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Foxconn’s Nvidia business is surging while its Apple business shrinks

Taiwan’s Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, said in its second-quarter earnings report that it expects its AI server revenue to more than double in the current quarter, thanks in part to hefty demand from partners like Nvidia. Meanwhile, it expects its consumer electronic business, which includes manufacturing Apple’s iPhones, to shrink.

Behold, the company’s 2025 outlook in slide form:

Hon Hai 2025 business outlook
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Back in March, Hon Hai Chairman Young Liu warned of an imminent changing of the guard, with server products poised to assume the top slot as a driver of sales. And in Q2, the company’s server products made up the largest portion of its revenue — 41% — for the first time, while consumer electronics declined to 35%.

Apple has seen sales of its iPhones lose steam, while companies that manufacture AI products can’t keep up with demand.

“Major cloud service providers are raising their spending, and governments around the world are rolling out sovereign AI projects. This shows overall AI demand still outstrips supplies,” Hon Hai rotating CEO Kathy Yang said on the earnings call. “Our group is aggressively expanding our capacity to meet the swiftly growing demand.”

Tariffs remain a concern for the company, which is expanding production in the US in hopes of being exempted.

Overall, Foxconns net income rose 27% last quarter, better than analysts expected, and revenue grew 16%, which was in line with expectations.

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Google soars on positive reception for Gemini 3

Google is surging today, on track for its third-biggest daily gain this year, after its release of Gemini 3 on Tuesday.

The latest update to its flagship model includes significant improvements to reasoning, agentic tasks, and “vibe coding,” and is currently topping the leaderboards on LMArena for text, web development, and vision.

Gemini is currently No. 2 in Apple’s free App Store, right behind ChatGPT.

AI Chatbots are also increasingly gaining favor as replacements for traditional web search, a multibillion-dollar business that Google has owned for decades. Beyond just chatbots, Gemini’s performance is crucial to Google’s future success as the company embeds its AI models across its products and relies on them to generate new revenue from existing lines — particularly by driving growth in Cloud and reinforcing its ad and search dominance.

The stock was recently up 5.6% amid a generally green day for tech stocks.

Google has been on a tear lately, after posting Q3 revenue and earnings that blew past expectations. On Friday, the stock jumped after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a $5.1 billion stake and after the company announced a $40 billion investment in Texas data centers.

Google has been by far the best performer of the Magnificent 7 stocks this year, up nearly 60% in 2025. The next best is Nvidia, which is up 39%, followed by Microsoft, which is up 17%.

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Report: xAI raising $15 billion for a $230 billion valuation

xAI is looking to raise $15 billion at a $230 billion valuation, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

xAI is still burning through cash as it races to build its Colossus 2 data center in Tennessee. Last month, it was reported that the company needs to spend $18 billion to purchase another 300,000 Nvidia GPUs.

For all that cash, xAI is still in third place when it comes to its Grok chatbot. A September report found that Grok had only 64 million monthly users, compared to ChatGPT’s 800 million weekly users.

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Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board

Former Harvard President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Summers’ email exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein surfaced last week when a House committee released a cache of 20,000 documents from the Epstein estate.

The OpenAI board told the WSJ: “Larry has decided to resign from the OpenAI Board of Directors, and we respect his decision.”

This week Congress passed a bill to release the full Epstein files, and other prominent tech figures are likely to make appearances in the documents.

This week Congress passed a bill to release the full Epstein files, and other prominent tech figures are likely to make appearances in the documents.

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