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Microsoft says its voluntary retirement program will result in a $900 million charge in the current quarter. The company, which is spending record sums on AI infrastructure, said headcount dropped year over year and will decline again in fiscal 2027. Read More
Microsoft's Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company's own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. Read More
Amazon Web Services growth accelerated to 28% in the first quarter — its fastest pace in nearly four years — pushing Amazon's results past Wall Street's expectations and validating, at least for now, the company's controversial $200 billion bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Read More
Flying Fish Partners, a Seattle-based VC firm with less than $250 million under management, broke into the $1.1 billion seed round for Ineffable Intelligence, the new startup from AlphaGo creator David Silver. Here's how they got in. Read More
Angus Norton, a former exec from Microsoft and Amazon, is CEO of IP transfer company Inteum, while Veeam and mpathic name two new leaders and Peter Hamilton shares details on his tech move. Read More
Bill Hilf, a veteran systems architect and conservationist, argues that we must prioritize system diversity and "recovery over performance" to prevent a chain reaction of failures that could collapse our critical infrastructure. Read More
Fusion startup Zap Energy is adding nuclear fission to its quest for nuclear power, naming Zabrina Johal as CEO to lead the new dual-purpose effort. Read More
Developers working on Magic: The Gathering – Arena at Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast have formed a union with the Communications Workers of America, seeking protections on remote work, layoffs, AI use, and overtime. Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon moved quickly Tuesday to capitalize on OpenAI's new relationship status with Microsoft, launching a preview of OpenAI's models on its Bedrock platform less than 24 hours after the ChatGPT maker was freed from its previously exclusive cloud arrangement. Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based health data company Truveta announced Truveta Intelligence, a new AI-powered tool that lets researchers ask natural language questions and get answers drawn from de-identified clinical records covering more than 130 million patients. Read More
AWS is expanding line of Amazon Connect business apps into a suite of agentic AI products, including new tools for supply chain planning and high-volume hiring built on Amazon's own operational experience and insights. Read More
Amazon reports Q1 earnings Wednesday with a $244 billion cloud backlog and blockbuster deals with Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but investors are watching whether the company's $200 billion spending plan is starting to pay off. Read More
T-Mobile unveiled SuperBroadband, a business internet service that combines its 5G network with SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation to provide two independent connectivity pathways. Read More
Amid the feud between two of tech’s most polarizing personalities, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, Microsoft might seem like a subplot, but its actions are at the heart of the case. We're at the courthouse in Oakland as jury selection begins. Read More
Microsoft and OpenAI announced a major amendment to their partnership Monday, making Microsoft's IP license non-exclusive and opening all OpenAI products to any cloud provider. It came just as jury selection began in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman, and Microsoft. Read More
Microsoft reports fiscal Q3 results Wednesday. Here's a preview of the key numbers, storylines, and context heading into the report, including Azure growth expectations, Copilot adoption, capital spending, and the organizational changes reshaping the company. Read More
Jimmy Kimmel casually referenced Tin Can's screenless phone for kids during his monologue last week, shortly after the startup landed a glowing NYT Wirecutter review. The company has grown to 30 employees and sold hundreds of thousands of phones. Read More
A freelance gaming journalist's offers tips on ditching Chrome, Office, Gmail, Photoshop, and other AI-infested tools in favor of alternatives that just do the normal stuff. Read More
