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Satya Nadella
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What Microsoft’s 60,000-person exit offer reveals about AI costs
Microsoft has offered voluntary exits to roughly 27% of its global workforce while reporting $92.3 billion in quarterly revenue and accelerating AI infrastructure spending. The important question is no longer why the programme was announced, but whether workforce flexibility can improve operating efficiency without weakening the capabilities driving Microsoft's growth.
Microsoft Azure revenue jumps 48% to $33.2bn as AI backlog reaches $677bn
Microsoft reported $92.3 billion in fiscal first-quarter revenue and $58 billion in operating cash flow as Azure growth accelerated. A $677 billion commercial backlog provides substantial visibility, but rising capital expenditure, OpenAI-related accounting effects and weaker consumer products complicate the investment picture.
Can Microsoft Decision-1 improve the economics of agentic AI inside Azure and Foundry?
Microsoft Corporation has launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a specialised model designed to make fast, low-cost choices inside AI applications rather than generate open-ended answers. Its significance lies less in competing with frontier language models and more in changing how enterprises could divide work across increasingly complex agentic AI systems.
Microsoft ($MSFT) slides to 52-week low as AI capex rout and Italy antitrust probe compound the historic June decline
Microsoft NASDAQ MSFT slides to 52-week low at $349 in worst June since 2000 as AI capex concerns, Italy AGCM probe and OpenAI overhang compound pressure.
Microsoft expands Australia digital resilience push after A$25bn AI infrastructure pledge
Find out how Microsoft’s Australia AI and cyber pact could reshape cloud infrastructure, national resilience and MSFT sentiment.
Xbox may be heading for major layoffs, but is Microsoft fixing gaming or shrinking it?
Find out how Microsoft’s reported Xbox layoffs could reshape MSFT stock sentiment, Game Pass strategy, console sales, and gaming margins.
Nscale lines up $790m for Narvik AI campus as Microsoft fills the slot OpenAI walked away from
OpenAI walked away from Stargate Norway. Nscale just raised $790 million anyway, with Microsoft (MSFT) now anchoring the Narvik AI campus.
Microsoft (MSFT) trades near $424 after Q3 beat as OpenAI revenue share is eliminated
Microsoft beat Q3 expectations across the board. Then it guided $190 billion of 2026 capex and Q4 revenue below consensus. Read more.
Microsoft and OpenAI rewrite landmark partnership as ChatGPT maker gains freedom to court Amazon and rival clouds
Microsoft built the AI era on exclusivity with OpenAI. It just gave that up. The question now is what Azure defends with no contractual moat left.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) just turned a $7.6bn AI bet into real profit—here’s what’s behind the Q2 blowout
Microsoft Q2 FY26 net income jumped 60% as AI and cloud drove record growth. Read how Azure, OpenAI gains, and commercial demand are reshaping the outlook.