Microsoft’s cloud and AI engines — the same infrastructure the company says it polices through terms of service — are now the focus of a renewed debate over corporate responsibility after leaked documents showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically expanded its Azure...
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The fourth quarter of 2025 produced a clear inflection point for cloud computing: after years of steady growth, the industry reaccelerated as enterprises moved from experimentation to large-scale production of generative AI workloads. All three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft...