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Microsoft President Brad Smith’s blunt warning that U.S. technology firms should “worry a little” about Beijing’s torrent of AI subsidies has crystallized a debate that’s been simmering for years: can market-driven American innovators compete with a state-directed Chinese industrial machine that...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi‑based G42 have announced a coordinated expansion that will add 200 megawatts (MW) of new datacenter capacity to the United Arab Emirates, a move packaged inside Microsoft’s broader $15.2 billion UAE investment and delivered through G42’s Khazna Data Centers — capacity the...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 announced a 200‑megawatt expansion of data‑centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates, a move folded into a broader Microsoft commitment of roughly $15.2 billion for UAE AI and cloud infrastructure between 2023 and 2029; the partners say the new capacity will begin...

Microsoft and G42 announced a joint expansion that will add 200 megawatts of datacenter capacity to the UAE, part of a broader $15.2 billion investment program aimed at accelerating the country’s AI and cloud ambitions while pairing large-scale compute with new governance, skilling, and...

Microsoft’s announcement that it will invest roughly $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates and has secured U.S. export approvals to deploy advanced NVIDIA GB300-class systems in-country marks a watershed moment in the global AI infrastructure race—one that reshapes where frontier AI compute...

Microsoft will ship more than 60,000 of NVIDIA’s newest AI accelerators — including the GB300 “Blackwell” class GPUs — to data centers in the United Arab Emirates after the U.S. Commerce Department approved export licenses with what Microsoft describes as “stringent safeguards.” The approvals...

Microsoft will ship more than 60,000 of NVIDIA’s advanced AI accelerators — including GB300 “Blackwell” class GPUs — to data centers in the United Arab Emirates under U.S. Commerce Department export licenses granted with what Microsoft calls “stringent safeguards,” a move tied to a broader $15.2...

Microsoft has disabled a discrete set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after an external review found evidence that elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale collection and processing of Palestinian communications were supported by...

This week’s AI headlines — from a fresh congressional bill that would reshape how high‑performance chips are sold, to the U.S. government’s rollback of an earlier export-control framework, and Microsoft’s quiet decision to split Office 365’s AI supply between OpenAI and Anthropic — have combined...

Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...

Microsoft has opened a formal review into allegations that its cloud and AI technologies were used by Israeli security forces for large‑scale surveillance in Gaza and the West Bank — a development that escalates months of investigative reporting, employee protests, and policy debate about the...

Microsoft’s cloud business is at the center of a fraught ethical, legal and commercial storm after new reporting tied Azure to intelligence workloads used by Israel’s military, forcing a reckoning over what cloud providers can — and should — do when sovereign customers appear to repurpose...

The U.S. government has brokered an unprecedented deal that lets Nvidia and AMD resume sales of specific AI accelerators to China — but only after the companies agree to hand over a 15% share of revenues from those Chinese sales to the U.S. government as a condition of newly issued export...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become the focal point of a landmark investigation that alleges Israel’s elite signals-intelligence unit, Unit 8200, migrated massive volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications into a bespoke, segregated Azure environment—creating an AI-assisted, cloud-backed...

Microsoft’s confirmation of its involvement in supplying advanced artificial intelligence and cloud services to the Israeli military marks a significant and controversial moment in the relationship between Big Tech and armed conflict. The revelation, coming directly from the company after months...

As policymakers in Washington D.C. increasingly spotlight the competitive dynamics of the U.S.-China artificial intelligence (AI) race, multinational technology giant Microsoft finds itself at the crux of a contentious debate around the export, deployment, and ethical control of advanced AI...