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Microsoft faces competition in cloud computing from companies such as Google, which is looking to boost its security business with Wiz.

Microsoft is exploring a way to credit contributors to AI training data  TechCrunch

An AI Startup Couldn’t Beat Microsoft. So It Joined Them  Bloomberg

Microsoft's incoming chief people officer, Amy Coleman, led the development of Microsoft's human resources response to Covid and its hybrid work approach.

Elon Musk’s xAI and Nvidia join BlackRock and Microsoft’s $30bn AI fund  Financial Times

Nvidia, Musk's xAI to join Microsoft, BlackRock and MGX to develop AI infrastructure  Reuters

Nerdio, a platform designed to simplify how companies deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, has raised $500 million.

Google’s acquisition of Wiz puts pressure on AWS and Microsoft cloud security market share as Google Cloud integrates Wiz’s cybersecurity innovation to boost AI and security.

Microsoft CEO to visit South Korea for AI, business talks  Tech in Asia

Microsoft is open to using natural gas to power AI data centers to keep up with demand  CNBC

FIS Introduces ‘Treasury GPT’ in Conjunction With Microsoft AI  PYMNTS.com

Microsoft Corp. has developed a series of large language models that can rival algorithms from OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, multiple publications reported today.

Microsoft's new agents, Anthropic's $3.5 billion, and a new startup: This week's AI launches  Quartz

Report: Microsoft Considering AI Models to Replace OpenAI’s in Copilot  PYMNTS.com

Microsoft developing AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI, The Information reports  Reuters

IPO-bound AI cloud startup CoreWeave said on Thursday it had not seen any contract cancellations after the Financial Times reported that the company's largest customer, Microsoft , had moved away from ...

Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn from some of its commitments with cloud computing provider CoreWeave due to delivery issues and missed deadlines, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

The U.K.'s competition authority says Microsoft's OpenAI partnership doesn't qualify for investigation under the country's anticompetitive practices law.

Microsoft’s $13bn investment in OpenAI has been cleared by the UK’s competition regulator, weeks after the artificial intelligence start-up struck a new partnership with SoftBank that reduces its ...

Some British firms ‘stuck in neutral’ over AI, says Microsoft UK boss  The Guardian

Britain's competition authority said on Wednesday that Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI Inc does not qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002.

Microsoft supplied CoreWeave with almost two-thirds of 2024 revenue, according to a prospectus for the cloud provider specializing in graphics processing units.

Microsoft’s new Dragon Copilot is an AI assistant for healthcare  The Verge

Microsoft announced a new health-care AI assistant called Dragon Copilot that builds on its existing offerings.

Microsoft said service was restored following an outage that left tens of thousands of users unable to access their Outlook email accounts and other programs.

Tens of thousands of users reported outages in various Microsoft programs on Saturday, according to Downdetector.

Microsoft says it will wind down the pioneering and once ubiquitous free video calling service so it can streamline its consumer communications offerings, such as Microsoft Teams.

Tech giant to retire service it acquired for $8.5bn after being overtaken by upstarts such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Zoom ...

AWS has launchd Ocelot, its first quantum computing chip, bringing it into line with its big cloud rivals Microsoft and Google.

Microsoft has made an undisclosed equity investment in Veeam Software as part of an expanded partnership to develop artificial intelligence products, Reuters reports.Veeam's software specializes in helping customers recover data after cybersecurity incidents, ransomware attacks, or accidental data loss. Its core product supports immutable backups, preventing ransomware