Archive note · corrected
AI influencer calls: the account register comes before the scorecard
A dated correction preserves dated company disclosures while withdrawing unsupported call samples, benchmark returns, creator rankings and concentration claims.
What changed in this article
Editorial correction · 9 September 2026. The original article was published on 15 February 2026 and described 428 AI-themed buy calls from 63 accounts, a directional hit rate, QQQ/SPY alpha, drawdown and creator-reliability conclusions. It did not preserve the call archive, account-selection rule, timestamps, benchmark matching, costs or calculation output. Those sample, return, ranking, concentration and predictive claims are withdrawn. The original URL and publication date remain unchanged.
Company guidance is evidence about a company's stated plan. It is not evidence that an influencer call worked or that a basket caused a market outcome.
What the dated records establish
| Source date and record | Dated fact | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| 4 February 2026 · Alphabet 2025 Q4 earnings-call transcript | Alphabet's investor-relations transcript is dated 4 February 2026 and records company guidance for 2026 capital expenditure of $175–185 billion. | This is company guidance. It does not validate an AI-influencer call sample, a matched QQQ/SPY return or a causal AI-bubble conclusion. |
| 20 February 2026 · Anthropic Claude Code Security announcement | Anthropic announced Claude Code Security as a limited research preview. | This is later than the preserved 15 February article and is not used to backfill its information set or explain its claimed returns. |
| SEC investor alerts and bulletins | The SEC's investor-education archive is a context source for evaluating public investing claims. | General investor education is not evidence for the article's account universe or performance scorecard. |
The later Anthropic announcement is kept explicitly outside the article's original cutoff. The correction does not convert a company announcement or guidance range into an investment recommendation.
What is withdrawn
The 428-call/63-account universe, April 2025–January 2026 window as an audited sample, 39% hit rate, −7.8pp QQQ alpha, −5.1pp SPY alpha, drawdown figures, creator tiers, “AI crash” read-through and any implied concentration or timing rule are not verified findings. No replacement basket, target, return or stock-picking rule is published.
The neutral audit question remains: can each public call be retrieved with its original timestamp, wording, instrument, benchmark and outcome horizon? The article did not publish the records needed to answer it.
Minimum register for a future AI-campaign study
Record each call URL and archived version; account-selection rule; timestamp and wording; ticker/security identifier; entry, exit and benchmark convention; adjusted-price rows; costs and slippage; call inclusion/deduplication; missing data; and complete calculations. Keep company guidance and market outcomes in separate records, with a fixed information cutoff.
Original publication: 15 February 2026. Correction: 9 September 2026. AI-assisted source checking and writing; no independent human expert review. This page is educational market research, not personalized investment advice.