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Last year they produced a 7am rns'd trading statement with the meeting held later in the day.i expect the same tomorrow.

I think it has to be seen as a very positive step.iclearly anthropic's own initiative is setting the direction of travel and it can only be positive for NCC to be involved in open ai's response. im no expert in this area and there is a lot i dont understand, but this article may give some perspective.https://www.ciodive.com/news/OpenAI-Daybreak-cyber-threats/820036/

Morning bignose.interesting post. yes the s/p has moved through quite a wide range today.at least it ended marginally up.leased to see reasonable volume today as one might have expected a drop off in interest after the news.not great volume of course, but better than usual on a non news day.

Interesting posts today.thanks for the figures bignose. helpful as always. kendall i very much endorse your sentiments.you only have to look at mellon's more recent forays into investment trends to see the pattern. seed and anica re recent examples(although possible the jury is still out on anic).i learnt a very painful lesson about fo;;owing "entrepreneurs"years ago, when investing in some luke johnson promoted spiv tripe. they are masters of self promotion and spin, but not,unfortunately, of profitable company creation. sadly and to my chagrin, it was a lesson i ignored in relation to regent (at least on my second time around). not losing any sleep about this company anymore.as ive previously said, it has become more of a hobby interest than an investment for me, although i do appreciate that it may be much more than that for some other investors and have no wish to minimise their anger and frustration at what has happent in value terms.sorry f this sound pompous.

Morning bignose.no problem.i didn't take it as criticism, as i know well your views on regent's competence which i share entirely.i just felt that perhaps i hadn't been entirely clear in my first post.

anyway, it is now down to sales.whilst we haven't seen any individual research by wanbang as to take up, i hope they have done some. of course, the roseate picture suggested by regent as to potential take up is likely to prove unrealistic in practice, but hopefully it will see the start of at least some meaningful level of revenue, which is what regent have lacked.we shall see.

whilst it is quite possible mellon will try and go for some form of share issue (perhaps to fund US trial?) i think he would have an uphill struggle in view of how he was effectively spurned in the last attempt.his buddies in the investment world are probably very wary now.again time will tell.

Evening bignose. i appreciate that, hence my parenthetical reference to wanbang. i was referring more to the fact that we do at least have some positive news to (i hesitate to use the word "celebrate" )at least acknowledge after such a long period of disappointment. regardless of where and in what proportions the credit lies, as you have said, it will now all come down to sales.

Also, what are these "biopharmaceutical projects"etc which regent claim to be evaluating? surely in their state of extreme immiseration, they cannot seriously be contemplating taking on anything else.surely just the usual rodomontading we have experienced over the years.i do give them credit for getting the chinese approval (how much is down to regent and how much to wan bang), but now is not the time to be embarking on any other vanity projects. as you say bingnose, show us the revenue first.

Https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/content/6bf035bd-835a-4c8e-82a0-86b609ae7e7d just for general interest.very solid day yesterday

Dougie,ihave been asking myself the same question. looking at gibson's comments in isolation might lead one to think the news will help progress on that front. the problem is that we have had optimistic pronouncements for many years and no subjstantive progress, no SPA agreement and no licensing partner news. it is difficult to be optimistic. that said, the news will certainly not hinder progress in the us and may inspire regent to be more focussed and more confident in pursuing matters. whether it will give potential licensing partners increased confidence i cannot say.

as bignose has said, in effect it will all come down to sales. potential us licensing partners must have been discourage by poor EU sales.whislt i assume the chinese market is very different from america (not really sure why and if indeed it is radically different),i if better sales come in china they may be more encouraged. time will tell.

It is so good they have announced it twice!still can't get the substance though justthe headline statement.

Formal announcement just out.see investor relations.havent read it yet as bit busy

Sorry no.

Morning bignose.yes very odd.hopefully some clarity from regent today?

Hard to think it is anything else. i can't track anything down but it is looking positive.

Good to see some positive news re a portfolio company. obviously won't in itself make much difference to the NAV, but hopefully it is, as biotech has previously indicated, part of the ongoing trend.

100% certain, bignose. nailed on as they say!

Kelso has produced a portfolio update today, stating, inter alia, that it has sold its entire holding in filtronic of 500,000 shares at an average price of 406p.

HL dont actualiy take the initiative and contact holders. youhave to go to the companies meeting section and locate this, however, once you have done this it is extremely easy and simple to vote.

Morning bignose. exactly. even a 100%bst would only put us back to a little over recent highs i think. ive no idea of course as to what the actual boost, if any, would be and as you say, are we even going to get approval?i think we will, but of course i'm just hoping for that. the wait goes on!

Clearly the thg situation is fundamentally different from bp.here we have a ceo and significant majority shareholder who is manifestly content, and indeed positively anxious to retain the supine allen. just under 20%vote against his re-election last year, but this failed to achieve his removal.it will be interesting to see if a higher vote this year, which i am expecting as the level of dissatisfaction now must surely be even greater than last year, has any effect. one would like to think that a responsible board would take notice if say 25%voted against and feel obligated to take action. i suspect many of us have little confidence that this is likely.