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Here’s your Monday round-up of data driving conversations this week – 9 stats, in less than 250 words.
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Tokens required ↓ DeepSeek’s latest model (V3.1) achieves similar performance on benchmarks as their reasoning model R11 with 25-50% fewer tokens.
Concentration ↑ Two customers made up 39% of Nvidia’s revenue in Q2. Despite this concentration, Q2 revenue of $46.7 billion is up 56% year-on-year.
Choice overload ↑ For the first time in US history, there are now more exchange-traded funds than individual stocks. There’s a shift in how people invest.
TikTok ↑ ByteDance has reportedly surpassed Meta’s revenue figure for the first time in Q2.
Browser dangers ↓ Hack attempts on Claude for Chrome worked about 1 in 4 times initially, but fixes cut that to about 1 in 10.
Fertility among the Left ↓ Birth rates among left-leaning women in the US have declined from about 2.25 children per woman in the 1990s to 1.85 between 2010 and 2024.
Waymo safety ↑ A study of 56.7 million miles shows that Waymo’s vehicles are involved in 85% fewer serious injury crashes than human-driven vehicles.
Robot sales ↑ Humanoid robot sales in China are set to exceed 10,000 units in 2025, up 125% from last year.
🍕 Boring stocks ↑ More “boring” stocks can provide stability – Domino’s Pizza outperformed Google’s stock for most of the last 13 years.
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Updated version of DeepSeek-R1 from May 2025.