Microsoft and Google showed investors that heavy artificial intelligence investment can pay off with rising revenue, allaying concerns raised a day earlier by Meta, which said its expensive foray into AI was not immediately paying off. Shares in Google-parent Alphabet were up over 11% in Frankfurt on Friday, while Microsoft shares rose nearly 5%. Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, driven by gains from adoption of artificial intelligence across its cloud services.
My Lexus IS200 will be 25 next year. It has done almost 96,000 miles, travelled in France, charged up and down the M40 and never let me down. I now live in a city and do not need a car with such a large engine, but a smallish reliable runabout to carry two adults and two grandchildren under 12. What do you suggest?
A Sydney barrister will get $150,000 from Nine over its "extravagant, excessive and sensationalist" reporting of a bitter custody battle for Oscar the cavoodle.