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Stocks Plunge Before the Open as Microsoft and Meta Weigh on Sentiment, U.S. Inflation Data and Earnings in Focus

December S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESZ24) are down -0.77%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ24) are down -1.09% this morning as investors digested quarterly earnings reports from Microsoft and Meta as well as robust U.S. economic data that muddied the outlook for Federal Reserve rate cuts.

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"A very discourteous fellow." Intel's CEO made comments that blew a huge discount deal on TSMC chips, wiping the firm's profit margins according to this damning report.

Reuters is reporting that comments made by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger blew up a long standing deal with chip manufacturer TSMC, obliterating Intel's margins in the process.

Windows Central

Post-budget sell-off of government bonds by worried City traders intensifies, pushing up UK borrowing costs – as it happened

Institute for Fiscal Studies says increasing borrowing to fund investment ‘right thing to do’

The Guardian - UK

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FTSE 100 Live 31 October: Budget fears hit housebuilding and retail stocks, Shell beats forecasts

Housebuilding and retail stocks have fallen sharply amid the fallout from yesterday’s tax-raising Budget.

Evening Standard

5 biggest new games launching in November 2024 for PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox and PC

November 2024 brings some exciting new releases across various platforms including the long-awaited Planet Coaster 2 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

Tom’s Guide

AI becomes playmaker in push for security cooperation

As vulnerability grows with the onset of AI, a tech leader calls for cyber security to become a team sport not a trade secret for governments and companies.

AAP

Microsoft Reports 16% Sales Growth, B Revenue From AI

Microsoft's AI investments drive a 16% sales increase to .6 billion, with CEO Nadella praising the company's fastest growth in history.

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Microsoft says Black Ops 6 is the "biggest Call of Duty release ever" as Activision meets its goal to reach "as many players as possible wherever they are, however they play"

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the FPS series' biggest three-day opening weekend of all-time

GamesRadar

Black Ops 6 is massively outselling last year's Call of Duty even though it's on Game Pass, which probably tells you how Modern Warfare 3 went

Call of Duty big.

PC Gamer

Microsoft Beats Expectations, But AI Concerns Force Shares Down

Microsoft delivered solid quarterly results on Wednesday, beating analyst expectations with revenue jumping 16 percent to $65.6 billion, but questions were raised about the company's big spending on the AI boom.

International Business Times

Microsoft and Alphabet's latest earnings show once again that it's all about the cloud

Microsoft's cloud helped to lift its fiscal first-quarter results after Google's parent reported similarly strong cloud growth a day earlier.

Fortune

Microsoft first quarter earnings beat Wall Street estimates thanks to cloud

CEO Satya Nadella attributed the faster-than-expected growth to artificial intelligence transforming the workplace.

Fortune

Xbox FY25 Q1 gaming revenue is up 43% year-over-year, again thanks to Activision Blizzard — and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 just set a franchise record

Microsoft gaming revenue is up with strong results mostly due to Activision Blizzard.

Windows Central

Microsoft reports $65.6 billion in quarterly sales as investors look to know if AI spending worth it

Microsoft on Wednesday reported a 11% increase in profit for the July-September quarter compared to the same time last year as investors looked for signs that the company’s huge spending on artificial intelligence is paying off

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The Guardian - US

Microsoft sails as AI boom fuels double-digit growth in cloud business

Revenue from Azure cloud business increased by 22% as company focuses attention on artificial intelligence

Fortune

Chanel's CEO went to Microsoft HQ and asked ChatGPT to show her a picture of her company's leadership. They were all men in suits

Leena Nair said over 75% of her company’s employees are female.

Kiplinger

If You'd Put $1,000 Into Google Stock 20 Years Ago, Here's What You'd Have Today

Google parent Alphabet has been a market-beating machine for ages.

PC Gamer

Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was a 'dumb move', says founder and former president

"It's obvious that Arkane Austin was a very special group of people that have made some cool things and that could pull it off again."

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Tom’s Hardware

OpenAI reportedly builds custom AI chips as it embraces AMD — company also abandons plans to build its own fabs

OpenAI is advancing the development of an inference chip with Broadcom but abandons plans to build a fab network.

TechRadar

Microsoft says Russian hackers have launched major spear phishing attacks against US government officials

Midnight Blizzard is using complex social engineering campaigns to spear phish officials around the world, Microsoft claims.

Windows Central

Microsoft Teams will become "more inclusive, personalized, and engaging" thanks to this new feature

Microsoft Teams will soon let you set the skin tone of your emojis and reactions. The feature will sync your setting across Teams clients and is in testing currently.

PC Gamer

AMD posts record revenues and says RDNA 4 is 'on track' for early 2025, but why are gaming GPUs the one thing it can't get right?

A gamble on chiplets that didn't pay off, yet...

TechRadar

Chrome slowing down your laptop? Google’s new performance controls could help the browser run faster

Google keeps pushing with features to provide peppier performance for its web browser, and here are some fresh additions on that front.

Windows Central

Anthropic shares hilarious demo of Claude AI ditching a coding prompt to look at scenic national park photos on Google: "Claude has ADHD, this is very relatable"

Anthropic has been documenting Claude 3.5 Sonnet advances, including instances where it took a break from coding to look at pictures of Yellowstone National Park and abruptly stopped a long screen-recording, ultimately losing the footage.

TechRadar

LinkedIn launches AI-powered hiring assistant to take the pain out of recruiting

Microsoft hopes new AI-powered LinkedIn recruiting assistant can help relieve burnout among HR workers.

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