Uh, yeah, if that's what it takes to keep his shareholders updated. What do you suppose that his competition is going to do with that information? He's not e-mailing the tapeout over to BFL. The competition is going to make ASICs one way or another, if FC lets them know that's still on his game plan too... uh, so what?
Updates are far more valuable to his shareholders than to his competition.
+1
if these info are not causing the competitors to behave in a different way and I do not see how they could then there's no reason not to release them.