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According to Gate market data, after the US stock market opened, Microsoft's gains expanded to over 15%, expected to create the largest single-day increase since March 2020.On Wednesday, after the US stock market closed, Microsoft announced its financial report for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, with revenue of $90 billion, an 18% year-on-year increase. The growth rate of Azure and other cloud services rose from 40% in the previous quarter to 43%. CEO Satya Nadella stated that Azure's full-year revenue "exceeded $100 billion," growing by 41%, marking the first time this business has crossed the $100 billion threshold.

According to Jinshi reports, Microsoft plans to maintain a multimodal strategy, allowing customers to use models from OpenAI or Anthropic in a way that better meets their needs.

According to Jinshi News, Microsoft is considering offering some internally developed AI models with open weights.

The second largest institutional real estate asset management company in Europe, Swiss Life Asset Managers, disclosed that its holdings of MicroStrategy shares increased by 38%, currently holding a total of 37,889 shares, valued at 3.55 million dollars.

Microsoft released its Q4 fiscal year 2026 financial report, with revenue of $90 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18%, exceeding market expectations of $87.7 billion; adjusted earnings per share of $4.74, a year-on-year increase of 23%, which is 11.5% higher than expected; operating profit of $40.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18%. Intelligent cloud revenue was $39.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 32%, with Azure and other cloud services revenue growing by 43%, significantly higher than the market expectation of 39.6%. Total revenue from Microsoft Cloud was $59.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27%. CEO Satya Nadella disclosed that Azure's annual revenue has surpassed $100 billion for the first time, and paid users of Microsoft 365 Copilot exceeded 30 million.In terms of capital expenditure, the fourth quarter's property and equipment acquisition expenditure was $35.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of approximately 110%; total capital expenditure including finance leases was $41 billion, a year-on-year increase of 70%, but lower than the market expectation of $42.5 billion. The remaining performance obligations (RPO) for cloud business surged 84% year-on-year to $678 billion, about twice the annual revenue. Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that new unexecuted data center lease commitments in the fourth quarter exceeded $130 billion, with the total unexecuted lease commitments increasing by 67.4% quarter-on-quarter to $329.1 billion. Annual revenue was $331.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18%; net profit was $133.7 billion, a year-on-year increase of 31% (GAAP).

According to Jinshi reports, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized that customers must have the ability to switch freely between different AI models, both closed-source and open-source. He stated during a conference call that the number of Microsoft customers using multiple models has quadrupled since the beginning of this year. Nadella pointed out that the system framework should be separate from the models, allowing for the replacement of models at any given time and the use of cutting-edge models.Microsoft has investments in both OpenAI and Anthropic, and has co-signed an open letter supporting open models with companies like NVIDIA and Palantir.

According to Jinshi reports, Microsoft announced a series of financial guidance, causing the after-hours increase in US stocks to expand to 8%.

According to Gate market data, after the earnings report was released, Meta Platforms (META.O) is currently down 6%, Microsoft (MSFT.O) is up 3%, and Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is down 4.6%.

According to Jinshi reports, Microsoft recorded a $3.2 billion gain in the fourth fiscal quarter due to its investment in Anthropic, combined with expenses related to the voluntary departure plan being lower than expected, resulting in a positive impact of 27 cents on earnings per share (EPS).

According to Jinshi reports, Microsoft's fourth fiscal quarter revenue growth for AZURE and other cloud services, excluding the impact of exchange rates, increased by 43%, exceeding market expectations.

According to Jinshi reports, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and ARM will announce their Q2 2026 financial reports after the US stock market closes.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Tuesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rising by 1%, the S&P 500 index up by 0.2%, and the Nasdaq down by 0.2%. SK Hynix fell by 8.98%, and Micron Technology dropped by 8.85%. SanDisk's stock price fell by 14%, down more than 50% from the historical high it reached a month ago.The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed up by 1.08%, with NetEase rising nearly 3%.

Visa and the on-chain data analysis platform Artemis previously jointly released the report "Agentic Payments from the Ground Up," which quantifies the trends of AI agent payments based on real-time on-chain data. The report points out that intelligent commerce should be divided into macro transactions (AI agents completing bookings, subscriptions, etc., adapting to existing card systems) and micro payments (high-frequency small payments between machines, with individual transactions far below $1, which traditional payment structures struggle to support).The report focuses on two "machine-native payment" protocols: x402 (developed by Coinbase, Cloudflare, etc., launching in May 2025) with an adjusted transaction volume of approximately $15 million and 109.6 million transactions as of April 21, 2026, with 422,000 buyers and about 5,300 sellers, primarily concentrated on Base, Solana, and Polygon, settled in USDC; MPP (developed by Stripe and Tempo, with Visa's participation, launching in mid-March 2026) had a transaction volume of approximately $25,000 and 115,000 transactions within 33 days of launch, supporting both on-chain crypto payments and fiat settlements.The report believes that the leap in AI capabilities (with the release of Claude 4.5 and GPT Codex 5.2 in mid-2025) has created a demand for programmatic payments, combined with the decreasing costs of blockchain settlements, making micro payments in the range of 1 cent to 1 dollar economically viable for the first time. Currently, the boundaries between crypto-native protocols and card payment camps are gradually blurring, but agent payments still face trust challenges such as erroneous purchases, adversarial attacks, and liability attribution.

The U.S. stock semiconductor storage sector is showing an overall pullback trend. According to data from the Gate platform, SanDisk (SNDK) is currently priced at $1,279.20, with a 24-hour decline of 10.84%; Micron Technology (MU) is currently priced at $900.98, with a 24-hour decline of 2.08%. Accompanying the sharp price fluctuations of these two assets, the trading activity of derivatives on the Gate platform continues to increase. According to Coinglass data, the 24-hour trading volume of Gate SNDK contracts reached $382 million, with an open interest of $82.2 million; the 24-hour trading volume of Gate MU contracts reached $55.35 million, with an open interest of $21.7 million, both ranking among the top in the network.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has completed the dividend distribution for 63 US stocks and ETFs, including rMU (Micron Technology), rQQQ (Nasdaq 100 Index ETF), and rTSM (TSMC). Bitget has proportionally settled USDT dividends to users holding the relevant stocks at the snapshot time, with the entire process handled automatically, requiring no action from users. This dividend distribution covers multiple asset categories, including technology, semiconductors, communications, and index ETFs.Users can check the specific details by going to the APP "Assets" - "Financial Records" - "Spot" - "Others" - "Dividends" or on the Web "Asset Overview" - "Spot Orders" - "Fund Flow" - "Others" - "Dividends". The final amount and time of receipt are subject to the actual amount received on the platform and the display on the page.

According to Jinshi reports, Microsoft has agreed to invest billions of dollars in Mistral's European computing infrastructure to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure in Europe.

Deutsche Bank stated in its latest research report that the market's concerns about Microsoft's surge in capital expenditure, AI investment returns, and the concentration of Open AI orders have been significantly overstated. The current valuation is attractive, maintaining a "Buy" rating and a target price of $550. Deutsche Bank expects Microsoft's fourth fiscal quarter (corresponding to the second quarter of the calendar year) revenue to be $87.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14.3%; non-GAAP earnings per share are expected to be $4.17. The growth rate of Azure, calculated at constant exchange rates, is expected to reach 40% to 41%, with enterprise cloud migration, AI computing demand, and new data center capacity continuing to support growth. Microsoft 365 commercial cloud revenue is expected to grow by 15% to 16%, and paid seats for Copilot may exceed 25 million by the end of the year.