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Microsoft’s cloud and AI relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has erupted into a renewed ethical and practical showdown for the company — and for the wider cloud industry — after leaked procurement files and investigative reporting showed a dramatic expansion of ICE’s...

The leaked files published this week show that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically increased its use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud during the second half of 2025 — more than tripling stored volumes on Azure in six months and expanding the agency’s consumption of Microsoft...

Marlink’s decision to integrate Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute into its managed maritime network stack is a pragmatic — and potentially game-changing — move for vessel operators and remote-site enterprises that rely on satellite and hybrid connectivity to reach cloud services reliably. The...

Simplilearn is staging a live webinar on February 17, 2026 that positions its Microsoft-aligned Data Analyst program as a fast, job-focused route into analytics work — a session that promises a detailed walk-through of curriculum, hands‑on projects, and how Microsoft course certificates and...

Valve has told customers it can no longer lock in exact launch dates or prices for the Steam Machine family because AI-driven memory and storage shortages have materially changed component availability and costs since the devices were announced, and the company will “revisit our exact shipping...

Nvidia’s recent second thoughts about its headline-grabbing OpenAI pact are more than a private spat between two Silicon Valley giants — they are a flashing caution light for Microsoft, whose cloud, products and bet‑the‑company AI strategy are deeply entangled with OpenAI’s fortunes. Background...

Weather forecasting is part science, part engineering—and part humility. The weather’s raw data are messy, the physics are fiendishly complex, and the atmosphere itself is a chaotic system that refuses easy answers. Yet over the past 24 months we’ve watched two tectonic shifts collide: the rise...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 is not a subtle step — it’s a direct, public escalation in the hyperscaler silicon arms race: an inference‑first AI accelerator Microsoft says is built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, packed with massive on‑package HBM3e memory, and deployed in Azure with the explicit aim of...

Delaware’s Belgian arm has quietly elevated two long-serving senior technologists — Nicompetitorlas Maes and Kenny Decorte — to partner, a move that tightens the consultancy’s grip on two strategic value pillars: sector-focused ERP delivery and Microsoft-cloud-led data platforms. The personnel...

TomTom’s latest announcement that it is deepening its production-grade integration with Microsoft Azure—bringing Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) into its automotive stack—marks a concrete step from experimental voice assistants toward...

OHM Advisors has migrated its enterprise GIS to Esri ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 on Microsoft Azure in partnership with GEO Jobe, replacing a mixed ArcGIS Online / on‑premises footprint with a centralized, cloud‑first Web GIS designed for performance, scale, and better cross‑office collaboration...

Elon Musk’s latest legal salvo has unspooled a new layer of irony into the long, tangled story of OpenAI and Microsoft: court exhibits unsealed in a high‑profile lawsuit show Musk not only criticized the Microsoft–OpenAI alliance in public, but privately urged OpenAI to move its compute from...

Microsoft Azure has quietly become the default backbone for enterprise IT, and by 2026 the platform’s role in cloud computing, AI, and hybrid infrastructure is the primary reason demand for Azure skills and services is higher than ever. The shift away from on-premises hardware toward elastic...

Microsoft’s lead in the AI race is no accident: a mix of deep-pocketed infrastructure spending, integrated product strategy, and strategic partnerships has vaulted Azure and its partners to the front of a rapidly maturing market — but that lead is neither unassailable nor free from short- and...

Microsoft’s deepening tie-up with Wayve marks a turning point: a British-born startup that has insisted on a camera‑first, deep‑learning approach to autonomy is moving from lab demonstrations toward constrained commercial deployment on London’s chaotic streets, backed by Azure supercomputing, a...

HEGLA‑HANIC’s new glass365 platform brings an industry‑tuned Microsoft Copilot into the heart of glass order entry, promising to turn hours of manual data entry into seconds of automated drafting—while keeping production teams firmly in control of every confirmation step. The system is built on...

Analysts are calling Microsoft a top AI play for 2026 because the company has stitched together a unique combination of hyperscale cloud capacity, seat-based productivity monetization (the Copilot family), and privileged commercial ties to leading model providers — an arrangement many on Wall...

Cerence’s xUI platform is gaining real momentum: the hybrid, agentic in‑car assistant now ships with production integrations that lean on NVIDIA AI Enterprise for model performance and optimizations and on Microsoft Azure for cloud-hosted services and distribution — a stack that Cerence says is...

The Iberian blackout of April 28, 2025 — an unprecedented, region‑wide loss of power that left trains halted, communications severed and banking services temporarily unusable — crystallised a stark lesson for utilities and energy operators: fragmented data, disconnected systems and weak...

Cognizant’s deal to buy 3Cloud is a targeted, high‑stakes move to bulk up Azure engineering capacity and accelerate enterprise AI rollout for large customers by folding a market‑leading Azure managed service provider into its global Microsoft practice. Background 3Cloud was founded in 2016 by...