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After a 10.4% climb in May that lifted sentiment for the AI trade, Microsoft’s shares slid in early June alongside a broader pullback in growth stocks.
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Microsoft disclosed new quantum hardware progress aimed at scalable computing by 2029, while also filing that board director Reid Hoffman will not seek re-election in 2026. Investors are left weighing the credibility and timing of the quantum roadmap against governance and personnel shifts.
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A new U.S. executive order on artificial intelligence is prompting investors to ask which big tech and data firms will be treated as “trusted partners” as the government sets ground rules for the technology.
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The company says its GAIN Platform for SDLC is designed to speed migrations, reduce technical debt and licensing drag, and tie delivery economics to outcomes, with help from Microsoft’s Azure Accelerate program.
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As Microsoft rolls out new homegrown “reasoning” models and agent tools, the amended Microsoft-OpenAI agreement reduces how tightly Microsoft is bound to one partner’s economics and cloud exclusivity.
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Analyst Michael Turrin raised his Microsoft (MSFT) target to $650 from $625 while keeping an Overweight stance, arguing Microsoft is better positioned at the software layer for AI monetization.
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The new models widen Microsoft’s Phi family, with one built for speech, vision and text and the other aimed at fast, compact text work across developer tools and edge devices.
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Microsoft says its new Dragon Copilot combines Dragon Medical One and DAX Copilot to help clinicians document care, surface information and automate routine tasks.
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The board approved the payment in a Tuesday announcement from Microsoft News. The dividend is scheduled for June 12, 2025, for shareholders of record on the company’s set date.
