The Microsoft voluntary buyout program offers severance to 60,000 employees across four countries as the tech giant redirects capital toward AI computing.
Cloud Computing
Microsoft grants OpenAI a staggering $97B discount on Azure costs through 2030. Discover how this massive capital move secures the lead in the AGI race.
Anthropic commits $200B to Google Cloud as the "Big Four" reach a $2T revenue backlog. Discover how AI startups are tethered to their own investors.
AWS and OpenAI expand their alliance, bringing GPT models, Codex, and managed AI agents to Amazon Bedrock with enterprise-grade security and consolidated billing.
Amazon launches Claude Platform on AWS. Direct access to Anthropic's native AI features with AWS IAM security and billing—perfect for rapid AI innovation.
ClawCloud Run is shutting down. With free tiers ending May 11, 2026, and a strict refund deadline of May 20, users must migrate data immediately to avoid loss.
Anthropic and Amazon ink a historic $100B deal for 5GW of power. See how "Project Rainier" and Trainium chips are set to challenge the OpenAI-Microsoft throne.
Cloudflare adds regional and jurisdictional constraints to Containers. Easily enforce GDPR and FedRAMP compliance by pinning data to specific global locales.
Microsoft CEO Mustafa Suleyman unveils MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2—proprietary AI built to undercut competitors and secure self-sufficiency.
Oracle has initiated its largest layoff in history, cutting up to 30,000 jobs to pivot $10B toward AI infrastructure amid a 50% stock decline and rising debt.
The UK CMA is launching a "Strategic Market Status" probe into Microsoft in May 2026. Discover how AI and cloud bundling are under the regulatory microscope.
Google Cloud will double CDN Interconnect and Peering rates on May 1, 2026. Discover how the 100% price hike impacts Cloudflare and your cloud bill.
QEMU 11.0 Cloud is set to drop 32-bit host support, removing 7,000+ lines of legacy code to boost efficiency and security in cloud environments.
NVIDIA folds DGX Cloud into its engineering arm to focus on internal R&D. Is the AI "arms dealer" quitting the cloud war to protect its chip monopoly?
OpenAI eyes a $10B+ investment from Amazon, but the deal requires a major shift: switching from NVIDIA GPUs to Amazon’s custom Trainium AI chips.
AWS unveiled Route 53 Accelerated Recovery, guaranteeing a 60-minute RTO during DNS outages. The new feature is free for public hosted zones to boost cloud resilience.
The EU is investigating if Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure must be named DMA gatekeepers, facing strict new rules to ensure fair cloud competition in Europe.
OpenAI signed a $38B deal with AWS for cloud computing infrastructure, diversifying its resources after ending exclusivity with Microsoft. AWS gains a major AI client.
Microsoft Q1 FY26 revenue hit $77.7B, driven by 40% Azure growth and Copilot adoption, despite a $3.1B loss related to its $500B-valued OpenAI stake.
AWS confirmed its 15-hour US-EAST-1 outage was caused by a DynamoDB DNS automation race condition that wiped out all service IP addresses.
A major AWS service outage in the US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia) crippled countless websites and applications, underscoring cloud dependency risks.
OpenAI plans to spend over $100 billion to secure cloud computing resources for its AI models, burning through tens of millions of dollars a day to operate.