cloud computing

Microsoft’s AI triumphs in Chicago this week are colliding with a new and potentially disruptive regulatory reality in Brussels: the European Commission has opened formal market investigations into cloud computing services, focused squarely on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, to...

Amazon Web Services is still the cloud market leader, but the landscape that made AWS dominant is shifting fast — Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are accelerating, specialised "neoclouds" are carving out lucrative AI niches, and worldwide infrastructure spend is ballooning at a pace that is...

Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack has been implicated in a string of investigations alleging that Israeli military intelligence relied on commercial cloud services and AI tools to run mass surveillance and automated targeting systems in Gaza — including a disputed system called “Lavender” that...

Synopsys’ new simulation-driven framework promises to bring high‑fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and factory-scale digital twins into the operational tempo of the shop floor, but the bold performance claims that headline the announcement require disciplined verification before they...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced a sweeping three‑way strategic partnership that binds Anthropic’s Claude models to Microsoft Azure at massive scale, secures deep co‑engineering between Anthropic and NVIDIA on next‑generation hardware, and includes headline investment and compute...

VAST Data’s decision to bring its VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) to Microsoft Azure marks a deliberate push to treat the cloud as more than just a compute utility — instead, a managed platform for agentic AI where data, fast retrieval, and autonomous agents operate together under unified...

Microsoft’s Azure Cobalt 200 arrives as a radical second act in its custom‑silicon playbook: a chipletized Arm-based server SoC that packs 132 Arm Neoverse V3 cores, a 12‑channel DDR5 memory interface, built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, and a set of on‑SoC accelerators and per‑core power controls...

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic have announced a landmark three‑way alliance that reshapes the competitive map of generative AI and hyperscale cloud infrastructure: Anthropic has committed to purchase roughly $30 billion of compute from Microsoft Azure and to initially deploy up to one gigawatt...

The European Commission has opened three coordinated market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), putting Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely into Brussels’ regulatory crosshairs and testing whether the DMA — originally framed for consumer-facing platforms — can be...

Anthropic’s surprise alliance with Microsoft and Nvidia rewrites the commercial map for frontier AI: Microsoft will invest up to $5 billion, Nvidia up to $10 billion, and Anthropic has committed to purchase roughly $30 billion of Azure compute — with an initial option to contract capacity...

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic’s three‑way pact announced at Ignite this week is a high‑stakes, capital‑heavy wager that ties frontier AI models, cloud infrastructure and GPU supply into a single commercial loop — and it sharpens both the strategic advantages and systemic risks already...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have announced a three‑way strategic alliance that reorders the AI supply chain: Anthropic has committed to buy an unprecedented block of Azure compute, NVIDIA will supply and co‑design next‑generation systems, and both Microsoft and NVIDIA are making...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have announced a sweeping strategic alliance that reshapes who builds, powers and distributes the next generation of large language models — and it could change how enterprises buy AI compute for years to come. Anthropic has committed to purchase roughly $30...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic’s newly announced tri‑party pact is a watershed moment in the industrialization of frontier generative AI: Anthropic has committed to purchase roughly $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and to contract additional dedicated compute capacity up to an electrical...

Microsoft’s newest recovery toolkit for Windows 11 is a clear pivot from image‑and‑reinstall triage toward cloud‑assisted, pre‑boot remediation: Point‑in‑Time Restore (PITR) arrives in preview alongside upgrades to Quick Machine Recovery (QMR), expanded WinRE networking, Intune remote recovery...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have announced a three‑way strategic partnership that ties Anthropic’s Claude family of large language models to Microsoft Azure at massive scale, brings deep model‑to‑silicon co‑engineering with NVIDIA, and includes multi‑billion‑dollar investment commitments...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have stitched together one of the most consequential — and circular — technology deals of the AI era: Anthropic will commit tens of billions to run Claude on Microsoft Azure while Microsoft and NVIDIA pledge up to $5 billion and $10 billion respectively in funding...

Microsoft and NVIDIA have quietly moved from co‑engineering components to co‑building entire AI factories: Azure’s new Fairwater sites will run hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in rack‑scale GB200/GB300 NVL72 systems, deploy tens of thousands of Blackwell Ultra GPUs for inference...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have announced a sweeping, three‑way strategic partnership that ties Anthropic’s Claude family of models to Microsoft's Azure at massive scale, brings deep co‑engineering with NVIDIA, and includes multibillion‑dollar investment commitments that could reshape...

NVIDIA, Microsoft and Anthropic have announced a trio of agreements that instantly reshape the AI compute landscape: Anthropic committed to purchase roughly $30 billion of Azure compute capacity, NVIDIA signaled an equity and hardware partnership that includes up to a $10 billion staged...