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Court filings in the Musk v. Altman trial, reported May 8, 2026, show Microsoft executives in 2017 weighing OpenAI’s request for hundreds of millions of dollars in Azure compute while worrying the AI lab might move work to Amazon. The emails are historical, but they read less like trivia than...

Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten one of the defining technology alliances of the generative AI era, replacing a tightly controlled partnership with a looser, more market-facing structure. The new agreement preserves Azure’s privileged role but removes key exclusivity provisions, giving OpenAI...

OpenAI’s commercial arm has been remade into a Public Benefit Corporation and the company’s decades‑defining partnership with Microsoft has been rewritten — a pact that secures Microsoft’s deep economic exposure while giving OpenAI the corporate flexibility, capital access, and multicloud...