Microsoft shares jump 4% after the big AI winner delivers in all the right places

cnbc.com Microsoft delivered picture-perfect earnings after the bell Thursday, calming the market's brief fears about runaway spending on AI infrastructure without the cloud revenues…

Microsoft: Unlocking AI Benefits Will Require Cultural Changes for Enterprises

pymnts.com Digital transformation is the name of the game — and that’s great news for Microsoft. The company, which reported its Fiscal Year 2024 Q3 earnings results on Thursday (April…

Google, Microsoft Bet Big On GAI In Q1

mediapost.com Alphabet and Microsoft reported earnings on Thursday. Both had a better-than-expected Q1 2024. Alphabet reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. Google CEO…

Microsoft cloud growth accelerates on back of AI push

cnbc.com Microsoft shares rose as much as 5% in extended trading on Thursday after the software maker issued fiscal third-quarter results that outdid Wall Street's expectations.…

Microsoft quarterly profit rises 20% as tech giant pushes to get customers using AI products

aol.com Microsoft on Thursday said its profit rose 20% for the January-March quarter as it tries to position itself as a leader in applying artificial intelligence technology to…

AI could boost Canada’s lagging productivity, Microsoft Canada’s president says

theglobeandmail.com When the head of Microsoft Canada needed to write a letter of interest as part of an application to join a not-for-profit board, he decided to put the tech giant’s software…

Zscaler Introduces First of Its Kind Digital Experience Monitoring Copilot to Enable IT Support and Operations with AI

benzinga.com SAN JOSE, Calif., April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZS, the leader in cloud security, today announced groundbreaking innovations - ZDX Copilot, Hosted Monitoring, and Data…

Microsoft Stock Poised for $500+ Move as AI Catalysts Overshadow Earnings Risk

investorplace.com As you likely know full well, the big next event for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Microsoft stock is fast approaching. That would be the company’s quarterly earnings release,…

3 Stocks That Will Eclipse the Rest of the Market This Year

investorplace.com Eclipse the stock market with these growth stocks to outperform the market Investors look for opportunities to outperform the stock market, usually defined as the S&P 500.…

Microsoft Earnings Should Focus on AI and the Cloud

barrons.com Microsoft is due to report March quarter earnings after the close of trading on Thursday, and you can be sure that the focus is going to be on the cloud and artificial…

Microsoft, Alphabet, Intel, and More Report Earnings Today

barrons.com More earnings from Big Tech companies roll in later today, with Microsoft and Alphabet reporting after the market close. Intel, Snap, Roku, and Western Digital also release…

Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful

theregister.com Systems Approach Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the AI winter of…

Analysts reset Microsoft stock price targets ahead of highly anticipated earnings

thestreet.com Microsoft shares closed modestly higher Wednesday ahead of the software and cloud computing giant's third quarter earnings report, slated for after the closing bell on April…

Coca-Cola Invests $1.1 Billion in Collaborative Generative AI Project with Microsoft

cryptonews.com Coca-Cola inked a $1.1 billion five-year partnership deal on April 23 with Microsoft to explore and integrate the tech company’s cloud and artificial intelligence (AI)…

It looks like Microsoft's ex-Bing boss just threw shade at Mustafa Suleyman

aol.com None Parakhin wrote it's "hard to disagree" when an X user said "we need you." • None The comment was in response to a post quoting Suleyman's recent TED Talk that was…

Writers must show their humanity to defeat AI usurpers

siliconrepublic.com Toastmasters’ member Ged Byrne spotlights generative AI’s bad, hyperbolic writing and explains that the best way to steal its thunder is to rely on your own voice. Just one…

Microsoft's AI lead puts Amazon cloud dominance on watch

aol.com Upcoming quarterly reports from U.S. tech giants may show Microsoft is closing the gap on cloud-computing market leader Amazon.com as more businesses switch to its services,…

Coca‑Cola pours $1.1B into generative AI experiment with Microsoft

cointelegraph.com Microsoft intends to use services like Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help drive AI innovation for the Coca‑Cola Company and its network of…

Invest Like a Billionaire: Consider These 4 Tech Stocks

finance.yahoo.com Billionaire investors have proven their stock-picking abilities, choosing companies that have helped them multiply their winnings over time. I'm talking about hedge fund…

Microsoft Launches Its Smallest AI Model

mediapost.com Microsoft has introduced a mini artificial intelligence (AI) model that the company says can outperform models twice its size across a variety of benchmarks that evaluate…

The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives - Stories

news.microsoft.com Editor’s note – April 23, 2024 – The quotation from Judson Althoff was updated following initial publication. ATLANTA and REDMOND, Wash. — April 23, 2024 — Microsoft Corp.…

Billionaire Investor David Tepper Has 32% of His Portfolio Invested in These 3 Incredible Artificial Intelligence (AI) Growth Stocks

finance.yahoo.com Billionaire David Tepper is one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street. He founded Appaloosa Management in 1993 and eventually became a self-made…

Windows 11 gives more old CPUs the cold shoulder

theregister.com Microsoft's war on old PCs appears to have intensified as the latest builds of Windows 11 will not boot if your CPU does not support the SSE4.2 instruction set. The…

3 A.I. Stocks to Watch Out For Not Named NVIDIA

marketbeat.com The U.S. stock market indexes, such as the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ, reached all-time high levels this year due to growing hype around the technology sector. At the center of…

Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution

theregister.com While vast swathes of the computer industry remain hellbent on inflating the AI PC hype bubble, the response from some analysts and biz consumers is milder as they sit on…

Finland—the world’s No. 1 coffee consumer

aol.com Finland may be the world's happiest country, but it also has another braggable superlative: It’s the world’s largest coffee consumer, with its population of 5.6 million…

Microsoft and Cognizant Partner to Help Enterprises Adopt GenAI Solutions

pymnts.com Microsoft and Cognizant have partnered to expand the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) solutions by enterprises. The companies aim to make Microsoft’s…

Should You Buy Microsoft Stock Before Thursday?

fool.com Shares of the software giant have been suspiciously weak for the past few days. That's a subtle hint of short-term trouble. It's one of the more nerve-racking decisions…

Copilot auto-launch bug now takes flight in multiple Windows Insider channels

theregister.com Microsoft has acknowledged an error – Copilot is auto-launching for Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel as well as the Canary and Dev builds. Amid all the excitement of…

Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines

theregister.com Microsoft has bragged that its own Azure HPC service was able to reduce the length of its Surface laptop design process – most notably for a hinge, which was reduced to one…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Productivity Tools Could Be a $13 Trillion Market, According to Cathie Wood. Here Is 1 Stock That Could Dominate

finance.yahoo.com Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) are advancing so quickly, it's getting harder to imagine a world in which the technology isn't impacting just about every facet…

A coffee roastery in Finland has launched an AI-generated blend. The results were surprising

abcnews.go.com An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which it’s hoped that…

Microsoft unveils deepfake tech that's too good to release

theregister.com Microsoft this week demoed VASA–1, a framework for creating videos of people talking from a still image, audio sample, and text script, and claims – rightly – it's too…

Meta AI's image generation is unlike anything ChatGPT can do

bgr.com It’s official: Meta is ready to join the AI fray. Meta AI received a massive update this week. Llama 3 is Meta’s new large language model that powers Meta AI, which Mark…

The 3 Best Cybersecurity Stocks to Buy Now: Q2 Edition

investorplace.com An increase in cyber attacks can result in gains for these cybersecurity stocks to buy now Cybersecurity stocks have been going through a tough stretch. Many cybersecurity…

Forget Nvidia: These Are the 3 Tech Stocks Billionaires Can't Stop Buying

finance.yahoo.com Technology stocks have been in high demand over the past year or so, driving the tech-centric Nasdaq Composite to new heights. The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence…

History Says the Nasdaq Will Continue to Soar in 2024: My Top 5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Growth Stocks to Buy Before the Surge Continues

finance.yahoo.com After enduring one of its worst performances since 2008, the Nasdaq Composite has turned things around, gaining 50% since the beginning of last year. After such a sharp move…

Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking

theregister.com Meta has unleashed its latest large language model (LLM) – named Llama 3 – and claims it will challenge much larger models from the likes of Google, Mistral, and Anthropic.…

Meta’s AI chatbot is coming to social media. Misinformation may come with it

washingtonpost.com For months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has boasted of a plan to spread artificial intelligence across its services, allowing billions of people to use chatbots in everything…

Meta AI Unveils First Two Versions of Llama 3

entrepreneur.com "We believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Meta's large language model and AI assistant are getting…

Mark Zuckerberg announces 'big AI news'

aol.com None Meta released the first two versions of its Llama 3 large language model on Thursday. • None The technology powers Meta AI, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls "the most…

Microsoft earnings preview: Another strong report from the AI winner? By

investing.com The Q1 earnings reporting season kicked off last week, with all of the mega-cap giants set to unveil their latest financial performance in the coming period. Among those is…

Big Tech Taps AI Agents to Drive Revenue Growth

pymnts.com Big tech companies are reportedly in a race to unveil software to fuel AI spending. For example, Microsoft is at work trying to automate tasks such as invoicing or the…

7 Stocks to Buy Now: Q2 Edition

investorplace.com Load up on these stocks before they go higher Buying and holding stocks for the long run is a time-tested strategy that can generate sizable long-term returns. Investors can…

Admin alert: Copilot arrives on Windows Server 2022

theregister.com Microsoft's Copilot obsession has continued with the AI assistant unexpectedly arriving on Windows Server 2022 this week, in a situation the software giant is calling an…

2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks That Could Beat Nvidia in the Coming Decades

finance.yahoo.com Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has enjoyed a remarkable artificial intelligence (AI)-related surge since the beginning of 2023, and that's not surprising as the company is…

Chinese and US firms collaborate on first global generative AI standards

scmp.com They are the first global standards specifically covering GenAI and LLM, technologies behind increasingly popular AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s…

3 Cloud Computing Stocks to Buy Now: Q2 Edition

investorplace.com Soar into the clouds with these cloud computing stocks Cloud computing is a vast industry expected to achieve a 16.40% compounded growth rate until 2029. Businesses…

Why Microsoft Stock Is Still a No-Brainer AI and Tech Stock to Buy

investorplace.com Here's why the rally in Microsoft may be far from done Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock continues to garner analysts’ favor for its advancements in generative artificial…

AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope

theregister.com Forrester Research says that although 50 models of AI PCs are already on sale today there remains "no killer app" that would make any of them an essential tool for business…

Forget Nvidia: Billionaire Daniel Loeb Owns $2.2 Billion Worth of These 3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Instead

finance.yahoo.com When it comes to investing in artificial intelligence (AI), one stock that is absolutely hard to ignore is Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). The company almost single-handedly kicked…

An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but you can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful

citationneeded.news As someone known for my criticism of the previous deeply flawed technology to become the subject of the tech world's overinflated aspirations, I have had people express…