<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Chokepoint</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/</link><description>AI chokepoint companies, numbers from filings</description><item><title>A new model quietly joined Arena. Does its tone match? Don&#x27;t judge it from one or two rounds.</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/21.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/21.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:17:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The codename does not show which company made the model, and Arena is a blind test, so judging its style depends on what you ask it.</description></item><item><title>Oppenheimer Sets First $205 Price Target on AeroVironment, About 74% Above Close</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/20.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/20.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:06:31 +0000</pubDate><description>In the same month, brokers set $AVAV price targets anywhere from $165 to $237, a gap wide enough to take a closer look.</description></item><item><title>Don&#x27;t Only Watch the Total Margin Balance. Tomorrow, Watch Net Financing Repayment.</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/17.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/17.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:31:48 +0000</pubDate><description>The total amount borrowed to trade stocks can be misleading, while repayment activity shows whether anyone is being forced to sell.</description></item><item><title>Serenity (@aleabitoreddit) Reposts a Citi Line: Lasers and Optical Fiber Are Being Treated as the Next HBM</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/16.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/16.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:16:39 +0000</pubDate><description>I went through the latest quarterly reports of the four laser companies Serenity mentions most, and revenue is surging at all four, but one company&#x27;s books made me pause.</description></item><item><title>Anthropic model token volume on OpenRouter rose 3.6x after Opus 5.5 launched</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/15.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/15.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:10:24 +0000</pubDate><description>This number shows that people are using it, but it comes from only one platform. It cannot be taken as direct evidence of Anthropic&#x27;s total usage or reputation.</description></item><item><title>Micron&#x27;s last quarter revenue was $54.23B, more than TSMC&#x27;s $46.72B</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/14.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/14.html</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:51:20 +0000</pubDate><description>Micron&#x27;s gross margin was 86.8%, 20 points above TSMC, and I checked four upstream companies&#x27; quarterly reports since late September to see where AI spending is landing, using only figures the companies disclosed themselves.</description></item><item><title>Meta&#x27;s Five-Year Default Insurance Price Hits a Record High, Latest at 114.5 bps</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/13.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/13.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:46:24 +0000</pubDate><description>The price of this insurance has hit a record, which shows the market is more worried than ever about whether a big company can pay back its debt.</description></item><item><title>AeroVironment&#x27;s LOCUST laser weapon wins its first overseas commercial order, worth $52 million</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/12.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/12.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:16:54 +0000</pubDate><description>A foreign buyer has placed an order for a laser weapon for the first time. This shows that this type of equipment is moving toward commercial sale, not just staying in development.</description></item><item><title>One Prompt From Jensen Lets the Agent Set Itself Up</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/11.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/11.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:10:50 +0000</pubDate><description>Setting up an AI assistant used to mean configuring it step by step by hand. This demo shows that the setup can be handed to AI, which is a signal for people who want to start using agents.</description></item><item><title>Compute can go live as soon as 14 days after the data center is built</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/10.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/10.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:21:46 +0000</pubDate><description>Nvidia pre-builds and tests DSX POD before delivery, so AI builders can start using compute faster.</description></item><item><title>Mistral and NVIDIA Team Up to Bring AI Into Industrial Engineering Design Rooms</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/9.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/9.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate><description>Engineers spend a lot of time on simulation and chip design. This partnership aims to have AI help directly, which affects the people who actually build things.</description></item><item><title>DeepSeek Processes 155 trillion tokens a Day and Earns $38 per GPU Hour</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/8.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/8.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:54:54 +0000</pubDate><description>Until now, outsiders could mostly only guess whether AI services make money. DeepSeek has published its own revenue figures, so anyone can run the numbers with real data.</description></item><item><title>DeepSeek Orders 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT, but Delivery Could Take More Than a Year</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/5.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/5.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:24:43 +0000</pubDate><description>The order is not the problem. Capacity for high-end memory and similar parts is the bottleneck, so this large order can only be delivered slowly.</description></item><item><title>$AVAV signs three MOUs in one week, but the press release has no amounts, and the stock fell about 5% on October 14</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/3.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/3.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:32:14 +0000</pubDate><description>A cooperation memorandum sounds exciting, but it has no amount and no binding force, so it is still far from a real order.</description></item><item><title>$KTOS Announced Awards &quot;More Than $100 Million,&quot; but No Matching Filing Shows Up</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/2.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/2.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:02:44 +0000</pubDate><description>A number only counts toward expectations once it can be matched to official filings. Otherwise, it is just news.</description></item><item><title>$KTOS Gains One More Analyst, but Average Price Target Falls from $99.57 to $98.33</title><link>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/1.html</link><guid>https://chokepointpt.github.io/en/p/1.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:11:24 +0000</pubDate><description>An analyst&#x27;s price target shows their view of the stock, and this time more analysts issued one while the average target went down, so it is worth a closer look.</description></item></channel></rss>