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AMD's Helios Takes On Nvidia: Microsoft Joins the Queue for a New AI Supercomputer
AMD is shipping its first rack-scale AI system to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and others. It is the most serious challenge to Nvidia's grip on the data centre market in years, but the price tag and software gap are real hurdles.
Your Software Bill Is Going Up. AI Is Why.
A major tech research firm warns that AI vendors are passing their enormous infrastructure costs on to business customers through higher prices and unpredictable usage fees.
Microsoft Is Using AI Agents to Mathematically Prove Its Encryption Code Has No Flaws
The team behind Windows and Azure's cryptography library is doing something unusual: not just testing the code, but proving it correct, for every possible input, using formal mathematical proofs written partly by AI.
Microsoft is coaching its sales team to badmouth OpenAI and Anthropic
The company that built its AI business on partners' models is now telling salespeople those same models are slower, less accurate, and too expensive.
Microsoft patches a record 570 security flaws, and says AI found them
The company's biggest-ever monthly security update includes two bugs already being used by hackers. AI tools are why the number is so high, and why it will stay high.
IBM shares fall 25% after profit warning as tech spending slows
The US technology giant reported just 1% revenue growth for the second quarter, blaming customers who are pulling back on spending. It was the company's worst single-day stock drop in decades.
Microsoft's CEO warns companies are paying for AI twice, once in cash and once in secrets
Satya Nadella says every prompt, correction and workflow businesses feed into AI models is quietly training the companies they pay. He wants enterprises to take back control.
Bank of England gains power to regulate Amazon and Google cloud services from Monday
New rules mean the UK's central bank can directly oversee the tech companies that keep British banking running, cutting the risk of outages that could freeze millions of accounts.
Big Tech's AI Data Centres Now Emit as Much Carbon as a Third of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google collectively pumped out 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide last year. The main culprit: building more data centres to feed AI demand.