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A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force.

Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.

It says a new chip it has created could end up being as important a breakthrough as the semiconductor.

Microsoft on Wednesday debuted its Mojarana 1 quantum computing chip. The news comes just two months after Google announced its own quantum chip.

Experts say his real goal is "stymying" its growth potential as his own AI ventures flounder.

Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI’s board, said the artificial intelligence company was “not for sale.” Mr. Musk and other investors had offered $97.4 billion earlier this week.

In a court filing, Mr. Musk said he and other investors would pull their $97.4 billion bid if OpenAI withdrew its plan to change its structure.

The BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."

Non-tech investors interested in AI and its effect on the stock market need only look for one clear warning sign: any cuts in AI spending by the hyperscalers.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shot down an unsolicited offer by Elon Musk to purchase OpenAI for $97.4 billion.

After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country’s A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.

Other big technology companies have been boisterous in their courtship of the new administration. But Nvidia and Microsoft have avoided the Washington spotlight.

Workers cite the work-life balance afforded by hybrid or fully remote jobs as the biggest benefit.

A drawn-out legal fight looms for Elon Musk and Sam Altman as they face an increasingly long courtroom battle over the future of OpenAI while also taking potshots at each other on social media.

Meta, Microsoft, and Google parent Alphabet are expecting a cumulative $228 billion in capital expenditures in 2025, driven by their investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The president has kickstarted the creation of a national fund, which he says could buy the social media platform.

Donald Trump on Monday said that a newly created US sovereign wealth fund could play a part in his attempt to rescue TikTok from a US ban.

The Microsoft co-founder says he enjoys giving away his fortune and it won't leave his kids poor.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates takes Yahoo Finance inside his childhood and shares what he thinks is the next big thing in tech.

The tool, called Deep Research, arrives days after OpenAI released another one, which shops for groceries and books restaurant reservations.

Operator, a new computer-using tool from OpenAI, is brittle and occasionally erratic, but it points to a future of powerful A.I. agents.

Investors are combing the first batch of Big Tech earnings as they wait for Apple to report.

The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman is given an AI-made book that claims it was written by her.

SoftBank would contribute as much as $25 billion to OpenAI's funding round and become the largest investor.

Investors are combing the first batch of Big Tech earnings as they wait for Apple to report.

Days after Chinese upstart DeepSeek revealed a breakthrough in cheap AI computing that shook the U.S. technology industry, the chief executives of Microsoft and Meta defended massive spending that they said was key to staying competitive in the new field. "Investing 'very heavily' in capital expenditure and infrastructure is going to be a strategic advantage over time," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a post-earnings call. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said the spending was needed to overcome the capacity constraints that have hampered the technology giant's ability to capitalize on AI.

All three major averages slid in Wednesday's regular trading session.

Microsoft reported its Q2 earnings after the bell on Wednesday, missing estimates on key cloud revenue.

Caution prevails as the Fed keeps interest rates unchanged and Nvidia sinks again, weighing on tech stocks.

The new president is tossing out some of the biggest names in the tech world as possible buyers of TikTok’s US operations, most recently Microsoft. 'I like bidding wars because you make your best deals.'

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If the most sought-after AI chips aren't as vital as previously thought, an entire ecosystem built around massive AI investment could be in jeopardy.

The US President says he would like to see a "bidding war" over the sale of the social media app.

The founders of important open source software are getting older, who will take over?

Big tech's rapid earnings growth finally slowing has been a risk to the market strategists have been talking about for more than a year.

The app has overtaken ChatGPT to become the top free application on Apple's App Store in the UK.

Wall Street stocks are on track for weekly wins as markets ride the Trump roller-coaster.

Wall Street stocks are on track for weekly wins as markets ride the Trump roller-coaster.

The new tool, called Operator, can shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. But it still needs help from humans.

President Trump criticized the EU's antitrust battles against American tech companies during a virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum.

Big Tech earnings season is coming, and Trump will be top of mind.

The lawsuit accuses LinkedIn of trying to conceal its actions but the firm says the claims are false.

Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump, the latest in a feud between the two tech billionaires that started on OpenAI's board and is now testing Musk's influence with the new president. Trump on Tuesday had talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion through a new partnership formed by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, alongside Oracle and SoftBank.

Nvidia stock jumped Wednesday, extending gains from the prior day following Trump’s announcement of a massive, $500 billion AI infrastructure project called Stargate. The project will be funded by Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States. President Donald Trump gathered the leaders of the "Stargate" effort at the White House on Tuesday to announce the deal, saying it was intended to help keep the United States ahead of China and other rivals in the global AI race, using chips from Nvidia. Since 2019, Microsoft has had arrangements with OpenAI that gave the Redmond, Washington-based company the exclusive right to build new computing infrastructure for OpenAI.

OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank join forces to build artificial intelligence infrastructure.

What happens on your smartphone once a US law banning TikTok takes effect Sunday? It will depend on the actions of TikTok parent ByteDance, President Joe Biden, President-elect Donald Trump, and some of America's largest tech giants.

What happens on your smartphone once a US law banning TikTok takes effect on Jan. 19? It will depend on the actions of TikTok parent ByteDance, President-elect Donald Trump, and some of America's largest tech giants.

Beijing officials prefer that TikTok remains under the control of parent Bytedance, the report said, citing sources. TikTok's U.S. operations could either be sold through a competitive process or an arrangement by the government, the report said, suggesting that the future of the app is no longer solely in ByteDance's control. China's government has a "golden share" in ByteDance, which several members of Congress have said gives the government power over Tiktok.

The tech industry is fighting new regulations, expected soon, that aim to keep the cutting-edge technology in the United States and allied countries.

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Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis that never was.

Strategists expect the artificial intelligence trade will mature in 2025 to benefit companies beyond those buying and creating new AI chips.

Big Tech will lean heavily into AI agents in 2025. And if the technology works as promised, it could make some tedious tasks a lot easier.

Some readers have their own opinions about the workplace advice that this columnist doled out over the past six months.

At the DealBook Summit, ten experts in artificial intelligence discussed the greatest opportunities and risks posed by the technology.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are now locked in a simultaneous battle to advance AI and prevail in a courtroom fight over the future of OpenAI, the organization they founded together before parting ways.

The OpenAI C.E.O. spoke with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit.

Microsoft shareholders rejected a proposal that would've tasked the company's board of directors with considering investments in bitcoin as a means of diversifying its portfolio.

Lina Khan’s time may be running out as boss of the Federal Trade Commission, but she is not going quietly.

Microsoft says AI will change in some big ways in 2025.

With vast amounts of data do draw on, AI should be able to come up with good gift ideas, but does it?

President-elect Donald Trump is making it clear he doesn't intend to ease up on the nation's technology giants once he is back in the Oval Office.

The country’s tech titans might need to start fortifying defenses against the agenda of incoming Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr.

Stocks finished off a winning month of November at record highs to cap a holiday-shortened trading session.

Microsoft stock was lagging behind its tech peers on Friday as investors reacted to news the company is facing a broad inquiry from the FTC.

Microsoft stock was lagging behind its tech peers on Friday as investors reacted to news the company is facing a broad inquiry from the FTC.

Stocks finished off a winning month of November at record highs to cap a holiday-shortened trading session.

Stocks finished off a winning month of November at record highs to cap a holiday-shortened trading session.

Regulators are demanding information from the company on its cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity products.

It is one of a number of tech firms pushing back against Australia's plan to ban social media for under-16s.

A former FTX executive, charged with writing computer code for his imprisoned former boss Sam Bankman-Fried, is helping the U.S. government uncover stock market fraud.

Though a larger coalition of fact checkers has disbanded, a team of students and researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle is still working to document how lies online threaten to undermine this year’s presidential race.

The three major indexes finished Thursday and October's trading month in the red.

Meta and Microsoft earnings have stirred up worries about AI and Big Tech as investors digest a Fed-favored reading on inflation.

Meta (META) and Microsoft (MSFT) stocks tumbled Thursday as investors weighed their hefty AI expenditures against the time it will take to generate a return on their investment.

Meta and Microsoft earnings have stirred up worries about AI and Big Tech, as a Fed-favored reading on inflation looms.

Meta and Microsoft earnings have stirred up worries about AI and Big Tech, as a Fed-favored reading on inflation looms.

(Reuters) -Big technology companies including Microsoft and Meta are stepping up spending to build out AI data centers in a rush to meet vast demand, but Wall Street is hungry for a quicker payday on the billions invested. Microsoft and Meta both said on Wednesday their capital expenses were growing due to their AI investments. Amazon, which is set to report results on Thursday, is likely to echo these forecasts.

A legal feud between two giants of the tech world deepened this week as Microsoft accused Google of running 'shadow campaigns' to discredit Microsoft's cloud-computing business.

Traders reviewed results from Microsoft and Meta Platforms, and they looked ahead to a key inflation reading due Thursday morning.

Microsoft reported better than anticipated Q1 earnings, beating estimates on the top and bottom lines.

Tech megacaps are in the spotlight after Alphabet's quarterly results showed its high-spending push into AI is starting to pay off.

Microsoft will report its first quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday.

The economy is making a soft landing and the bull market is flying high as the Nasdaq hits record heights. But the mood is...off.

With a slew of market-driving news set to greet investors over the next week, market strategists tell Yahoo Finance that what Big Tech earnings say about the fundamental story behind the stock market rally will matter most.

Sierra, the startup founded by ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, has raised a fresh round of capital that values the company at $4.5 billion.

This week, all members of the "Magnificent Seven" were back in the green after Tesla's massive run Thursday. But looking closer into the year-to-date performance of the US's most valuable stocks highlights some things we've learned so far this year.

Satya Nadella asked for a reduction because of cyber attacks the firm suffered - but still saw his earnings increase massively.

Greener software could make devices last longer and use less electricity.

Chinese spam bots are targeting Republican lawmakers who have criticized the CCP in an effort to influence the 2024 election, according to Microsoft's latest report.

As more AI tools are rolled out, some argue they are contributing to employee burnout.

Microsoft is rolling out its autonomous agents for its AI Copilot platform.

The alliance between the technology giant and the company behind OpenAI has been hugely consequential — but a disruption could shake up the A.I. race.

The “best bromance in tech” has had a reality check as OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft and the software maker has tried to hedge its bet on the start-up.

Laffer Tengler CEO and CIO Nancy Tengler discusses investment opportunities and more on ‘Making Money.'

The inquests into the British tech tycoon, his 18-year-old daughter and two other victims of the yacht sinking have opened.

BMO Capital Markets chief investment strategist Brian Belski explains why today's Magnificent Seven stocks are similar to the big consumer staple stocks of the mid-90s on 'Making Money.'

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Microsoft is changing the way you interact with your computer. But its efforts face serious competition from some old rivals.