Microsoft AI Revenue Hits $37B as Copilot Tops 20M Seats
Microsoft's Q3 FY2026 earnings show its AI business running at $37 billion annually - up 123 percent - while Copilot enterprise seats hit 20 million, demolishing the low-adoption narrative.
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OpenAI Breaks Azure Lock in Microsoft Deal Rewrite
Microsoft drops exclusive OpenAI IP rights and ends its revenue-share payments as OpenAI gains freedom to deploy on Google Cloud, AWS, or any provider.
Best AI Cloud Cost Optimization Tools 2026
A data-driven comparison of Vantage, CAST AI, ProsperOps, CloudZero, nOps, and Infracost - the top AI-powered platforms for cutting cloud and GPU spend in 2026.
Speech-to-Text API Pricing Compared - 2026
Per-minute and per-1000-minute transcription API pricing across OpenAI Whisper, Deepgram Nova-3, AssemblyAI, Google Chirp 2, Azure, AWS Transcribe, Groq, ElevenLabs Scribe, and more.
Text-to-Speech API Pricing Compared - 2026
Normalized per-1M-character and per-hour TTS pricing across ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Amazon Polly, Play.ht, Cartesia, Deepgram Aura, WellSaid, and more.
Best AI PDF Tools 2026: Consumer Chat vs Dev APIs
Tested rankings of AI PDF tools across two categories: consumer chat apps and developer extraction APIs, with verified pricing and benchmark data.
Microsoft Launches Three AI Models to Rival OpenAI
Microsoft's MAI division releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 - beating OpenAI and Google on key benchmarks while signaling a strategic break from exclusive reliance on its OpenAI partnership.
Microsoft Maia 200 - Azure's Inference Accelerator
Microsoft Maia 200 specs, benchmarks, and architecture analysis. TSMC 3nm, 216GB HBM3e, 10 PFLOPS FP4, 750W - Microsoft's first inference-only silicon deployed in Azure.
Microsoft Picks Up 900 MW Texas Campus OpenAI Dropped
Microsoft signs a deal with Crusoe for a new 900 MW AI factory campus in Abilene, Texas, adjacent to the Stargate site Oracle and OpenAI walked away from three weeks ago.
Microsoft Weighs Lawsuit Over OpenAI's $50B AWS Deal
Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.
Microsoft Foundry Bets on Open Models With Fireworks
Microsoft Azure's Foundry platform now runs Fireworks AI's inference engine, bringing DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.5, and MiniMax M2.5 into enterprise AI under a unified control plane.
