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 CorporationBroadcom 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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