Microsoft (MSFT) News & Analysis

Microsoft is getting more disciplined on AI spending and is better positioned than rivals for a consumer-spending slowdown, according to one analyst.

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Microsoft just rewarded its shareholders again with a dividend. This Magnificent 7 stock is on track to become a Dividend Aristocrat.

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24/7 Wall St. : Major tech companies like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Meta (NASDAQ: META) have laid off tens of thousands of employees despite strong earnings, signaling a shift in workforce needs. The rise of AI is accelerating job cuts, particularly for mid-level coders, as automation reduces the need for highly […]

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The FTC is also scrutinizing Microsoft’s decision to slash funding on its own artificial intelligence projects after striking a deal with OpenAI.

Microsoft (MSFT) closed at $383.34 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.76% move from the prior day.

Is working at Microsoft a good deal? An internal survey shows how employees view the company.

Back in 2019, Microsoft open-sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was talking about AI agents yet, but as it turns out, Dapr had some of the fundamental building blocks …

A recurring theme in Europe’s tech world is that the region needs its own Google or Microsoft. Now comes the launch of a new fund to support this initiative. Project Europe — a new fund for founders “solving hard problems with technic…

“They weren’t always good habits, but there’s rituals and things that reground me,” Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin told Fortune.

Positioned to capitalize on the need for decentralized, reliable power, Bloom Energy stands to benefit significantly from the AI revolution’s insatiable energy appetite.

The software giant polls staff on various aspects of their work life. The results are a key tool for assessing employee satisfaction.

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Markets are still under a great deal of pressure. All thanks to more tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China and inflation threats, and recessionary concerns. However, some stocks are bucking the downtrend. Here are three moving the NASDAQ. About This Article Broadcom is oversold and just starting to pivot higher, with Citi analysts adding […]

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I just ran my latest scan and found 59 stocks down 20% or more in the last 20 days with positive FCF, at least 50% gross margin, revenue growth of at least 10%, market cap above a billion, and in one of the major indexes. I decided to go on the hunt fo…

Data centers contributed 4.7 million jobs to the US economy between 2017 and 2023, a PwC study found. Most of them aren’t direct tech jobs.

Trump’s policy moves are causing angst. But one analyst says the broader AI thesis is still intact, and he names Tesla and Microsoft among big potential winners.

In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, according to Reuters, which cites people close to the deal. The deal involves OpenAI receiving $350 million w…

Adobe, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet are part of the Zacks top Analyst Blog.

Microsoft appears to be working on 3D gaming experiences for Copilot, its AI-powered chatbot platform, according to a new job listing. The listing, published this week, seeks a senior software engineer based in Beijing specializing in 3D rendering engi…

Does it feel to you like there are way too many AI assistants to keep track of?

Between ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, DeepSeek, and others, it’s hard to remember what each one excels at—if anything. Beyond just …

A new scientific study warns that using artificial intelligence can erode our capacity for critical thinking. The research, carried out by a Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University scientific team, found that the dependence on AI tools without questi…

Shifting political headwinds and escalating energy demands are shining a spotlight on Big Tech’s backpedaling on climate commitments. Companies like Meta and Microsoft, who were once vocal about their clean energy goals, are now pivoting towards dirty…

Elon Musk lost the latest battle in his lawsuit against OpenAI this week, but a federal judge appears to have given Musk — and others who oppose OpenAI’s for-profit conversion — reasons to be hopeful. Musk’s suit against OpenAI, which also …

Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to creating “small modular reactors.”

Faced with increasing demand for energy to fuel artificial intelligence, and the need to cut down on carbon emissions, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon have announced major investments in nuclear power. Correspondent David Pogue visits Three…

So I have 10K to invest and I only wish to pick 1 of the Mag 7 stocks. In for the long run. Which 1 is fundamentally to strongest of all in your view? I like Microsoft and Amazon but want to hear from you. submitted by /u/OkeyMousse [l…

Quantum computing is rapidly evolving, though still largely theoretical — and each of the Big Tech giants wants to be the one to make it mainstream.

36-year-old Ankit Masrani worked as a software engineer at AWS before landing a security job at Microsoft.

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has delayed the release of its newest AI product, which puts it well behind competition from public companies such as Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and private companies led by OpenAI. The delay threatens sales of Apple products during a period when these sales are already mediocre. Apple Intelligence, the […]

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Microsoft’s MAI models could eventually lessen the company’s reliance on OpenAI.

Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “re…

How low do we all think this will go? I sold my entire position of MSFT at $452 a share and bought F at $9.72 a share. Then sold my all my F at just over $10.40 a share. I'm sitting on the cash because I see both are back down. I'm wondering …

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