{"id":970567,"date":"2025-10-30T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970567"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:47:10","slug":"microsoft-takes-a-3-billion-plus-hit-to-its-net-income-and-the-reason-is-chatgpt-maker-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/microsoft-takes-a-3-billion-plus-hit-to-its-net-income-and-the-reason-is-chatgpt-maker-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft takes a $3 billion plus hit to its net income, and the reason is ChatGPT-maker OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has reported robust quarterly results, with net income climbing to $27.7 billion despite a $3.1 billion drag from its massive investment in ChatGP-maker OpenAI. The software giant&#8217;s earnings per share rose to $3.72, up from $3.30 a year earlier, even after a 41-cent reduction tied to an &#8220;equity method investment&#8221; in the AI company. Overall net income increased from $24.67 billion in the prior-year period.<\/p>\n<p>On the earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella praised the alliance as &#8220;one of the most successful partnerships and investments our industry has ever seen,&#8221; emphasizing mutual benefits from shared growth in AI and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has reported robust quarterly results, with net income climbing to $27.7 billion despite a $3.1 billion drag from its massive investment in ChatGP-maker OpenAI. The software giant&#8217;s earnings per share rose to $3.72, up from $3.30 a year earlier, even after a 41-cent reduction tied to an &#8220;equity method investment&#8221; in the AI company. Overall net income increased from $24.67 billion in the prior-year period. On the earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella praised the alliance as &#8220;one of the most successful partnerships and investments our industry has ever seen,&#8221; emphasizing mutual benefits from shared growth in AI and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}