EduInvesting | 15 May 2025
Welcome to the holy trinity of tech tension: Meta, Google, and Reddit — three companies that somehow represent the extremes of Big Tech, public outrage, and internet memes, all while pretending they care about user privacy.
In May 2025, these three names are dominating headlines for very different reasons:
- Meta is busy harvesting your data to feed its AI.
- Google might get forcefully broken up by regulators or Apple.
- Reddit IPO-ed, memed its way onto Wall Street, and is now hoping it can stay relevant.
Let’s do what investors should but rarely do: actually look beyond the headlines — with sarcasm, stats, and some SEO seasoning.
🧠 META: From Facebook to Faceborg
Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has gone full techno-dystopia in 2025. He’s not just building the Metaverse anymore — he’s now repurposing your DMs, clicks, and cat pics to train Meta’s generative AI models.
📊 Latest Numbers (Q1 2025):
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Revenue YoY | +13.4% |
| Net Income | $13.1 billion |
| Daily Active Users (DAUs) | 2.13 billion (yes, still) |
| AI Spend | $37 billion projected for FY25 |
Meta is still a money printer. But it’s also now:
- Laying off more employees than a bankrupt crypto startup
- Facing lawsuits in Europe over data misuse for AI training
- Using AI to write posts, moderate hate, and predict breakups (ok maybe not the last one… yet)
🧠 EduTake:
Meta is no longer a social media company. It’s an AI vacuum with a blue logo.
They’re in the race against OpenAI and Google — and they’re using your online trauma to win.
🔥 RED FLAGS:
- Privacy regulators in Austria filed an injunction threat over Meta’s use of EU user data to train LLaMA (Meta’s AI model).
- Meta is quietly reducing headcount while calling it “efficiency optimization.”
Spoiler: If you got fired, they optimized you.
📉 Risk to Watch:
If EU courts ban Meta from using user data for training, LLaMA might end up a llama with no brain.
🔍 GOOGLE (ALPHABET): Losing Grip or Playing 4D Chess?
Alphabet’s latest earnings were strong, but one comment from an Apple executive sent the stock into a $160 billion nosedive.
“Apple is working on its own AI search engine.”
Cue panic in Mountain View.
📉 Stock Snapshot (May 2025):
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Price | $166.81 (↓20% from peak) |
| PE Ratio | 22.4x (not bad, not great) |
| Market Cap | $1.78 trillion |
| YouTube Revenue | $11.2 billion (Q1 2025) |
Even though they’re still the kings of ads, YouTube, and “Did you mean…”
