New York, February 12, 2026, 19:16 (EST) — After-hours
Algorhythm Holdings Inc (RIME) shares rose about 30% in after-hours trading on Thursday, last at $1.08. After-hours trading is the session after the 4 p.m. close. The stock swung between $0.8179 and $1.37, with about 53.5 million shares traded.
The move followed a company-published white paper — a research-style report — on its SemiCab logistics platform. Algorhythm said live deployments let customers scale freight volumes by 300% to 400% without adding staff, and that some operators handled more than 2,000 loads a year versus a traditional benchmark of about 500. Chief Executive Gary Atkinson said the platform breaks the link between growth and hiring by embedding “intelligence directly into the freight operating system.” (GlobeNewswire)
That pitch hit a market already jumpy about AI disruption, spilling beyond the tiny stock. Landstar System and C.H. Robinson fell more than 14% in regular trading, while the Dow Jones Transportation Average slid 4%, as investors weighed whether faster software could squeeze margins in logistics businesses. Jefferies trader Jeffrey Favuzza said the market was in “shoot first, ask questions later” mode on AI headlines; Algorhythm, which sold its karaoke-machine business last August, has a market value of about $6 million. (Reuters)
For Algorhythm, attention is the easy part. The harder part is turning a headline and a white paper into contracts, recurring revenue and results that hold up over time.
SemiCab’s pitch is familiar in logistics: automate freight planning and exception handling, push more loads through the same staff, cut manual work. Investors heard “more output per person” and immediately started re-pricing the other side of that trade.
But the productivity figures come from a company-authored report and statements, not independently audited results. If the gains prove narrow, or the customer base is smaller than traders assume, the stock’s bounce can fade quickly.
Size cuts both ways. With a market value measured in the single-digit millions, RIME can move sharply on modest flows — up or down — and prices can gap around headlines.
Traders are also watching the spillover. If AI fears keep pressuring trucking and logistics names, RIME could stay a noisy proxy for that theme even if nothing else changes at the company.
Next up is Friday’s U.S. session (Feb. 13): whether the move holds once regular trading resumes, and whether Algorhythm adds customer or financial detail that pins down what SemiCab’s claims mean in dollars.
