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Even as market jitters over the DeepSeek sell-off dragged down tech stocks, industry giants posted robust earnings this week, with several reporting billion-dollar revenue gains driven by sustained demand for AI and cloud infrastructure. -
Microsoft has continued its global cloud and AI infrastructure investing efforts, unveiling plans to spend $3 billion in India.
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Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion to build AI-enabled data centres, Brad Smith, the company’s president has revealed.
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Here are some news stories from this week you might have missed.
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Meta is not done with the metaverse after it unveiled a new AI model designed to control the behaviour of digital agents in virtual experiences.
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Microsoft has revealed plans to extend its global data centre footprint to Perth, Western Australia, with an Azure Extended Zone set to launch by mid-2025.
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Noelle Walsh, CVP, cloud operations and innovation at Microsoft on why progress shouldn't be at the expense of the planet
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Microsoft has announced significant commitments to build new cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand.
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Microsoft has announced it will invest $2.9 billion to increase its hyperscale cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Japan.
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Microsoft AI, the newly launched Microsoft organisation that is tasked with helping the company advance its consumer AI products has announced it is opening an AI hub in London.
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Microsoft has scored a substantial victory in the quest to dominate the AI marketplace by recruiting Suleyman, who brings with him his Inflection co-founder, Karén Simonyan and other key team members.
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At Nvidia’s GTC event yesterday, Microsoft and Nvidia announced an expansion to their technology partnership that will see integrations leveraging the latest Nvidia generative AI and Omniverse technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft 365.
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Microsoft is set to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in Spain, with an investment of US$2.1 billion over the next two years.
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Nokia and A1 Austria (A1) have completed the industry’s first 5G edge cloud network slicing with Microsoft.
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Cisco has transmitted 800Gbps on the Amitié trans-Atlantic subsea cable, which spans 6,234km from Boston, Massachusetts to Bordeaux, France.
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Vodafone and Microsoft have inked a 10-year strategic partnership to bring generative AI, digital services and the cloud to more than 300 million businesses and customers across Europe and Africa.
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OpenAI and Microsoft, its chief financial backer, have been hit with another lawsuit by a pair of nonfiction authors, Reuters reports.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an early opportunity for parties to comment on the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI.
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