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,

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.

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Today, Coleman runs Tiger Global Management, a hedge fund and venture capital firm. At the end of the third quarter, the fund held 45 stocks valued at roughly $23.4 billion. Coleman clearly prioritizes fast-growing tech and artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, which is why 45% of Tiger Global's equities portfolio is invested in just five AI stocks.

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.

Shares of Tesla ( TSLA 4.28%) were moving higher today, overcoming a weak earnings report after CEO Elon Musk spent much of the earnings call pumping up the stock and making big promises about autonomy. As of 1:11 p.m. ET, the stock was up 4.7% on the news.

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, IBM and Meta Platforms helped lead most U.S. stocks higher after a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies