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ACIS RESEARCH MEMO

When the evidence changes,
we record how our judgment changes.

Short research notes on meaningful shifts in market structure, industry evidence and investment frameworks—not daily calls on price direction.

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Research Memo

How did new evidence change our thesis?

This archive contains only thesis-change records, not routine event coverage.

DECISION JOURNAL

Every memo preserves one judgment path

A useful memo does not merely state a view. It makes the update auditable.

  1. 01Previous view

    What did we believe before the new evidence arrived?

  2. 02New evidence

    Which data, event or market structure actually changed?

  3. 03Judgment update

    What changed—and what did not?

  4. 04Next verification

    What would confirm, weaken or overturn the updated view?

RESEARCH MEMOS

Published memos and current candidates

Published memos have passed evidence review. Candidates remain unpublished research notes.

01PUBLISHED MEMO

Google and Microsoft Forecast Archive: Cloud Growth Must Pass the Cash-Return Test

A historical baseline compiled on 29 October, with unchanged ranges, no backdating and no actual results.

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02PUBLISHED MEMO

The AI Buildout Enters a Capital-Efficiency Test: Energy, Credit, Earnings and Four Market Scenarios

Separate energy shocks, capital constraints and AI cash conversion through four conditional scenarios.

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03PUBLISHED MEMO

AI Infrastructure Expansion Still Depends on External Funding

CRWV, NBIS and IREN did not cover defined cash capital expenditure with first-half operating cash flow; advance receipts support liquidity but do not remove fulfillment and refinancing obligations.

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04PUBLISHED MEMO

Palantir's UK Procurement Friction Rises, but Revenue Loss Is Not Yet Proven

Two committees, more than 44,000 objections and the Met procurement dispute push governance risk into renewal and new-award decisions; NHS termination, £330m of revenue and measurable cash-flow damage remain unproven.

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05PUBLISHED MEMO

Starship Crosses the Orbital Payload Threshold, but Repeat Reliability Remains Unproven

Flight 14 reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, materially lifting engineering readiness. The engine anomaly, consecutive success, reuse and unit economics remain unproven.

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06PUBLISHED MEMO

Microsoft Turns Agent Work into a Metered Service as Enterprise AI Adds Usage Billing to Seats

Microsoft keeps the USL as the fixed-price access layer while Cowork, Code, Autopilot and frontier models consume Copilot Credits. The architecture strengthens; revenue, margin and free cash flow remain unproven.

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07PUBLISHED MEMO

Stablecoins Move Beyond Pilots as SoFiUSD Goes Live and Citi Connects Enterprise Payments

SoFiUSD is live in card-program settlement, while Citi and Coinbase connect stablecoins to enterprise acceptance and virtual accounts. The thesis moves to partial production settlement; volume and economics remain unproven.

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08PUBLISHED MEMO

Texas Data Center Permit Pause: Execution Quality and the AI Credit Cycle

AI demand remains intact, but announced GW must clear permits, power, contracts, construction, funding and commercialization. The revenue clock can slip while the interest clock keeps running.

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09PUBLISHED MEMO

Tempus × Recursion: Data Moat Becomes Contracted — Not Yet a Cash Moat

Committed payments improve contract visibility, while the lower ceiling and three-year term leave pricing power, revenue recognition and cash conversion to be proven.

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10PUBLISHED MEMO

Tokenized Finance Is Entering Regulated Market Infrastructure

The SEC has opened a limited secondary-trading path for eligible tokenized NMS stock, while Eurosystem Pontes connects wholesale tokenized assets to central-bank-money settlement. Institutionalization is advancing; commercial revenue still needs proof.

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11PUBLISHED MEMO

Insilico Gains Commercial and Market Validation, but Clinical Proof Is Still the Next Gate

Revenue, profitability, operating cash flow and clinical progress strengthen the thesis; repeatable milestone revenue and Phase III success still determine long-term value.

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12PUBLISHED MEMO

Agility Digit 5 Enters Auditable Operations

Named customers, field hours, task volume and accuracy strengthen the humanoid-commercialization thesis; conditional orders still require delivery, acceptance, revenue and ROI proof.

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13PUBLISHED MEMO

The Next Bottleneck in AI Infrastructure: The Cost of Capital

AI construction needs cash flows that cover financing costs as well as chips, power and demand. Capital costs are becoming a structural constraint; more debt alone does not establish a systemic crisis.

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14PUBLISHED MEMO

Circle Is Not Just Buying a Payments Firm—USDC Is Acquiring Its Own Cross-Border Distribution Network

Circle’s proposed Tazapay acquisition adds banking connectivity, local payout and existing cross-border flow to USDC. The thesis strengthens; closing, retention, USDC mix and profit conversion remain unproven.

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15PUBLISHED MEMO

Slower Frontier AI Does Not Mean Peak AI

More cautious frontier development is not evidence that AI demand has peaked. ACIS sees competition broadening from capability alone to reliability, control and distribution, with safety becoming a condition for commercial scale.

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16PUBLISHED MEMO

Figure Is Evolving from Onchain Lending into an AI-Enabled RWA Capital-Markets Platform

Figure Connect, Kiavi and Sierra agents bring assets, partners, distribution and loan conversion into one network. The platform thesis strengthens; replication and credit quality remain unproven.

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17PUBLISHED MEMO

AI Financing Moves Beyond GPU Collateral as Contract Quality Sets the Cost of Capital

Capital remains available for AI infrastructure, but customer credit, contract duration, cash-flow coverage and re-leasing risk now directly determine funding costs.

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18PUBLISHED MEMO

Google Signs a 22-Year Nuclear PPA: AI Companies Begin Financing Power Assets

The PPA converts AI demand into financeable long-duration cash flow for nuclear life extension, grids, storage and new generation, strengthening the contracted-power thesis.

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19PUBLISHED MEMO

Rentosertib Shows a Human Signal: AI Drug Discovery Takes Another Step Toward Clinical Validation

An AI-designed drug has produced an exploratory human biomarker signal that strengthens the research thesis. Small-sample aging-clock changes do not establish longer life, clinical benefit or a clinical breakthrough.

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20PUBLISHED MEMO

IonQ Unveils 256-Qubit Superion: Productization Accelerates, Revenue Purity Declines

Superion 256 becomes orderable. Manufacturing and productization rise, while performance, delivery and compute-revenue separation remain unproven; maturity stays 73/100.

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21PUBLISHED MEMO

TAO’s Trend Is Confirmed—And That Is Precisely Why Not to Chase

TAO moves from Recovery to Trend Confirmed. Hold existing positions, wait for consolidation with new capital, and validate $237–240 support plus real Subnet demand.

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22PUBLISHED MEMO

Quantum Computing’s Next Core Metric: Why Throughput May Matter More Than Qubit Count

IBM Nighthawk r2 moves from a hardware milestone to real cloud access: engineering maturity rises; fault tolerance and commercial proof do not.

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23PUBLISHED MEMO

Oil Is Back Above $90: A Real Supply Shock or Another Geopolitical Premium?

Transport disruption and thin product inventories raise near-term supply risk, but oil has not replaced infrastructure as the core AI-energy thesis.

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24PUBLISHED MEMO

HSBC, Standard Chartered or Ping An: Which Is Better for Long-Term Holding?

Three Financial Quality Value paths compared across earnings, capital returns, valuation and portfolio role.

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25PUBLISHED MEMO

NOW | How far has enterprise AI workflow monetization progressed?

AI ACV, subscription revenue and backlog validate scaled commercialization. Classify under Growth Leaders; keep on core watch for better odds.

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26PUBLISHED MEMO

The AI software rally may have started—but this will not be a broad SaaS rebound

MSFT distribution, PLTR/NOW deployment and CRM/CRWD/FIG diffusion validate selective re-rating.

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27PUBLISHED MEMO

What does semiconductor crowding falling from 82% to 53% really mean?

De-crowding is not the end of the AI cycle. The next test is whether CapEx, orders, backlog and credit weaken together.

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28MEMO CANDIDATE

Is phase one of AI over? From ‘everything AI rises’ to cash flow deciding valuation

Markets are beginning to price self-funded, profitable and financing-dependent AI businesses differently.

AI Cycle · Cash Flow · Valuation
29MEMO CANDIDATE

Money is leaving semiconductors but still overweighting tech. Where is it going?

Track rotation from semiconductor beta into AI quality, software commercialization and selected low-consensus sectors.

Capital Rotation · AI Quality · Commercialization
30MEMO CANDIDATE

Is healthcare becoming the next low-consensus alpha?

Apply our five-layer filter: industry tailwind, low consensus, improving fundamentals, fund flows and valuation.

Healthcare · Alpha · Flows
31PUBLISHED MEMO

Why are we not rushing to buy the SOXX dip?

Do not guess the bottom. Locate the cycle, then manage uncertainty through staging and position sizing.

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