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2026-09-15-Tue
Trump reportedly met Altman privately backstage at the Republican midterm convention, at Altman's request
▪ The policy progress bar has moved from the hearing room to the green room.
Microsoft opens a public consultation on its 37-page Humanist AI code, ruling out legal personhood for AI
▪ The consultation lasts six weeks, but the document governs models that start training in 2027.
2026-09-14-Mon
Microsoft and Google respond to the AI slowdown debate as Trump rejects pausing U.S. model development
▪ Companies are debating where to brake at specific capability thresholds, while government is focused on whether the U.S. remains ahead; the two sides lack a shared mechanism.
2026-09-11-Fri
Microsoft Plans to Expand Data Centers From 12 GW to 38 GW, With a Third Serving AI Chips
▪ Microsoft has translated its 2032 compute demand into a 38-gigawatt construction plan, making energization speed a ceiling on cloud growth.
2026-09-02-Wed
Microsoft will disclose Azure quarterly revenue for the first time: $29.42 billion, up 42%
▪ Volunteering the absolute number is both confidence and constraint; Azure now gets measured on the same ruler every single quarter.
Snowflake's Q2 revenue rises 35% to $1.55 billion, sending shares up more than 20% after hours
▪ Raising the full-year guide is worth more than beating one quarter; it says the data layer is seeing booked usage, not pilots.
2026-08-29-Sat
Lambda borrows $1 billion for Nvidia GPUs, with repayment riding on Microsoft's lease
▪ When repayment comes from another company's lease, AI compute debt is no longer priced on the borrower.