Court filings in the Musk v. Altman trial, reported May 8, 2026, show Microsoft executives in 2017 weighing OpenAI’s request for hundreds of millions of dollars in Azure compute while worrying the AI lab might move work to Amazon. The emails are historical, but they read less like trivia than...
Microsoft and OpenAI have moved from a tightly coupled, quasi-exclusive alliance into a more open and strategically flexible relationship, ending one of the defining arrangements of the generative AI boom. The revised pact keeps the two companies deeply connected through Azure, intellectual...
Microsoft and OpenAI have loosened one of the most important technology alliances of the AI era, turning an exclusive cloud-and-IP arrangement into a more flexible partnership just as Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft reaches a federal courtroom in Oakland. The...