Microsoft’s decision to expand its Wisconsin AI campus with an additional $4 billion — bringing total investment in the Mount Pleasant/Racine County site to more than $7 billion — is a clear signal that the company intends to cement Azure’s role as an AI infrastructure leader, and the...
The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...
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Microsoft has pledged a record-breaking £22 billion to the United Kingdom over the next four years in a sweeping commitment to build cloud and AI infrastructure, expand operations, and anchor advanced AI compute inside the country — a package the company says will “power the AI future” in...
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The debate Kepler Cheuvreux set out in its note—“Is AI truly a boon for the entire IT industry, or could it also be a curse?”—captures a growing fault line across technology markets: enormous, record-breaking infrastructure and R&D spending is colliding with an unsettled monetization pathway and...
Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...
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Microsoft’s position in the software industry is defined less by a single product than by a trio of connected businesses — Productivity & Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing — and the recent Benzinga snapshot comparing Microsoft to an eclectic peer group makes that...
The boom in generative AI — and the data-center buildout that powers it — is colliding with an electricity system built for a different era, and regulators, utilities and tech companies are scrambling to decide who ultimately pays for the upgrades. A landmark ruling by the Public Utilities...
Microsoft remains the dominant force in enterprise software and cloud, but the automated Benzinga competitor snapshot that circulated recently contains several numerical inconsistencies that merit correction — and a closer look at what the corrected figures mean for valuation, competitive...
The world of scientific research is in the midst of a revolution—a transformation driven not just by breakthroughs at the laboratory bench, but by the unprecedented power of cloud computing, AI, and data analytics. At the heart of this revolution stands Microsoft Azure Discovery, unveiled with...
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The art of prediction has propelled businesses forward for decades, but in the era of limitless data and cloud-native computing, the stakes—and rewards—have grown exponentially. Modern predictive analytics no longer reside solely within the purview of elite data science teams; they are...
Here is a summary of the article from SiliconANGLE titled “Druva and Microsoft team up to enhance cyber resiliency for enterprises” (March 11, 2025):
Announcement: Druva Inc., a data security provider, announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft Corp. to help enterprises protect and...
We have had a lot of episodes about Windows Server AppFabric but there is another AppFabric that you may have heard about - Windows Azure AppFabric. Today I'm joined by Wade Wegner our new Windows Azure AppFabric evangelist who will explain ServiceBus and the Access Control Service features of...