Tech, Business, Finance and Everything Else
Its pretty amazing to see. Revolut ads are starting to take over an airport near you. These positions used to be controlled by HSBC, but it really does feel like the world is changing in banking – and we are finally getting a good product.
Tesla is offering Elon Musk a $1 trillion pay package if he is able to hit specific targets for the company over the next 5 years.
This is potentially the craziest thing I have ever heard.
For more details on the targets check out techcrunch.
Google’s net income over time is a thing of beauty. Over $115 billion in the past 12 months, the most of any company.
Sundar Pichai deserves more credit!
Have you ever looked at your pizza oven and wished it was just a little bit smarter? Ooni has, and so its new Volt 2 comes loaded with “Pizza Intelligence,” an adaptive heating system designed to deliver a more even and consistent cooking temperature.
Why does everything need to have the AI buzz word attached to it at the moment. An AI Pizza Oven – just sounds stupid.
It would be great if you could just put in the pizza and its cooks to the perfect temperature automatically, without having to program it at all.
There is a lot of talk about the specs of the new versions in the Apple Watch series – and here is what we know so far before the next Apple event. Full specs on Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch SE 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3.
The next Apple event is getting closer and here is what to expect when they launch the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air.
Which one of these iPhone 17 versions will you be looking to get?
It all depends on where you buy the Xiaomi stock.
Levelsio on X – has started to share a Google Doc with all his investments. Its a very interesting mix between ETFs and one off stocks.
Take a look here – levels.vc
It shows the power of VC investing over time. One third of all money he makes is from his investments.
Levels has risen to fame through the X platform where is creating a lot of content and been posting about technology, finance, startups, etc.
TikTok’s UK subsidiary has published its latest financial results covering operations in Europe, the UK, Latin America and Africa. The report shows revenue growth of 38% to $6.31bn in 2024, while the company significantly reduced its operating losses from $1.37bn in 2023 to $484.6m last year.
Filed with Companies House in the UK, these results primarily address financial performance rather than user statistics. However, earlier this year TikTok separately disclosed user numbers for the European Union. The platform reached 159 million monthly active users across the EU by the end of 2024, with its largest markets being France (25.1 million), Germany (24.2 million), Italy (22.8 million) and Spain (21.9 million).
Revolut has achieved a remarkable milestone: it is now the largest bank in Lithuania by assets, just five years after securing its license there. According to the central bank, Revolut now commands 30.8% of the Lithuanian market, overtaking long-time leaders Swedbank (24.4%), SEB (19.6%), Luminor (10.5%) and the recently rebranded Artea (6.6%).
Licensed in Lithuania but serving 50 million customers across 30 EEA countries, Revolut has rapidly grown its local footprint with more than 650,000 Lithuanian clients. In 2024 alone, retail customers grew 24%, business clients 57%, and youth accounts 47%. This year, Revolut also entered the housing loan market, further cementing its presence alongside its full suite of digital banking, credit, investment, and savings products.
Nancy Pelosi has made some changes to her stock portfolio of late and here is how it looks as at today.
Nancy keeps adding to her Palo Alto Networks (PANW) position. I think there is a lot of opportunity there.
SoftBank has invested $2 billion in Intel.
SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son said in a statement that the “strategic investment reflects our belief that advanced semiconductor manufacturing and supply will further expand in the United States, with Intel playing a critical role.”
This is mixed with the US Government also announcing that they will take a 10% stake in Intel.
David Vélez, Nubank’s CEO and co-founder, just sold 33 million Class A shares (around 0.7% of the company’s total shares) through Rua California Ltd. He said it was for personal asset planning—about 3.5% of his stake.
Amazon has a chance of becoming the first company ever to reach $1 trillion in revenues. I think it is coming! (but still have to wait a few years)
Salesforce has announced that they will be acquiring Regrello to help drive their AI Agentic agenda.
The press release from Salesforce providing very limited information on the deal (so if someone at Saleforce reads this – let me know the details 😉 )
Alphabet’s revenues are become more diverse over time – and quickly!
Google Search revenues now make up only 56.1% of their total revenues and the gap is getting smaller every quarter.
Google Cloud is driving growth in the other areas, but YouTube is also climbing fast as well as other subscriptions and devices (and lets not even talk about Waymo and its potential).
Nvidia earnings are reported next week. It will be very interesting to see how this chart continues to move over the coming quarters and years. I think it is all going higher, but I think we are starting to see a little bit of a slower growth, which hopefully will allow them some breathing space to stabilise a few things.
The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source. Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months.
Uber CEO on Tesla using Camera Vision over LiDAR:
— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) August 24, 2025
“I think in the near-term it’s going to be very difficult, and @elonmusk would tell me I’m wrong, and never bet against him, but it’s my instinct — in the near-term it’s going to be very difficult to build a camera only product… pic.twitter.com/UgFNdTiLb8
Uber CEO on Tesla using Camera Vision over LiDAR: “I think in the near-term it’s going to be very difficult, and
Elon Musk would tell me I’m wrong, and never bet against him, but it’s my instinct — in the near-term it’s going to be very difficult to build a camera only product that has superhuman level of safety. Will it be possible? Quite possibly yes. If you can have instrumentations that include cameras and LiDAR ; the cost of Solid State LiDAR is only $400-$500— WHY NOT include LiDAR as well in order to achieve superhuman safety. So, possible? Yeah it will be — I don’t know when, but is possible the better product? I’m not sure. All of your partners right now are using a combination of camera, Radar and LiDAR, and I personally think that’s the right solution— but I could be proven wrong.”