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Microsoft, Nvidia investing in Anthropic; Anthropic to buy $30 billion in Azure computing capacity

Well, this is the Platonic ideal of a circular AI deal.

In a joint press release, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic (maker of the Claude genAI) announced a strategic partnership that includes a slew of 10- and 11-digit investment plans:

Anthropic will purchase $30 billion of computing capacity from Microsoft’s Azure.
Anthropic’s commitment includes up to 1 gigawatt in computing capacity that will be served through Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell and (yet to be released) Vera Rubin systems.
Microsoft is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic.
Nvidia is investing up to $10 billion in Anthropic.

That’s revenues for Microsoft and Nvidia, and two high-profile investors for Anthropic.

Bank of America analysts have argued that these circular-seeming deals are a way for leaders in the space to beef up their potential addressable market that “could multiply future benefits.”

Anthropic announced its foray into data centers last week with plans for $50 billion in custom-built locations in partnership with Fluidstack. The company is targeting $70 billion in revenues by 2028, which would help it support this capex binge.

Despite the massive numbers being tossed around here, Anthropic said that Amazon’s AWS would remain its primary cloud provider, per Bloomberg.

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Workday jumps on positive Q1 earnings under returning CEO

Workday spiked as much as 10% after-hours on Thursday as the B2B software-as-a-service company announced first-quarter results.

Here are the numbers:

Q1 revenue of $2.54 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $2.51 billion).
Q1 adjusted earnings per share of $2.66 (estimate: $2.51).
Q1 subscription revenue of $2.35 billion (estimate: $2.33 billion).

This was Workday’s first quarter with its returning CEO, cofounder Aneel Bhusri, who retook the reigns in February of this year. It was also a test to see how the company’s ongoing AI pivot has been going, as AI investment often comes with steep costs that may not initially be fully counterbalanced by savings through efficiency.

Workday has been trading down 40% since the beginning of 2026.

In February, the company also cut about 2% of its global workforce (~400 positions) — which follows larger-scale layoffs last year as the company leaned into AI.

The software company is also still litigating a nationwide class-action lawsuit that alleges it uses said AI to algorithmically discriminate against certain job seekers based on age, race, and disability (which the company disputes).

Looking ahead, the company said it projects 2027 subscription revenue outlook of $9.925 billion to $9.950 billion, on par with analyst estimates.

“Our focus remains on executing on our agentic AI roadmap while driving operational efficiencies as we scale,” said CFO Zane Rowe. The company said in a Q4 earnings call that AI was involved in roughly half of all customer base transactions.

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Stocks gain and oil dips as traders evaluate US-Iran deal progress

Stocks managed to eke out a gain while the price of oil dipped as traders evaluated the progress on a deal with Iran.

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US gas prices rise again, sitting at their highest levels in 4 years ahead of Memorial Day weekend

Just days away from Memorial Day weekend, the national average of US gas prices has risen from a week earlier, sitting at the highest they’ve been in four years.

The price is currently $4.56 a gallon, up $0.03 from last week and $1.38 higher than this time last year, according to the American Automobile Association. Today’s prices are right around what customers were paying four years ago, when the price on Memorial Day was $4.61. Gas prices experienced a short-lived dip earlier this month before rising again.

Gasoline is in high demand ahead of Memorial Day weekend, and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed because of the war in Iran, leaving prices elevated as more drivers hit the road. GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan predicts that gas prices could soon hit $4.80 a gallon soon amid the strait’s closure.

Oil prices ticked up slightly on Thursday, with West Texas Intermediate sitting around $100 a barrel, after plunging on Wednesday.

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Memorial Day Weekend Gas Prices Reach Four-Year Highs

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Gasoline is in high demand ahead of Memorial Day weekend, and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed because of the war in Iran, leaving prices elevated as more drivers hit the road. GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan predicts that gas prices could soon hit $4.80 a gallon soon amid the strait’s closure.

Oil prices ticked up slightly on Thursday, with West Texas Intermediate sitting around $100 a barrel, after plunging on Wednesday.

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What Wall Street’s saying about Nvidia’s Q1 results

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