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Microsoft, Meta CEOs defend hefty AI spending

Microsoft, Meta CEOs defend hefty AI spending after DeepSeek stuns tech world

"Investing 'very heavily' in capital expenditure and infrastructure is going to be a strategic advantage over time," Mark Zuckerberg said.

The Wall Street Journal on MSN · 12h

Microsoft, Meta Talk Up Their Big AI Ambitions and Spending Plans

The tech giants vow to barrel ahead despite the jolt from China’s DeepSeek.

Hosted on MSN · 9h

Microsoft and Meta defend massive AI investments amid rising competition from DeepSeek

Chinese startup DeepSeek claims to offer competitive AI models at lower costs, raising doubts about U.S. tech giants' investments in AI. Microsoft and Meta defend their significant spending, highlighting its importance for long-term strategic advantage amidst increasing demand for AI solutions.

Microsoft shares slide

Reuters · 17h

Microsoft shares slide as cloud forecast, AI spending disappoint

Microsoft on Wednesday forecast disappointing growth in its cloud computing business, sending its shares down 4.5% in after-hours trading as investors worry about big spending, elusive artificial intelligence revenue and competition from cheaper AI models from China.

The Financial Times · 20h

Microsoft’s cloud sales disappoint as it struggles to meet AI demand

Microsoft’s vast cloud division posted slower growth than Wall Street forecast as the tech group struggled to keep pace with customer demand for artificial intelligence-related services. The Seattle-based software group beat analysts’ expectations for revenue and net income in the quarter ending in December,

Hosted on MSN · 4h

Microsoft’s cloud division misses growth targets amid slower demand for AI services

Microsoft announced slow business growth in its cloud business in Q1 2025 as it struggles to create data centers that can handle the demand for its AI.

Microsoft kills off Smart Lookup feature in Word

Digital Trends on MSN · 4h

Microsoft is killing this popular Word feature and replacing it with AI

Microsoft is trying to make users use Copilot more by removing a popular and helpful dictionary feature in Microsoft Word.

ZDNet · 1d

Microsoft kills off Smart Lookup feature in Word as it pushes Copilot

The defunct feature used to let users search for definitions and online articles about highlighted words and phrases.

Hosted on MSN · 22h

Microsoft Reduces Office's Functionality to Push You Towards Copilot

Despite charging you more for its new, AI-inclusive plan, Microsoft is actually taking some features away. In an effort to thrust its Copilot AI tool on you, Microsoft Office apps will no longer offer Smart Lookup,

Microsoft, OpenAI and DeepSeek

The Associated Press - Busines… · 21h

Microsoft reports 10% quarterly profit growth as it works to show AI investments paying off

Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday that its profit for the October-December quarter grew 10% from the same time last year as it works to capitalize on the huge amounts of money it has spent to advance its artificial intelligence technology.

Hosted on MSN · 6h

Microsoft reportedly investigates whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI’s models

OpenAI and Microsoft are probing whether DeepSeek used distillation to help train its rival reasoning model. What we know about the passenger plane collision near Washington, DC My aging parents rely 100% on Social Security to get by.

Ars Technica · 5h

Microsoft embraces OpenAI competitor DeepSeek on its AI hosting service

Fresh on the heels of a controversy in which ChatGPT maker OpenAI accused the Chinese company behind DeepSeek R1 of using its AI model outputs against its terms of service, OpenAI's largest investor Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will now host DeepSeek R1 on its Azure cloud service.

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Microsoft’s AI revenue run rate reaches $13B annually as tech giant tops earnings expectations

AI revenue run rate reached $13 billion, as the company reported $69.6 billion in revenue for the December quarter, up 12%, ...

Microsoft's cloud outlook knocks shares, Meta rises on AI payoff signs

Investors punished Microsoft with a 6% share drop on Thursday as hefty AI bets failed to drive a big increase in its cloud ...

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Microsoft ports DeepSeek’s AI to Copilot+ PCs, and their NPUs

Microsoft is allowing Copilot+ PC users to test out the sexy new AI model from DeepSeek -- and on the NPU, no less.

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Microsoft’s AI business is booming — Xbox, not so much

Microsoft’s cloud and AI businesses are doing pretty well — and their impact is being felt across the company. In its Q2 2025 ...

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Microsoft's AI business is booming. It's not enough to soothe investors.

Microsoft reported lower-than-expected revenue growth for its AI and cloud divisions as scrutiny grows over tech's AI ...

Microsoft CEO says AI use will ‘skyrocket’ with more efficiency amid craze over DeepSeek

In an apparent response to the attention on a new AI model out of China, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted online ...

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Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub

Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers.

The Economist1h

How DeepSeek will upend the AI pecking order

The cause of investors’ panic was DeepSeek, an obscure Chinese hedge fund turned AI startup that has blown analysts away with ...

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