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22 Aug 2025

Is data center capex about to hit an energy wall?

Source: Peter Berezin @PeterBerezinBCA

21 Aug 2025

People who bought Palantir last week

(Palantir has officially entered bear market territory). Source: Not Jerome Powell

21 Aug 2025

Another day of rotation out of tech

Source: Daily sp500 heat map by Finwiz

20 Aug 2025

What a chart by Brew Markets...

Source: Bloomberg

19 Aug 2025

Microsoft, $MSFT, has said that these are the 40 jobs most at risk by AI

Source: unusual whales

15 Aug 2025

Buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna reported AI-driven sales growth for the second quarter, enabling the company to generate revenues of $1 million per employee.

👉 The Swedish company said it had 20% like-for-like sales growth in the second quarter, with total revenues coming in at $823 million for the period. 👉The firm also saw adjusted operating profits of $29 million, up significantly from the first quarter’s $3 million. “AI adoption continues to deliver significant, tangible results. As a result of this strategy, average revenue per employee reached $1.0m, up 46% [year on year in the second quarter],” the company said in its quarterly report. 👉Klarna has aggressively leveraged AI to boost productivity performance. It has shed two in five jobs over the past two years as a result. “This shift reflects the growing impact of AI and automation in eliminating manual, time-consuming work across Klarna,” the company had said in its first-quarter results.

14 Aug 2025

What do you notice on this chart?

Source: PlotSet

14 Aug 2025

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

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