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Microsoft faces a new securities fraud class action alleging misleading statements about Copilot and Azure performance. A separate class action from residents near the Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin data center claims harmful noise pollution. Both lawsuits introduce fresh legal and reputational questions around Microsoft’s AI rollout and data center expansion. These cases arrive at a time when Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) is closely watched for its AI push and cloud position, with the stock last...

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after investors continued to rotate out of high-flying semiconductors into beaten-down software stocks.

The company recently announced thousands of job cuts amid a significant restructuring effort.

The U.S. Treasury Department revoked a license allowing Iran to sell its oil worldwide following an attack on a Qatari natural gas shipment.

Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley joins Josh Lipton to examine DeepSeek's development of a custom AI chip to bypass U.S. export restrictions and reduce its reliance on Nvidia.

A 12% yield looks unbeatable on day one. A retiree who wants $60,000 a year needs only about $500,000 at that yield, compared with roughly $1.7 million at a 3.5% yield. But retirement income is not a one-year problem. The better question is which income stream can hold up after inflation, market cycles, and years ... The Dividend Growth Snowball: How Modest Income Today Can Become Serious Income Later

Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley discusses Anthropic's expansion of its Claude Cowork agentic AI platform to mobile devices and how the company is shifting its narrative to focus on eliminating busywork rather than replacing human workers.

Microsoft is a massive company with hundreds of billions in revenue from dominant businesses. Analysts expect that Microsoft’s gaming revenue, which includes software sales and Xbox hardware, shrunk 7.5% in the just ended fiscal year, to $21.7 billion, according to Visible Alpha. Before the AI boom, gaming was a significant part of Microsoft’s growth story, says D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria.

One line from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella on the April earnings call reframed the entire debate over how quickly generative AI can turn into a real profit-and-loss line. The company’s AI business now operates at scale, and the growth rate suggests the ramp is still in its early innings. The Number $37 billion. That ... Microsoft’s $37 Billion AI Number Is Staggering

VRT and QUBT stand out for exposure to AI infrastructure and quantum computing as hyperscale spending and U.S. policy support fuel 2026 momentum.

Microsoft has begun routing Copilot queries in key Office apps away from external partners such as OpenAI and Anthropic to its proprietary models.

SAIL is betting AI agents and non-human identities can turn identity security into a broader enterprise control layer, though monetization remains early.

Ant Financial and ByteDance built workarounds to access Claude Code despite terms of service violations

SAIL's ARR growth, raised fiscal 2027 outlook and AI identity push support its case, but valuation and SaaS timing keep caution in focus.

SEMI says price or capacity intervention could worsen the AI-driven memory shortage affecting electronics, autos and appliances.

SAIL's SaaS ARR growth, AI identity push and migration upside support its expansion, but timing risks keep the near-term setup balanced.

BlackRock joins State Street and Invesco in offering investors ETFs that track the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 index.

Ondo just launched a perps platform where tokenized stocks can be used to back leveraged positions.

Microsoft for years has been an active acquirer of gaming companies, including small independent ones. But that may be changing.

Investing.com -- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares ticked up 1.75% on Tuesday, outperforming a sluggish Nasdaq following reports that the tech giant is beginning to ditch pricey third-party AI models in favor of its own homegrown technology. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft has quietly deployed its newly minted, internally developed MAI models directly into Excel and Outlook. The under-the-hood swap is already handling tens of thousands of AI prompts a week across the spreadsheet and email apps, a

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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has quietly built a $37 billion AI business, yet the stock has done the opposite of what you would expect. Shares of Microsoft closed at $390.49, down 18.9% YTD, while Azure grew 40% and commercial backlog nearly doubled to $627 billion. Satya Nadella runs one of the most profitable software franchises ever assembled. ... Price Prediction: Microsoft Stock Will Hit $500 on This Date

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(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace OpenAI and Anthropic with its own models in software products like Excel and Outlook. Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthNasdaq 100 Falls 2% in Chip-Led Rout as Oil Climbs: Markets WrapMicrosoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major OverhaulChina Sentences Official to Death Over $325

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Amazon is reportedly readying a bond offering of at least $25 billion, as the tech giant continues to plow investments into AI-related infrastructure. Amazon stock was trading slightly lower. The Seattle-based Amazon is expected to issue at least $25 billion of new U.S.-dollar bonds Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported.

July 7 (Reuters) - The world's largest technology companies are tapping debt markets and raising equity to bolster AI infrastructure, marking a shift for Silicon Valley firms that typically relied on

Very recently, there have been more than suspicions that China has been stealing US AI secrets to build their own models, inexpensively. Several American companies, led by Anthropic, say it is so. The huge AI firm, valued at about $1 trillion, sent a letter to Senators, which appears to have settled the matter of the ... Proof That China Is Stealing US AI

Microsoft (MSFT) has moved aggressively to reset its cost base, announcing about 4,800 job cuts that fall heavily on Xbox and commercial teams while keeping capital pointed at AI and cloud growth priorities. See our latest analysis for Microsoft. Microsoft’s share price has been under pressure, with a 30 day share price return down 7.18% and year to date share price return down 18.23%, even as multi year total shareholder returns of 19.31% over three years and 45.31% over five years point to...

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) both reported earnings on April 29, 2026, and both have been punished in 2026 despite operational strength. Meta is off 11.54% year to date; Microsoft has fared worse at down 18.9%. The market is asking which Mag 7 titan is truly the bargain. Ad Engine Roars. Azure ... Meta Vs. Microsoft: Which Underpriced Mag 7 Titan Is a No Brainer?