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Nuvei's Azure Migration: How Cloud-Native Payments Achieve 10k+ TPS & 99.999% Uptime
In a landmark move for the financial technology sector, global payment processor Nuvei has completed a strategic migration of its core payment processing APIs to Microsoft Azure, betting heavily that...
Nuvei's Azure Migration: AI-Powered Payments at 10,000 TPS & 99.999% Uptime
Nuvei Corporation, a global payment technology provider, has announced a significant expansion of its strategic partnership with Microsoft, migrating its core payment processing infrastructure to...
Dell PowerScale for Azure: Native Scale-Out NAS Brings On-Prem Performance to Cloud
Dell Technologies and Microsoft have unveiled a groundbreaking collaboration that brings enterprise-grade scale-out NAS capabilities directly into the Azure cloud ecosystem. PowerScale for Azure...
Microsoft Plants a Bing Speed Test Shortcut in the Taskbar and Teases AI Oversight in New Insider Builds
A quiet update this week to Windows 11 Insider Preview builds plants a one-click internet speed test directly into the taskbar network flyout, but it’s not the native diagnostic tool power users...
Windows 11 Adds a Speed Test Button to Network Flyout, But It’s a Bing Web Shortcut
Microsoft is quietly testing a one-click internet speed test shortcut in Windows 11, placed directly inside the network flyout and taskbar context menu. The feature, unearthed by sharp-eyed Insiders...
Microsoft's Copilot Labs Gets Verbatim 'Scripted Mode' Powered by In-House MAI-Voice-1 AI
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman announced on September 10, 2025, that Copilot Labs now features a new "Scripted Mode" for audio generation, letting users have text read verbatim by the...
Microsoft's MAI-Voice-1 Brings Freakishly Expressive Multi-Speaker AI to Copilot Labs
Microsoft has dropped an audacious experiment into the Copilot Labs playground, and early testers are reporting that its synthetic speech doesn't just read words—it performs them. The model behind...
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...
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...
On-Device AI Agent Lands in Windows 11 Settings, Powered by Mu Model on Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft has begun rolling out an AI agent directly inside the Windows 11 Settings app, a move that signals a concrete step toward the ambient, agentic operating system the company has been publicly...
Akamai Brings Low-Latency AI Inference to Windows Edge Environments
The integration of artificial intelligence into everyday computing tasks has reached a new milestone with Akamai's Distributed AI Inference platform, bringing unprecedented edge computing...