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Welcome to the third and final day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone West in San Francisco! The excitement here is still in full swing, and there’s no slowing down. If you thought it was too late to join, think again — there’s still time to register with a 50% discount and be part of the action. Don’t wait a whole year to be at the tech epicenter of the year. Today’s agenda features some of the most anticipated stage sessions, spotlighting insights from trailblazers such as Rohit Patel, director at Meta Superintelligence Labs; Kirsten Green, founding partner of Forerunner;…

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of their Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services.The tech company wrote on its to its Azure status page that a configuration change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage, and that its fix is being rolled out.Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company acknowledged issues with its Azure Front Door, a global content and application delivery network, service on its status page and social media accounts.Because so many sites and services use Microsoft’s…

When contemplating the shift, several business advantages may drive a final decision. Relying on one major vendor (namely, Nvidia) can incur risks: pricing leverage, export controls, supply shortages, or a single point of failure in innovation. Adopting or migrating to Huawei has the potential to provide negotiation leverage, avoid vendor lock-in, and offer access to alternate supply chains. That’s especially relevant in areas where Nvidia faces export restrictions.If an organisation operates in a region where Huawei’s ecosystem is stronger (e.g., China, parts of Asia) or where domestic incentives favour local hardware, shifting to Huawei could align with corporate strategy. For…

Alphabet is set to report third-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday.Here’s what analysts are expecting according to LSEG consensus:Revenue: $99.89 billionEarnings per share: $2.33 adj.Wall Street is also watching several other numbers in the report:YouTube advertising revenue: $10.01 billion, according to StreetAccountGoogle Cloud revenue: $14.74 billion, according to StreetAccountTraffic acquisition costs (TAC): $14.82 billion, according to StreetAccountAs Alphabet reports its latest results, Wall Street expects the search giant to show 13% year-over-year revenue growth.The company’s stock price soared 38% in the third quarter, its best quarterly performance in two decades. It’s continued to rally, climbing 11% so far in October, topping off a quarter…

Online marketplace Etsy said on Wednesday that its long-time CEO, Josh Silverman, would step down by the end of the year. Kruti Patel Goyal, Etsy’s president and chief growth officer, will become the company’s next CEO. Silverman, who headed the marketplace for eight years, will become its executive chairman. Goyal worked at Etsy for more than 10 years until she was named the CEO of social-commerce platform Depop, which Etsy bought four years ago. She has been in her current role for about seven months. Etsy has faced challenges in growing its business and may be looking to Goyal’s experience…

The Trump administration has been signaling that it may have finally reached a deal with China to keep TikTok running in the U.S., with the two countries finalizing it as soon as Thursday.President Donald Trump is visiting South Korea, where he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to de-escalate a trade war.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday that the two leaders will “consummate that transaction on Thursday in Korea.” If it happens, the deal would mark the end of months of uncertainty about the fate of the popular video-sharing platform in the United…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | ReutersMeta is slated to report third-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell and investors will be watching for any indication that it will increase spending on artificial intelligence.Here’s what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting:Earnings per share: $6.69Revenue: $49.4 billionMeta has spent the year investing heavily in AI, and it conducted a massive overhaul of the organization leading…

The biggest beneficiary of the ongoing AI boom, Nvidia has become the first public company to pass the $5 trillion market cap milestone. The company’s shares rose more than 5.6% on Wednesday to as much as $212.19, on the back of news on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects to discuss the company’s Blackwell chips with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. Investors are also likely stoked by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s comments on Tuesday that the company expects $500 billion in AI chip sales, and that it is building seven new supercomputers for the U.S. in…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Axel Springer Neubau in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023.Ben Kriemann | Getty ImagesMicrosoft will report results for its fiscal first quarter after the close of regular trading Wednesday.Here’s what analysts are expecting according to a consensus of estimates from LSEG:Earnings per share: $3.67Revenue: $75.33 billionCloud continues to be the big driver of growth at Microsoft, as the business has proven to be a major beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom. Last quarter, Microsoft disclosed the scale of its Azure cloud infrastructure business in dollars for the first time. The company said revenue in fiscal 2025…

Instead of signing expensive contracts with companies for their data, AI labs these days are trying a new tack: tapping former senior employees from those companies for their industry knowledge, Mercor CEO Brendan Foody said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 on Tuesday. Speaking on a panel onstage, Foody cast Mercor’s marketplace as one of the main channels connecting the former employees of investment banks, consulting houses and law firms with AI labs which are looking to automate those industries. Some of Mercor’s customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. “There is an argument that Goldman Sachs doesn’t love the idea of having…