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Microsoft booked a $3.2B gain on its Anthropic stake in Q4 and a $600M OpenAI write-down, while full-year OpenAI investment produced a $5B gain and a $0.67 EPS lift, with about 27% OpenAI ownership and a $5B Anthropic investment tied to $30B of Azure purchases.
FTC antitrust probe targets Microsoft, with emphasis on Azure and potential exclusionary cloud practices, signaling heightened regulatory risk for Big Tech.
Microsoft and NVIDIA unveil RTX Spark-powered Windows PCs and DGX Station for Windows, delivering up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, up to 128GB unified memory, and broad OEM support, with a clear focus on on-device AI, security, and creator/developer workloads.
AI coding tools are speeding development but raising ROI and maintenance questions, while mega funding and new enterprise AI infra signals scaling risks and regulatory/privacy considerations.
Microsoft debated funding OpenAI as far back as 2018, warning of limited payoff and potential loss, before eventually becoming OpenAI’s largest sponsor and face legal scrutiny in Musk v. Altman.
Anthropic doubles Claude usage limits and API capacity, and inks a SpaceX compute deal to access massive new capacity, while highlighting multi-hyperscaler deployments and global expansion.
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