed earnings and Cramer's IREN call aged well. Then Nebius (NBIS) crushed it too.
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CoreWeave (CRWV) crushed earnings and Cramer's IREN call aged well. Then Nebius (NBIS) crushed it too.

CoreWeave crushed its quarter and jumped about 15% after hours, five days after Jim Cramer told a caller to buy CRWV over IREN and called it cheaper and better. The backlog hit $104 billion. Nebius (NBIS) reports Wednesday morning, and it's the next test for the whole neocloud trade.

Aug 11, 2026