Microsoft blows $20 billion on GPU power from ex-Yandex cloud
Nebius lands monster deal
Microsoft has signed a deal worth up to $20 billion with AI infrastructure outfit Nebius, agreeing to lease GPU horsepower over five years to feed its AI binge.
Nvidia’s Blackwell racks set for 300 per cent shipment surge
Brokerages tip 60,000 units next year as Foxconn cashes in
Nvidia’s Blackwell GB300 enterprise AI systems are being churned out at a ferocious pace, with analysts forecasting shipments will triple in the third quarter.
UK government Copilot trial finds no productivity boost
Microsoft’s AI assistant slows down more complex work
A UK government test of Microsoft’s M365 Copilot has shown that the AI helper does not deliver the productivity miracle promised in Vole's glossy marketing.
Blame for borked SSDs shifts again
Pre-release firmware in the frame
Another cause has been found for the reason why SSDs have been dying in strange ways since the software king of the world, Microsoft pushed out its August Windows security patch.
Big Tech bosses bow before Trump’s AI circus
Kissing the ring while Musk is left out in the cold
The biggest names in US tech have lined up at the White House to show how much they adore Donald and Melania Trump, apparently believing fawning public displays will save their companies from regulators.
OpenAI jumps into chipmaking with Broadcom
ChatGPT outfit wants to ditch Nvidia addiction
OpenAI is moving into chip manufacturing next year in a bid to feed its AI addiction and loosen its ties with Nvidia’s pricey silicon.
SAP flings €20 billion at sovereign cloud
German outfit wants to keep Europe’s ai data away from US
The maker of esoteric business software, which no one is sure quiet what it does, SAP has promised to splurge more than €20 billion ($23.3 billion) over the next decade on “sovereign cloud” infrastructure in Europe.
Microsoft-backed brainiacs crack record fibre speeds
Hollow-core cable could mean faster clouds and greener networks
A group of networking boffins bankrolled by Microsoft have emerged from their smoke filled lab claiming that they’ve broken a major speed and latency barrier with a new hollow-core fibre design.
Microsoft won’t say where Scottish police data goes
Redmond stonewalls watchdogs over Office 365 flows
Software King of the World, Microsoft is refusing to tell Police Scotland where the sensitive data it processes in Office 365 goes, leaving the force staring down a breach of UK law.
Microsoft builds its own AI models
Copilot gets high-speed voice generation while foundation model debuts on LMArena
Software King of the World, Microsoft has trundled out two new in-house AI efforts, one already talking inside Copilot and the other still in the test arena.