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Microsoft's capital spending roughly doubled to $39.4 billion as Azure revenue jumped 48% to $33.2 billion, pushing results past Wall Street's forecasts.
How much of either number comes from AI, the results never say.
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Operating cash flow climbed, but capital spending consumed most of it, leaving less cash on hand than a year earlier.
Not all of that spending is AI alone.
ALT Chart: Capex took most of operating cash flow as the cash left after it fell. Microsoft operating cash flow split into property and equipment spending and cash left after it, $ billion, quarters ended Sept 30, 2025 and Sept 30, 2026. Capex is not AI-only.. Source: Microsoft Investor Relations, fiscal 2027 first-quarter earnings release; Vector analysis
Anthropic's AI model found 62 high-severity flaws in Chrome, now patched in version 156.
Whether such discoveries will keep security budgets climbing, or just clear a backlog, remains unresolved.
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Revised EU product-liability rules cover AI products from December 9, 2026.
Who pays when an algorithm, not a defective product, causes the harm remains unresolved.
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Nvidia is putting $3 billion and AMD $1 billion into Meta's $625-a-share stock sale.
Neither deal names an order value, a board seat or a lockup, just a price and a close date of October 29.
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Anduril and Qualcomm say more than 90% of BlueChip's prototype parts come from American and allied suppliers.
Volumes, prices and committed buyers remain undisclosed.
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South Africa has joined both China's AI cooperation bloc and a Western-backed call for mandatory testing of frontier models.
Beijing's Xiong'an declaration asks for global AI rules but requires nothing from anyone.
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Project Gatekeeper now screens vendors' code in isolated sandboxes, cutting approvals that once took six to eight months.
It will add AI models to rank flaws, but won't say which ones, or what happens to vendors' code.
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OpenAI credits an unreleased model with three results, two backed by public Lean proofs anyone can check.
The physics claim stays with a panel led by David Gross, with no release date.
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Robotics startups raised $9.9 billion in the third quarter, more than double the $4.3 billion a year earlier.
Crunchbase's tally does not separate funding for AI-driven machines from the rest.
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CXMT's share of global DRAM revenue jumped to about 10% in the second quarter, up from 4% a year earlier.
A new report tells Samsung and SK Hynix how to defend their lead without saying how long it will hold.
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Over the past year, SK Hynix's share of global DRAM revenue fell 14 points while Samsung and CXMT both gained ground, redrawing the market's balance of power.
ALT Chart: CXMT and Samsung gained DRAM share in a year while SK Hynix lost 14 points. Share of global DRAM revenue (%), Q2 2025 versus Q2 2026; includes HBM; selected suppliers, not summing to 100. Source: Counterpoint Research, Global DRAM and HBM Market Share (Q2 2026 tracker); Seoul Economic Daily and Asset Management News reporting the same Counterpoint data
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Pro led a University of Hong Kong benchmark of 12 AI video models, scoring 3.84 on quality against Google's Veo at 3.47.
The same study ranked it sixth out of eleven for safeguards.
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Meta has launched $35 billion in stock offerings, the first piece of a $95 billion plan to fund its AI build-out.
The other $60 billion rests on a class of shares that doesn't exist yet.
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Microsoft has offered buyouts to 60,000 workers, a quarter of its staff, after capital spending hit $115.9 billion last year.
Data-center, sales and marketing teams were left off the list, and Microsoft won't say what the program will cost.
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Researchers at a security start-up spent under 12 hours running AI agents against Anthropic's own systems.
They got into sales, HR and IT tools through third-party software, not the model itself.
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Meta spent $34.9 billion on infrastructure last quarter, more than its operations brought in.
Free cash flow swung $12.7 billion in a year, from positive to negative.
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Meta spent $34.9bn on capital projects last quarter, $2.1bn more than its operations brought in.
The company's plan to close that gap hinges on a new class of stock that carries no vote.
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Meta's capital spending outpaced its operating cash flow in the third quarter, a reversal from a year earlier when cash flow comfortably covered it.
ALT Chart: Meta's capital spending overtakes operating cash flow. Third-quarter cash generation and investment, 2025 versus 2026. Source: Meta third-quarter 2026 earnings release, cash-flow reconciliation
Entergy Arkansas says a new Google deal will save customers $500 million over 20 years.
Regulators' own staff put a rival accounting method's savings at $519 million, and the two sides won't agree on whose number counts.
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