Microsoft stock plunges 10% as its worst day in years sees a $357 billion market cap wipeout
Quartz Staff / qz - Along with a brutal day for software stocks, Microsoft's wipeout helped drag down the tech-heavy Nasdaq about 0.7% for the day
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(PR) Microsoft Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Results
techpowerup - Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:Revenue was $81.3 billion and increased 17% (up 15% in constant currency)Operating income was $38.3 …
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Microsoft built a 750W AI chip to challenge Nvidia's dominance, claims 3x performance gains over Amazon
techspot - Microsoft recently announced Maia 200, a new AI accelerator specifically designed for inference workloads. According to Redmond, Maia 200 can deliver "dramatic" improvements for AI applications and is already deployed in select US data centers on the Azur…
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Microsoft unveils new proprietary AI chip Maia 200
Berry Zwets / techzine - Microsoft introduces Maia 200, an AI chip that the company claims is significantly faster than competing products. The accelerator is specifically designed to run large AI models and offers 30 percent better performance per dollar. The chip is manufacture…
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Back to Top / Monday, January 26, 2026, 11:20 am / permalink 18405 / 19 stories in 5 wks
Microsoft 365 Outlook down: Microsoft breaks silence on outage
mashable - Microsoft is sharing updates on the Microsoft 365 outage that took down Outlook and other services on Thursday, Jan. 22.
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Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming May Soon Let You Stream Your Own Games for Free - If You Watch Ads
msmash / slashdot - Microsoft appears to be preparing an ad-supported tier for Xbox Cloud Gaming that would let players stream games they've purchased digitally without needing a Game Pass subscription, according to a Windows Central report citing sources familiar with the p…
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Microsoft Vows to Pay Full Cost of AI Data Centers After White House Pressure
James Maguire / techstrong - Microsoft has moved to blunt growing public opposition to its expanding data-center footprint, pledging to absorb the full cost of the electricity, water use, and local taxes associated with its AI infrastructure. The commitments mark the company’s most s…
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Back to Top / Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 17831 / 22 stories in 7 wks
Microsoft Pledges Over $30 Billion for Sovereign AI in Canada and India
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has committed over $30 billion to Canada and India, launching "Sovereign AI" clouds to enforce strict data residency and local control.The post Microsoft Pledges Over $30 Billion for Sovereign AI in Canada and India appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Falls as Azure Foundry AI Sales Miss Growth Targets
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Multiple Microsoft sales divisions missed growth targets for Azure Foundry AI product in fiscal year ending June 2025 Less than 20% of salespeople in one U.S. Azure unit met the 50% Foundry sales growth target Microsoft initially denied lowering quot…
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Microsoft Deepens AI Ties with Anthropic, NVIDIA in Major Cloud Partnership
Jon Swartz / techstrong - SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. announced a major cloud infrastructure partnership Tuesday with Anthropic and NVIDIA Corp. in a strategic shift from its exclusive relationship with OpenAI as the tech giant diversifies its artificial intelligence (AI) por…
Back to Top / Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 16083 / 6 stories in 3 months
Nvidia, Microsoft and Anthropic Commit to Roughly $45 Billion in AI Partnership
Elias Shisgall / wsj - Anthropic said it plans to purchase at least $30 billion of Microsoft Azure’s computing capacity to scale and train its Claude model. In addition Nvidia said it would invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic, while Microsoft pledged up to $5 billion.
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Ignite 2025: Microsoft Agent 365 is a New Management Platform for AI Agents
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Microsoft Agent 365 is a new platform designed to help organizations manage AI agents created with Copilot Studio and non-Microsoft platforms.The post Ignite 2025: Microsoft Agent 365 is a New Management Platform for AI Agents appeared first on Thurrott.c…
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EU could hand Amazon, Microsoft ‘gatekeeper’ title for cloud services
Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / siliconrepublic - The EU is also probing whether the DMA in its current state is effective to govern the cloud sector.Read more: EU could hand Amazon, Microsoft ‘gatekeeper’ title for cloud services
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Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single …
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Microsoft Inks $9.7 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With IREN in New Outsourcing Push
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft continues its AI infrastructure outsourcing strategy, signing a $9.7 billion, five-year deal with IREN for NVIDIA GB300 GPU cloud capacity.The post Microsoft Inks $9.7 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With IREN in New Outsourcing Push appeared fir…
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Microsoft Azure Meltdown Exposes Critical Cloud Risk
Datamation Staff / datamation - The outage disrupted major products from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems used by airlines, banks, and retailers.
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Microsoft powers past estimates on a day its cloud stumbled, but shares still slip
Shannon Carroll / qz - Microsoft beat expectations with $77.7 billion in revenue and a 40% Azure surge, but shares slipped after hours as investors seemed fixated on margins
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Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report
cnbc - Microsoft users reported outages for Azure and 365 services a week after many customers of Amazon Web Services suffered hours of downtime.
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Microsoft adds Anthropic’s AI to Copilot
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Microsoft is integrating OpenAI rival Anthropic's AI into Copilot, marking another step towards the disentangling of Microsoft and OpenAI.
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Microsoft invests billions in Wisconsin AI data center initiative
Microsoft is spending around $4 billion to build a cutting‐edge data center in Wisconsin designed to power advanced AI applications, including support for partners like OpenAI. The project is outlined in multiple reports highlighting the company’s drive to expand its AI infrastructure and meet rising computational demands.
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