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OpenAI, Microsoft Make Major Changes to Partnership, Remove the AGI Clause
OpenAI and Microsoft’s exclusive partnership is now officially over. On Monday, both companies announced several changes to their existing deal, removing key exclusivity clauses. Additionally, the amended partnership has also ended the vaguely worded artificial general intelligence (AGI) clause, which dictated several “if-this-then-that” scen...
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Microsoft Inks $750 Million Cloud Deal With AI Firm Perplexity
AI startup Perplexity signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft Corp. to use its Azure cloud service, spreading its business beyond longtime cloud partner Amazon.com Inc.
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AI Startup Perplexity Signs $750 Million AI Cloud Deal With Microsoft: Report
AI startup Perplexity has signed a $750 million agreement with Microsoft to use its Azure cloud service, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Microsoft Introduces Maia 200 Chipset for AI Inference, Will Power OpenAI’s GPT-5.2
Microsoft introduced Maia 200, a next-generation AI inference chipset built on TSMC 3nm technology, with over 140 billion transistors, high-bandwidth memory and scalable networking. Maia 200 aims to accelerate large-scale AI workloads in Azure with improved performance per dollar and support for demanding models such as GPT-5.2, and comes with an S...
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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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Satya Nadella Welcomes Grok 4 To Azure AI Foundry, Elon Musk Responds
Microsoft has added Grok 4, the latest language model from Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, to its Azure AI Foundry platform.
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Microsoft Cuts Off Some Services To Israeli Military Over Gaza Surveillance
Microsoft on Thursday said it cut an Israeli defense unit's access to some cloud services apparently being used as part of a mass surveillance operation in Gaza.
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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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2 Microsoft Workers Fired After Protesting Ties To Israel
A Microsoft spokesperson said the workers were terminated following "serious breaches of company policies and our code of conduct" stemming from "the break-in at the executive offices."
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18 Microsoft Employees Arrested During Protest Over Israel Military Ties
Police officers arrested 18 people at worker-led protests at Microsoft headquarters Wednesday as the tech company promises an "urgent" review of the Israeli military's use of its technology during the ongoing war in Gaza.
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Microsoft Reaches $4 Trillion Valuation After Solid Results
Strong results from Microsoft and Meta Platforms late on Thursday also fueled gains in Amazon and sent chipmaker Nvidia to a record high, with the four heavyweight AI players gaining over half a trillion dollars in market value.
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Microsoft Sacks Employee Who Interrupted Satya Nadella's Speech
Software engineer Joe Lopez shouted in protest against Microsoft for supplying the Israeli military with AI and cloud technology.
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Microsoft Is Bringing Elon Musk’s AI Models to Its Cloud
Microsoft's AI marketplace is set to add models from Elon Musk's xAI. Grok 3, that was introduced by Musk earlier this year, will be available on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform in the coming time. Meanwhile, xAI’s Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini will be available on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry.
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OpenAI, Microsoft Make Major Changes to Partnership, Remove the AGI Clause
OpenAI and Microsoft’s exclusive partnership is now officially over. On Monday, both companies announced several changes to their existing deal, removing key exclusivity clauses. Additionally, the amended partnership has also ended the vaguely worded artificial general intelligence (AGI) clause, which dictated several “if-this-then-that” scen...
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Microsoft Inks $750 Million Cloud Deal With AI Firm Perplexity
AI startup Perplexity signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft Corp. to use its Azure cloud service, spreading its business beyond longtime cloud partner Amazon.com Inc.
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AI Startup Perplexity Signs $750 Million AI Cloud Deal With Microsoft: Report
AI startup Perplexity has signed a $750 million agreement with Microsoft to use its Azure cloud service, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Microsoft Introduces Maia 200 Chipset for AI Inference, Will Power OpenAI’s GPT-5.2
Microsoft introduced Maia 200, a next-generation AI inference chipset built on TSMC 3nm technology, with over 140 billion transistors, high-bandwidth memory and scalable networking. Maia 200 aims to accelerate large-scale AI workloads in Azure with improved performance per dollar and support for demanding models such as GPT-5.2, and comes with an S...
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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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Satya Nadella Welcomes Grok 4 To Azure AI Foundry, Elon Musk Responds
Microsoft has added Grok 4, the latest language model from Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, to its Azure AI Foundry platform.
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Microsoft Cuts Off Some Services To Israeli Military Over Gaza Surveillance
Microsoft on Thursday said it cut an Israeli defense unit's access to some cloud services apparently being used as part of a mass surveillance operation in Gaza.
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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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2 Microsoft Workers Fired After Protesting Ties To Israel
A Microsoft spokesperson said the workers were terminated following "serious breaches of company policies and our code of conduct" stemming from "the break-in at the executive offices."
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18 Microsoft Employees Arrested During Protest Over Israel Military Ties
Police officers arrested 18 people at worker-led protests at Microsoft headquarters Wednesday as the tech company promises an "urgent" review of the Israeli military's use of its technology during the ongoing war in Gaza.
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Microsoft Reaches $4 Trillion Valuation After Solid Results
Strong results from Microsoft and Meta Platforms late on Thursday also fueled gains in Amazon and sent chipmaker Nvidia to a record high, with the four heavyweight AI players gaining over half a trillion dollars in market value.
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Microsoft Sacks Employee Who Interrupted Satya Nadella's Speech
Software engineer Joe Lopez shouted in protest against Microsoft for supplying the Israeli military with AI and cloud technology.
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Microsoft Is Bringing Elon Musk’s AI Models to Its Cloud
Microsoft's AI marketplace is set to add models from Elon Musk's xAI. Grok 3, that was introduced by Musk earlier this year, will be available on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform in the coming time. Meanwhile, xAI’s Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini will be available on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry.
