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European regulators have opened cloud-focused competition investigations into Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services while advancing a Cloud and AI Development Act that would steer Europe’s most sensitive public-sector workloads toward EU-controlled providers. The move is not merely another...

Microsoft continues to make some advanced AI model access available to eligible customers in China through Azure-related cloud arrangements, even as Washington and Beijing treat artificial intelligence as a strategic battleground and OpenAI has limited direct access to its services in the...

Microsoft is reportedly selling OpenAI-powered AI services to major Chinese companies through Azure, with ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent among significant customers, despite OpenAI itself not offering direct API access in mainland China. The arrangement exposes the awkward middle...

Microsoft was sued in Seattle federal court in June 2026 by a Michigan pension fund alleging it misled investors about Azure’s slowing growth and the financial pressure of its accelerating artificial intelligence infrastructure spending. The case is not just another post-selloff securities...

Microsoft Azure Core CTO Marcus Fontoura has joined Anthropic as a member of the technical staff in June 2026 after roughly 18 months back at Microsoft, where he worked on Azure architecture, Azure Networking, and AI-assisted engineering systems. The move is more than another senior résumé line...

Y Combinator and Microsoft have expanded their startup partnership in June 2026, giving YC founders building on Azure broader access to Microsoft Foundry, AI infrastructure, startup credits, technical guidance, and enterprise go-to-market channels through Microsoft for Startups. The deal is not...

Microsoft’s loosening OpenAI exclusivity has become a live test of whether the company’s AI growth story is built on one privileged partnership or on a broader cloud, productivity, and developer platform that can survive losing its favorite shortcut. The answer matters because Microsoft has...

Perigus Energy has selected Cegal’s Cetegra, deployed on Microsoft Azure, as the foundation for a European onshore renewables GIS platform serving wind, solar and battery storage operations across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Spain. The deal is not large enough to redraw the cloud...

Microsoft announced Web IQ on June 2, 2026, at Build as a Bing-powered grounding system and API layer that gives AI agents fresh web evidence—pages, news, images, and videos—through machine-oriented retrieval rather than human search results. The company is not merely adding another search...

Catalent has launched Qai, its first enterprise AI quality-management tool, across its CDMO network in June 2026, using Microsoft AI technologies powered by Azure, including Microsoft Foundry and Fabric, to support deviations, complaints, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action workflows. The...

Microsoft was hit on June 12, 2026, with a securities class action alleging it misled investors about Copilot’s adoption and technical challenges while pouring capital into AI infrastructure and managing Azure capacity constraints. The case may or may not survive the procedural gauntlet that...

On June 16, 2026, Microsoft published a feature from Alaşehir, Türkiye, about Turkish growers using the Azure-built İmeceMobil agriculture app to monitor crops, buy supplies, access loans, and make higher-stakes farming decisions with satellite imagery, AI, weather alerts, and expert support...

Interactive has moved UCC Coffee’s front-end server workloads in Australia and New Zealand from ageing on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure, while leaving heavier back-end systems on private cloud in a hybrid migration completed without reported customer-facing downtime. The project is...

Tesco is preparing a major rollout of Hanshow electronic shelf labels across its store estate after a 2025 pilot, while Hanshow is separately pitching xPilot, a Microsoft Azure-based AI store-execution assistant, as the next layer above digitised shelf infrastructure in physical retail. That...

Microsoft is cutting hundreds of Azure-related jobs in Beijing and Shanghai, with affected employees reportedly told last week that their roles will end on July 6 as the company reassesses its mainland China cloud footprint amid tighter US and Chinese data rules. The reported cuts are not a...

Bryson DeChambeau worked with Microsoft and sensor startup Sensoria in late 2016 on a prototype golf grip that used embedded pressure sensors to measure hand position and grip force, sending swing data to Microsoft’s cloud systems for real-time analysis. The project was never just about a gadget...

Akamai said on June 10, 2026, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that its API Security product has earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner with certified software designation for API Security within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, adding Azure-marketplace credibility to Akamai’s cross-cloud...

Top UK-40 law firm TLT said on June 10, 2026, that it has chosen sa.global’s evergreen platform, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Azure, for a 10-year programme to modernise finance, HR, matter management, reporting, and practice-management operations. The announcement is not just another...

Akamai announced on June 10, 2026, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, that Akamai API Security has earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner with certified software designation for Security within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, recognizing interoperability with Microsoft Cloud environments...

Researchers at Spain’s Institute of Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging and Uganda’s Mbarara University of Science and Technology are using Microsoft Research’s Tyger cloud platform in 2026 to reconstruct and clean up MRI scans from a low-cost scanner in Mbarara, Uganda. The point is not that...