Microsoft's FY25Q1 financial report was strong, but the stock price only rose slightly and the market continued to take a wait-and-see attitude.

Microsoft's cloud growth boosts earnings, Meta outperforms but misses subscriber growth targets, and Starbucks strategizes recovery after sales slump.

GitHub Copilot will integrate Anthropic and Google's top AI models, with OpenAI as the default option, allowing users to switch on demand.

Meta is developing an AI search engine to reduce its dependence on Google and Microsoft and catch up with OpenAI's AI development progress.

Starting in November, Microsoft will allow customers to independently create AI agents in Copilot Studio.

The addition of Bubeck is certainly a boon for OpenAI, which has recently suffered a number of executive departures.

OpenAI doesn’t expect to achieve annual profitability until 2029, but could post annual losses of as much as $14 billion in 2026, according to financial documents.

On Wednesday, Google filed an antitrust lawsuit with the European Commission, accusing Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior and locking customers into its cloud platform Azure.

BlackRock and Microsoft will jointly launch a fund worth more than $30 billion to invest in AI infrastructure.

AI startup Xockets is suing Nvidia and Microsoft for allegedly infringing its AI chip technology patents. In addition to monetary compensation, it may ask Nvidia to ban the sale of AI systems based on Blackwell GPUs.

These global giants are investing unabated in AI. However, shares of several companies have fallen as the investments are yet to bring in the expected returns.

On July 30, Microsoft suffered another service outage, mainly affecting its cloud services Azure and Microsoft 365.

Microsoft's total revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter rose 15 percent year-over-year to $64.73 billion, beating estimates of $64.39 billion. Earnings per share came in at $2.95, beating estimates of $2.93.

Market reactions indicate that investors are focused on the company's cloud growth strategy and hold a bearish attitude towards Microsoft's short-term prospects.

After the Microsoft global "blue screen" incident, CrowdStrike was downgraded in rating or target price by multiple analysts.

July 19, local time Some applications and services of Microsoft Corporation are experiencing access delays, incomplete functionality or inaccessibility issues. West Japan Railway Company (JR West) train travel location information was unavailable due to a Windows system failure. Australian airlines, bank government networks, and corporate supermarket cash registers were also affected The Microsoft cloud service failure even caused some airlines to suspend flight operations. American Frontier Airlines, in particular, had its systems directly affected by the Microsoft service outage. The company later released a statement saying, “Reservations, check-in, obtaining boarding passes, and some flights may be impacted during this period.” From July 18th to 19th, Microsoft experienced three major outages in a 24-hour period. As of now, there are still some users whose Microsoft 365 apps are in a degraded state.

Microsoft's "big failure" did not start with today's blue screen.

Microsoft and Google are reportedly offering Chinese companies access to NVIDIA AI chips through offshore data centres.

UK regulators have launched a formal investigation into Microsoft's hiring of former Inflection AI employees and their work with the company.

Microsoft has announced it is relinquishing its observer position on OpenAI's board of directors to assuage concerns from U.S. and U.K. antitrust regulators about the extent of its control over OpenAI.