The landmark Microsoft Ignite 2025 conference held in November represented a pivotal moment for the company's AI strategy. The introduction of Work IQ, the intelligence layer enabling Microsoft 365 Copilot to understand individual users, their roles, and company-specific context, represented a significant advancement in personalization capabilities. Agent Mode launched within Word, Excel, and Powe...
The landmark Microsoft Ignite 2025 conference held in November represented a pivotal moment for the company's AI strategy. The introduction of Work IQ, the intelligence layer enabling Microsoft 365 Copilot to understand individual users, their roles, and company-specific context, represented a significant advancement in personalization capabilities. Agent Mode launched within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in November, enabling users to work iteratively with Copilot to create high-quality documents, spreadsheets, and presentations through AI-powered collaboration. Within this segment, Microsoft 365 commercial cloud revenue growth is expected to be between 13% and 14% in constant currency (cc). The segment is expected to have benefited from continued E5 suite adoption and accelerating Copilot deployment. Microsoft projected revenues between $33.3 billion and $33.6 billion for Productivity and Business Processes , representing growth of 11% to 12%, with the Zacks Consensus Estimate indicating 13.8% year-over-year growth to $33.4 billion. Microsoft's fiscal second-quarter 2026 results are likely to be supported by accelerated AI agent adoption, strengthened product positioning following Microsoft Ignite 2025, and robust enterprise demand across its cloud and productivity segments during the October-December 2025 period. MSFT has an Earnings ESP of 0.00% and a Zacks Rank #2 at present. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here. Our proven model does not conclusively predict an earnings beat for Microsoft this time around. The combination of a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) increases the odds of an earnings beat. This is not the case here. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they are reported with our Earnings ESP Filter. In the last reported quarter, the company delivered an earnings surprise of 13.15%. The company’s earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the trailing fou...
RGTI’s collaboration-driven strategy helps address this by enabling early validation and real-world testing, increasing the chances that its roadmap milestones evolve into scalable, commercially meaningful quantum platforms rather than remaining purely technical achievements. The importance of these partnerships becomes clearer when viewed in the context of RGTI’s 2026–2027 development roadmap. Ma...
RGTI’s collaboration-driven strategy helps address this by enabling early validation and real-world testing, increasing the chances that its roadmap milestones evolve into scalable, commercially meaningful quantum platforms rather than remaining purely technical achievements. The importance of these partnerships becomes clearer when viewed in the context of RGTI’s 2026–2027 development roadmap. Management is aiming to roll out a 150+ qubit system by late 2026 with roughly 99.7% two-qubit gate fidelity, followed by a 1,000+ qubit platform around 2027 with fidelity approaching 99.8%. While increasing qubit counts is technically demanding, the tougher challenge lies in turning that hardware into systems that can be reliably used. Beyond commercial partnerships, Rigetti is also leaning heavily into academic and government collaborations to reinforce both innovation and talent development. Michigan State University recently became the first academic institution to operate an on-premises Rigetti system, giving researchers direct, hands-on access to its quantum hardware. At the same time, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s C-DAC to explore joint development of hybrid quantum systems, application workflows, and workforce pipelines. Taken together, these initiatives broaden Rigetti’s global reach, seed early user communities around its technology, and reduce commercialization risk by aligning product development with real research and enterprise needs from the outset. Rigetti Computing is steadily carving out a differentiated position by tying its quantum hardware more closely to AI supercomputing and public-sector research ecosystems. Rather than building in isolation, the company is plugging its processors into hybrid computing environments where classical and quantum systems work side by side. A key move here is support for NVIDIA’s NVQLink platform, which allows fast, low-latency connections between Rigetti’s quantum processors and AI supercomp...
Needing a positive result to avoid the Champions League knockout play-offs, Galatasaray are not the side Manchester City would choose to face. In four recent meetings between Premier League clubs and the Turkish giants, Galatasaray are unbeaten. You must go back to December 2014 – a 4-1 win for Arsenal in Istanbul – for the last time an English side triumphed. In 2023, Galatasaray finished above M...
Needing a positive result to avoid the Champions League knockout play-offs, Galatasaray are not the side Manchester City would choose to face. In four recent meetings between Premier League clubs and the Turkish giants, Galatasaray are unbeaten. You must go back to December 2014 – a 4-1 win for Arsenal in Istanbul – for the last time an English side triumphed. In 2023, Galatasaray finished above Manchester United in their Champions League group – sending Erik ten Hag's men packing in last place – thanks to a 3-2 win in their most recent visit to the north-west before taking on Manchester City this Wednesday (20:00 GMT). A chaotic 3-3 draw in Turkey followed. Then last season, they inflicted the only Europa League group phase defeat on eventual champions Tottenham. Most recently, earlier in this Champions League campaign, Galatasaray outplayed an off-colour Liverpool to win 1-0 thanks to Victor Osimhen's first half penalty. So why do Cimbom – the enigmatic nickname for Turkey's most successful football club – have such a good record against English teams? According to assistant manager Ismael Garcia Gomez, it is because the Turkish league is the most English outside England – and Galatasaray is the most English Turkish club of all. "I think sometimes with the more dynamic, transitional games we face against teams from England, we are very used to that," Garcia Gomez told BBC Sport. "The Turkish league is not at the same level, but we are more Premier League than all other European leagues, more than Italy and Spain where the tempo is lower. English teams, the ones we face, we feel comfortable because they are open. "I have never had the experience of working in English men's football, but I have experienced it as a fan. England is for the fans, the football for fans is the best. "But Turkey, it has nothing to be jealous about. The atmosphere created in stadiums is amazing, I was fortunate enough to work across Europe, and the passion here is at the same level as any ...