The disruptive elements of the U.S. Stargate program and the release of the Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSeek has put more critical eyes than ever on major AI players like Microsoft In its earnings report after the close on Wednesday,

Microsoft on Wednesday posted disappointing Azure cloud business growth and large artificial intelligence expenses, hitting its shares as a recent surge in low-cost Chinese AI technology threatens to undermine the case for such big spending.

Microsoft said Wednesday that its profit for the October-December quarter grew 10% as it works to capitalize on the huge amounts of money it has spent to advance its artificial intelligence technology.

Microsoft has made Chinese startup DeepSeek's R1 artificial intelligence model available on its Azure cloud computing platform and GitHub tool for developers, the U.S. company said on Wednesday.

OpenAI and Microsoft are probing whether DeepSeek used distillation to help train its rival reasoning model. President Trump expects to end birthright citizenship with support from Supreme Court 5 Tennis Superstars Who Are Into Golf as a Hobby ft.

The tech giant’s revenue was up 12 percent to $69.6 billion, but investors are showing their nerves after a long boom for tech stocks.

Microsoft Corp. said its cloud-computing business will continue to grow slowly in the current quarter as the company struggles to build enough data centers to handle demand for its artificial intelligence products.