Colleen Michaels Microsoft ( MSFT ) is integrating artificial intelligence into its Office productivity suite and raising the price of the upgraded version by 65% as it seeks to attract enterprise users to its Copilot AI add-on. The new top-of-the-line bundle for corporate workers, Microsoft 365 E7, will cost $99 per user per month, compared with $60 for the E5 subscription, after upcoming price h...
Colleen Michaels Microsoft ( MSFT ) is integrating artificial intelligence into its Office productivity suite and raising the price of the upgraded version by 65% as it seeks to attract enterprise users to its Copilot AI add-on. The new top-of-the-line bundle for corporate workers, Microsoft 365 E7, will cost $99 per user per month, compared with $60 for the E5 subscription, after upcoming price hikes. E7 includes the $30 Copilot, $12 Entra identity tools, and the new $15 Agent 365 product for managing companies’ AI agents. The launch should lead to higher adoption of Copilot, which has yet to become common among commercial productivity subscribers, Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) commercial CEO said. The Copilot upgrades and the launch of the E7 tier on May 1 should both lead to further adoption of Copilot, Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, told CNBC in an interview. The existence of E7 should also inspire organizations to upgrade more workers to E5, he said. The launch comes after updates to Anthropic’s ( ANTHRO ) Claude Cowork service made some investors worry about AI models posing competitive threats to mature software companies. More on Microsoft Microsoft: The Market Is Giving Us A Gift, And I Am Accepting It Why Microsoft's Heavy AI Spending Is Driving Profits, Not Destroying Them Microsoft: Buy The Dip, Or Regret It Forever OpenAI plans to acquire Promptfoo to bolster security in AI systems Microsoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic products still available despite Pentagon blacklist
Colleen Michaels Microsoft ( MSFT ) is integrating artificial intelligence into its Office productivity suite and raising the price of the upgraded version by 65% as it seeks to attract enterprise users to its Copilot AI add-on. The new top-of-the-line bundle for corporate workers, Microsoft 365 E7, will cost $99 per user per month, compared with $60 for the E5 subscription, after upcoming price h...
Colleen Michaels Microsoft ( MSFT ) is integrating artificial intelligence into its Office productivity suite and raising the price of the upgraded version by 65% as it seeks to attract enterprise users to its Copilot AI add-on. The new top-of-the-line bundle for corporate workers, Microsoft 365 E7, will cost $99 per user per month, compared with $60 for the E5 subscription, after upcoming price hikes. E7 includes the $30 Copilot, $12 Entra identity tools, and the new $15 Agent 365 product for managing companies’ AI agents. The launch should lead to higher adoption of Copilot, which has yet to become common among commercial productivity subscribers, Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) commercial CEO said. The Copilot upgrades and the launch of the E7 tier on May 1 should both lead to further adoption of Copilot, Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, told CNBC in an interview. The existence of E7 should also inspire organizations to upgrade more workers to E5, he said. The launch comes after updates to Anthropic’s ( ANTHRO ) Claude Cowork service made some investors worry about AI models posing competitive threats to mature software companies. More on Microsoft Microsoft: The Market Is Giving Us A Gift, And I Am Accepting It Why Microsoft's Heavy AI Spending Is Driving Profits, Not Destroying Them Microsoft: Buy The Dip, Or Regret It Forever OpenAI plans to acquire Promptfoo to bolster security in AI systems Microsoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic products still available despite Pentagon blacklist
Apple (AAPL.US) accelerates production diversification: Reports indicate a 53% increase in iPhone production in India last year, with 25% of iPhones now manufactured in India. 富途牛牛
Apple (AAPL.US) accelerates production diversification: Reports indicate a 53% increase in iPhone production in India last year, with 25% of iPhones now manufactured in India. 富途牛牛
When he started trading in 2020, Lito Chen followed mostly well-trodden advice, tucking his modest university student savings into the kinds of blue-chip stocks like liquor companies that analysts had touted as safe bets. They proved to be anything but, erasing his nest egg and eroding his confidence in mainstream financial analysis. So when doing research for his next round of investment picks in...
When he started trading in 2020, Lito Chen followed mostly well-trodden advice, tucking his modest university student savings into the kinds of blue-chip stocks like liquor companies that analysts had touted as safe bets. They proved to be anything but, erasing his nest egg and eroding his confidence in mainstream financial analysis. So when doing research for his next round of investment picks in the first half of 2024, Chen turned to what many young people know best: artificial intelligence chatbots and the social media hive mind. Investing in a mix of tech, defense, mining and other stocks recommended by internet friends and chatbots like Kimi and Zhipu, he’s clawed back his earlier losses—and then some. “I’ll rely more on AI for stock selection in the future,” says Chen, a 24-year-old student in Shanghai. “Some of the stocks it picked for me really just kept rallying nonstop.” Young, technologically savvy, even defiant, Chen represents China’s newest generation of retail investors. These bold Generation Z traders have earned a nickname in China: Xiao Dengs, or “little guys”—and their swelling ranks are propelling the country’s more than $14 trillion stock market. From September 2024 to January 2025, the number of investors under 30 in China doubled, accounting for about one-third of the country’s retail investor base of 240 million traders, according to a study by brokerage Ping An Securities Co. and Hurun Research Institute. Investors under 35 (which would include the youngest millennials as well as all of Gen Z) are behind more than 45% of new trading accounts opened last year, up 5 percentage points from the previous year, local media outlet Jiemian reports. Yang Delong , chief economist at First Seafront Fund Management Co., has said 2025 was the year when Xiao Deng trades dominated the market with “unmatched flair.” The Xiao Dengs’ preference for high-growth stocks has helped fuel the latest tech craze, while their rapid-fire trading style has amped up mark...
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To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: So far this week, Brent crude surged from $93.50 to $118.90 — and back to $88. President Trump has predicted that the war with Iran will resolve “very soon.” US stocks gained on this news — the Nasdaq is now higher for the month. Asian stocks bounced Tuesday after a serious selloff. AND: Putting out th...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: So far this week, Brent crude surged from $93.50 to $118.90 — and back to $88. President Trump has predicted that the war with Iran will resolve “very soon.” US stocks gained on this news — the Nasdaq is now higher for the month. Asian stocks bounced Tuesday after a serious selloff. AND: Putting out the fire with a few songs about oil. Short, Sharp Shock? Years go by with less activity in the oil market than we have witnessed in just the first day of this week. The lingering question is whether all’s well that ends well . Crude prices surged almost to $120, in a sharper and more sudden rise even than ever occurred in the early days of the Ukraine invasion. Is it more important that traders took the price this high, or that they swiftly thought better of it, and brought it back below $90 ? These are unusual events and while they were in part driven by exceptionally volatile news flow, it would be misleading to try to label the chart with events to explain the moves. Iran’s choice of the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as new supreme leader seemed a bad sign of intransigence to open the day. Reports that the G-7 was prepared to tap oil reserves if needed helped to bring the price under control, and then President Donald Trump ’s comment that the war would be short prompted the drop to $90. But it’s impossible to explain all of the moves with news flow. Sentiment is driving this , and some traders were evidently willing to panic. But it’s equally true that they weren’t comfortable leaving oil above the landmark of $100. Oil is naturally giving a lead to other markets . Asian exchanges, open when the oil spike was at its worst, took severe damage, while the main US indexes were flat. Overall, the reaction in stocks continues to be surprisingly calm given the extreme goings-on in commodities markets. Geography has asserted itself with Asia and Europe, physically close ...