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Microsoft Ships In-House AI Models, Moving Copilot Beyond OpenAI Dependency
Microsoft has quietly deployed its first fully in-house AI models for consumer-facing Copilot experiences, a strategic pivot that reduces the company’s reliance on OpenAI’s technology and charts...
Azure’s 48-Hour Ultimatum to Gab: The 2018 Confrontation That Redefined Cloud Moderation
On a Tuesday morning in early August 2018, the social network Gab received an email that would expose the raw nerve of cloud governance. Microsoft’s Azure team had filed an urgent complaint: two...
Screenvision Pulls Off a 12-Week Cloud Heist: Oracle Databases to Azure and OCI Without a Hitch
Screenvision Media just closed a 12-week sprint that many IT leaders would call impossible. The national cinema advertising giant migrated its entire Oracle-driven core business to a multi-cloud...
OpenAI's $30 Billion SoftBank Tranche at Risk as Microsoft Talks Delay Restructuring
A deadlock between OpenAI and its largest strategic partner, Microsoft, over API access, intellectual property rights, and a disputed AGI escape clause has stalled the AI developer’s hotly...
Azure’s AI Surge Puts AWS Cloud Dominance at an Inflection Point
Amazon Web Services just posted a robust $30.9 billion in quarterly revenue, yet investors are uneasy. Microsoft’s Azure is racing ahead at nearly double the growth rate, fueled by an AI...
OpenAI Restructuring Delay: Microsoft AGI Clause and Cloud Conflicts Imperil SoftBank Funding
OpenAI’s much-anticipated corporate restructuring—a make-or-break move paving the way for an eventual IPO and unlocking billions in outside investment—is sliding into next year as intricate...
New 'Woke AI' Ban Shakes Up Pentagon Cloud Race for AWS, Microsoft, Google
The U.S. Department of Defense has embarked on an aggressive pivot to artificial intelligence, embedding it as a strategic backbone for missions ranging from logistics to battlefield decision-making....
SEFE's Oracle Migration to Azure Yields 10% Faster Apps and Early ROI
Energy company SEFE (Securing Energy for Europe) has completed roughly half of a planned migration of 17 applications and 37 environments from on-premises Oracle databases to Oracle Database@Azure,...
Screenvision Executes 12-Week Multi-Cloud Shift to Azure and OCI, Powering Cinema Ad Modernization
Screenvision Media, one of the largest cinema advertising networks in the United States, has completed a high-speed migration of its core business systems to a dual-cloud architecture spanning...
Alibaba's $53B Cloud Bet Fuels Web3 Infrastructure Rush Among AWS, Google, Microsoft
Alibaba Group’s announcement that it will invest RMB 380 billion (approximately $53 billion) over the next three years into AI and cloud infrastructure is more than a single company’s technology...
Copilot and Office.com Outage Traced to Botched Microsoft Configuration Change
Microsoft’s cloud productivity suite hit a roadblock on August 20 when users across North America found themselves locked out of Office.com and the Copilot AI assistant. The company declared a...
Microsoft's $13 Billion Bet: How ChatGPT Became the Brain Behind Copilot—Without Microsoft Owning a Byte
ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product. Let’s get that straight first: the conversational AI that has upended search, coding, and content creation was built, trained, and is operated entirely by...