•Trump ordered executive-branch agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in September and this week said he was banning the terms “AI” and “artificial intelligence” in relevant documents.
•Musk used “SI” on Tesla’s earnings call; Zuckerberg promoted Meta’s “personal superintelligence” goal on Oct. 21.
•Amazon’s Andy Jassy, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai continued to use “AI” on earnings calls.
•Microsoft’s annual report used “super intelligence” eight times; IBM’s Arvind Krishna used both terms on IBM’s earnings call.
•Chevron net income nearly tripled to $9.9 billion; adjusted earnings were $5.28 per share, above $4.89 expected.
•Exxon profit doubled to $15.4 billion; adjusted earnings of $4.23 per share beat the $4.08 estimate.
•Chevron refining profits rose more than 300% to $4.9 billion; Exxon’s refining division earned about $7.2 billion, exceeding its production business.
•Chevron’s US refineries ran at 98% capacity and processed just over 1 million barrels of crude daily, a record; Exxon’s Gulf Coast refineries ran at full capacity.
•Trump ordered executive agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in September and this week said he would ban “AI” in relevant documents.
•Tesla CEO Elon Musk used “SI” on the company’s call; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg promoted “personal superintelligence,” a term Meta already used.
•Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet CEOs continued using “AI” on their calls; IBM and Intel used both terms.
•For the nine months ended Sept. 30, net income increased 24.5% year over year to $32.5 million.
•Third-quarter net interest income before credit-loss provisions rose 8.4% to $27.3 million; no provision was recorded in the quarter.
•Non-performing assets reached $51.5 million, up $22.4 million since year-end, mainly after overdue commercial real estate loans were placed on non-accrual status.
•Gross margin increased from 4.2% in Q2 and 7.3% a year earlier; revenue rose 10.2% sequentially to RMB13.62 billion but fell 15.7% year over year.
•Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders narrowed to RMB170 million, from RMB697.3 million in Q2 and RMB749.8 million a year earlier. Adjusted net loss was RMB7.9 million.
•Solar module shipments fell 6% sequentially and 25% year over year to 15,003 MW. Energy storage shipments recognized as revenue reached 1.75 GWh.
•Jinko expects Q4 module shipments of 16–18 GW and full-year 2026 energy storage shipments of about 10 GWh, on a proof-of-delivery basis.
•Revenue was $2.16 billion, above $1.99 billion expected; adjusted loss was 48 cents per share versus 62 cents expected.
•Rivian now expects 67,000–70,000 vehicle deliveries in 2026, up from at least 65,000, and cut its capital spending forecast by $300 million at the midpoint.
•The company delivered a record 19,248 vehicles in Q3; software and services generated $605 million in revenue and $256 million in gross profit.