The Microsoft Problem

The AI North Brief • January 29, 2026 • Solo Episode

Guests

No guests identified for this episode.

Description

Send us a text Episode Description Microsoft beat on every metric and the stock dropped six percent. What the earnings call revealed about AI infrastructure spending, OpenAI concentration risk, and why Canada's sovereign compute push faces a $72 billion scale gap. Chapter Markers / Timecodes 00:00 – Intro 00:25 – The Earnings 01:45 – The Spending Problem 03:30 – The OpenAI Problem 05:00 – What This Means for Canada 06:15 – The Scale Gap 07:00 – Outro Episode Tags Microsoft, Azure, OpenAI, ...

Audio