Microsoft started the new year with a small gain year to date, then lost it in recent weeks. But on Friday, the stock rallied for the second week in a row and notched a six-week closing high. So, is Microsoft stock,

What Happened? Shares of tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) fell 7.1% in the pre-market session as stocks heavily tied to the AI market took a hit after Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a new large language model (DeepSeek-R1) that ranks competitively on key global benchmarks (coding competitions,

Microsoft is set to report fiscal second-quarter earnings after the market closes Wednesday, with analysts largely bullish despite what Morgan Stanley called a growing “wall of worry."

Reporting quarterly earnings Wednesday afternoon, it will be tough for Microsoft to avoid the issue of the AI breakthroughs from China's DeepSeek that are shaking up the tech world and the stock market this week.

Many technology executives will treat the earnings call as the first real opportunity to project confidence in the face of investor concerns about DeepSeek. Microsoft Chief Execut

Microsoft and its Big Tech cohort are investing tens of billions of dollars in the data centers and infrastructure needed to train and deploy AI software across their various services. But China’s DeepSeek upended the general thinking that developing AI models requires the use of the most powerful,