Microsoft’s AI Growth Drives Both Revenue and Massive Capital Expenditure | PYMNTS.com
Microsoft’s biggest transformation story used to revolve around cloud computing. By migrating enterprises from on-premise software to subscription
How can you tell?
"While Microsoft does not break out AI revenue explicitly, Azure has become the primary delivery mechanism for large-scale AI workloads, from training foundation models to deploying inference at enterprise scale."
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14.03.2026 18:40
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Which providers are making money with their current pricing plans?
What is the plan to improve unit economics? How do they plan to reduce the cost per prompt execution? How does AI get cheaper the more it's used?
14.03.2026 18:09
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Okay, now I'm imagining an urban wildlife detective agency.
14.03.2026 17:38
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The eschatological theocratic faction of our government doesn't think it's a mistake.
14.03.2026 17:34
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It's hard to see exactly how it's going to play out because disasters are inherently chaotic. I think now is the time to start talking about who deserves to be made whole and who manifestly does not.
14.03.2026 03:20
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Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Counterpoint: Some people are really pushing for that to happen but that doesn't mean they'll get what they want.
14.03.2026 03:20
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Washington had an undertrained force going against veterans, so he was at a serious disadvantage in a fight. If the army was forced to surrender, the revolution was over. His best approach was to evade and keep the army intact as long as possible.
13.03.2026 23:14
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I am curious how career military are coping right now.
13.03.2026 02:00
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I work in technical support. Writing an explanation of something helps me understand it so much better. I anticipate a response to what I'm writing, raising questions I haven't addressed yet and prompting me to dig deeper.
12.03.2026 04:12
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Dufort (cont): In these uncertain times, buying a United States Congressman is one of the best investments a corporation can make!
Hardison: [listening in on surveillance] Oh, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. I'm a professional criminal and I find that disturbing.
12.03.2026 01:16
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Charles Dufort: You know the great thing about Congressmen? 50, 100 grand well spent will get one elected. But then, once they're in, the incumbency rate is over 95%! So you can get on an average 18, 20 years use out of one of them.
12.03.2026 01:16
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11.03.2026 00:25
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Sorry, I got derailed on the "via air travel" part. Family vacations were by car, two generations ago. Not sure why mode of transportation needs to be specified.
But yes, they're nostalgic for the New Deal, which died in the 80s.
10.03.2026 00:08
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It's a mythos; you use what you can.
08.03.2026 01:53
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Community-based broadband initiatives make more sense to me -- plays into that pioneer mode of self-sufficiency.
But investing in public goods and services is harder in rural areas because it's less efficient to deliver in less densely populated areas.
07.03.2026 22:49
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Because the only alternative is existential despair.
07.03.2026 22:40
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One of the reasons people are so susceptible to conspiracy theories is that the system is rigged against them, just not by the people they're blaming.
07.03.2026 20:16
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A bruise would have more discoloration, I think. Plus hitting people on the side of the head is more dangerous than front or back, so I'd expect him to be in a hospital if that came from a blunt object.
07.03.2026 00:26
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This goes back to James Dobson and beating your children into submission because cheerful obedience is the highest Christian virtue. Parents have to be coached out of empathy for their wailing children, so of course empathy is seen as a flaw.
06.03.2026 23:34
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I keep going back to James Dobson, and the requirement to beat your children into submission because cheerful obedience is the highest Christian virtue. If it works on you, then you assume it works on everyone (and people who don't submit really mess with your model of reality).
06.03.2026 23:32
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Is Mullin even a guy who's polite to people in the Senate cafeteria?
06.03.2026 03:58
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If amateurs study tactics while professionals study logistics, I don't believe Secretary Kegstand even qualifies as an amateur.
04.03.2026 23:25
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Netanyahu is just thinking about trying to stay in office as long as he can, skating along on the edge of disaster.
03.03.2026 04:44
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What happens when they find out they can't force God's hand? "You owe me a rapture, Lord! Don't you know who I am?"
03.03.2026 03:44
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"I'm tired of waiting for the Rapture; let's force God's hand."
03.03.2026 03:32
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Find out whoever took the cursed whatever from the hidden temple to whomever and PUT IT BACK.
03.03.2026 01:53
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Darrow · J&J Talcum Powder Lawsuit: History & 2026 Updates
The Johnson & Johnson talc MDL involves 58,000+ lawsuits alleging its talc-based products caused cancer, with a proposed $9B settlement pending.
" In these cases, a company creates a subsidiary through a corporate restructuring, transferring its liabilities, such as lawsuits, to the new business entity. The subsidiary then files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, pausing litigation and potentially reducing the company’s financial exposure."
01.03.2026 19:14
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Companies have ways of avoiding their obligations. "... J&J turned to a controversial legal maneuver known as the Texas Two-Step, a strategy companies use when facing bankruptcy."
01.03.2026 19:14
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Ooh, maybe they'll give you a stock grant...
01.03.2026 18:38
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They have some money, but a company's balance sheet includes assets that aren't bank accounts.
I'm wondering why this hadn't occurred to you.
01.03.2026 18:37
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