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Doug O’Laughlin’s blunt verdict landed like a line-drive: “Microsoft’s not in the race. Where are they? They’re getting owned.” That soundbite — from a full interview O’Laughlin gave on TBPN earlier this month — has rippled through the tech and investor communities because it packages a wider...

The hyperscalers are no longer hedging their bets: they are front‑loading an industrial‑scale build‑out of data centers, power infrastructure, and GPU fleets that will define where AI runs, who pays for it, and how enterprises consume it for the next decade. Amazon’s recent pledge to invest...

Microsoft’s internal forecasts now paint a longer, rockier road for its cloud operations: the data‑center capacity squeeze that rattled markets in 2025 is likely to extend well into 2026, constraining new Azure subscriptions in key U.S. hubs and forcing tougher tradeoffs between rapid AI growth...

Nscale’s announcement — made in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI — marks one of the most ambitious single-country AI infrastructure packages to land in recent memory, promising to put tens of thousands of next‑generation GPUs on British soil, to seed a sovereign compute platform...

OpenAI and Nvidia are preparing a major push into physical infrastructure in two of the world’s most important AI markets — the United Kingdom and India — in moves that crystallize a new phase of the AI arms race where chips, power and real estate matter as much as algorithms. Early reports say...

The tower of artificial intelligence, it seems, may have a very American lock on the front door. This, at least, was the sobering consensus coming out of a recent summit called by Germany’s national competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, where a cross-section of the European AI ecosystem...

Few moves in the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence have raised as many eyebrows as OpenAI’s reported deal with Google Cloud—a pact that signals a fascinating shift in the competitive and infrastructural landscape of modern tech giants. Once content within the walled fortress of...

Microsoft's recent quarterly earnings call signaled a significant moment for the future of artificial intelligence services and infrastructure. As global demand for advanced AI models continues to surge, Microsoft—a company long considered at the center of the AI revolution—has openly...