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Microsoft's cloud computing platform, offering infrastructure, hosted applications, and AI services for businesses to build, deploy, and manage workloads.
Microsoft says ecological landscaping, already used at more than 20 data center sites, is now standard on every new US project. Public Citizen's Texas director says no amount of it makes a gas plant a good neighbor, and points to Microsoft's 20-year Chevron power deal.
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Meta rose about 13% and Microsoft more than 4% in a week that took the 10-year Treasury yield past 5.2% and October Fed hike odds to 66%. Both moved on their own company news, and at 23 times forward earnings Meta now yields less than the Treasury.
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Karandeep Anand becomes Disney's senior executive vice president and CTO on October 2, reporting to Josh D'Amaro. Disney expects an unspecified number of Character.AI engineers to follow him into a remit covering enterprise systems, data and AI.
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Microsoft's new code of conduct binds only the MAI models it builds in house, and it rejects the model welfare research at Anthropic, where Microsoft has $5bn invested and whose Claude models it sells inside Copilot.
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The 4.4x per-token premium in Vercel's gateway data only computes at the friendliest end of its own range, and the per-seat figures suggest buyers may be paying for fewer tokens rather than dearer ones.
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Profit grew nearly a third in fiscal 2026 and the shares are worth less than a year ago. What the market marked down was the capital spending, not the results.
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The Copilot SDK for Java is a third path past Spring AI and LangChain4j. It is also a compiled agent loop you now own the pager for, so far described only from GitHub's own documentation.
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Microsoft says CVE-2026-69836 is fully mitigated and needs no customer action. It has not said who exploited it, when it started, or how many tenants were touched.
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