Tencent on Wednesday reported a 15% jump in second-quarter revenue as a strong performance in its gaming unit and AI investments boosted growth.
The ADR is up 7% today $TCEHY Tencent Q2 FY25: Revenue +15% Y/Y to RMB185B ($25.7B). Gaming +22% Social Networks +6% Marketing Services +20% Fintech & Business +10% Weixin/WeChat: 1.4B MAU (+3% Y/Y). Capex +119% to RMB19B ($2.7B). Source: App Economy Insights @EconomyApp
Perplexity, valued at $18 billion, is offering $34.5 billion to buy Google Chrome.
Source: CNBC
Free cash flow of pure electric vehicles makers
Updated for Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, and Ford EV Q2 2025. His key observations: 1. The EV business is a tough one 2. Only Tesla manages to generate positive free cash flow. 3. Ex Tesla, the shown companies accrued $88 billion in cash burn (net negative cumulative free cash flow). 4. In terms of cash burn, Rivian is the most underperforming EV maker: nobody has accrued a higher cash burn, not nearly. Will we see a similar story with robotaxis? Source: AJ @alojoh
The Goldman Sachs AI Leaders Basket
Consisting of the 9 leading AI stocks (semiconductors: Nvidia, TSMC), software/data center (Palantir, Oracle, Microsoft, Vertiv), and power/infrastructure (GE Vernova, Constellation, Vistra) has made 756% since ChatGPT launch in 2022, an avg of 122% per year! Source: Bloomberg, HolderZ
2007: Airbnb was an idea. 2025: $45 million in revenue a day.
Source: Jon Erlichman
Apple $AAPL Proof of Life
White House adviser says new $APPL US investment likely to be announced today. Source: Barchart
OpenAI might soon be worth $500bn – thanks to a potential stock sale for employees.
The company is reportedly in early discussions to allow current and former employees to sell their shares, which would value OpenAI at roughly $500bn. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
Apple $AAPL increases commitment to $600 billion, announces american manufacturing program.
“Today, we’re proud to increase our investments across the United States to $600 billion over four years and launch our new American Manufacturing Program,” - Tim Cook Source: Evan on X, FT
