Cloud growth has helped push Microsoft earnings past Wall Street estimates.

West Coast tech giants Microsoft and Meta both exceeded analyst forecasts in first-quarter earnings reports Wednesday.

Microsoft on Wednesday said its profits rose 18% for the January-March quarter, driven by its growth in its cloud computing and artificial intelligence business in a turbulent time for the tech sector.

At Meta’s LlamaCon conference, Satya Nadella shared whether AI is better at writing Python or C++ and asked Mark Zuckerberg how much Meta code is written by artificial intelligence.

Microsoft says AI now writes up to 30% of its code, while Meta predicts AI will handle half of Llama development within a year.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that a big chunk of the tech giant's code is now written by AI.

Microsoft respects European laws including landmark legislation seeking to rein in the power of Big Tech, its President Brad Smith said on Wednesday, putting the company at odds with the White House,

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has expanded its cloud and AI infrastructure in Europe and will follow local laws.