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NFL Deploys 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs in AI Push Across Sidelines and Scouting
More than 2,500 Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs are now in the hands of NFL coaches, players, and staff across all 32 teams, marking the largest deployment of AI-powered devices in professional...
2,500 AI-Powered Surface PCs Hit NFL Sidelines in High-Stakes Copilot Rollout
More than 2,500 Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs are now deployed across all 32 NFL clubs, marking a pivotal expansion of the league’s decade-long tech partnership that injects conversational AI...
Hitachi Vantara VSP One SDS Lands on Azure Marketplace, Promises Up to 40% Storage Savings
Hitachi Vantara has made its Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) available directly within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, a move aimed at simplifying hybrid cloud...
Microsoft Taps Marvell's LiquidSecurity FIPS 140-3 Level 3 PCIe HSMs to Power Azure Cloud HSM
Microsoft has selected Marvell's LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules to anchor its Azure Cloud HSM service, extending a years-long collaboration that already underpins Azure Key Vault...
Microsoft Kills Volume Discounts for M365 and Dynamics, Enterprise Renewals to Surge
Microsoft has confirmed it will eliminate volume-based price tiers for all Online Services under Enterprise Agreements, a seismic licensing shift that will send cloud bills higher for most large...
Microsoft's Level 2 logical qubits turn Azure into enterprise quantum engine
{ "title": "Microsoft Achieves Level 2 Quantum Milestone with Logical Qubits, Cementing Cloud as Quantum Accelerator", "content": "Satya Nadella’s brief mention of quantum computing during...
Microsoft’s Azure Backlog Tops $368 Billion as AI Compute Drives 39% Growth
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform surpassed a $75 billion annualized revenue run rate for the first time, while the company’s remaining performance obligation—contracted future...
OpenAI Breaks Azure Exclusivity, Welcomes Google Cloud for ChatGPT Workloads
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is no longer tethered to Microsoft Azure alone. An updated sub-processor list confirms that Google Cloud now handles enterprise and API workloads in the United States, Japan, the...
Microsoft for Startups Helps Bria Bring Legally Safe AI Image Generation to Azure Developers
Bria, the visual generative AI startup that trains exclusively on licensed data, has plugged its platform into Microsoft Azure’s ecosystem via the Microsoft for Startups program. The move gives...
Azure Serverless GPUs Propel Microsoft to 2025 Gartner Container Management Leadership
Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, a milestone that validates the company's aggressive expansion of its Azure container portfolio and its...
Microsoft and Quantinuum Achieve 800x Error Reduction in Logical Qubits, Boosting Azure Quantum Ambitions
Microsoft and Quantinuum have demonstrated the most reliable logical qubits on record, slashing error rates by a factor of 800 compared to physical qubits and running over 14,000 error-free circuit...
AI Spending Surge Pushes IaaS to $171.8B, Hyperscalers Command 71% Market Share
The global infrastructure-as-a-service market vaulted to $171.8 billion in 2024, a 22.5% leap that starkly outpaced the prior year’s 16.2% growth, as the three largest providers—Amazon Web...