ai compute

Microsoft’s exclusive-era tie-up with OpenAI has exploded into federal litigation, with a new class-action complaint accusing the company of exploiting its multibillion-dollar relationship to control scarce AI compute, raise prices, and choke competition in the generative-AI market. The...

This week’s PC Perspective Podcast #839 distilled a hectic stretch of industry news into a compact show: AMD’s surprise, large-scale compute agreement with OpenAI that positions the chipmaker as a material alternative to Nvidia for training-scale GPUs; NVIDIA and Elon Musk’s xAI deepening their...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...

Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. Background For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting to a cloud-first...

Oracle’s latest financial quarter did more than surprise investors — it rewrote the short-term narrative for how legacy enterprise vendors can compete in an AI-first cloud market by converting a mountain of booked contracts into a five‑year infrastructure roadmap that, if executed, would elevate...

Oracle’s quarter rewrote expectations: a staggering $455 billion in booked future revenue and a five‑year Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) projection that takes OCI from a mid‑single‑digit cloud player into the same league, on paper, as the largest hyperscalers — if the contracts behind that...

Microsoft has quietly begun preparing the hardware and operational scaffolding to stop being a pure buyer of frontier AI models and instead build — and run — its own in‑house models at scale, telling employees it will invest heavily in dedicated chip clusters while keeping the OpenAI partnership...

Microsoft’s surprise agreement with Nebius to supply large blocks of AI compute to Azure marks a strategic pivot: rather than racing to open more hyperscale data centers itself, Microsoft is contracting external “neocloud” capacity to close short-term gaps in U.S. availability while it...

Microsoft’s Q4 earnings were a watershed moment for Azure — the company disclosed that Azure’s annual run rate has topped $75 billion, cloud revenue for the quarter rose to $46.7 billion, and Azure’s year‑over‑year growth accelerated to the high‑30s in the June quarter, while Microsoft’s backlog...

For years, desktop PC enthusiasts and power users have watched from the sidelines as Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features—a suite of advanced AI tools promising transformative productivity and creativity—have rolled out exclusively on select laptops. That landscape is poised for a dramatic shift in...

In a rapidly evolving cloud computing landscape, even the most high-profile partnerships can face turbulence. Microsoft's reported decision to scale back portions of its agreements with CoreWeave—an ambitious AI-powered cloud provider with heavyweight backing from Nvidia—signals more than a...

Google’s push to bolster AI compute has taken another fascinating twist as the tech giant is reportedly in advanced talks to lease Nvidia’s cutting-edge Blackwell B200 GPUs from cloud provider CoreWeave. While internally engineered Trillium TPUs have long been the backbone of Google’s AI...