Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI's models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft's version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.
Sources: Japan's FTC raids Microsoft's Japan offices as part of a probe into whether Azure customers were improperly hindered from using other cloud services
TOKYO — Japan's antitrust authority raided the offices of Microsoft Japan on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether …
Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft's Foundry service
AI startup Perplexity signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft Corp. to use its Azure cloud service, spreading its business beyond longtime cloud partner Amazon.com Inc.
AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly-built multicloud networking solution and an open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure “later in 2026”
Outages at major web hosts can have huge impacts across society, as we see often such as with the recent Cloudflare outage.
Google withdraws its 2024 EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Azure licensing, after the EU launched a probe into Azure and AWS under the DMA
Google initially filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in 2024, saying it used unfair software licensing practices
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers
Today we announced that Microsoft and Anthropic are expanding our partnership. As part of the partnership, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5 …
Microsoft says it mitigated a 15.7 Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru botnet on a single Australian Azure endpoint in October, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded
Last month, Azure stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded … Mastodon: Rob Ricci / @ricci@discuss.systems : Azure: Our datacenters got DDoSed by 500k IP addresses — Everyone else: We ar...
The EU Commission opens an investigation into AWS and Azure to determine whether they should fall under the DMA and says they “occupy very strong positions”
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp.'s Azure are under investigation by the European Union to determine whether …
Sources: the European Commission wants to decide if AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, after several major cloud outages
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.'s Azure, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope …
South Korea's KT launches a sovereign cloud platform for Korean enterprises, built on Azure with encrypted in-memory processing and strict local data governance
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