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Microsoft says it will deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI infrastructure at scale across its data centers, making the next-generation platform part of both Azure’s own AI services and capacity offered to cloud customers. The commitment, announced July 20 alongside AMD, is significant because it...

A securities class action filed in the Western District of Washington accuses Microsoft and several officers of misleading investors between May 1, 2025, and January 28, 2026, over Copilot adoption, AI infrastructure costs, Azure capacity tradeoffs, and the competitive state of Microsoft’s...

Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman said on June 28, 2026, that a securities class action has been filed against Microsoft and certain officers over alleged AI and Copilot disclosures affecting investors who bought Microsoft securities from May 1, 2025, through January 28, 2026. The lawsuit is not a...

Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA claimed on June 16, 2026, that Azure had set a new large-language-model training record in the latest MLPerf Training results, using full-stack cloud infrastructure rather than a boutique lab cluster. The announcement is not just another trophy in the AI benchmark...

Anyscale put its managed Ray platform into public preview on Microsoft Azure on June 2, 2026, giving enterprises a native Azure integration for running large-scale AI data, training, inference, and agent workloads inside their own Azure tenants. The announcement is less about another AI service...

Microsoft has named eleven AI-first startups for its Microsoft Build 2026 cohort, bringing companies in developer tooling, AI infrastructure, observability, synthetic data, robotics, and agent security to San Francisco and online for its June 2–3 developer conference. The list is less a startup...

Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten one of the technology industry’s most important commercial relationships, turning a once tightly coupled alliance into a more flexible, less exclusive partnership. The new terms keep Azure at the center of OpenAI’s deployment strategy, but they also let OpenAI...

Microsoft’s A$25 billion bet on Australia is more than a headline-grabbing capital commitment. It is a strategic move that ties together cloud infrastructure, AI compute, cybersecurity, and workforce training in one of the Asia-Pacific’s most important digital markets. The scale alone makes it...