OpenAI limited to Volish cloud
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Rivals will have to come up with their own tech

Customers have asked to run OpenAI models on non-Microsoft cloud services or their own local servers, but OpenAI has no immediate plans to offer such options,

Amazon claims it is not a big online platform
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Trying to evade EU rules 

Mega-online retailer Amazon claims that it does not need to comply with Europe's Digital Services Act because it is too small to meet the definition of a Very Large Online Platform under EU law.

US government tells China to get off of its cloud
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Restrictions getting sillier by the day

The Biden administration is preparing to restrict Chinese companies access to U.S. cloud-computing services, WSJ reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the situation, in a move that could further strain relations between the world's economic superpowers.

Google moans to FTC about Microsoft cloud
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee 

Google has formally filed a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission, publicly alleging that Microsoft used its dominant position in enterprise software to push customers toward Vole's cloud services.

Amazon releases mysterious Snow
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You know nothing about Snow

Amazon Web Services has announced a new member of its "Snow" family of on-prem hardware -- but the machine’s specs appear not to be available to eyes outside the US military.