Microsoft Surges 7.7% After Hours on Earnings Beat — Has AI Spending Passed the Test?
Microsoft slipped 0.71% Wednesday, then jumped 7.70% after earnings — the sharpest counter-move in an otherwise brutal night.
On the call, management unusually stressed it is competing head-on with OpenAI and Anthropic, framing proprietary model integration with Azure as a new growth narrative.Meta sold off after hours over the same AI spending — one strategy, two opposite verdicts. Will capital markets reprice the cloud and compute chain?