Good morning. Cloud earnings dominate today’s AI news: Microsoft disclosed Azure revenue in dollars for the first time and Alphabet is taking ads in AI Mode worldwide. Anthropic, meanwhile, is giving enterprise buyers tools to measure what their token spending delivers. Below are today’s pieces, including a profile, a community history and a developer guide.
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Daily Digest: Azure's $33.2B, Google's AI Mode ads, Claude ROI tools
AI stories that mattered on October 29, 2026: Microsoft's first Azure dollar figure, Google's global AI Mode ads, Anthropic's spending reports and more.
Today in 6 stories · October 29, 2026
- 01Markets & Economy
Microsoft reports Azure at $33.2B and $10B in OpenAI revenue
Azure grew 48% in a record $92.3 billion quarter, and about $10 billion came from OpenAI arrangements.
- 02Big Tech
Google takes AI Mode ads global as Search growth slows to 12%
Alphabet will bring ads in AI Mode to international markets; its shares fell about 8%.
- 03Business & Enterprise
Anthropic launches reports showing what AI token spend delivers
New enterprise reports and pooled budgets aim to prove return on AI spending.
- 04People / Who's Who
Fei-Fei Li: the ImageNet builder who now works on spatial AI
A profile of the Stanford researcher behind ImageNet and World Labs.
- 05Communities
EleutherAI: how a Discord server became an open AI lab
The history of the community behind The Pile and GPT-NeoX-20B.
- 06APIs & SDKs
Streaming LLM API responses: events, tool calls and error handling
How server-sent events work in the Claude and OpenAI APIs.
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