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• Latest iPad Airs are up to 30% faster than iPad Air with M3 processor and 2.3x faster than model with M1 chip

  80% confidence

• Capital expenditures would increase from $15.4 billion in 2025 to at least $30 billion in 2026

  80% confidence

• Our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's

  80% confidence

• What we are witnessing is not a temporary squeeze, but a tsunami-like shock originating in the memory supply chain, with ripple effects spreading across the entire consumer electronics industry

  80% confidence

• Data Center revenue for Q4 was record $62.3 billion, up 75% from a year ago and up 22% sequentially, driven by major platform shifts – accelerated computing and AI

  80% confidence

• The global smartphone market, particularly Android manufacturers, faces a significant threat

  80% confidence

• This is a simple, common-sense request that will prevent Anthropic from jeopardizing critical military operations and potentially putting our warfighters at risk

  80% confidence

• Computing has fundamentally changed. In the age of AI, software runs on intelligence with tokens generated in real time by AI factories for every interaction and every context

  80% confidence

• The contract language received overnight from the Department of War made virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons

  80% confidence

• We retain full discretion over our safety stack, we deploy via cloud, cleared OpenAI personnel are in the loop, and we have strong contractual protections

  80% confidence

• We cannot in good conscience accede to their request

  80% confidence

• We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again

  80% confidence

• The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement

  80% confidence

• I am confident in their cash flow growing

  80% confidence

• The partnership remains strong and central between Microsoft and OpenAI

  80% confidence

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