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    Azure Local Meets Armada: Sovereign Edge Cloud for Local AI in Disconnected Sites

    Microsoft is extending its sovereign cloud strategy further out to the edge, pairing Azure Local with Armada’s modular datacenters to support secure, resilient, and AI-ready workloads in disconnected and regulated environments. The pitch is straightforward but ambitious: bring Azure’s operating...
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    OpenAI's $110B Round Reshapes AI Cloud; Microsoft Stays In

    OpenAI’s announcement of a fresh, staggering funding wave — roughly $110 billion led by Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank — has reverberated across the tech world, but perhaps the loudest sound in the room is a quieter one: Microsoft, OpenAI’s most consequential partner and early backer, did not...