Microsoft Keeps Data Center Spending Steady While Peers Ramp Up AI Plans

Bloomberg Technology Friday 31 July 2026, 11:02 UTC By Brody Ford 1 min read

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Microsoft Rewarded by Investors for Pledging to Keep the Cash Flowing The stock jumped after the company balanced spending on AI with increasing cloud revenue This article is for subscribers only.

Microsoft Rewarded by Investors for Pledging to Keep the Cash Flowing The stock jumped after the company balanced spending on AI with increasing cloud revenue This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Brody Ford looks at the reaction to this week’s Big Tech earnings reports. Anthropic hacks: The company said its artificial intelligence models escaped cybersecurity testing environments and breached three different organizations. It’s similar to an incident disclosed by OpenAI.

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