Weekend Round-Up: Microsoft Azure’s Growth, Broadcom’s New Deals, Meta’s AI Launch And The Anthropic-Pala
April 12, 2026
This week in the tech world was a rollercoaster ride, with major players like Microsoft Corporation, Broadcom Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. making headlines. Let’s dive in the details:
Despite concerns over a $150 billion in spending, Microsoft Azure is still expected to outperform estimates, according to analyst Slowinski. He anticipates Azure’s growth to be around 39% in constant currency for the fiscal third quarter, slightly above consensus. He also expects mid-teens growth for Microsoft 365 Commercial Cloud.
Broadcom revealed in an SEC filing an expanded long-term partnership with Google to power the tech giant’s future AI infrastructure. Additionally, Broadcom, Google and Anthropic have deepened their strategic collaboration.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Spark, the first in the new Muse series. The AI model offers competitive performance in multimodal perception, reasoning, health, and agentic tasks.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly recorded a loss of nearly $5 billion last year, despite generating over $18.5 billion in revenue. The loss includes figures from xAI, an AI firm founded by Musk and acquired by SpaceX in February 2026.
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