By Eric Volkman
Publication Date: 2025-12-04 00:43:00
Some clients may not be as enthusiastic as others about adopting AI solutions.
Wednesday wasn’t an ideal day to plow money into artificial intelligence (AI)-linked stocks. A media report stated that a major AI adopter was easing off on selling AI-enhanced products, which affected stocks like chip maker Broadcom (AVGO 0.26%). The company’s shares declined marginally, on a day when the benchmark S&P 500 index bumped 0.3% higher.
Reduced expectations?
That report appeared on tech industry news website The Information. According to a digest of the article from Investing.com, the site reported that an unspecified number of Microsoft divisions have reduced their sales growth targets and quotas for AI products.
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This apparently came on the heels of numerous salespeople in the company missing their sales goals in the tech giant’s most recently completed fiscal year.
Microsoft vehemently denied this, stating succinctly in an email statement that “We did not…
