cloud partnerships

The AI compute crunch is no longer a theoretical bottleneck; it is the organizing constraint shaping how the biggest names in tech build, buy, and compete. Meta’s recent infrastructure moves, Microsoft’s expanding Azure deals, and the broader scramble for GPUs and high-bandwidth memory show that...

Anthropic’s decision to bring on longtime Microsoft infrastructure executive Eric Boyd is more than a talent grab. It is a signal that the company’s next phase will be defined as much by compute, power, and systems design as by model quality. With demand for Claude rising quickly, Anthropic is...

IonQ’s latest results have given Wall Street plenty to celebrate, but the stock’s rally may be running ahead of the business. The company reported $130 million in full-year 2025 revenue, a 202% year-over-year increase, while also projecting $225 million to $245 million for 2026, which is a...

Azerbaijan's push to become a regional AI hub took a distinctly practical turn this week when Deputy Minister of Digital Development and Transport Samaddin Asadov told parliamentary public hearings that the country is in talks with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure — and a...

OpenAI’s recent pivot toward Amazon Web Services marks a decisive moment in the AI infrastructure battle: the company that helped put the cloud‑delivered LLM on every corporate roadmap is now engineering product-level integrations for a rival cloud, even as it keeps one foot in its longtime...

Cognizant’s purchase of 3Cloud closes a major strategic gap in the vendor’s Azure engineering bench and positions the services giant to accelerate enterprise AI programs built on Microsoft Azure. Background / Overview Cognizant announced a definitive agreement to acquire 3Cloud on November 13...

Microsoft Excel in 2026 still does what it has always done best: turn messy data into decisions — but it now does that with cloud sync, AI assistance, and extensible analytics that make old spreadsheets look like museum pieces. Background: the spreadsheet that never quite died Excel's tabular...

I switched from LibreOffice to ONLYOFFICE because I wanted a modern, cloud-friendly, and mobile-capable productivity suite that simply lets me get work done without wrestling with menus and manual configuration. The result isn’t just a cosmetic change: it reshaped how I collaborate, where I...

Microsoft’s latest public position — that it is not planning to build a local data centre in Nigeria “anytime soon” — is a clear signal that the company will continue to prioritise network connectivity, regional cloud delivery and partner-led models over on‑shore hyperscale builds for now...

Cognizant and Microsoft announced a multi‑year strategic expansion of their partnership that will see the two companies co‑build industry‑grade AI solutions, embed agentic AI and Copilot capabilities into mission‑critical workflows, and jointly pursue large‑scale deals across Financial Services...

Microsoft’s push to have employees lean on AI for routine work—including the way performance reviews are written—has rippled through the company and beyond. In June 2025 a division leader’s internal note made clear that AI adoption would be treated as a core expectation, and reporters and...

Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services have quietly taken a rare step from rivalry toward cooperation by launching a jointly engineered multicloud networking solution that promises private, encrypted cloud-to-cloud links provisioned in minutes — an offering aimed squarely at enterprises that run...

RLWRLD’s announcement that it has entered a strategic alliance with Microsoft to scale its robotics foundation model marks a pivotal moment for industrial robotics AI — combining RLWRLD’s real‑world, high‑precision 4D+ multimodal datasets and dexterity models with Azure’s cloud compute...

Anthropic’s surprise alliance with Microsoft and NVIDIA rewrites the industrial map for enterprise AI: the startup has pledged roughly $30 billion in Azure compute purchases and options to scale to one gigawatt of NVIDIA-powered capacity, while NVIDIA and Microsoft have pledged up to $10 billion...

Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic have announced a high-stakes, three‑way alliance that ties Anthropic’s Claude family of foundation models to Microsoft Azure at scale while creating an unprecedented co‑engineering relationship with Nvidia — a pact anchored by headline compute and investment...

The industry just reached a new inflection point: Anthropic, Microsoft, and NVIDIA unveiled a tightly coordinated set of partnerships that stitch model development, chip co‑engineering, and hyperscale cloud capacity into a single commercial fabric — Anthropic has committed to purchase roughly...

Cognizant’s announced agreement to acquire 3Cloud is a tightly targeted, strategic play to bulk up Azure engineering capacity and accelerate enterprise AI delivery—folding a high‑velocity, Azure‑native services firm into one of the world’s largest systems integrators and positioning the combined...

Anthropic’s quiet, discipline-first playbook — focusing on enterprise contracts, midsize production models, and predictable operational economics — could hand it a decisive advantage over OpenAI in the contest that now matters most: sustainable profitability and durable enterprise adoption...

Galleri 5’s premiere of what is being billed as India’s first AI-powered OTT serial marks a watershed moment for the country’s media ecosystem — but the story behind the launch is as much about cloud partnerships, corporate acquisitions, and technical tradeoffs as it is about a new way to tell...

After decades of daily use on both sides—Google’s cloud-first Docs Editors and Microsoft’s long-evolved Microsoft 365—the picture is clearer than ever: each suite has a distinct philosophy and a sharply different best fit. The PCMag comparison that prompted this reassessment lays out a pragmatic...