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Salesforce’s new AI layer could change how millions of workers access company data, and Benioff made sure Microsoft heard about it.

Microsoft is rejiggering its financial reporting—and while some of the changes will lead to more transparency, others will do the opposite. On the bright side, after years of complaints by investors, Microsoft will finally report revenue in actual dollars for Azure, its flagship cloud platform and primary growth engine. After the market closed on Wednesday, it also released Azure revenue figures for the last eight quarters, under a newly narrowed definition of Azure that no longer includes certain coding tools, security software and specialized apps.

Bill Ackman unveiled six new holdings including Netflix, Visa and Mastercard, marking the billionaire investor's biggest portfolio overhaul in years. Ackman said on Thursday he acquired shares ‌starting in the second quarter that will be held in his investment funds including his newest offering ‌Pershing Square USA, which was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in April. Along with Netflix, which Ackman held briefly in 2022 before selling ​at a loss, his funds are also investing in eye care firm Alcon, exchange operator Intercontinental Exchange and financial data provider S&P Global.

Investing.com -- Anthropic said on Monday its Claude family of artificial intelligence models is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, running on NVIDIA’s GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPU systems, marking the AI startup’s first deployment on NVIDIA hardware.

LinkedIn is aiming to burnish its position as a go-to platform for business advertisers with a new team of marketing experts ‌that it expects to generate an annualized run rate of $100 million next fiscal year, ‌a source familiar with the matter said. The Microsoft-owned platform on Wednesday unveiled BrandWorks, the newly assembled team that aims ​to deliver higher-performing ad campaigns for customers ranging from software giant SAP to privately held website hosting platform Webflow. "We're developing services that are designed to meet the marketer where they are," said Alex Josephson, VP of BrandWorks, who previously built a similar offering called Twitter Next.

Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5, its most powerful AI model yet.

Qualcomm's stock was under pressure on June 1 after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a surprise move that rattled the PC chip market. At Taiwan's annual Computex conference, Huang shared that Nvidia (NVDA) is entering the personal computer processor market with a new chip developed in partnership with ...

Investing.com -- Microsoft Corp announced Tuesday a new quantum computing chip developed with artificial intelligence assistance and set a 2029 target for commercially viable quantum machines.

The chip giant will work with manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo and HP to make the laptops, designed to support agentic computing.

Microsoft, Dell, and HP stocks popped after Nvidia announced a push into the personal computer market.

Microsoft, Dell and HP stocks popped after Nvidia announced a push into personal computers market.

Nvidia unveiled the first personal laptop computers designed for running artificial-intelligence “agents,” using a newly designed version of the company’s signature AI chips. Nvidia will work with six manufacturers—Dell Technologies, Lenovo Group, Microsoft, HP, Asus and MSI—to build the laptops.

The chips giant will work with manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo and HP to make the laptops, designed to support agentic computing.

Anthropic on Thursday said it is launching an upgraded ‌Claude Opus 4.8 model even as ‌it works to release its powerful, market-moving Mythos model ​to all customers in the coming weeks. Mythos is the AI lab's large language model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that have ‌raised concerns among ⁠executives and world leaders about its impact. As a part of Project ⁠Glasswing, major tech firms such as Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are permitted to ​use Mythos ​for cybersecurity purposes.

Shares of Microsoft rose more than 3% Friday, bucking the trend on a down day for tech stocks. The move followed the announcement from investor Bill Ackman that his Pershing Square has taken a new stake in the software giant in a bet Microsoft's investments in AI aren't reflected in its stock price. Microsoft shares are down 12% this year and have lost about a quarter of their value since they peaked last fall.

Anthropic is diving further into the legal software market.