EP-188 Microsoft’s Ai Infrastructure Leap 💾, Tesla’s Delivery Challenges 🚗, Generative Ai Investment Boom 💰

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for monday, january 6th! explore today's top tech stories:

• microsoft's ai infrastructure investment: gigantic $80 billion investment in u.s. data centers for fiscal 2025, highlighting microsoft's leadership ambitions in the ai sector and its partnership with openai on the "stargate" project.
• tesla's delivery challenges: the automaker reports its first annual delivery drop, missing analyst expectations with 495,570 vehicles in 2024's fourth quarter, amid stock price surges and ceo elon musk's strategic maneuvers.
• generative ai's funding boom: record $56 billion venture capital investment in 2024, led by openai and anthropic, but raising concerns about market saturation and sustaining innovation.
• apple's china market struggles: significant sales drop of 47.4% in november 2023 due to tough competition from local brands, prompting apple to adopt aggressive pricing strategies for the lunar new year.

stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!