AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly-built multicloud networking solution and an open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure “later in 2026”
Outages at major web hosts can have huge impacts across society, as we see often such as with the recent Cloudflare outage.
South Korea's KT launches a sovereign cloud platform for Korean enterprises, built on Azure with encrypted in-memory processing and strict local data governance
Jie Ye-eun / The Korea Herald :
Netherlands-based Nebius unveils Token Factory, a platform to let companies use open source AI models like GPT-oss, in a bid to compete with AWS and Azure
Nebius Group NV, an artificial intelligence cloud provider, is releasing a new product meant to offer access to open source models …
Microsoft now holds a ~$135B investment in OpenAI Group PBC, or a ~27% stake, down from 32.5%; OpenAI commits to purchase an additional $250B in Azure services
Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have shared a vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible.
Microsoft adds xAI's Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to its Azure AI Foundry service, risking further OpenAI tensions; sources say Satya Nadella had pushed to host Grok
here's why that could be controversial Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : Microsoft: What Is a Brand Name? Swagath Bandhakavi / Tech Monitor : Microsoft to host AI models from Meta, xAI, and others i...
Satya Nadella says Microsoft will invest ~$3B to expand Azure cloud and AI capacity in India and train 10M people in AI by 2030, after upskilling 2.4M in 2024
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will invest about $3 billion to expand capacity for artificial intelligence and its Azure cloud-computing services in India …
OpenAI and Microsoft announce a $10M AI local news project operated by the Lenfest Institute, starting with five US metro news organizations
$5M funding for fellowships, $5M credits for OpenAI and Azure products —No data licensing deal, just funding experimentation/fellowships More on @axios: https://www.axios.com/... @lenfestinst : Today ...
Oracle and AWS debut Oracle Database@AWS, which lets customers access select Oracle products within AWS, following Oracle's Azure and Google Cloud partnerships
⚡ Zero-ETL integration between Oracle Database service — ⚡ Migration flexibility … Scott Rosecrans : Customers have been asking for a very long time to be able to run Oracle DB on AWS. This partner...
Microsoft and Palantir partner to sell government cloud and AI tools, including GPT-4, to US defense and intel agencies; Palantir will integrate with Azure
Bloomberg :
In its annual report, Microsoft adds OpenAI as a competitor in AI offerings and search and news advertising; OpenAI unveiled its prototype SearchGPT last week
Embracing Our Future Microsoft is a technology company committed … Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal : Microsoft Adds OpenAI to Its List of Competitors in AI and Search Mastodon: Kevin Beaumont / @Gossi...