Microsoft says cash will keep flowing from AI, shares rise
Microsoft reported strong cloud revenue growth and a robust capital‑expenditure forecast, underscoring the financial impact of its AI investments.
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Microsoft reported strong cloud revenue growth and a robust capital‑expenditure forecast, underscoring the financial impact of its AI investments.
Microsoft’s Q4 2026 earnings showed a 31% increase in revenue, driven by Azure surpassing $100 billion in annual revenue and strong growth in AI‑powered services.
British AI neocloud Nscale announced a $1.65 billion acquisition of Anyscale, a startup that scales AI workloads across data centers.
A Currence report warns that 30‑50% of announced 2026 data‑center capacity may be delayed due to power constraints and construction bottlenecks.
Researchers showed that large language models can be tricked into revealing disallowed content by spoofing chain‑of‑thought prompts, exposing a core weakness in current guardrails.
Amazon Web Services launched the general availability of AWS Interconnect, a multicloud networking product that connects AWS with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud.
The cloud‑security startup Act Security has secured $60 million to launch an action‑centric platform that protects enterprises from AI‑agent access risks in large‑scale cloud environments.
1inch announced the public launch of Aqua, a self‑custodial shared liquidity layer that lets providers use a single wallet balance across multiple positions without locking assets in pools.
We’re excited to announce Self Exclusion, a free Chrome extension from UX Century that blocks 350,000+ casino and betting sites — with a cool-down lock so protection isn’t easy to shut off on impulse.
China unveiled a $1.03 trillion national infrastructure plan to connect AI computing, power grids, water systems and logistics, aiming to boost competitiveness amid tech restrictions.
Oracle introduced a new on‑premises appliance that lets enterprises run its flagship database and AI workloads in branch offices, blending cloud economics with local control.
The former Uber founder’s industrial AI venture raises a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz, aiming to automate mining, food production, construction and transport.
Microsoft addresses a public‑by‑default configuration in Azure Automation that could allow attackers to seize another tenant’s identity.
Uniswap v4 now supports permissioned pools that enforce issuer‑managed allowlists, enabling regulated assets to trade on the AMM while keeping the core protocol permissionless.
A bug in Microsoft’s automated network maintenance system caused IP routes to be removed from devices, isolating a West US Azure datacenter and disabling Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and other services for nearly five hours.
Microsoft disclosed an elevation‑of‑privilege flaw in Azure DNS that could allow unauthorized DNS modifications, urging customers to review RBAC and tighten identity controls.
An AWS networking failure cut connectivity between the us‑west‑2 region and Seattle, causing cascading outages for dozens of services.
The report outlines Google Cloud’s latest AI infrastructure capabilities, including the Agentic Data Cloud and new time‑slicing techniques for reinforcement learning.
Alphabet’s autonomous‑driving unit is reportedly looking to end its partnership with Uber, which has been offering Waymo’s robotaxis on its ride‑hailing platform in Austin and Atlanta.
A power line outage outside Washington, DC, caused over 3 GW of data centers to shut down, highlighting the grid impact of AI workloads and the need for better power management.