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Microsoft’s AI revenue run rate reaches $13B annually

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%, with earnings of $3.23/share, topping Wall Street's expectations by both measures.

MarketWatch · 1d

Microsoft says AI revenue has surpassed $13 billion annual run rate

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts on the company's earnings call that its revenue from AI has surpassed an annual run rate of $13 billion. He said Microsoft has more than 200,000 monthly users on its Azure AI services,

Money Morning · 4h

Microsoft's Q2 Surprise: AI Revenue Soars 175%

Before that, a clip of Satya Nadella being “good” with his $80 billion went viral, and it seems as if Microsoft is only doubling down on AI from now. It recently reported its fiscal Q2 2025 earnings.

Microsoft kills off Smart Lookup feature in Word

Digital Trends on MSN · 1h

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 · 19h

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, Meta CEOs Defend Hefty AI Spending

Reuters · 18h

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

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said the spending was needed to overcome the capacity constraints that hampered the tech giant's ability to capitalize on AI.

The Wall Street Journal on MSN · 10h

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.

New York Post on MSN · 2h

Tech stocks mixed as Meta, Microsoft affirm big AI spending plans after DeepSeek turmoil

Key tech stocks were a mixed bag in early trading Thursday after executives at Meta and Microsoft said they plan to keep pouring billions of dollars into AI – despite lingering anxiety over the launch of China-based DeepSeek’s AI model.

Microsoft, OpenAI and DeepSeek

The Associated Press - Busines… · 19h

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 · 3h

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 · 2h

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.

Microsoft shares slide

Reuters · 14h

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 · 18h

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 · 1h

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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 rolls out DeepSeek's AI model on Azure platform

Microsoft MSFT.O has made Chinese startup DeepSeek's R1 artificial intelligence model available on its Azure cloud computing ...

18hon MSN

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

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

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Microsoft cloud growth constrained by data center shortage

Microsoft said its cloud-computing business will continue to grow slowly in the current quarter as the company struggles to ...

PC World32m

ChatGPT’s advanced AI costs $200/mo. Now it’s free for Windows users

Microsoft is taking an aggressive step towards lowering the price of top-tier AI reasoning, placing what appears to be unlimited access to OpenAI’s o1 model directly within Copilot’s new “Think ...

Why 75% Of Businesses Aren’t Seeing ROI From AI Yet

DeepSeek throws a grenade into the AI space, AI looms large in Microsoft And Meta earnings, AI moves Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.

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Microsoft’s AI revenue run rate reaches $13B annually

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Microsoft, Meta CEOs Defend Hefty AI Spending

Microsoft, OpenAI and DeepSeek

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