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Microsoft blinked a little in the AI capex race. Wall Street loved it.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Fortune via Reuters Connect A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. For several years, Big Tech has operated under a simple rule: spend more on AI, or investors will assume you're falling behind. This earnings season, that rule may have changed. Even a year ago, if one of the cloud giants had merely held its AI spending plans steady while rivals kept increasing theirs, Wall S...