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Microsoft Green Card Suspension Explained: Timeline, PERM Freeze and What Happens Next

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On October 8, 2026, the Trump administration took one of its most aggressive steps yet against how Big Tech uses foreign talent. The administration blocked Microsoft , Adobe and six other major technology companies from a federal green card sponsorship program, halting new applications and freezing pending cases. This is not a routine immigration headline. Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world and a major user of the H-1B visa . The action also lands in a market already nervous about AI valuations, tech layoffs and policy risk. This guide covers what happened, how we got here, the arguments on both sides, the market reaction and the most likely outcomes for workers, companies and investors. The Short Version What happened: The Labor Department suspended eight companies from the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) program, the first step toward most employer-sponsored green cards. Wh...
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The $2.6 Trillion Question: Is the AI Boom Finally Facing Its Profitability Reckoning?

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                                                                  photocredit: Igor Omilaev Artificial intelligence spending has stopped looking like a trend and started looking like an entire economy unto itself. Global AI-related spending reached roughly $2.6 trillion in 2026, a 47% jump from the year before, while the four biggest hyperscalers — Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta — are guiding toward a combined $725 billion in capital expenditures this year alone, up 77% from 2025. Goldman Sachs projects the industry could pour $7.6 trillion into compute, data centers, and power between 2026 and 2031. Those are not the numbers of a niche technology bet. They are the numbers of an industrial buildout on the scale of the railroads, the electrical grid, or the interstate highway system. And that is precisely why 2026 ha...
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