Microsoft has committed $33B+ to neocloud providers; sources: its $19.4B Nebius deal will provide computing power for creating LLMs and a consumer AI assistant
Nebius deal alone secures 100,000 Nvidia GB300 chips for internal use Jingyue Hsiao / DigiTimes : Microsoft invests in Nebius to expand AI computing capacity Vladimir Popescu / Watcher Guru : Microsof...
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...
Sources: Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon, and others over the past year to fund Llama training costs in exchange for incentives, as part of a “Llama Consortium”
spending money on something they would eventually get for free w @KalleyHuang 🤝 https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @borrowed_ideas : The sooner $AMZN and $MSFT both understand that it is indeed an ex...
Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's AGI plan, the quantum breakthrough with Majorana 1, how Muse will change gaming, AI's legal barriers, AI safety, and more
Also that's not what “quantum” means. Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : So this is a really weird interview on many different levels. — But one thing I'd really start worrying about is that the CEO of Mic...
Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center Spencer Kimball / CNBC : Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI Lawrence Bonk / Engad...
Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center Jordan Valinsky / CNN : Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft Reuters : Constellation to restart Three Mile Island nuc...
Microsoft agrees to buy a record 500K carbon credits from US oil producer Occidental Petroleum's 1PointFive to offset its emissions amid the AI energy surge
Additionally, section 45Q credits are uncapped, and act as a subsidy (your tax dollars become private profits) for carbon capture. … X: @ft : The deal between Microsoft and one of the largest US oil p...
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky takes a thinly veiled swipe at Microsoft's OpenAI deal: “You don't want a cloud provider that's beholden primarily to one model provider”
Nope. It's Q as in the weapons master from the James Bond movies who gives 007 a bunch of superfluous weapons that don't work reliably. … X: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig : My dude, the price for some Bed...
Netflix names Microsoft as its “global advertising technology and sales partner” for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier, rumored to arrive later in 2022
Morning War & Peaceniks!! Welcome to our BREAKING NEWS Q&A edition! Evann Gastaldo / Newser : Netflix Has More News on Ad-Supported Tier Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint : Netflix's ad-supported tier will...
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
AR makes a spectacle Nathan Ord / HotHardware.com News : Microsoft Inks $22 Billion Deal To Supply Modified HoloLens AR Headsets To US Army Troops Kris Graft / Gamasutra : Controversial Hololens milit...