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☆ Cramer on why 'homework matters' for stocks regardless of falling bond yields
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a Morning Meeting livestream at 10:20 a.m. Those gains have come despite little upside surprise in any of their reports and have largely been driven by a retreat in bond yields. Bond yields, meanwhile, were little changed Monday morning, with that of the 10-year Treasury hovering above 4.6%. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER .

Persons: Jim Cramer, We've, Eli Lilly, Jim, Piper Sandler, Jim Cramer's Organizations: CNBC, Apple, Treasury, Novo Nordisk, Wall Street, Club, Microsoft, Ignite

☆ Zoom boomed during the pandemic, but the return-to-work drive means it's ready for a radical change
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But as people return to the office, Zoom needs to branch out from virtual meetings, its key feature. To adapt to a hybrid world, Zoom is ready for a radical change, an exec says. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . For companies like video-communication platform Zoom, the transition means a drastic change to adapt to a new world of work, says its EMEA chief Frederik Maris. In August, the company said employees living within 50 miles of a Zoom office must go in at least two days a week.

Persons: —, Frederik Maris, Maris, Zoom Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Microsoft's Viva

☆ Top Wall Street analysts are confident in the long-term potential of these stocks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Wall Street analysts can help investors identify stocks that have what it takes to thrive amid short-term headwinds — and that can offer attractive returns going forward. Here are five stocks favored by Wall Street's top analysts, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance. Apple's overall revenue declined for the fourth consecutive quarter due to notable declines in iPad and Mac sales. Zelnick raised his price target from $380 to $395 and reiterated a buy rating on MSFT stock. Following the Q3 2023 print, Zelnick maintained a buy rating on NOW stock and increased the price target to $650 from $625.

Persons: Aly Song, Wall, Baird, William Power, Power, TipRanks, Goldman Sachs, Eric Sheridan, Sheridan, Brad Zelnick, Zelnick Organizations: Apple, Reuters Companies, Wall Street, Apple Tech, Apple's Services, Services, North America, Web Services, AWS, TipRanks, Microsoft, Deutsche Bank, Fortune, Software, U.S Locations: Shanghai, China, ServiceNow

☆ 3 ways small-business owners can use ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, plan campaigns, and create a cheap marketing strategy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Erin Greenawald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She said ChatGPT helped her cut her launch timeline to about a month and see new possibilities for marketing. Here are three ways these small-business owners have experimented with AI to support their marketing strategies. In October, Alert used ChatGPT to help her conceptualize and organize an influencer event, so she didn't need to pay for an event planner. To help with user research, she asked ChatGPT for ideas about the types of users she might target. ChatGPTSmith said she likes to approach working through ideas with ChatGPT as if she's chatting with a colleague.

Persons: ChatGPT isn't, SBOs, —, Candice Smith, Dion Lamar Mills, Smith, Marina Guastavino, ChatGPT, Guastavino, Marcela Rogante, ChatGPT Smith Organizations: Small, Service, French Press, French Press Public Relations

☆ Microsoft’s on a tear. Here’s why the stock's run higher is set to continue
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft (MSFT) stock notched all-time highs this week, and we expect shares will soar even higher through the end of the year on the back of artificial intelligence. Microsoft stock has been on its longest winning streak in four years, recording nine-consecutive sessions of gains as of Wednesday. MSFT YTD mountain Microsoft (MSFT) year-to-date performance Microsoft at the start of November started officially selling 365 Copilot , an AI add-on for the company's suite of Office applications used by businesses. The Club maintains a $400-per-share price target on Microsoft stock and a 1 rating, meaning we would be buyers at current levels. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

Persons: OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Piper Sandler, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Justin Sullivan Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco

☆ Generative AI still mostly experimental, say executives
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) - One year after the debut of ChatGPT created a global sensation, leaders of business, government and civil society said at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York that generative AI technology is still mostly in an experimental stage, with limited exceptions. Aguirre cited self-driving cars as an example of a technology struggling to make the transition to full deployment. “I’ve observed many generative AI applications that are in production while other customers are just beginning their journey.”One way generative AI was already being deployed widely, highlighted by speakers across industries, was to write computer code. Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University, said generative AI was error-prone in coding just like in other areas, but that the problem was less of a hindrance in the tech sector because programmers knew how to troubleshoot it. Companies should move slowly and deliberately when integrating the technology into uses where accuracy matters, executives emphasized.

Persons: ChatGPT, What's, Anthony Aguirre, Aguirre, Sherry Marcus, I’ve, Lili Cheng, Copilot, Cheng, Gary Marcus, Marcus, Cisco's Vijoy Pandey, Pandey, Katie Paul, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Reuters NEXT, Life Institute, Microsoft Corporate, Reuters, New York University, Thomson Locations: New York

☆ Microsoft's GitHub announces Copilot assistant that can learn about companies' private code
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft -owned GitHub on Wednesday introduced a more expensive Copilot assistant for developers inside companies that can explain and provide recommendations about internal source code. Last month Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts on a conference call that GitHub Copilot had accumulated 1 million paid users. The new GitHub Copilot Enterprise will cost more than double the business offering, at $39 per person per month. On GitHub's website, people with Copilot Enterprise licenses can choose repositories to fine-tune Copilot on proprietary code. From there, they can ask GitHub's Copilot chatbot about elements of existing code and suggest lines of code in development environments.

Persons: Thomas Dohmke, GitHub, Satya Nadella, GitHub Copilot, GitHub's, Stephen O'Grady, Amazon's CodeWhisperer, Dohmke, Gartner, Copilot, O'Grady, Piper Sandler Organizations: Microsoft, Amazon, Services, CNBC, Copilot Enterprise, Google, Gartner, Enterprise, Piper, Copilot Locations: Toronto, San Francisco

☆ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has nothing but praise for Sam Altman and OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed the companies' partnership at OpenAI's DevDay. AdvertisementAdvertisementMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at OpenAI's first-ever developer conference and had nothing but praise for the company and its CEO Sam Altman. During OpenAI's DevDay, Altman invited Nadella on stage to discuss OpenAI's ongoing partnership with Microsoft. The Microsoft CEO showered Altman and his work with approval. Through the partnership, Microsoft has been able to build its own AI products using OpenAI's language models.

Persons: Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Nadella, OpenAI, —, OpenAI's DevDay, Altman, OpenAI didn't Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI's, Service, OpenAI

☆ 'Tremendous potential': Growth investor is underweight the Magnificent Seven, but likes one tech giant
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Amala Balakrishner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The "Magnificent Seven" stocks have proved popular this year, but one growth investor says he is underweight the group. The Big Tech stocks known as the "Magnificent Seven" are Alphabet , Amazon , Apple , Meta , Microsoft , Nvidia and Tesla . Pro Microsoft There is, however, one name among the Magnificent Seven that Curtis likes a lot, and that's Microsoft. MSFT NVDA YTD mountain Year-to-date share movement of Microsoft and Nvidia "It doesn't matter where the stock has been. And I think both in the case of Microsoft and Nvidia, their significant earnings power add to those businesses," Curtis said.

Persons: Jonathan Curtis, CNBC's, Curtis Organizations: Big Tech, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, Franklin Equity Group

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a surprise appearance at OpenAI's developer conference on Monday with a message: Come build with us. 1 is to build the best system, so that you can build the best models and then make that all available to developers," Nadella told OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on stage at DevDay in San Francisco. Azure has become Microsoft's key growth engine in recent years and has helped revive the company's brand among developers. Microsoft boasts an exclusive license on OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model that can generate human-like prose in response to a few words of text. Developers who are building on top of OpenAI can look to the Azure Marketplace to "get to market rapidly," Nadella said.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Nadella, Sam Altman, OpenAI, ChatGPT, It's, Altman Organizations: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI's, Street, Windows Locations: DevDay, San Francisco

☆ Will the S&P 500 rally by year-end? Morgan Stanley's Slimmon weighs in — and names a Big Tech stock
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Will the S & P 500 be nearer to 5,000 by the end of the year? Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Andrew Slimmon was among some on Wall Street who earlier this year believed so. The S & P 500 closed at 4,193.80 on Tuesday. Although markets have been volatile lately, Slimmon expects the S & P 500 to be closer to 5,000 than 4,000. But his S & P 500 prediction is predicated on a few factors, Slimmon told CNBC's " Squawk Box Asia. "

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☆ 2024 is the year of AI revenue, analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email2024 is the year of AI revenue, analyst saysBrent Thill, technology research analyst at Jefferies, discusses the launch of Microsoft 365 Copilot and the outlook for artificial intelligence revenue.

Persons: Brent Thill Organizations: Jefferies, Microsoft

☆ Initial uptake of Microsoft Copilot will be slow but should eventually accelerate, says James Cakmak
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailInitial uptake of Microsoft Copilot will be slow but should eventually accelerate, says James CakmakJames Cakmak, Partner at Clockwise Capital, discusses the launch of Microsoft's AI Copilot tool.

Persons: James Cakmak James Cakmak Organizations: Microsoft, Capital

A smartphone with a displayed Intel logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. Executives at both the companies talked up the stabilizing PC market on earnings calls this week and said they expected the integration of artificial intelligence to boost growth. "The arrival of the AI PC represents an inflection point in the PC industry," said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. AMD boss Lisa Su said she "expected some growth going into 2024 as we think about sort of the AI PC cycle and some of the (Microsoft) Windows refresh cycles". Still, some investors see the lack of AI apps as a potential hurdle for their adoption.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Pat Gelsinger, Lisa Su, Justin Sumner, Canalys, Dave Egan, Arsheeya Bajwa, Akash Sriram, Chavi Mehta, Krishna Chandra Organizations: REUTERS, Intel, Devices, AMD, Microsoft, Voya Investment Management, Graphics, Columbia, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru

☆ Why Microsoft's AI assistant gives the tech giant a new edge in AI race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft 's (MSFT) new AI assistant tool should help the software giant solidify its lead among its Big Tech peers in the race to dominate artificial intelligence. We'll see how fast adoption takes place, but you could certainly see a snowball effect," said Zev Fima, a portfolio analyst at the Investing Club. MSFT YTD mountain Microsoft (MSFT) year-to-date performance Copilot is Microsoft's latest in a series of moves over the last year to integrate AI into its offerings. Analysts at the firm forecasted that the AI tool could generate more than $10 billion in annualized revenue for the company by 2026. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER .

Persons: It's, Zev Fima, OpenAI's, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Piper Sandler, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim Organizations: Microsoft, Big Tech, Investing, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Fortune, Sunday, CNBC, X, Media, Getty Locations: Cologne, Germany

☆ Microsoft starts selling its Copilot A.I. tool for email and documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Steve Kovach | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMicrosoft starts selling its Copilot A.I. tool for email and documentsCNBC's Steve Kovach joins 'Squawk Box' with more on the launch of Microsoft's A.I.

Persons: Steve Kovach, A.I Organizations: Microsoft

☆ A former Delta copilot is accused of threatening to shoot the captain 'multiple times' if he diverted the plane due to a passenger's medical emergency
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A former Delta first officer was indicted on a count of interference with a flight crew. Jonathan Dunn was allowed a firearm in the cockpit through the TSA's Federal Flight Deck Officer program. AdvertisementAdvertisementA first officer threatened to shoot the captain of a commercial flight if he diverted the plane due to a passenger's medical emergency, the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General said. AdvertisementAdvertisementAccording to the inspector general, Dunn had "a disagreement" with the captain over "a potential flight diversion due to a passenger medical event." Dunn then told the captain "they would be shot multiple times" if they diverted the flight, the inspector general said.

Persons: Jonathan Dunn, —, General, Dunn Organizations: Delta, Authorities, Service, Department of Transportation, Delta Air Lines, CBS News, Transportation Security, TSA Locations: Utah

☆ Microsoft starts selling its Copilot AI tool for email and documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

On Wednesday, the company started selling the Microsoft 365 Copilot artificial intelligence add-on for its Office app subscriptions targeting businesses. Wong said Gartner encourages organizations to experiment with generative AI, which can create synthetic images and text with just a few words of human input. "I think getting to 20% will be reasonable within two to three years for technologies like Copilot, because there's going to be early adopters, and there's going to be fast followers," he said. Microsoft acknowledges on its website that "the responses that generative AI produces aren't guaranteed to be 100% factual." Microsoft says prompts and responses in Copilot aren't used to train language models and adhere to the company's privacy standards.

Persons: Piper Sandler, Brent Bracelin, Hannah Rudoff, Piper Sandler's, Bracelin, Satya Nadella, Nadella, we've, Jason Wong, Wong, Gartner, Piper Sandler's Bracelin, ChatGPT, aren't, Katie Stockton Organizations: Microsoft, Google, CNBC, Copilot, Bayer, KPMG, Mayo Clinic, Suncorp, Visa, Gartner, Companies

☆ Microsoft’s Hotly Anticipated Generative AI Work Assistant Set to Debut
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

“We are using this AI inflection point to redefine our role,” said Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, after the company’s recent results. Photo: annegret hilse/ReutersStarting Wednesday, businesses gain access to Microsoft ’s enterprise Copilot, one of the highest-profile AI tools to hit the market. CIOs say they are brushing up on employee training and building business cases to ensure executive buy-in on the tool. Copilot leverages generative AI across the Microsoft 365 suite by doing most things you might ask a business assistant to do, like summarizing video calls, writing draft responses to emails, and transforming Word documents into PowerPoint presentations, said Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of Modern Work and Business Applications at Microsoft.

Persons: ”, Satya Nadella, annegret, Jared Spataro Organizations: Microsoft, Modern

☆ CIOs Assess Whether Microsoft’s AI Copilot Justifies Premium Price
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

“We are using this AI inflection point to redefine our role,” said Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, after the company’s recent results. Photo: annegret hilse/ReutersAfter months of speculation about how generative AI might transform business, Microsoft is poised to make its AI Copilot available through its 365 platform, a test of whether CIOs believe the technology will generate enough value to justify a premium price. CIOs say they are eager to test out the AI assistant, even though the cost is a consideration for some. Copilot leverages generative AI across the Microsoft 365 suite by doing most things you might ask a business assistant to do, like summarizing video calls, writing draft responses to emails and transforming Word documents into PowerPoint presentations, said Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of Modern Work and Business Applications at Microsoft.

Persons: ”, Satya Nadella, annegret, CIOs, Jared Spataro Organizations: Microsoft, Modern

☆ Siemens and Microsoft to work together on AI project
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsZURICH, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Siemens (SIEGn.DE) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday announced a joint project to use artificial intelligence to increase productivity and human-machine collaboration. The Siemens Industrial Copilot scheme will see the two companies work together to use generative AI for the manufacturing, transportation and healthcare industries. German automotive supplier Schaeffler AG (SHA_p.DE) is among the companies to have adopted the Siemens Industrial Copilot, Siemens said. The project will create AI copilots to assist staff at customer companies as they design new products, and organise production and maintenance. It intends to use the Siemens Industrial Copilot to reduce production downtimes at its plants.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Schaeffler, Roland Busch, John Revill, Friederike Heine Our Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Siemens, Microsoft, Tuesday, Schaeffler AG, Copilot, Thomson

☆ Here's an update on 10 of our companies that reported earnings and how we feel about each stock
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

GOOGL YTD mountain Alphabet YTD Alphabet (GOOGL): The quarter from the Google parent was mixed . On one hand, we were pleased to see revenue growth acceleration and beats at Search and YouTube. For Alphabet to catch up in the AI race, it might be forced to invest more aggressively, creating an imbalance between revenue growth and expense growth. AMZN YTD mountain Amazon YTD Amazon (AMZN): This was a fantastic quarter that checked a lot of boxes for us. While AWS cloud revenue growth may not have accelerated as some optimistic bulls had hoped for, it stabilized.

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☆ Microsoft releases big Windows 11 update with Copilot AI assistant included
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Microsoft on Tuesday said it started rolling out the next major update to its Windows 11 PC operating system. Windows 11 now represents about 24% of desktop PCs, according to StatCounter data, while Windows 10, which will be supported until October 2025, controls almost 72% of the market. After that, Windows 11, which debuted in 2021, could become more popular. Copilot is probably the biggest part of this year's Windows 11 release. Here's a list of some of the other new features of the Windows 11 2023 Update, also known as 23H2:A virtual video editor.

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☆ A minor ChatGPT update is a warning to founders: Big Tech can blow up your startup at any time
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementDid OpenAI just kill a bunch of startups by making a small update to ChatGPT? Specifically, he referred to "wrapper startups." AdvertisementAdvertisementIt isn't necessarily the case that founders who build AI wrapper businesses are doing this to exploit a weakness in ChatGPT. In May, data scientist Alex Reibman announced ChatOCR , a ChatGPT plugin that "reads text from PDFs, including scans and handwriting." Following the ChatGPT update at the weekend, he ran a poll on X that asked users what would happen to his plugin "now that ChatGPT has built in PDF processing."

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☆ Microsoft could be having its 'iPhone moment' this week that sends the stock soaring over time, says Piper Sandler
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft may be on the brink of a watershed moment equivalent to Apple 's 2007 iPhone launch, according to Piper Sandler. MSFT YTD mountain Microsoft shares since the start of 2023 The comments from Bracelin come as the software giant readies to launch its Copilot artificial intelligence subscription service offering Wednesday. The tool, first announced in July, adds AI capabilities to Office product for an additional $30 a month. While AI investments only garnered half a billion in revenue last quarter, Microsoft's broad AI ambitions could add $10 billion in revenue to by 2025 and $100 billion longer term, according to Bracelin's projections. This "first-mover AI advantage," coupled with expectations for a reacceleration in double-digit top-line growth, support the current premium for shares.

Persons: Piper Sandler, Brent Bracelin, Bracelin, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: Microsoft, Apple, MSFT Locations: That's

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