Meta and Tesla rally after-hours, while Microsoft slides. Stock futures edge higher—will the gains hold? Full market analysis inside.

Microsoft spent $22.6bn on capital expenditure in the second quarter of the year, as mammoth spending on artificial intelligence persists. The Seattle-based group said in a blog post earlier this month that this fiscal year it would spend an estimated $80bn to build out the data centre infrastructure necessary to train AI models and deploy applications,

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.

Shares in Tesla have experienced a volatile 24 hours, initially dropping 2.2% in the wake of disappointing earnings, before rising 4% in pre-market trading as investors focused on the company's ambitious production plans rather than its weaker financials.

In January 2025, a post about tech billionaire Elon Musk, purportedly written by someone who knew him for years, was shared widely online. Philip Low, a scientist and founder of NeuroVigil, a company that developed a portable brain activity monitor,

Tesla shares rose about 3% before the bell on Thursday as plans to roll out cheaper electric vehicles and paid autonomous car services by the automaker that missed Wall expectations for fourth quarter lifted investor sentiment.

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Tesla's fourth-quarter earnings missed Wall Street's estimates, but the stock rose on 2025 guidance and plans for robotaxi rides to begin in June.

It’s hard to fault a CEO who grows a company beyond $1 trillion in value. Elon Musk managed the feat by upending the automotive market with Tesla’s electric vehicles and extended its lead with broader battery power.

Tesla plans to roll out affordable EVs in 2025 and launch a robotaxi service, despite a dip in fourth-quarter earnings.

Tesla’s fourth-quarter net income fell 71% from a year ago when results were boosted by a one-time tax benefit. The latest results fell short of Wall Street forecasts. The electric vehicle company

Tesla reported mixed earnings, reflecting pressures from unmet expectations against advancements in energy and technology sectors.