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Tesla is making a bold pivot. The company's twenty-five billion dollar capital expenditure plan is tilting hard away from traditional auto production and toward artificial intelligence and robotics, anchored by the Cybercab, the Semi, and its Optimus humanoid robot program. Analysts are beginning to ask whether the market is still pricing Tesla as a car company when it's increasingly something else entirely.
Shifting to macro, financial markets are drawing some cautious attention despite equity indexes sitting near all-time highs. Valuations remain stretched by most historical measures, and the prospect of Kevin Warsh stepping in as the next Federal Reserve chairman is adding a layer of uncertainty. Warsh has historically leaned hawkish, and traders are weighing what that could mean for rate policy at a moment when the economy offers mixed signals.
And in the gaming economy, Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki is drawing renewed attention after a wide-ranging conversation about the platform's scale — now at over one hundred million daily active users and tracking toward seven billion dollars in revenue bookings this year. That makes it one of the largest digital economies on earth, and one that's quietly minting a new generation of young developers worldwide.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
