Microsoft's earnings are increasingly a proxy for enterprise AI spending: Azure, Copilot seats and the capital expenditure required to keep both supplied with compute. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft Corporation employs approximately 228,000 people.
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Hyperscalers are issuing debt at unusual scale to finance data-centre expansion, pushing AI investment beyond equities and into credit spreads, duration and refinancing risk.
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Software shares fell after GPT-6 Astra while Qualcomm and other AI-infrastructure names gained. We explain the market split between AI disruption and AI spending beneficiaries.
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