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Microsoft to Pay Nearly $20 Billion Over 6 Years for Third-Party AI Infrastructure

Unable to meet its own needs for AI infrastructure, Microsoft has agreed to pay Nebius…

Build 2025: This Year is All About Agentic AI

Build 2025: This Year is All About Agentic AI

Microsoft Build 2025 opens today in Seattle, and the messaging is familiar: We're (still) in…

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Russinovich: Microsoft is “All-in” on Rust (Premium)

Rust may be controversial in Linux, but there's no such controversy at Microsoft, which has…

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Microsoft to Spend $80 Billion on AI Datacenters in FY 2025

Microsoft said Friday that it would spend $80 billion building out its Ai infrastructure in…

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Microsoft Accuses Google of Massive Astroturf Campaign (Updated)

Google has been quite vocal in its criticism of Microsoft's cloud licensing policies in Europe,…

Google Issues Microsoft Antitrust Complaint in the EU

Google has issued its first-ever formal antitrust complaint, alleging to EU regulators that Microsoft's cloud…

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Botched CrowdStrike Update Triggered Microsoft Infrastructure Outage Overnight

Security firm CrowdStrike misconfigured a Windows security update, triggering a massive worldwide Internet outage.

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Microsoft Will Likely Avoid EU Antitrust Charges for Cloud Licensing

One week after it settled with CISPE, Microsoft has convinced OVHcloud to drop its EU…

Partec v. Microsoft

Patent Troll Seeks Billions of Dollars From Microsoft Azure

A noted patent troll has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and is seeking…

Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build: AI Day today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Microsoft to Invest $2.2 Billion in Cloud and AI in Malaysia

Microsoft announced this morning that it will pour $2.2 billion into Malaysia over four years…

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Microsoft Puts the PR in AI (Premium)

Overly reliant on OpenAI and facing a coming generation of on-device AI that it can't…

Azure Developers – .NET Day 2024

Azure Developers – .NET Day 2024 Arrives April 30 with an AI Focus

Microsoft announced today that it will host its next Azure Developers –.NET Day on April…

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Microsoft Expands AI Presence with $1.5 Billion Investment in G42

Today, Microsoft announced a $1.5 billion investment in G42, a UAE-based AI company, to expand…

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Microsoft Finally Kills Azure Egress Fees

Bowing to pressure from AWS and Google, Microsoft announced that it would finally eliminate Azure…

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Google is Wary of Microsoft Cloud Moves in Europe

With Microsoft trying to evade an EU antitrust charge related to its cloud computing licensing…

Thanks to AI, Azure is Closing the Gap with AWS

Microsoft's embrace of AI is closing the revenue gap between Azure and Amazon AWS as…

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