R20 13F-correction continuity — Aschenbrenner CONCENTRATED HARDER on infra equity (not rotated to compute as R18 claimed); puts/calls overlay added

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R20 13F-correction continuity — Aschenbrenner CONCENTRATED HARDER on infra equity (not rotated to compute as R18 claimed); puts/calls overlay added

  • Type: refresh (subtype: 13f-correction-annotation)
  • event_id: 2026-05-20-ai-power-bottleneck-r20-13f-correction-continuity
  • Source: R19 corrected Aschenbrenner Q1 2026 13F read (published/research-notes/2026-05-20-r19-aschenbrenner-q1-corrected-all-action.md). User-flagged "calls on NVDA" question prompted raw EDGAR re-read; R18 importer had collapsed 11 put + 5 call + 26 equity rows into undifferentiated long exposure. R20 follow-through from workflow/RUNS.md 2026-05-20 r20-corrected-13f-followthrough.
  • Replaces R18 claim: R18 said "Aschenbrenner rotated FROM power-supply TO compute (NEW NVDA/ORCL/MU/AVGO/AMD at 7%+ sizing)." This was an importer bug — those "NEW positions" were PUTS, not equity. Do not use the R18 compute-rotation framing.
  • Corrected read — thesis HARDENS structurally. Aschenbrenner's Q1 2026 13F book has THREE distinct layers:
    • Equity longs $3.86B — 91% concentrated in AI-infra picks-and-shovels (BE $879M = 22.79% of equity book, SNDK $724M = 18.79%, CRWV $556M = 14.42%, IREN $401M = 10.4%, CORZ $389M = 10.09%, APLD $320M = 8.3%, RIOT $142M = 3.69%, CleanSpark $104M = 2.71%). Exited LITE $479M (optical), CIFR $155M (miner), EQT $133M (gas pure-play), COHR $89M (optical), TSEM $85M (small-cap semi), KRC $50M (REIT), HUT $40M (miner). Increased SNDK +$474M (doubled), CRWV +$119M, CleanSpark +$88M, IREN +$72M, RIOT +$64M.
    • Calls $1.36B underlying-notional — bullish leverage on MU $422M, SNDK $389M, TSM $355M, CRWV $141M, BE $55M (3 of 5 layered on top of existing equity longs).
    • Puts $8.46B underlying-notional — NEW Q1 layer: SMH ETF $2.04B, NVDA $1.57B, ORCL $1.07B, AVGO $1.0B, AMD $969M, MU $584M, TSM $535M, ASML $494M, INTC $159M, GLW $21M, INFY $7M. Direction is bearish or hedge depending on delta/intent; option premium unknown.
  • INTC complete directional flip Q4→Q1: was bullish $747M CALL in Q4 2025; Q1 is bearish $159M PUT + tiny equity $9M. Single-name thesis reversal.
  • What this changes for ai-power-bottleneck: the perspective HARDENS structurally — the man whose 13F IS this thesis is MORE concentrated on the picks-and-shovels names, not rotated away. No key_tickers rebalance needed (R18 said "shift toward NVDA/ORCL/MU/AVGO/AMD compute layer" — that was the importer bug, not Aschenbrenner). Aschenbrenner's exits (EQT gas-pure-play) reinforce the R13 read that the thesis evolved from "gas as fuel" to "compute as bottleneck"; equipment leg gets a smart-money tailwind from BE-call increase + CRWV equity-up.
  • Implicit new layer: Aschenbrenner has $8.46B underlying-notional puts on consensus AI mega-caps + SMH ETF. This is meaningful smart-money positioning on "mega-caps over-priced relative to bottleneck infra" — see assign-follow-up ai-megacap-mean-reversion candidate (does NOT auto-spawn; ACTIVE.json already at 11 vs 8 cap). The implicit thesis is: long bottlenecks + hedge/short consensus. Worth tracking; do not graft into this perspective without explicit user direction.
  • Engine handoff: importer bug filed at TASKS-ENGINE.md (<putCall> ignore + per-filer value-unit-basis inference). Canonical filing-package schema at workflow/schemas/13f-filing-import.md; first package emitted at 0002045724-26-000008.
  • Posture: unchanged from R15 cohort-split frame (IPP leg weakening, equipment leg holding).
4 events
DateTypeEvent
May 23 ArticleWeird-ETF rotation read — MSTR-leverage breakdown, AI-stack narrowing, defensives flat May 25 Deep DiveARM May 25 InvestigationOptical supercycle WHY: what specifically drove the CIEN/COHR demand acceleration May 26 Deep DiveBAM

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