Company reports second-quarter revenues of $81.27bn but posts slowing growth in key cloud computing business
Investor interest in Microsoft’s shares may have weakened in recent months, but the company…
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Microsoft profits jump as AI services demand boosts cloud sales ⊕⊕
Quarterly revenue tops $81bn as sales in unit that includes Azure platform surge 26% from a year ago
Meta says spending could nearly double to $135bn in AI investment boom ⊕
Company forecasts capital expenditures well above analysts’ estimates
Amazon cuts thousands of jobs amid AI push ⊖
Wednesday’s cuts are the second mass layoffs in three months at the e-commerce giant.
UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza ⊖
Concerns rise as UK partners with controversial facial recognition company used by Israel in Gaza.
China lags behind US at AI frontier but could quickly catch up, say experts ⊕
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Beijing’s AI policy is focused on real-life applications but Chinese companies are beginning to articulate their own grand visions
Standing on stage in the eastern China tech hub of Hangzhou, Alibaba’…
Chip stocks rally after bumper earnings and a report of a game-changing China approval for Nvidia ⊕⊕
Reuters reported that China has approved sales of Nvidia's H200, sending the AI chip giant's shares higher in premarket trade.
Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs globally to undo pandemic-era hiring amid AI push ○
Amazon said on Wednesday it was cutting 16,000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three months.
Tech giant ASML announces record orders in boost for AI boom ⊕
Dutch firm says it expects strong growth in 2026, countering fears of an investment bubble.
Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft | Jonathan Liew ⊖
The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences
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