Tag: Microsoft
Microsoft commits $2B to Spain in Europe AI push
Microsoft president and vice chair Brad Smith outlined plans to invest $2.1 billion in Spain to expand the country’s AI and cloud infrastructure, adding...
Microsoft in radical shake-up of its Xbox strategy
Microsoft will make four exclusive Xbox games available for Nintendo’s Switch and Sony’s PlayStation, sharing homegrown titles with rivals in the first significant way as...
Sony slashes PS5 sales forecast as sales disappoint
Sony has slashed the full-year sales forecast for its PlayStation 5 console and said it plans to list its financial business next year as it...
Microsoft to build another data centre in South Africa
Microsoft plans to build a new data centre in South Africa, adding Centurion, near Pretoria, to its existing sites in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The new...
Vodafone, Microsoft team up for major AI push
Vodafone Group has struck a ten-year partnership deal with Microsoft to bring generative AI and cloud expertise to more than 300 million businesses, public...
Microsoft displaces Apple as the world’s most valuable company
Microsoft overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Thursday after the iPhone maker began 2024 with its worst start in years due...
MTN, Tomorrow.io, Microsoft to provide early warning weather reports in Africa
On the sidelines of COP 28, weather intelligence and climate adaptation leader Tomorrow.io, and MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile operator, leveraging a Microsoft Azure...
Microsoft roped into copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
A new lawsuit from an author whose work was used to train OpenAI‘s artificial intelligence model spotlights the company’s partnership with Microsoft to create...
Sam Altman returns to OpenAI as CEO, as his ousters get...
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has reached an agreement for Sam Altman to return as CEO days after his ouster, capping frenzied discussions about the future of...
Microsoft ready to absorb OpenAI employees with same compensation
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Tuesday offered to match compensation for the hundreds of employees at OpenAI who are threatening to resign following Sam...