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Bold Calls on the AI Landscape
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FINANCE · 2026-08-06-F3Open
Nvidia beats the $91B consensus on August 26th
Nvidia has beaten consistently, and this demand is contracted rather than forecast. Confidence is only moderate because a memory-driven supply miss is a live risk, see F5.
75% confidence · resolves August 31st 2026
FINANCE · 2026-08-06-F2Open
OpenAI does not IPO in September
Reported internal lean toward 2027, and $600M of unsold secondary inventory says the private market has not cleared at the current mark. You do not go public into that.
80% confidence · resolves September 30th 2026
TECH · 2026-08-06-T3Open
Anthropic holds the Sonnet 5 price increase
The cleanest natural experiment available on frontier pricing power. If a lab can raise the price of its workhorse model and hold it, the race-to-zero story is wrong, and every model of this industry's margins needs redoing.
70% confidence · resolves November 30th 2026
TECH · 2026-08-06-T1Open
OpenAI's Astra maths results survive independent scrutiny
The Lean 4 certificates make outright falsity unlikely. A machine-checked proof is hard to argue with. The live risk here is provenance, not correctness: how the results were produced, not whether they hold. That is what T2 tests.
80% confidence · resolves December 31st 2026
FINANCE · 2026-08-06-F5Open
HBM stays supply-constrained through 2026
Underpins both the memory thesis and the memory-bound scaling argument. Capacity takes years to build and the orders are already placed, so the supply side cannot surprise inside the window.
75% confidence · resolves December 31st 2026
TECH · 2026-08-06-T2Open
OpenAI never publishes the raw Astra reasoning traces
The gap between 'results verified' and 'process verified' is the honest criticism nobody is making. Checking a proof tells you it holds; it tells you nothing about how it was found, or what else was tried.
75% confidence · resolves February 28th 2027
TECH · 2026-08-06-T5Open
A Chinese lab open-weights a model at 2.8T parameters or larger
Cadence-based rather than insight-based. The trend line is steep, consistent, and nobody involved has an incentive to stop. The way this fails is a policy shock, not a technical one.
80% confidence · resolves February 28th 2027
BUSINESS · 2026-08-06-B2Open
Palantir hits its raised FY2026 guidance
They raised guidance by about $1B mid-year, which implies visibility most software companies never have. The risk is timing rather than demand: government contracts slipping a quarter would do it.
80% confidence · resolves March 31st 2027
TECH · 2026-08-06-T4Open
Nobody solves prompt injection
High confidence, because this is an architectural problem rather than a backlog item. Instructions and data share one channel. Until that changes, every defense is a filter. And a filter between a capable search process and its goal becomes part of the search space.
85% confidence · resolves August 6th 2027
BUSINESS · 2026-08-06-B1Open
Two more lab spin-outs of the Discovery Loop shape
Scale is rentable now. When the compute is a purchase order rather than a moat, incumbency stops holding people, and the reason to stay becomes equity rather than capability.
75% confidence · resolves August 6th 2027
BUSINESS · 2026-08-06-B3Open
A major breach names prompt injection as a root cause
340% year-on-year growth in attacks, no architectural fix, and agents shipping into production anyway. This is arithmetic rather than prophecy. The uncertainty is disclosure, not occurrence. It will happen; the question is whether anyone says so out loud.
75% confidence · resolves August 6th 2027
BUSINESS · 2026-08-06-B4Open
A Fortune 500 publicly pulls back from an agent program
Gartner forecasts over 40% cancellation. That number is unfalsifiable as stated, so this is the same claim rebuilt into a form that can actually be checked.
70% confidence · resolves August 6th 2027
FINANCE · 2026-08-06-F1Open
Anthropic IPOs before OpenAI
Secondary-market bid/ask imbalance plus better revenue quality: Anthropic's revenue is more enterprise and more contracted, which is materially easier to underwrite.
75% confidence · resolves August 6th 2027
FINANCE · 2026-08-06-F4Open
Credit cracks before equity does
The core structural call. Credit is the sensor and equity is the symptom: this build-out began funded by cash flows and is now increasingly funded by debt, and debt reprices before sentiment does.
70% confidence · resolves August 6th 2027
FINANCE · 2026-08-06-F6Open
OpenAI signs another $10B+ non-Azure compute deal
Tests the Microsoft-concentration thesis from OpenAI's side. Diversifying compute is the tell that the relationship is a supplier arrangement rather than a partnership.
65% confidence · resolves August 6th 2027
FINANCE · 2026-08-11-F1Open
Nvidia's compute-financing MOUs produce $100B of closed vehicles in a year
The $500B figure is a target attached to MOUs, and MOU-to-close attrition in infrastructure finance is real. But six institutions with $4T of AUM do not lend their names to a press release they intend to strand, and the demand side (labs converting capex to leases) is visibly forming the same week. One fifth of the headline inside a year is the honest over-under between marketing and a market.
65% confidence · resolves August 11th 2027
BUSINESS · 2026-08-06-B5Open
Entry-level developer employment does not recover
My least confident call, and logged deliberately at 0.60. The interest-rate and over-hiring confound is genuinely hard to separate from an AI effect. At this confidence a miss costs me little and a hit proves little, which is the honest position, not a hedge.
60% confidence · resolves December 31st 2027
No predictions match that.
Nothing has resolved yet. The first is August 31st 2026. When calls start landing, the ones I got wrong get their own section and an explanation of why.