Microsoft's shares jumped 8% in premarket trading after reporting better-than-expected fiscal Q4 revenue and 43% growth in its Azure cloud business, signaling that its AI investments, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, are paying off. The company now has over 30 million paid seats for Copilot, showing strong adoption. Meanwhile, Meta's shares fell 8.5% after missing revenue guidance and reporting a 91% plunge in free cash flow due to heavy AI spending. Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned potential new revenue from leasing excess computing capacity but provided few details, leaving investors cautious about Meta's near-term outlook.
A $500 monthly investment in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) since its 2010 launch would be worth about $330,000 today, driven by mega-cap tech giants like Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft. The article compares VOO with other S&P 500 ETFs like IVV, SPY, S...
IBM has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years, continuing a long-standing streak. However, the latest raise was minimal, only a penny per quarter, which does not keep pace with inflation rates around 3%. While IBM's dividend yield remains t...
The iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF (IWY), heavily weighted in tech giants like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon, is trading at multi-year low valuations despite strong earnings growth prospects fueled by AI demand. This creates an attractive buying ...
Oracle's stock fell 3% to $145.79, extending its year-to-date decline to 24%, while major cloud competitors Microsoft and Amazon showed little movement. The drop is attributed to investor worries about Oracle's financing plans and rising debt costs r...
Internal documents reveal that Microsoft and OpenAI employees privately criticized the use of millions of news articles to train AI models, calling it a massive theft of labor. Microsoft warned that many would see their large language models as steal...
