LinkedIn closed Microsoft’s Q4 FY26 with another quarter of strong growth, highlighting not only healthy financial performance but also continued momentum across user engagement, advertising, recruitment, and premium subscriptions. According to Microsoft’s latest earnings announcement, LinkedIn’s revenue increased 12% year over year, contributing to full-year revenue of $19.8 billion. At the same time, the platform …
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LinkedLetter #183: LinkedIn Faces New Questions Around Trust and Authenticity
LinkedIn has always positioned itself as the platform where professionals connect, companies hire, and expertise is shared. But this week’s updates suggest that trust is becoming one of the platform’s biggest challenges. From an investigation into alleged ghost jobs, to growing concerns over AI-generated content, and a new feature designed to make professional collaboration more …
LinkedLetter #182: AI Is Automating More of LinkedIn Than Ever Before
Artificial intelligence is no longer being added to LinkedIn one feature at a time. It’s becoming part of the platform’s underlying workflow. Whether you’re running campaigns, applying for jobs, or building marketing skills, AI is increasingly being positioned as the first step—not the last. This week’s updates reveal how LinkedIn is embedding AI deeper into …
LinkedLetter #181: AI Brands, Creator Economies & LinkedIn’s Unexpected Stories
LinkedIn continues to evolve far beyond its original role as a professional networking platform. This week’s updates reveal three distinct but connected shifts. The platform is building new AI-powered tools that help brands define and scale their identity, creating new monetization opportunities through a dedicated Creator Marketplace, and once again proving that some of the …
LinkedLetter #180: How Visibility, Leadership, and AI Are Reshaping LinkedIn
Something interesting is happening on LinkedIn. The platform is becoming more transparent about how visibility is earned, more intentional about how businesses reach professional audiences, and more vocal about the skills leaders need to navigate an AI-driven future. Taken separately, this week’s announcements might look like routine product updates and research findings. Together, however, they …
LinkedLetter #179: AI Reach, AI Recruiting & LinkedIn’s Identity Crisis
This week’s LinkedIn updates reveal a platform trying to balance two competing realities at the same time. On one side, LinkedIn continues embedding AI deeper into recruiting, advertising, and content creation. On the other, it is now openly admitting that excessive AI-generated activity threatens the authenticity and trust that made the platform valuable in the …
LinkedLetter #178: LinkedIn Maps the Future of Careers, Advertising, and AI Personalization
LinkedIn is increasingly positioning itself as more than a professional network. It is becoming a live infrastructure layer for how careers develop, how B2B advertising reaches decision-makers, and how AI systems understand professional intent. This week’s updates reveal a platform expanding simultaneously across workforce intelligence, advertising technology, and AI-powered personalization. From ranking the companies investing …
LinkedLetter #177: LinkedIn Names a New CEO, Turns Career Moments Live, and Tests AI Models
LinkedIn’s latest moves are not just product updates or campaigns. They point to a platform expanding its role across three critical layers at once: leadership, identity, and AI. What used to be a place for professional visibility is increasingly becoming infrastructure for how work is built, experienced, and evaluated. A leadership reshuffle, a real-time campaign, …
LinkedIn Phishing Scams Are Getting Smarter and Harder to Spot
As LinkedIn continues to grow as a trusted professional platform, it is increasingly becoming a target for sophisticated phishing attacks. According to reporting by Bleeping Computer, scammers are now exploiting LinkedIn’s comment system to distribute fake “reply” messages that impersonate the platform itself. These deceptive comments appear directly under LinkedIn posts and warn users about …
Microsoft and LinkedIn Bring AI and Career Tools Closer to Students
The pace of higher education has changed dramatically over the past decade. Today’s students are expected to manage full course loads, research projects, extracurricular activities, part-time work, and an increasingly competitive internship and job market, often all at the same time. Academic success alone is no longer enough. Career readiness is now an integral part …










