The increase in AS is neither good nor bad news. It is a financial requirement to be able to provide shares to accommodate the new loans. Those loans are BACKED by shares of VRUS, so the shares HAVE to become available, meaning that they must be in the AS and must be reserved for the express purpose of accommodating the loans.
If VRUS is able to become profitable, those loans may not ever by paid back with shares. But, with such a short timeline, I would expect some dilution later this year. What is dilution? When the OS grows. Period. And I believe it will grow, but maybe not to the full extent of the AS...