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Big tech, in numbers
Earnings previews, price comparisons and number-first explainers. Every piece is also published as an X Article.
TSMC Q3: revenue is already out. Margins are not
Add up July–September monthly sales and you get NT$1,494.2B, about 2% above the top of guidance. On Thursday Oct 15 the number to watch is margin, not revenue.
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ASML Q3: the bar is already set high
ASML guided Q3 net sales to €11.0–12.0B, 18–29% above Q2. On Wednesday Oct 14, watch margins, the Q4 math and what the company says about orders.
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AI API prices, October 2026: same chatbot, a 100x gap
We checked per-million-token prices for Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Grok and Workers AI on the official pages on 2026-10-11. For a 2,000-request-a-day chatbot, the monthly bill runs from $13.95 to $1,395.
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