Struggling footwear brand Allbirds shocked investors Wednesday with a dramatic pivot away from its core business, announcing plans to transition into artificial intelligence infrastructure—a move that sent its stock soaring more than 700% in a single session.
Shares of Allbirds, which had been trading below $3, surged to over $17 following the announcement, as investors rushed into what is now being rebranded as NewBird AI. Just a day earlier, the company’s market capitalization stood at roughly $21 million, a far cry from its peak valuation of over $4 billion.
From Sustainable Sneakers to AI Compute
The pivot comes after Allbirds effectively exited the footwear business. The company recently sold its intellectual property and key assets for $39 million to American Exchange Group, which will continue to operate the Allbirds brand independently.
Now, management is betting on a completely different future: AI compute infrastructure.
According to the company, NewBird AI plans to acquire high-performance, low-latency computing hardware and lease capacity to customers underserved by existing providers. The firm also announced it is seeking to raise up to $50 million in funding to support the transition.
The move places Allbirds among a growing list of companies attempting to capitalize on surging demand for AI infrastructure—a market fueled by rapid adoption of generative AI and dominated by players like Nvidia.
A Familiar Playbook for Troubled Companies
While the market reaction has been dramatic, the strategy itself is not entirely new. Historically, struggling companies have attempted to revive investor interest by pivoting toward high-growth sectors.
During the cryptocurrency boom, numerous firms rebranded or shifted their business models to blockchain-related ventures, often triggering short-term spikes in share prices. Many of those moves, however, failed to deliver long-term value.
Allbirds’ pivot raises similar questions: Is this a credible transformation, or a speculative attempt to ride the AI wave?
Execution Risk Remains High
Entering the AI infrastructure space presents significant challenges. The business is capital-intensive, highly competitive, and technologically complex. Established players—including hyperscalers and semiconductor leaders—already dominate the market.
For a company that recently shuttered its retail footprint and saw revenues decline sharply—from $298 million in 2022 to $152 million in 2025—the transition represents a steep uphill climb.
Moreover, success in AI infrastructure depends not only on hardware acquisition but also on customer relationships, scale, and operational expertise, areas where Allbirds has limited experience.
Market Reaction vs. Fundamental Reality
The surge in Allbirds’ stock highlights the continued enthusiasm surrounding AI-related investments. Even small-cap companies with limited exposure to the sector are seeing outsized moves when they announce AI strategies.
However, investors should be cautious. The gap between announcement-driven momentum and long-term execution can be substantial.
Allbirds’ transformation into NewBird AI marks one of the more unusual pivots in recent market history. While the stock’s explosive move reflects strong demand for AI exposure, the company’s ability to successfully transition from footwear to high-performance computing remains highly uncertain.
For investors, the story underscores a broader theme: in today’s market, AI narratives can drive rapid gains—but fundamentals ultimately determine staying power.
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SKYX Secures Strategic European Partnership with Group OTT. SKYX announced a strategic agreement with European developer Jean-François Ott, founder of Group OTT, to deploy its technologies across hotels and buildings. The partnership designates SKYX’s smart ceiling platform as a brand standard across both new and existing assets. This marks a significant step in positioning SKYX as a core infrastructure provider rather than a product vendor.
Agreement Targets Deployment Across 250+ Projects in the Pipeline, Marking a Key Step Toward International Expansion and Platform Standardization. Group OTT brings a track record of over 250 completed projects valued at more than $4 billion across Europe. The agreement enables potential integration of SKYX technologies across a broad pipeline of hospitality, residential, and commercial developments. This provides SKYX with a scalable entry point into the European market and strengthens its standardization thesis.
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Over the Past 35 Years, Jean-François Ott and Group OTT Have Developed Over 250 Hospitality, Residential, and Commercial Buildings Valued at Over $4 Billion Throughout Europe
SKYX’s Technologies are Expected to Reduce Up to 90% of Time and Cost During Group OTT’s Hotel and Building Renovations and New Builds Across Europe
The Agreement Involves the Integration of SKYX’s Technologies Across Existing and Future Assets of Group OTT
SKYX is Currently in Discussions with Additional Hotel Groups and Owners Regarding Utilization of Its Smart Advanced Time and Cost Saving Game-Changing Technologies for Hotels and Buildings
MIAMI, April 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SKYX Platforms Corp. (NASDAQ: SKYX) (d/b/a SKYX Technologies) (the “Company” or “SKYX”), an award winning highly disruptive advanced and smart home platform technology company with over 100 U.S. and global pending and issued patents and a portfolio of 60 lighting and home décor websites, with a mission to make homes and buildings become advanced-safe-smart instantly as the new standard, today announced its collaboration with prominent European real estate and hotel developer, Jean-François Ott, founder of Group OTT, to deploy SKYX technologies as a brand standard throughout its new and existing buildings and hotels in Europe.
Under this strategic agreement and partnership, the utilization of SKYX’s technologies in Group OTT’s European properties is expected to reduce up to 90% of time and cost during their hotel and building renovations and new builds, while providing the Group advanced and safer properties.
For more than 35 years, France-based Group OTT has developed more than 250 buildings throughout Europe, including hotels, residential, and commercial projects valued at over $4 billion.
Jean-François Ott, Founder of Group OTT, said; “I am very excited to partner with SKYX and bring their advanced and smart technologies into my companies’ existing and upcoming hotels and buildings across Europe. Throughout all these projects, our goal has always been to deploy leading and highly disruptive technologies. By integrating SKYX’s technologies into these properties, we will cut significant time and cost while advancing the lifestyle and safety standards of our hotels and buildings.”
Rani Kohen, Founder and Executive Chairman of SKYX Platforms, said; “We are very excited to be in this strategic partnership with an established and prominent European hotel and real estate developer such as Jean-François Ott and Group OTT. We look forward to collaborating with him and all his companies on their European and global existing and upcoming projects to enhance the value of their properties while creating advanced, smart, and safer hotels and buildings of the future.”
SKYX Offers Group OTT a Structural Innovation at the Core of its Hotels and Buildings
SKYX has developed a patented “smart ceiling” technology designed to transform traditional electrical installations into modular, safe, and intelligent systems. In practical terms, this innovation replaces fixed electrical wiring for ceiling lights, fans, smart tech, and other equipment with an integrated ceiling receptacle system, enabling:
simplified and safer installation, with no exposed wiring,
significant reductions in installation time and costs,
easier maintenance and enhanced modularity, and
native integration of connected features (smart, lighting, IoT, etc.).
This approach introduces a paradigm shift in building infrastructure, comparable to the historical emergence of standardized wall outlets.
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About SKYX Platforms Corp.
As electricity is a standard in every home and building, our mission is to make homes and buildings become safe-advanced and smart as the new standard. SKYX has a series of highly disruptive advanced-safe-smart platform technologies, with over 100 U.S. and global patents and patent pending applications. Additionally, the Company owns 60 lighting and home decor websites for both retail and commercial segments. Our technologies place an emphasis on high quality and ease of use, while significantly enhancing both safety and lifestyle in homes and buildings. We believe that our products are a necessity in every room in both homes and other buildings in the U.S. and globally. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.skyx.com/ or follow us on LinkedIn.
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Amazon’s acquisition of Globalstar for approximately $11.57 billion — or $90 per share — is one of the most strategically loaded deals of 2026, and it’s a reminder that small-cap companies can sit at the center of the biggest transactions in the market. Globalstar, once a modest satellite operator with a market cap well beneath the radar of most institutional investors, has become the cornerstone of Amazon’s bid to compete directly with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the rapidly expanding space connectivity market — while simultaneously locking in a critical partnership with Apple.
The Strategic Play
Amazon has been building its satellite internet business — rebranded from Project Kuiper to Leo — for years, but the company has faced significant headwinds. It currently has roughly 240 satellites in orbit compared to Starlink’s fleet of more than 10,000, and it recently had to ask the FCC for an extension on a requirement to deploy approximately 1,600 satellites by July 2026. Acquiring Globalstar addresses a key structural gap: direct-to-device capability.
Globalstar operates around 24 satellites and holds spectrum licenses with global authorizations — assets that are notoriously difficult and time-consuming to obtain independently. Rather than build this foundation from scratch, Amazon is buying it. The company plans to start deploying its own direct-to-device satellite system using these assets by 2028.
The Apple Dimension
Apple’s fingerprints are all over this deal. The iPhone maker took a 20% stake in Globalstar in 2024 through a $1.5 billion investment, primarily to power its Emergency SOS satellite feature. As part of the Amazon acquisition, a separate agreement was struck for Amazon to provide satellite connectivity for current and future iPhones and Apple Watch features — a significant commercial arrangement that effectively makes Amazon a behind-the-scenes infrastructure provider for Apple’s device ecosystem.
This isn’t a minor footnote. It signals that Amazon is positioning Leo not just as a consumer internet service competing with Starlink, but as a B2B infrastructure layer for some of the world’s most widely used consumer devices.
Regulatory Outlook
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr acknowledged the acquisition on Tuesday, describing the agency as open-minded to the deal and noting its potential to create a viable U.S. competitor to SpaceX in direct-to-cell services. The transaction is expected to close in 2027, leaving meaningful time for regulatory review.
Carr’s framing is notable — the FCC has been consistent in its messaging that it wants to encourage competition in the satellite broadband market, not constrain it. Amazon had ironically opposed a SpaceX application before the FCC last month, so the agency’s receptiveness to this deal will be worth monitoring.
What This Means for the Market
Globalstar shareholders will receive either $90 in cash or 0.3210 shares of Amazon common stock per Globalstar share — a structure that reflects Amazon’s confidence in its own equity. For investors watching the satellite and space economy, this deal narrows the competitive field considerably. The race to own low-Earth orbit spectrum and direct-to-device infrastructure is intensifying, and scale is the only real moat.
Amazon just bought itself a meaningful head start. Whether it’s enough to close the gap with Starlink remains the central question for the next decade of space-based connectivity
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) is one of the few names flashing green in a market defined by red this Monday. While the Dow shed hundreds of points on the news of a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Oracle surged roughly 10% — moving from deeply oversold territory toward $153 a share on volume running well above its daily average. The catalyst is a combination of new AI product launches, a fresh cloud infrastructure expansion, and a broader rotation back into beaten-down enterprise software names. For small and microcap investors watching from the sidelines, the move carries a message worth decoding.
The immediate triggers are concrete. Oracle rolled out AI-powered upgrades to its Utilities Industry Suite and Aconex project management platform today, targeting utility operators looking to cut costs and improve grid reliability. The company also launched a new public cloud region in Casablanca, Morocco — the latest milestone in an aggressive global infrastructure buildout that has pushed its capital expenditure to levels unseen in the company’s history. Underlying all of it is a backlog that has grown 325% year over year, reaching $553 billion in committed future business as of Oracle’s most recent quarter. Revenue in Q3 fiscal 2026 rose 22% year over year, with cloud revenue up 44%.
What makes today’s rally notable is its context. Oracle is still down roughly 54% from its 52-week high of $345.72 set last September. The stock has been punished by investor skepticism around its aggressive AI infrastructure spending, rising debt levels, and a recent round of layoffs across its SaaS and NetSuite divisions. Today’s move suggests that at current valuations, the market is beginning to reassess whether the selloff overshot — particularly as renewed momentum around large-scale AI infrastructure deals involving OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic reinforces demand signals for the cloud and compute buildout Oracle is betting on.
That reassessment matters beyond Oracle itself. The AI infrastructure trade has been one of the most crowded and most brutalized in the market over the past several months. Large-cap names absorbed the most visible damage, but smaller cloud-adjacent and AI infrastructure companies have been hit just as hard, often harder, with far less coverage and liquidity to cushion the fall. When sentiment begins to shift at the top of the market cap spectrum, it historically filters down — and the small and microcap companies building the picks-and-shovels layer of the AI stack are typically the last to recover, and sometimes the most dramatically when they do.
The risk to that thesis is execution. Oracle’s rally today is a sentiment-driven repricing, not a fundamental re-rating. A company carrying Oracle’s level of capital expenditure and debt in a $100-plus oil environment faces real cost pressures that don’t disappear because a stock bounces 10% in a session. The AI infrastructure buildout remains a long-duration bet, and the geopolitical backdrop continues to add inflation risk that could delay the rate relief many levered tech companies are counting on.
But the signal embedded in today’s move is worth taking seriously. When a company sitting on over half a trillion dollars in committed backlog starts getting bought aggressively on a down-market day, the market is telling you something about where conviction is quietly returning — and in AI infrastructure, that conviction tends to travel down the size spectrum faster than most expect.
The AI chip arms race just found its latest winner — and it’s not a semiconductor company.
CoreWeave (CRWV) shares surged more than 13% on Friday after the AI cloud infrastructure company announced a multiyear agreement with Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude family of models. The deal will have CoreWeave providing computing capacity to run Anthropic’s workloads at production scale, with an initial phased rollout and room to expand. Financial terms, including pricing and chip capacity, were not disclosed.
The market’s reaction is telling. In an environment where AI companies are racing to lock down computing resources, the companies sitting in between the chip makers and the model builders — the infrastructure layer — are emerging as some of the most strategically valuable players in the ecosystem.
The Infrastructure Bottleneck Is Becoming a Competitive Moat
The CoreWeave-Anthropic deal doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s one piece of a rapidly consolidating AI infrastructure picture. Earlier this week, Anthropic separately announced it is working with Broadcom (AVGO) and Google to access 3.5 gigawatts of Google’s Broadcom-built Tensor Processing Units. Reports have also surfaced that Anthropic is exploring designing its own custom semiconductors — a move that would put it in the same category as OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, and Google, all of which are building or already operating proprietary chip programs.
What this signals is that the dependency on Nvidia (NVDA), while still very real, is being hedged at every level of the AI stack. Companies are pursuing multiple supply channels simultaneously — third-party cloud infrastructure like CoreWeave, hyperscaler partnerships, and in-house silicon development — because a single point of failure in computing capacity is existential risk for an AI business.
CoreWeave Is Becoming the Go-To AI Cloud
What makes CoreWeave’s position particularly interesting is how quickly it has become the preferred infrastructure partner for frontier AI labs. Meta (META) signed a deal with CoreWeave that runs through December 2032, giving the social media giant a long-term runway for powering its AI services. Now Anthropic joins that roster.
CoreWeave also noted that its capacity for Anthropic’s workloads will be distributed across multiple data center locations and will include some of the first commercial deployments of Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin architecture — a detail that adds both technical credibility and scarcity value to the agreement.
Why This Matters Beyond the Stock Move
For investors and market watchers focused on the AI infrastructure theme, CoreWeave’s deal flow tells a clear story: the companies building and maintaining the physical layer of AI — the data centers, the networking, the GPU clusters — are becoming critical infrastructure in the truest sense of the term. The demand is not slowing, and the supply is constrained enough that long-term agreements are being inked across the board.
The winners in this cycle may not be the most visible AI brands. They may be the ones quietly building the backbone everyone else depends on.
STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm, said today it will release its first-quarter financial results on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at approximately 4:15 p.m., U.S. Eastern Time.
The firm will host a conference call with investors and industry analysts at 9 a.m., U.S. Eastern Time, the following day, Friday, May 8. Dial-in details are as follows:
The dial-in number for U.S. participants is +1 (800) 715-9871.
International participants should call +1 (646) 307-1963.
The security code to access the call is 6855650.
Participants are requested to dial in at least five minutes before the scheduled start time.
A recording of the conference call will be accessible on ISG’s investor relations page for approximately four weeks following the call.
About ISG
ISG (Nasdaq: III) is a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm. A trusted partner to more than 900 clients, including 75 of the world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is a long-time leader in technology and business services that is now at the forefront of leveraging AI to help organizations achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The firm, founded in 2006, is known for its proprietary market data and research, in-depth knowledge and governance of provider ecosystems, and the expertise of its 1,500 professionals worldwide working together to help clients maximize the value of their technology investments.
Monday’s session delivered one of the cleanest market splits in recent weeks — energy surging, semiconductors cratering, and the major indexes going their separate ways as Wall Street entered a holiday-shortened trading week with no shortage of unresolved questions.
The Dow Jones added roughly 0.3% while the S&P 500 slipped 0.7% and the Nasdaq dropped nearly 1.1% by afternoon trading. Both the Dow and Nasdaq are now in correction territory following last week’s close. The divergence wasn’t noise — it reflected two very real and competing forces battling for the market’s direction.
The Chip Selloff Has a New Villain
Micron led semiconductor stocks sharply lower on Monday, falling more than 10% in afternoon trading. Sandisk shed 8%, Intel dropped 4%, AMD fell close to 3%, and Nvidia gave back roughly 1%. The across-the-board weakness extended a sell-off that began last week and found fresh fuel over the weekend.
The catalyst is a Google algorithm called TurboQuant, announced last week, which allows AI models to run more efficiently by cutting the amount of memory required. The implications for memory chip demand — and pricing — are exactly what the market is now attempting to price in. If AI workloads require meaningfully less memory bandwidth to operate, the demand thesis underpinning names like Micron gets complicated fast.
The debate is far from settled. Experts argue that memory chip pricing could stay firm through 2027, pointing to continued strength in AI data center demand with no signs of a slowdown and supply conditions tight enough to drive price inflation in several chip categories. That’s a reasonable counter — but on a Monday in a correction, the market is choosing the bearish read first and asking questions later.
Oil Doesn’t Care About Algorithms
On the other side of the ledger, crude had another strong session. Brent held above $107 per barrel and WTI crossed $103 as the Iran conflict continued to dominate commodity markets. President Trump added fresh fuel Monday, telling the Financial Times that his preference is for the U.S. to control Iran’s oil industry indefinitely — language that signals the conflict’s resolution is not imminent and that supply disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz and now the Bab el-Mandeb Strait could persist for weeks or months.
Energy was the one sector that didn’t need to rationalize its rally today. The math is straightforward: supply is constrained, no deal is in sight, and $100+ oil is becoming the baseline assumption rather than the shock scenario.
Eyes on the Week Ahead
With Friday’s session closed for Good Friday, this is a compressed week with outsized data. JOLTS, ADP private payrolls, and the March jobs report all land before the long weekend — and after the January-February whipsaw in employment numbers, each print carries extra weight. Nike’s earnings will offer a read on consumer health that the macro data alone can’t provide.
The setup: a market digesting a genuine technology disruption narrative while simultaneously pricing in the worst energy crisis in a generation. That’s not a market that moves in one direction.
Memory chip stocks took a beating Thursday after Google went public with research on a new algorithm that could dramatically reduce the amount of memory needed to run large language models — rattling a sector that had been riding an AI-fueled supply crunch straight up.
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the South Korean heavyweights that dominate the high-bandwidth memory market, both fell at least 6% in Seoul trading. In the U.S., Micron Technology (MU) slid more than 7%, while Western Digital and Sandisk each dropped at least 5%. Nvidia (NVDA) was not spared either, shedding nearly 4% as broader AI infrastructure sentiment soured.
What Google Actually Did
Google’s TurboQuant algorithm, which the company publicized on X this week — though the underlying research originally surfaced last year — claims to cut the memory required to run large language models by at least a factor of six. The efficiency gain targets what’s known as the key value cache, a critical bottleneck in AI inference, or the process of running AI models to generate outputs.
If widely adopted, TurboQuant could reduce the memory footprint of AI workloads significantly, theoretically easing the supply crunch that has sent chip prices and margins soaring across the sector.
The Bull Case Didn’t Disappear Overnight
Context matters here. Memory chip stocks had been on an extraordinary run. SK Hynix and Samsung shares had each surged more than 50% year-to-date through Wednesday, fueled by insatiable demand from hyperscalers building out AI infrastructure at historic scale. SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won as recently as this week said the memory chip shortage would persist through 2030.
Morgan Stanley analyst Shawn Kim pushed back on the panic in a note, arguing the impact of Google’s research should ultimately be net positive for the industry. His logic: if AI models can run with materially lower memory requirements without sacrificing performance, the cost per query drops, making AI deployment more profitable and accelerating adoption — which in turn drives more demand for memory, not less.
Kim and analysts at JPMorgan and Citigroup all invoked the Jevons Paradox — a 19th century economic concept holding that greater efficiency in resource use tends to increase total consumption rather than reduce it. The same argument made the rounds when DeepSeek’s low-cost AI model rattled markets last year.
The Bigger Picture for Investors
The four largest hyperscalers — led by Amazon and Google — are collectively on track to spend roughly $650 billion this year on data center infrastructure. That spending appetite doesn’t evaporate because of one efficiency algorithm, and Ortus Advisors analyst Andrew Jackson noted the Google development may make little practical difference to near-term demand given how constrained supply remains.
For small and microcap investors with exposure to the memory supply chain — component manufacturers, equipment makers, or specialty materials companies — Thursday’s selloff may be more noise than signal. The structural demand drivers behind AI infrastructure spending remain firmly intact.
The more pressing question isn’t whether TurboQuant reduces memory demand. It’s whether the market had already priced in perfection for a sector where any efficiency headline is now treated as an existential threat.
Gross Profit Increased to $28 Million in 2025 Compared to $25 Million in 2024, Representing a $3 Million (13%) Increase in Gross Profit
Operating Cash Used in 2025 Amounted to $13 Million Compared to $18 Million in 2024, Representing a $5 Million (27%) Reduction in Cash Used in Operating Activities
SKYX Raised $29 Million in Q1 2026 Investments from Fundamental Institutions
SKYX Announced Collaboration with NVIDIA AI Ecosystem Connect Program, Expecting to Grow Its Collaboration with NVIDIA into Future Smart Home Projects
SKYX Announced Launch of Its Advanced SKYFAN and Turbo Heater on Its E-Commerce Platform with 60 Websites, 1stoplighting.com, and U.S. Leading Retailers Including Home Depot, Target, Lowe’s, and Walmart
Based on the Growing Sales of Its Patented Turbo Heater Fan, SKYX Is Expanding the Category of the “All-Season Ceiling Fan” — Heat in Winter and Cool in Summer — to Provide Additional Products in New Designs and Larger Sizes
Company Expects to Continue Its Growth in 2026 to Advance Its Path to Cash-Flow Positive
SKYX Anticipates Securing Significant Business Opportunities in the Hotel and Builder Segments in the First Half of 2026
SKYX’s Enhanced Safety Code Standardization Team Continues Its Progress Toward Its Goal of a Safety-Mandated Standardization in Homes/Buildings of Its Life-Saving Ceiling Outlet/Receptacle Technology
SKYX Is Expected to Supply Its Advanced Smart Home Technologies to Upcoming and Future Key Projects in the U.S. and Globally, Including New York, North Carolina, Austin, San Antonio, South Florida (Including Miami’s New $4 Billion Smart City), Saudi Arabia, and Egypt
SKYX Is Expected to Deploy Over 1 Million Units of Its Advanced Smart Home Plug-and-Play Technologies During These Projects
SKYX Continues to Grow Its Market Penetration and Expects to Deploy Over 100,000 of Its Products into Homes/Units by the End of 2026 Through Retail and Pro Segments
SKYX’s Technology Expansion Provides Additional Opportunities for Future Recurring Revenues Through Interchangeability, Upgrades, AI Services, Monitoring, Subscriptions, and More
SKYX Will Be Launching a New AI-Driven Software in 2026 for Its E-Commerce Platform of 60 Websites, Which Is Expected to Increase Conversion Rates and Sales Up to 30%
MIAMI, March 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SKYX Platforms Corp. (NASDAQ: SKYX) (d/b/a SKYX Technologies) (the “Company” or “SKYX”), an award winning, highly disruptive advanced and smart home platform technology company with over 100 U.S. and Global pending and issued patents and a portfolio of 60 lighting and home décor websites, with a mission to make homes and buildings become advanced-safe-smart instantly as the new standard, today reported its financial and operational results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2025.
Fourth Quarter 2025 and Subsequent Highlights:
SKYX reports record sales $92.0 million in 2025 compared with $86 million in 2024.
Generated a record $25 million in revenue in Q-4 2025 compared to $24 million in Q-4 2024.
Gross profit in 2025 increased to $28 million, from $25 million, representing a 13% increase.
SKYX is armed with cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash of $10 million as of December 31, 2025, together with $29 million the Company subsequently raised in January 2026 (from one fundamental investors in straight equity with no warrants), as compared to $16 million as of September 30, 2025.
Management expects significant growth in 2026 to advance its path to becoming cash-flow positive.
SKYX’s e-commerce sales are converted into cash rapidly, advancing it cash position often referred to as the “Dell Working Capital Model”, lowering its cost of capital.
In light of its strengthened balance sheet following recent capital raises, management believes the Company is well capitalized to execute its growth initiatives while progressing toward sustained cash-flow generation and profitability.
SKYX has successfully demonstrated its technology during a Marriott Hotel renovation and expects to grow its hotel segment during 2026.
Marriott Hotel chain owner, The Shaner Group, led a $16.5 million investment round. The Shaner Group is an owner and developer of more than 70 hotels worldwide.
Company is expecting to secure additional significant business opportunities in 2026.
SKYX continues its growth and expects to deploy over 100,000 of its products into homes/units during 2026 through retail and pro segments.
SKYX announced the launch of its patented advanced SKYFAN and Turbo Heater to the leading U.S. retailer Home Depot, including a new SkyPlug branding page on HomeDepot.com.
SKYX recently announced the launch of its Turbo Heater fan at leading U.S. retailers Target, Walmart, and Lowe’s, and on its e-commerce platform across 60 websites.
SKYX anticipates securing additional significant business opportunities on several fronts during 2026.
SKYX is expected to supply its advanced smart home technologies to upcoming and future key projects in the U.S. and globally, including projects in Pittsford, New York; North Carolina; Austin, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; South Florida including the new $4 billion smart city in Miami, Florida; Saudi Arabia; and Egypt, among others.
SKYX is expected to deploy over 1 million units of its advanced smart home plug-and-play technologies during these projects.
Technology Roadmap
SKYX announced a collaboration with the NVIDIA AI Ecosystem Connect Program. SKYX expects to grow its collaboration with NVIDIA through its existing and future smart home projects.
SKYX will be launching a new AI driven software for its e-commerce platform of 60 websites, expected to increase its conversion rate and sales up to 30%.
The Company secured U.S. and global strategic manufacturing partnerships with premier manufacturers including in the U.S., Vietnam, Taiwan, China, and Cambodia.
SKYX’s technologies expansion provides additional opportunities for future recurring revenues through interchangeability, upgrades, AI services, monitoring, subscriptions, and more.
Financing Highlights
We extended and converted $13.5 million in notes coming due with maturity out to 5 years until 2030.
We raised $29 million in equity during January 2026.
Safety Standardization Mandatory Code / Insurance Specification and Recommendation
SKYX’s Safety Code Standardization Team is receiving support from a new significant prominent leader with its government safety agency’s process for a safety mandatory standardization of its electrical ceiling outlet/receptacle technology.
SKYX’s code team is led by industry veterans Mark Earley, former head of the National Electrical Code (NEC), and Eric Jacobson, former President and CEO of the American Lighting Association (ALA). The Company’s safety Code Standardization team believes it will garner assistance from additional safety organizations with its code mandatory safety standardization efforts based on the product’s significant safety aspects. Mr. Earley and Mr. Jacobson were instrumental in numerous code and safety changes in both the electrical and lighting industries. Both strongly believe that, considering the Company’s standardization progress including its product specification approval voting for by ANSI / NEMA (American National Standardization Institute / National Electrical Manufacturers Association) and being voted into 10 segments in the NEC Code Book, it has met the necessary safety conditions for becoming a ceiling safety standardization requirement for homes and buildings.
With respect to insurance companies, the Company strongly believes its products can save insurance companies many billions of dollars annually by reducing fires, ladder fall injuries, and electrocutions among other things. Management expects that once it completes an entire range and variations of its safe advanced plug & play products it will start being recommended by insurance companies.
2025 Financial Results
Revenue in 2025 increased to a record $92.0 million, including record sales of $25 million in the fourth quarter, including e-commerce sales, smart home products and advanced plug & play products. Gross profit in 2025 increased to $28 million, or 30% of revenue from $25 million, or 29% of revenue in 2024. We are armed with cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash of $10 million as of December 31, 2025, in addition to $29 million we raised in January 2026, as compared to $16 million as of September 30, 2025. Cash used in operating activities for 2025 amounted to $13 million, as compared to $18 million in 2024. Net loss per share decreased by $0.04 to $0.32 per share in 2025 compared to $0.36 in 2024. Adjusted EBITDA loss per share, a non-GAAP measure, decreased to $0.10 per share in 2025, as compared to $0.13 per share, in 2024.
The Company’s annual report on Form 10-K will be filed with the SEC and will be made available on the Company’s investor relations website: https://ir.skyplug.com/sec-filings/.
Management Commentary
Our year ended December 31, 2025, was highlighted by our four quarters of consecutive growth including sales and rollout of our advanced ceiling smart and standard plug & play platform products on many leading U.S. and Canadian websites. We believe we are accelerating sales momentum while driving toward a stronger gross margin profile, supported in part by contributions from the Turbo Heater Fan, and continuing to actively manage SKYX’s cash burn. Our e-commerce platform with 60 websites is expected to continue providing additional cash flow to the Company. Management anticipates that in 2026 the Company will continue to advance its path towards cash flow positive.
About SKYX Platforms Corp.
As electricity is a standard in every home and building, our mission is to make homes and buildings become safe-advanced and smart as the new standard. SKYX has a series of highly disruptive advanced-safe-smart platform technologies, with over 100 U.S. and global patents and patent pending applications. Additionally, the Company owns 60 lighting and home decor websites for both retail and commercial segments. Our technologies place an emphasis on high quality and ease of use, while significantly enhancing both safety and lifestyle in homes and buildings. We believe that our products are a necessity in every room in both homes and other buildings in the U.S. and globally. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.skyx.com/ or follow us on LinkedIn.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Management considers earnings (loss) before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, as adjusted, an important indicator in evaluating the Company’s business on a consistent basis across various periods. Due to the significance of non-recurring items, EBITDA, as adjusted, enables management to monitor and evaluate the business on a consistent basis. The Company uses EBITDA, as adjusted, as a primary measure, among others, to analyze and evaluate financial and strategic planning decisions regarding future operating investments and potential acquisitions. The Company believes that EBITDA, as adjusted, eliminates items that are not part of the Company’s core operations, such as interest expense, amortization expense, and impairment charges associated with intangible assets, or items that do not involve a cash outlay, such as share-based payments and non-recurring items, such as transaction costs. EBITDA, as adjusted, should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, pre-tax income (loss), net income (loss) and cash flows used in operating activities. This non-GAAP financial measure excludes significant expenses that are required by GAAP to be recorded in the Company’s financial statements and is subject to inherent limitations. Investors should review the reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the comparable GAAP financial measure. Investors should not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate the Company’s business.
SKYX Platforms – Q4 2025 and 2025 Full Year Corporate Update Call Date: March 26, 2026 Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time U.S./Canada Dial-in: 1-412-317-5180 International Dial-in: 1-844-825-9789
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite giant, is reportedly weighing a fundraising target of approximately $75 billion in its upcoming initial public offering — a figure so staggering it would more than double the previous record holder, Saudi Aramco’s $29 billion listing in 2019. Earlier reports had pegged the target closer to $50 billion, but sources familiar with the matter suggest the company has since discussed raising north of $70 billion with potential investors.
The company is reportedly eyeing a June market debut, with a confidential IPO filing potentially hitting as early as this month. Nothing is finalized, and the timeline could shift, but preparations appear well underway.
At a projected valuation north of $1.75 trillion, SpaceX would sit comfortably among the most valuable companies on the planet — larger than all but five members of the S&P 500. Only Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon would rank above it. That places SpaceX ahead of Meta Platforms and, notably, Musk’s own Tesla. The company’s footprint expanded significantly after absorbing Musk’s AI startup xAI in a deal that valued the combined entity at $1.25 trillion.
For context, SpaceX isn’t just a rocket company anymore. Starlink, its satellite internet division, has become a legitimate global broadband player with millions of subscribers, a recurring revenue engine that makes the broader SpaceX story far more investable than a pure aerospace play. That commercial backbone is a big reason why the valuation math holds up — at least in the eyes of institutional buyers.
Why This Matters Beyond the Headline
For investors who operate in the small and microcap space, this deal carries real implications even if SpaceX is nowhere near your portfolio.
A transaction of this magnitude will consume enormous amounts of institutional capital. Fund managers allocating to a $75 billion raise are, by necessity, pulling liquidity from somewhere. In environments where mega-cap IPOs dominate investor attention, smaller names often get deprioritized — not because the fundamentals have changed, but because the oxygen in the room gets sucked up by the headline deal.
That dynamic has played out historically around blockbuster listings. The Aramco IPO in 2019, the Rivian offering in 2021, and the SPAC boom all coincided with periods of subdued interest in the lower end of the market cap spectrum. Whether SpaceX follows that pattern will depend heavily on the broader macro environment at the time of listing.
There’s also the sentiment angle. A successful SpaceX IPO — executed cleanly at a $1.75 trillion valuation — could serve as a confidence signal for the broader IPO pipeline, potentially unlocking deals that have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for a favorable window. If the market receives this one well, expect a flood of filings in Q3.
For now, the deal is still taking shape. But make no mistake — when a single IPO threatens to rewrite the record books twice over, the entire investment landscape takes note.
Circle Internet Group (CRCL) suffered its steepest single-session decline since going public on Tuesday, plunging as much as 20% after reports surfaced that the latest draft of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act contains language that could severely restrict stablecoin yield programs — a business model central to how Circle and its partners generate revenue.
Coinbase (COIN), Circle’s primary distribution partner for its USDC stablecoin, fell roughly 8% in sympathy. The Circle-Coinbase revenue-sharing arrangement is a key reason Coinbase is directly exposed to any regulatory changes affecting USDC economics.
What the Clarity Act Says — and Why It Matters
The latest version of the Clarity Act, shaped by a compromise crafted by Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Thom Tillis, would ban yield payments for simply holding a stablecoin. Industry insiders who got their first look at the revised draft on Monday described the language as overly narrow and unclear, creating significant uncertainty for platforms that have built yield-based products around stablecoins.
The compromise would allow rewards programs tied to a user’s stablecoin activity, but not their balance — a meaningful distinction that would effectively prohibit programs that function like interest-bearing deposit accounts.
This is not a brand-new fight. The banking lobby has pushed hard to restrict stablecoin yield because yield-bearing stablecoins would functionally compete with savings accounts — if a stablecoin issuer offered 4% on a digital dollar balance, consumers have little incentive to park money in a traditional 0.5% checking account. Congress, through the GENIUS Act signed into law last July, already prohibited stablecoin issuers from paying yield directly. The Clarity Act debate is now about whether third-party platforms — like Coinbase — can offer those returns as an intermediary.
The OCC, in its proposed rulemaking to implement the GENIUS Act, suggested that close financial ties between stablecoin issuers and crypto platforms handling their tokens would make it highly likely that any yield paid through an intermediary constitutes an attempt to evade the GENIUS Act’s prohibition. That regulatory posture adds a second layer of pressure on the Circle-Coinbase model even before the Clarity Act is finalized.
Circle’s Recent Run — and the Reversal
The selloff comes after an extraordinary run for Circle shares. The stock rallied approximately 110% from around $60 in late February to a high of roughly $130 just last week, driven by strong quarterly results, explosive USDC circulation growth, and expectations that the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady — a key input since Circle generates the bulk of its revenue from interest earned on the Treasury-backed reserves underpinning USDC.
The company has also been expanding its footprint beyond stablecoin issuance. Last year, Circle launched Arc, a specialized blockchain designed to support global payments, foreign exchange, and tokenized real-world assets using USDC as its native currency — a bid to position itself as a broader fintech infrastructure play.
The Stakes for the Broader Crypto Ecosystem
Though the crypto industry scored a major win when the GENIUS Act became the first major U.S. law to govern a segment of the crypto industry, it was designed as the first step of a two-part policy approach, with the Clarity Act meant to be the more consequential full-fledged framework for digital assets.
Stablecoin yield has become the single largest sticking point standing between the crypto industry and that comprehensive regulatory framework. Until Tuesday’s language leak, markets had been pricing in a favorable resolution. That assumption just took a significant hit.
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF) (“Perfect” or the “Company”), a leading artificial intelligence (“AI”) company offering AI and augmented reality (“AR”) powered solutions to beauty, fashion, photo and video creative industries, today announced that its board of directors (the “Board”) has formed a special committee (the “Special Committee”) consisting of three disinterested, independent directors, namely Philip Tsao, who will serve as the chairman of the Special Committee, Chung-Hui (Christine) Jih and Meng-Shiou (Frank) Lee, to evaluate and consider the preliminary non-binding proposal letter, received on March 18, 2026 (the “Proposal”) from the consortium formed by CyberLink International Technology Corp. (“CyberLink”) and Ms. Alice H. Chang, Chairwoman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Perfect and her controlled entities, that proposes a “going-private” transaction for US$1.95 per ordinary share in cash (the “Transaction”).
The Special Committee is authorized to retain advisors, including independent legal and financial advisors, to assist it in its work.
The Company cautions its shareholders and others considering trading in its securities that neither the Board nor the Special Committee has made any decision with respect to the Company’s response to the Proposal. There can be no assurance that any definitive offer will be received, that any definitive agreement will be executed relating to the Transaction, or that the Transaction or any other similar transaction will be approved or consummated. The Company does not undertake any obligation to provide any updates with respect to any transaction, except as required under applicable law.
About Perfect Corp.
Founded in 2015, Perfect Corp. is a leading AI company offering self-developed AI- and AR-powered solutions dedicated to transforming the world with digital tech innovations that make your virtual world beautiful. On Perfect’s direct consumer business side, Perfect operates a family of YouCam consumer apps and web-editing services for photo, video and camera users, centered on unleashing creativity with AI-driven features for creation, beautification and enhancement. On Perfect’s enterprise business side, Perfect empowers major beauty, skincare, fashion, jewelry, and watch brands and retailers by supplying them with omnichannel shopping experiences through AR product try-ons and AI-powered skin diagnostics. With cutting-edge technologies such as Generative AI, real-time facial and hand 3D AR rendering and cloud solutions, Perfect enables a personalized, enjoyable, and engaging shopping journey and helps brands elevate customer engagement, increase conversion rates, and propel sales growth. Throughout this journey, Perfect maintains its unwavering commitment to environmental sustainability and fulfilling social responsibilities. For more information, visit https://ir.perfectcorp.com/.
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