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Microsoft’s Profit Jumps 32% Despite Big Increase in Spending
According to the description, The New York Times reports that Microsoft's profit rose 32 percent in the last quarter, free cash flow stayed positive even as the company spent $45.2 billion on capital expenses such as data centers, and it offered to pay workers to leave.
Why it matters
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What it means for you
Microsoft is making more profit while spending tens of billions on data centers and offering to pay staff to leave, The New York Times reports.
For lawmakers
Microsoft's $45.2 billion quarterly capital spending, as reported, shows the scale of AI infrastructure investment behind data centre and energy debates.
The record
- Questions
- What happens to work, income and the economy? · How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading?
- People
- Emmy Martin (Wrote it)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
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- The Radar, run of October 29, 2026, via
nyt-technology(tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting) - Cite this
- The New York Times, “Microsoft’s Profit Jumps 32% Despite Big Increase in Spending”, October 28, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/nyt-2026-10-28-microsoft-profit-jumps-spending
Our notesLight lane: standfirst only; figures are as the description gives them, attributed to The New York Times, and not checked against Microsoft's results.