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...
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Google Cloud’s blistering quarterly performance left rivals visibly sprinting to keep up, but the bigger story is an industry-wide acceleration driven by AI demand that’s reshaping how hyperscalers compete, sign contracts, and spend on infrastructure. In Q2 and the most recent fiscal quarters...
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The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a Microsoft-powered blockchain platform called Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), going live first with tokenized private funds and completing its inaugural blockchain-powered fundraising transaction — a move that shifts the conversation...
LSEG’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), built in partnership with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure, has officially launched for private funds — and the platform has already facilitated its first tokenised fundraise, marking a major step toward mainstreaming tokenization across...
Albania has publicly elevated an artificial intelligence program named Diella into a cabinet-level role — charging the virtual minister with overseeing public procurement in a bid to stamp out a problem long identified by Brussels as one of the main obstacles to Tirana’s EU accession ambitions...
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Albania has just promoted an avatar to cabinet rank: Diella, an AI-driven virtual assistant that will now sit—digitally—in the role of minister responsible for public procurement with an explicit mission to make government tenders “100% free of corruption.”
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The confrontation at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in August and the weeks of escalation that followed have turned a previously quiet internal dispute into what may be the most consequential labor story in the U.S. this year: current and former Microsoft employees organized under the banner No...
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Google has moved the cloud market’s chess pieces with a tactical — and loudly publicised — concession: for customers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, Google Cloud will no longer charge data‑egress fees for qualifying “in‑parallel” multicloud transfers through a new offering called...
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Google has announced a dramatic change to how it charges for cloud data movement in the European Union and United Kingdom, waiving fees for certain multicloud transfers through a new “Data Transfer Essentials” option that it says is available at no cost — a move timed to land just ahead of the...
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Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — has done more than offer productivity tips; it has shown, in blunt practice, how an enterprise copilot can change the mechanics of leadership, reduce busywork and compress decision...
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Point B's announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) designation with a formal Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a deliberate deepening of its Microsoft alliance and a visible signal to clients that it’s doubling down on enterprise-grade...
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Multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, producing widespread internet slowdowns across South Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe and prompting Microsoft to warn Azure customers that traffic routed through the affected corridor may experience...
Internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe slowed to a crawl this week after multiple subsea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were severed, triggering widespread service degradation across India, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and parts of the Middle East — and forcing major...
Microsoft Azure customers were warned of higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut, forcing international traffic onto longer, congested detours and exposing the physical fragility beneath cloud‑era resilience. The incident — first...
Microsoft confirmed on September 6 that multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, and warned Azure customers that traffic which “previously traversed through the Middle East” may experience increased latency as packets are rerouted across longer, often congested alternatives...
Microsoft’s announcement of an “urgent” external investigation into allegations that Israel’s Unit 8200 used Azure to store and process recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls crystallizes a larger, underappreciated shift: the world’s leading cloud providers are not just vendors — they...
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Microsoft's Azure cloud is reporting elevated latency and intermittent service slowdowns after a cluster of undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, higher-latency routes while repairs and rerouting continue.
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The global internet runs on a web...
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Microsoft confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud network are seeing higher-than-normal latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and prepare repair operations.
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The global...
Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue.
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The Red...