Microsoft
Microsoft is the world's largest software company and OpenAI's key partner, embedding GPT models across Copilot, Windows, Office and the Azure cloud. It also builds its own Phi small models and the MAI model line. This page gathers all our coverage of Microsoft's AI moves.
SAP SE limits hiring and travel to fund major AI investments
Europe’s largest software company, SAP SE, is restricting hiring and business travel to redirect resources to AI development and counter a new generation of…
Microsoft releases Azure Linux 4.0 — the company's Linux distribution targets enterprise servers
Microsoft has opened downloads for Azure Linux 4.0 as an ISO image: its own server distribution can now be installed on any servers and virtual machines outside the…
ExpressVPN updates ExpressKeys: password sharing and passkey support
ExpressVPN added secure credential sharing, passkey support, and improved device synchronization to its ExpressKeys password manager.
Qwen, Gemma, Phi-4: five open-source omni-models for every data type
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AWS open-sources Chaplin: self-service AWS Health analytics on Amazon Bedrock agents
xAI launches /goal in Grok Build: an autonomous agent plans and verifies multi-step tasks
Baseten raises $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation — Blackbird makes its biggest bet ever
AI infrastructure startup Baseten has closed a Series F round of $1.5 billion at a valuation of up to $13 billion — Australian firm Blackbird VC invested a sum that…
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son: Musk's orbital data centers won't win the AI race
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has said Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in orbit makes no sense: the AI race will be won by ground-based computing…
Oracle laid off 21,000 employees in a year — AI replaced some positions
Alphabet launches incubator for AI startups founded by former Google employees
AI tokens are driving up corporate cloud bills — ZDNet flags the trend
Abu Dhabi's MGX fund raises about $50 billion to accelerate AI investment
Agency Code and Theory cuts prototyping time by 75% with Vercel v0
Digital agency Code and Theory dropped wireframes in favor of code generation via Vercel v0, cutting time to first prototype by 75% and deployment timelines by…
Masayoshi Son Rejects Musk's Orbital Data Centers, Bets on Earth-Based AI Infrastructure
SoftBank founder told shareholders that orbital data centers "make little sense" and predicted victory for those backing earth-based computing infrastructure.