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Amazon's AWS Interconnect Preview Announced With Support for Private Links Between Cloud Services
Amazon’s new AWS Interconnect tool preview has been launched by the US-based tech giant. The new tool will help customers establish private, secure, and high-speed connections between different cloud services. The company will soon start onboarding new cloud service providers as partners. However, currently, it has only partnered with Google Clou...
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Microsoft Azure Services Restored After Global Outage: What Caused the Issue, How It Was Resolved
Microsoft on Thursday announced that its Azure services have been restored to almost normality across affected regions. The cloud computing platform was reported to be experiencing a major global outage on Wednesday, affecting not only Microsoft-owned platforms like Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Outlook, and Xbox Live, but also Alaska Airlines, Starbuc...
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Microsoft Azure Unveils Nvidia GB300 NVL72 Cluster Built for OpenAI’s AI Workloads
Microsoft Azure has launched the NDv6 GB300 VM series, the first supercomputing-scale cluster of Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems. Designed for OpenAI’s demanding AI workloads, it features 4,600 GPUs, high-speed NVLink/NVSwitch connectivity, and 37TB of memory per rack. The system supports agentic and multimodal AI workflows, enabling model training in...
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Disrupted By Multiple Fibre Cuts In Red Sea
Azure users may experience increased disruptions when traffic from the Middle East originates in or terminates in Asia or Europe, the company said in a service health status update.
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Microsoft Adds DeepSeek-R1 AI Model to Its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
Microsoft added support for the recently released DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model to its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub on Wednesday. The reasoning-focused AI model can now be accessed via these platforms. The Redmond-based tech giant also highlighted that it has conducted rigorous safety evaluations to ensure that the model is safe to ...
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Microsoft Shares Slide as Cloud Forecast, AI Spending Disappoint
Despite beating quarterly overall sales estimates, investors want better results from the hundreds of billions of dollars that Wall Street heavyweights have been spending to build AI data centers and infuse their products with the emerging technology.
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Microsoft Forecasts Slower Cloud Business Growth in Second Quarter
Microsoft has forecast an increase in spending on AI this quarter and warned of slower growth in its cloud business Azure, even as the company beat Wall Street's estimates for first-quarter revenue and profit.. The Redmond company has signalled that big AI investments were not enough to keep pace with capacity constraints at its data centres.
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Microsoft Launches ‘Correction’, an AI Feature That Can Detect and Fix AI Hallucinations
Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) capability on Tuesday that will identify and correct instances when an AI model generates incorrect information. Dubbed “Correction”, the feature is being integrated within Azure AI Content Safety’s groundedness detection system. Since this feature is available only through Azure, it is li...
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Microsoft's Xbox Unit Logs 61 Percent Growth, Fuelled by Purchase of Activision-Blizzard
Microsoft has managed to see a substantial growth in its Xbox unit, while having logged losses in Azure, which has been the software firm's main growth engine in recent years. In the fourth quarter, which ended June 30, capital expenditures for Microsoft jumped to $19 billion (roughly Rs. 1,59,091 crore) from $14 billion (roughly Rs. 1,17,225 cror...
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Microsoft Adds GPT-4o Support for Azure, Unveils Copilot AI Agents for Automation
Microsoft Build 2024 witnessed a large number of artificial intelligence (AI)-focused announcements from the company that spanned across Copilot, Azure cloud service, its data analytics platform Microsoft Fabric, and various other platforms. Expanding Azure, the tech giant has made GPT-4o, which was recently unveiled, generally available via its Az...
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Microsoft Ignite 2023: Maia, Cobalt AI Chips to Power Copilot and Azure Services Announced
Microsoft unveiled two new custom-designed computing chips called Maia and Cobalt that will bring key AI technologies in-house, to keep costs down. The company said that it doesn't plan to sell Maia and Cobalt. Instead, Microsoft will use the new chips to power its AI software offerings and parts of Its Azure cloud service.
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OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Version for Large Business With More Security
Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI said on Monday it is releasing a version of ChatGPT targeted to large businesses, increasing the overlap in what OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft offer to customers. ChatGPT Enterprise offers more security, privacy and higher-speed access.
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Microsoft Ramps Up Spending to Meet AI Demand as Quarterly Revenue Rises to $56.2 Billion
Microsoft on Tuesday laid out an aggressive spending plan to meet demand for its new artificial intelligence services after surpassing Wall Street estimates for fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and profit. Costs rose sharply as Microsoft built new data centers to support AI, and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said on a conference call with analysts ...
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Meta to Release Open Source AI Model, Llama, to Compete Against OpenAI, Google’s Bard
Meta is releasing a commercial version of its open-source artificial intelligence model Llama, the company said on Tuesday, giving start-ups and other businesses a powerful free-of-charge alternative to pricey proprietary models sold by OpenAI and Google.
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Microsoft Launches New Computing Service, Aims to Help Speed Up R&D
Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a new computing service aimed at helping chemical companies speed up the research and development of new materials. Azure Quantum Elements, as the service is called, relies on computing power to help chemical companies simulate huge numbers of possible combinations of atoms. The point is to use computers to explore...
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Amazon's AWS Interconnect Preview Announced With Support for Private Links Between Cloud Services
Amazon’s new AWS Interconnect tool preview has been launched by the US-based tech giant. The new tool will help customers establish private, secure, and high-speed connections between different cloud services. The company will soon start onboarding new cloud service providers as partners. However, currently, it has only partnered with Google Clou...
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Microsoft Azure Services Restored After Global Outage: What Caused the Issue, How It Was Resolved
Microsoft on Thursday announced that its Azure services have been restored to almost normality across affected regions. The cloud computing platform was reported to be experiencing a major global outage on Wednesday, affecting not only Microsoft-owned platforms like Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Outlook, and Xbox Live, but also Alaska Airlines, Starbuc...
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Microsoft Azure Unveils Nvidia GB300 NVL72 Cluster Built for OpenAI’s AI Workloads
Microsoft Azure has launched the NDv6 GB300 VM series, the first supercomputing-scale cluster of Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems. Designed for OpenAI’s demanding AI workloads, it features 4,600 GPUs, high-speed NVLink/NVSwitch connectivity, and 37TB of memory per rack. The system supports agentic and multimodal AI workflows, enabling model training in...
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Disrupted By Multiple Fibre Cuts In Red Sea
Azure users may experience increased disruptions when traffic from the Middle East originates in or terminates in Asia or Europe, the company said in a service health status update.
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Microsoft Adds DeepSeek-R1 AI Model to Its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
Microsoft added support for the recently released DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model to its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub on Wednesday. The reasoning-focused AI model can now be accessed via these platforms. The Redmond-based tech giant also highlighted that it has conducted rigorous safety evaluations to ensure that the model is safe to ...
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Microsoft Shares Slide as Cloud Forecast, AI Spending Disappoint
Despite beating quarterly overall sales estimates, investors want better results from the hundreds of billions of dollars that Wall Street heavyweights have been spending to build AI data centers and infuse their products with the emerging technology.
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Microsoft Forecasts Slower Cloud Business Growth in Second Quarter
Microsoft has forecast an increase in spending on AI this quarter and warned of slower growth in its cloud business Azure, even as the company beat Wall Street's estimates for first-quarter revenue and profit.. The Redmond company has signalled that big AI investments were not enough to keep pace with capacity constraints at its data centres.
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Microsoft Launches ‘Correction’, an AI Feature That Can Detect and Fix AI Hallucinations
Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) capability on Tuesday that will identify and correct instances when an AI model generates incorrect information. Dubbed “Correction”, the feature is being integrated within Azure AI Content Safety’s groundedness detection system. Since this feature is available only through Azure, it is li...
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Microsoft's Xbox Unit Logs 61 Percent Growth, Fuelled by Purchase of Activision-Blizzard
Microsoft has managed to see a substantial growth in its Xbox unit, while having logged losses in Azure, which has been the software firm's main growth engine in recent years. In the fourth quarter, which ended June 30, capital expenditures for Microsoft jumped to $19 billion (roughly Rs. 1,59,091 crore) from $14 billion (roughly Rs. 1,17,225 cror...
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Microsoft Adds GPT-4o Support for Azure, Unveils Copilot AI Agents for Automation
Microsoft Build 2024 witnessed a large number of artificial intelligence (AI)-focused announcements from the company that spanned across Copilot, Azure cloud service, its data analytics platform Microsoft Fabric, and various other platforms. Expanding Azure, the tech giant has made GPT-4o, which was recently unveiled, generally available via its Az...
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Microsoft Ignite 2023: Maia, Cobalt AI Chips to Power Copilot and Azure Services Announced
Microsoft unveiled two new custom-designed computing chips called Maia and Cobalt that will bring key AI technologies in-house, to keep costs down. The company said that it doesn't plan to sell Maia and Cobalt. Instead, Microsoft will use the new chips to power its AI software offerings and parts of Its Azure cloud service.
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OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Version for Large Business With More Security
Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI said on Monday it is releasing a version of ChatGPT targeted to large businesses, increasing the overlap in what OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft offer to customers. ChatGPT Enterprise offers more security, privacy and higher-speed access.
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Microsoft Ramps Up Spending to Meet AI Demand as Quarterly Revenue Rises to $56.2 Billion
Microsoft on Tuesday laid out an aggressive spending plan to meet demand for its new artificial intelligence services after surpassing Wall Street estimates for fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and profit. Costs rose sharply as Microsoft built new data centers to support AI, and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said on a conference call with analysts ...
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Meta to Release Open Source AI Model, Llama, to Compete Against OpenAI, Google’s Bard
Meta is releasing a commercial version of its open-source artificial intelligence model Llama, the company said on Tuesday, giving start-ups and other businesses a powerful free-of-charge alternative to pricey proprietary models sold by OpenAI and Google.
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Microsoft Launches New Computing Service, Aims to Help Speed Up R&D
Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a new computing service aimed at helping chemical companies speed up the research and development of new materials. Azure Quantum Elements, as the service is called, relies on computing power to help chemical companies simulate huge numbers of possible combinations of atoms. The point is to use computers to explore...
