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OpenAI’s announcement of a fresh, staggering funding wave — roughly $110 billion led by Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank — has reverberated across the tech world, but perhaps the loudest sound in the room is a quieter one: Microsoft, OpenAI’s most consequential partner and early backer, did not...

Microsoft’s latest quarterly report landed as both a validation of its AI-first strategy and a stress test of the company’s capital-hungry execution plan: the company posted a blowout second quarter for fiscal 2026 driven by cloud and Copilot adoption, while simultaneously reporting record...