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Microsoft omits key pay question from employee survey results
TL;DR Microsoft excluded its long-running “good deal” compensation question from the main results of its latest employee survey. Workers…
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Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases
In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing…
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Here’s how much Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google will spend to develop more AI in 2026
Big Tech is on a spending spree, forecast to drop a staggering $650 billion on artificial intelligence (AI) in 2026 alone—and that’s just…
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Microsoft launches AI QuickStart programme for SMEs
Backed by IMDA and UOB, the scheme supports digitally mature firms in rolling out artificial intelligence solutions Microsoft on Friday…
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Heavy earnings week, jobs data to test US stocks after Microsoft swoon
Results are due from about one-quarter of S&P 500 companies including Alphabet, Amazon, Lilly Another huge batch of corporate earnings…
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Microsoft plunges, Meta rallies as investors demand AI payoffs
Microsoft is under growing investor pressure to justify its soaring capital outlay Tech earnings so far this week have sent a clear…
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Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon in talks to invest up to US$60 billion in OpenAI, The Information reports
IA, Amazon and Microsoft are in talks to invest up to US$60 billion in OpenAI, The Information reported on Wednesday. Nvidia, an existing…
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Musk seeks up to US$134 billion damages from OpenAI, Microsoft
ELON Musk wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of US$79 billion to US$134 billion over his claims that the…
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Indian startup Varaha inks deal with Microsoft to remove 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide
Project puts a spotlight on smallholder companies and their capability to deliver on carbon removal, says CEO of Varaha Indian startup…
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Microsoft in record deal for soil carbon credits as data centres surge
It will buy a record 2.85 million soil carbon credits linked to regenerative agriculture Microsoft has agreed with Indigo Carbon to buy a…
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Microsoft unveils US$23 billion in new AI investments with big focus on India
Microsoft on Tuesday (Dec 9) unveiled about US$23 billion in new artificial intelligence investments, with the bulk earmarked for India as…
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Microsoft “aggressively” looking at South-east Asian clean energy projects amid data centre boom
The tech giant will also “take a very close look” at Singapore’s latest call to build new data centres Microsoft is looking into…
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Microsoft to lift productivity suite prices for businesses, governments
The company says that the changes reflect more than 1,100 new features added across Microsoft 365 Microsoft will increase prices for its…
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Wall Street opens lower as investors assess data, Microsoft falls
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Wednesday (Dec 3), as investors assessed data pointing to a weak jobs market, while Microsoft…
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Microsoft partners with Anthropic and Nvidia on cloud infrastructure deal, shifting further away from OpenAI
Microsoft said Tuesday it is partnering with artificial intelligence company Anthropic and chipmaker Nvidia as part of a cloud…
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Levi’s Launches Into AI-tinged Future With Microsoft ‘Super-agent’
Levi Strauss & Co. has been AI curious for years — and now it’s jumping into the new machine age and starting to retool both the back and…
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Amazon, Microsoft back effort to restrict Nvidia’s exports to China: WSJ
AMAZON is joining Microsoft in backing legislation to further curb chipmaker Nvidia’s ability to export chips to China, the Wall Street…
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Anthropic and Microsoft announce new AI data center projects in Texas, New York, and Georgia
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure on November 12 that will include…
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Microsoft to invest US$10 billion in Portugal AI data hub
The company is building the hub with Start Campus, a Portuguese developer, and British startup Nscale Microsoft will spend US$10 billion…
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Microsoft signs US$9.7 billion AI cloud deal with Australia’s IREN to secure Nvidia systems
Once fully implemented, the deal is expected to generate about US$1.94 billion a year for IREN Microsoft has signed an approximately…
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US: Wall Street indexes fall as Meta, Microsoft drag, along with Fed rate concerns
WALL Street’s three major indexes lost ground on Thursday with the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 leading losses as Meta and Microsoft…
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Microsoft cloud customers face widespread disruptions
MICROSOFT cloud customers experienced widespread service disruptions on Wednesday after the company said “inadvertent configuration…
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Microsoft Azure outage: Websites come back online
Imran Rahman-Jones,Technology reporter and Lily Jamali,North America Technology correspondent Websites forHeathrow, NatWest and…
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OpenAI finalizes restructure and revises Microsoft partnership
OpenAI said Tuesday it has reorganized its ownership structure and converted its business into a public benefit corporation and that two…