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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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