Tesla, Meta, IBM: 3 earnings call shout-outs that left us thinking

Brian Sozzi · Executive Editor Thu, October 22, 2026 at 12:01 PM PDT 3 min read

Earnings season is in full swing, and Big Tech calls are about more than the heavy use of "superintelligence," which some read as a bid to please the White House after it reportedly disliked the term "artificial intelligence."

Here are three moments from the earnings calls of Tesla (TSLA), Meta (META), and IBM (IBM) on late Wednesday that stuck with us.

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Much of the focus today is on Tesla cutting its capital spending plans for this year to $20 billion from the $25 billion it guided to three months ago.…