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Microsoft is a global technology leader that develops and licenses software and services across a broad range of devices. It is headquartered in Redmond, Wash., and was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Satya Nadella currently serves as CEO. Microsoft’s divisions include Windows, Office, Azure and LinkedIn. The company’s competitors include Apple, Amazon and Google. Our coverage of Microsoft closely follows the company’s attempts to lead in artificial intelligence, such as its major $11 billion investment in OpenAI.

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Venture Capital’s Showing in the Epstein Files

By Laura Mandaro · Feb 3, 2026 6:16pm PST

On Monday, our reporter Jemima McEvoy broke the news that venture capitalist Masha Bucher had deep ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Their correspondence, released in a dump of more than 3 million pages from the Justice Department Friday, showed Bucher—née Drokova, the name she was using at the time—working as a publicist for... On Monday, our reporter Jemima McEvoy broke the news that venture capitalist Masha Bucher had...

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Betting That AI Can Ease AI Infrastructure Pains

By Ann Davis Vaughan · Feb 2, 2026 8:00am PST · 2 comments

Right now, money and attention is focused on building infrastructure for AI. What’s coming next, though, is AI for infrastructure: using the very same technology to make the power and industrial systems we’re building cheaper, better and faster.Since its founding in 2016, venture investor Blue Bear Capital has allocated about $350 million across... Right now, money and attention is focused on building infrastructure for AI. What’s coming next,...

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Why OpenClaw FKA Clawdbot Matters

By Rocket Drew · Feb 2, 2026 7:30am PST

If you’ve been online in the past few days, you’ve likely been bombarded with words like “Moltbook,” “OpenClaw” and “Clawdbot.” We’re here to break down what it means and how it’s giving us a peek into how AI might evolve.OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent released late last year that can write code, edit files and surf the web to complete... If you’ve been online in the past few days, you’ve likely been bombarded with words like “...

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Meta Officially Ties Employee Performance to AI Usage; Microsoft On OpenClaw Security Risks

By Jyoti Mann and Aaron Holmes · Feb 3, 2026 10:31am PST · 2 comments

Businesses such as Microsoft are increasingly nudging their employees to utilize AI to get more done. Others are forcing the issue.One of the biggest firms to take the more aggressive path is Meta Platforms, which at the end of December had 78,865 employees. Businesses such as Microsoft are increasingly nudging their employees to utilize AI to get more...

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Microsoft Is Striking the Right Balance Between Software and Cloud

By Anita Ramaswamy · Feb 2, 2026 6:00am PST · 2 comments

Microsoft is in Wall Street’s doghouse. The company’s shares have lagged the S&P 500 index for the past few months, and the big stock sell-off that followed last Wednesday’s earnings report has left them trading at their lowest value, as a multiple of operating profits, since 2022. Investors were responding to a slight slowdown in growth at... Microsoft is in Wall Street’s doghouse. The company’s shares have lagged the S&P 500 index...

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Microsoft Reveals It’s the No. 2 Seller of AI Apps Behind OpenAI

By Aaron Holmes · Jan 29, 2026 10:30am PST · 6 comments

Microsoft’s slightly-slowing growth in cloud server rentals cast a pall over its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, but the company had a salve to numb that sting: It’s generating significant revenue from AI software subscriptions.During its earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella revealed one of the most hotly anticipated figures investors and... Microsoft’s slightly-slowing growth in cloud server rentals cast a pall over its quarterly...