While we have been intensively focused on such things as a Presidential intervention to prevent a Chapter 11, we admit that our mind occasionally drifts to thoughts of summer. So to help others who may have similar thoughts, we thought, in honor of summer beginning, we should provide our thoughts as to which alcohols pair best with the purchase of the stocks we cover (actually, we just asked ChatGPT and, given its attitude about intellectual property, we have no fears about just cutting and pas...
Last week we attended the largest annual conference focused on search marketing, SMX Advanced, including the keynote from GOOGL’s Ads Liaison. We spoke with over two dozen presenters and executives over two days, and our key takeaways include:
Growth in Public Cloud reaccelerated, in line with our expectations, and, if anything, even stronger than we thought, and shifting fast, with AI representing an increasing share of public cloud growth, and with the fast-growing crowd of native AI start-ups becoming a meaningful segment. We gathered all the initial datapoints at hand and looked at all angles we could, to provide a first perspective of how public cloud is growing today and where it is headed next.
META CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently discussed in several forums how he sees AI driving more automation of the digital advertising workflow, including the creation of ad copy. Moreover, the company has disclosed that ~5M advertisers are already using gen AI ad creative tools, which have driven ~7.5% conversion improvement for campaigns with gen AI creative versus those without.
Yesterday, Reuters reported that OpenAI and GOOGL signed a partnership agreement in May allowing OpenAI to use Google Cloud compute capacity for its products. In addition, yesterday OpenAI also reduced pricing for the o3 model by 80%, and introduced a new version for premium users called o3-pro.
Toyota Motor is facing another challenging year, as it continues to invest heavily in new technologies, is supporting its suppliers, while having to deal with the uncertainty over the impact of US import tariffs. Its FY25 guidance numbers do not yet fully reflect the potential costs related to these duties, risking an earnings downgrade later this year. Criticism over its handling of the Toyota Industries privatisation is mounting, with questions raised over corporate governance. Analyst Julie B...
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