AI Profits Surge, $70B Capex Surge Raises Investor Concerns, Automated Skin Exams | Diet TBPN

1 May 2026 · 31 min
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1 May 2026 · 31 min

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In this episode, host (Speaker A) and commentator Jordi Hays dissect the latest earnings season for the four hyperscalers—Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta—highlighting a rare "Quad Kill" where all four reported on the same day. They detail Google’s 63% YoY cloud revenue growth, strong Search performance, and a massive $460 B cloud backlog; Microsoft’s solid 18% revenue growth, 40% Azure growth, and the challenges of scaling Copilot adoption across its 450 M paid seats amid a changing OpenAI‑Azure exclusivity deal; Amazon’s 28% AWS growth, record $181.5 B Q1 revenue, and its aggressive AI‑infrastructure spend; and Meta’s 33% revenue growth driven by ad price and volume, but a volatile stock reaction and questions around its AI spend without a cloud platform. The conversation moves to market valuation, comparing current PE multiples (16‑25x) to dot‑com era highs, and noting that many newer private AI firms trade at vastly higher multiples. They discuss broader themes: the fracturing AI narrative across hyperscalers, the impact of AI on jobs (drawing parallels to immigration and Jevons paradox), Jensen Huang’s caution against alarmist AI rhetoric, and product‑level innovations such as automated skin‑exam robots, the Arc AGI V3 benchmark results (GPT‑5.5 vs Opus 4.7), and Amazon’s AI‑generated product podcast. Interspersed are lighter moments about data‑center aesthetics, Nitro Circus concepts, and cultural references. Overall, the episode provides a granular financial recap, strategic analysis of AI‑related capex, and speculative commentary on AI’s societal and market implications.

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