cloud computing

Microsoft has quietly completed the long arc from “assistant” to platform: Copilot is no longer an optional chatbot add‑on that lives in a separate pane — it is being embedded as a first‑class, context‑aware productivity engine across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive/SharePoint...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud now sits at the center of a major data‑privacy and human‑rights controversy after the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) lodged a formal GDPR complaint alleging Microsoft Ireland unlawfully processed and enabled the transfer of Palestinian personal data used by the...

Microsoft is facing a formal regulatory complaint in the European Union after a non‑profit organisation alleged that data stored on Microsoft’s Azure cloud — including recordings and related metadata from Palestinians — was handled in a way that enabled Israeli military surveillance and was...

The Premier League has handed its vast archive—and a significant portion of fan engagement—to a new technological playmaker: Microsoft. Announced in a public press program on July 1, 2025, the League named Microsoft its official cloud and AI partner under a five‑year agreement and launched the...

Google’s quiet withdrawal of its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is a consequential tactical pivot: the company has stepped out of a one‑on‑one regulatory fight and handed the contest to Brussels, where the European Commission’s newly launched market investigations...

Satya Nadella is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft and has served as the company’s chairman as well—he has been Microsoft’s CEO since February 4, 2014 and was named chairman of the board in June 2021. Background / Overview Microsoft, founded in 1975, is one of the world’s largest and most...

Amazon’s twin AI moves this week — a headline-grabbing pledge to build supercomputing and classified cloud capacity for U.S. government customers alongside the longer-running multiyear compute relationship between OpenAI and AWS — have reset the narrative around Amazon’s capital intensity...

Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s Azure cloud services is a strategic pivot that hands the dispute over cloud licensing and alleged vendor lock‑in to Brussels’ broader Digital Markets Act (DMA) enforcement architecture — a move that reframes a...

Google has quietly withdrawn its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union, a tactical pivot that hands the dispute over cloud competition to Brussels’ broader Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations and reframes the fight from private litigation to public...

Alphabet’s Google has formally withdrawn its formal complaint to the European Commission alleging that Microsoft’s cloud licensing and commercial practices lock customers into Azure — a move that comes after Brussels opened a sweeping set of market investigations into the cloud sector that could...

Google’s abrupt withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing is the latest twist in a transatlantic tussle over the future of cloud competition — and it comes as the European Commission has opened formal market investigations to determine whether Microsoft Azure...

Google’s abrupt withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft has converted a heated bilateral tussle into a full-blown regulatory showdown — and it did so on purpose. The complaint Google filed in September 2024, which accused Microsoft of licensing and commercial practices that...

Google has formally withdrawn its antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices in the European Union, citing the European Commission’s recent launch of broader market investigations into cloud computing under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The move shifts Google’s fight from...

Synopsys’ Microsoft Ignite demonstration promised a step-change for factory-floor decisioning: a cloud-native, GPU-accelerated digital-twin framework that stitches together Ansys Fluent, NVIDIA Omniverse/OpenUSD, Synopsys’ accelerated physics orchestration, and Microsoft Azure to cut...

RLWRLD’s announced alliance with Microsoft marks a high‑profile step in industrial robotics: the Seoul‑based physical‑AI startup will use Microsoft Azure compute and explore research collaboration with Microsoft Research to scale its robotics foundation model (RFM), run joint proof‑of‑concepts...

The emergence of a three‑way strategic alignment between Microsoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA announced at Microsoft Ignite is not a routine partnership announcement — it is an industrial‑scale pact that stitches cloud procurement, advanced silicon, and frontier model development into a single...

The European Commission has opened three coordinated market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to decide whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be regulated as DMA “gatekeepers” for cloud computing — and to test whether the DMA itself needs adapting to...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic’s three‑way pact reshaped the week’s real‑time analytics and enterprise AI headlines, anchoring Anthropic’s Claude family to Microsoft Azure at massive scale while bringing NVIDIA into a deep co‑engineering and investment role — moves that promise to change how...

Anthropic’s sudden pledge to anchor Claude on Microsoft Azure with a reported $30 billion compute commitment — backed by concurrent investments from NVIDIA (up to $10 billion) and Microsoft (up to $5 billion) — is the most consequential industry-altering pact of the AI era so far, reshaping who...

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...