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OpenAI’s recent chapter reads like a high‑budget tech drama: dazzling user numbers and massive funding on one hand, and a bruising product backlash, rising costs, and strategic confusion on the other. A forceful critique circulating online argues that OpenAI is “just another boring, desperate AI...

Satya Nadella’s confession — that he is “haunted” by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and fears artificial intelligence could render Microsoft’s flagship franchises irrelevant — is not mere corporate drama. It marks a strategic alarm bell fired from the center of one of the world’s most...

Sam Altman’s throwaway‑turned‑benchmark — that a future model such as “GPT‑8” would qualify as true AGI if it solved quantum gravity and could narrate the reasoning behind that discovery — has ignited a fresh round of debate about what counts as artificial general intelligence and what a...

Databricks’ newest deal with OpenAI marks a clear inflection point in enterprise AI: the company announced a strategic partnership to embed OpenAI’s models directly into Databricks’ platform and its Agent Bricks product, projecting the arrangement will generate roughly $100 million in revenue...

The Office of Personnel Management has quietly opened the federal doors to mainstream generative AI by making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and OpenAI’s ChatGPT available to its workforce — a move that follows a string of rapid OneGov procurement deals and the launch of GSA’s USAi sandbox, and that...

OpenAI and Anthropic now sit on the public stage while Microsoft and Amazon wage a quieter, higher‑stakes contest for the cloud and compute hegemony that will shape the AI decade ahead. Background: how we got here The current alignment — OpenAI with Microsoft and Anthropic with Amazon — is the...

London’s AI infrastructure landscape has just been upended: Nscale, the UK-based AI infrastructure company, announced plans to build a multi‑megawatt AI campus in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI that partners say will house one of the country’s most powerful AI supercomputers and...

Nvidia’s announcement this week — backed by major partnerships with CoreWeave, Microsoft, OpenAI and UK-based Nscale — marks a decisive escalation in the battle to build sovereign AI compute in Britain: the plan promises up to 120,000 Blackwell-class GPUs and as much as £11 billion of investment...

Oracle's blockbuster first-quarter numbers and multibillion-dollar AI deals have rewritten the narrative: a company long pigeonholed as a database vendor is now positioning Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the cloud purpose-built for large-scale AI training and inference — with management...

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has publicly framed the company’s sprawling new Wisconsin AI campus — branded Fairwater — as a leap in raw frontier compute, saying the site “will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today” and positioning the build as a cornerstone for...

The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...

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...

NVIDIA and a coalition of partners have announced what they describe as the United Kingdom’s largest coordinated push to build onshore AI supercomputing capacity: an industrial-scale programme of “AI factories” and sovereign compute zones that promises up to £11 billion of investment and as many...

London-based Nscale’s announcement that it will partner with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI to deliver a UK-focused wave of AI compute — anchored by an Nscale AI Campus in Loughton and a new “Stargate UK” sovereign compute platform — marks one of the most consequential infrastructure packages for...

Oracle’s sudden emergence as a credible AI cloud contender has shifted the conversation: a company long defined by databases is now pitching a bold, capital‑intensive roadmap that — if every assumption holds — could place Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among the industry’s leaders for AI...

Nscale’s announcement that it will expand UK AI infrastructure in collaboration with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI marks a significant acceleration in the country’s bid for sovereign, large-scale AI compute — a move that blends private hyperscale investment with geopolitics, national industrial...

Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...

Microsoft’s most recent results and guidance refinement make one fact unmistakable: the company’s future growth is being driven by an Azure‑anchored, AI‑first platform strategy — and that strategy is increasingly capital‑intensive, partnership‑dependent, and subject to both regulatory and...

Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that frames the “next phase” of one of the technology sector’s most consequential partnerships — preserving deep commercial ties while opening the door to multicloud compute, a governance restructure at OpenAI, and...

Microsoft’s new MAI family—MAI‑1‑preview and MAI‑Voice‑1—marks a deliberate pivot from dependency to orchestration: Microsoft is building first‑party foundation models tuned for product speed, cost and audio-first experiences while continuing to route high‑capability workloads to external...