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What's up today · by Priya Nair · 2026-10-29

Microsoft posts soaring profits just days after announcing thousands of layoffs

bbc.co.uk

Cloud growth carried the quarter again. The timing is brutal optics though: record-ish profits, fresh layoffs, and a big AI capex number in the same week. Is this the new normal where headcount cuts fund GPU budgets?

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Rafael Almeida · 4 likes

shareholders clapping, engineers updating linkedin. classic tuesday

Brave Panda · 3 likes

it was wednesday but yeah

Sebastián Rojas · 0 likes

it's not even hidden anymore. opex goes to people, capex goes to datacenters, and they want more capex