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Microsoft is cutting about 2.1% of its workforce, or roughly 4,800 jobs, the latest in a wave of tech layoffs as the Windows maker spends heavily ‌on AI infrastructure and uses the technology to improve efficiency across its business. Big Tech's ‌historic AI outlays, set to top $700 billion this year, are piling pressure on companies to show returns from the technology and ​offset the rising cost of rolling it out across their businesses. Microsoft announced the cuts on Monday following a rough stretch, with its shares falling nearly 23% in the first six months of 2026, their worst first-half performance since 2022.

The videogame unit’s revenue has fallen and its Netflix-like subscription service is far below expectations.

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox plans to eliminate 3,200 jobs, or around 20% of its staff over the next year, as part of a massive reorganization to spur growth in the struggling gaming division. Xbox will also divest four of its video-game development studios and is beginning the process to part ways with a fifth.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaOil, Gas Tankers Cross Hormuz Via Oman-Side Route After U-TurnsThe Tanker Tycoon Making Mi

Microsoft and Chipotle both crushed the market over the past decade, but their recent stumbles reveal two very different problems and two very different bets on what comes next.

Investors are assessing strong momentum for hardware companies in the first half of the year.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index fell Monday, while tech futures rallied. Micron stock and Sandisk rebounded in premarket trading.

A retiree with $500,000 can buy a high-yield income fund showing a 12% distribution rate today and collect $60,000 in the first year if the payout holds. That same $500,000 spread across quality dividend growers paying 3.5% generates just $17,500 in year one. The bigger check feels smart initially, but the math can turn against ... Why A Low-Yield Dividend Portfolio Could Pay More Than A High-Yield Portfolio In Retirement

According to a Bloomberg report citing a Morgan Stanley note, the firm picked Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta as its favorites among AI hyperscalers.

These top tech stocks offer above-average earnings growth prospects at a reasonable price.

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Meta getting into the cloud business should help allay investors' fears of overspending on AI infrastructure.

These stocks have led the performance of the S&P 500 in recent years.

NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of BlackRock’s 30 most important AI stocks right now. On June 29, the company shared that Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry, hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, are now publicly available. It provides Azure-native businesses a robust new way to develop domain-specific and […]

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of BlackRock’s 30 most important AI stocks right now. BlackRock is the largest institutional holder, with 7.99% or 593.33 million outstanding shares in the company, as per the filings on March 31. As of the close of July 2, the consensus sentiment around Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) was also strongly bullish. […]

As AI drives explosive demand for computing, electricity has emerged as the world’s most critical and scarce strategic resource.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the top AI stocks to buy according to billionaire Philippe Laffont. On June 30, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) confirmed the general availability of Anthropic’s Claude models in Foundry. Organizations can now run Claude within their Azure environments while leveraging Microsoft authentication, billing, and governance controls. Claude Models in Microsoft […]

Microsoft has become a big beneficiary of the AI boom.

Inveting.com -- Meta’s (NASDAQ: META) new planned entry into the cloud business makes it a potential competitor to Amazon’s AWS (NASDAQ: AMZN), Microsoft’s Azure (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Google Cloud (NASDAQ: GOOGL). As the company considers two potential offerings, a hosted API/model access service comparable to AWS Bedrock and a neocloud-like raw silicon offering, Morgan Stanley analysts offer 5 takes exploring the monetisation pathways and potential of META’s announcement.

Meta wants to sell its extra AI horsepower to the highest bidder, and that could shake up the cloud computing pecking order.

Investors have chosen to see this company's glass as half-empty since late last year. Yet, it's continued producing fantastic growth anyway. Something's got to give soon.

Microsoft stock looks like a screaming deal at these levels.

The market is giving investors a screaming deal on a handful of stocks.

Artificial intelligence has become the defining investment story of this decade. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), and a handful of other technology giants are on pace to spend well over $1 trillion building the infrastructure needed to power AI, from advanced semiconductors and data centers to power grids and networking equipment. Wall Street has ... The AI Boom Runs on Debt. Global Regulators Want to Shut Off the Tap

A little bit of everything for investors this holiday weekend!

July sets up as a rare buying window for forever holders. Two of the three mega-caps below are trading well off their 52-week highs, and the third just reported its best March quarter in company history. The thesis here is durability: cloud and AI scale at Microsoft, the global payments toll-booth at Visa, and Apple’s ... 3 No-Brainer Stocks to Buy in July and Hold Forever

The largest-cap stocks may have limited upside.

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The worst-performing "Magnificent Seven" stock of 2026 owns about a quarter of one of the biggest IPOs in the pipeline.

NVIDIA (NasdaqGS:NVDA) announced a new collaboration with Verkada to accelerate physical AI adoption in real world environments. NVIDIA will become a strategic investor in Verkada and work on AI search and safety applications for buildings and other physical spaces. The company also appointed former Microsoft executive Nicholas Parker as EVP, Worldwide Field Operations, signaling a change in its go to market leadership. NVIDIA enters this news cycle with its stock at $194.83 and very large...