Microsoft admitted last week that it took action to prevent its employees from emailing large groups with keywords such as “Palestine,” “Gaza,” “genocide,” and “apartheid,” because “emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate.”
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MICROSOFT HALTS DATA CENTER PROJECTS IN FOUR COUNTRIES
Microsoft has paused or scrapped data center construction projects in Australia, Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. states of Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
THE BLACKROCK-MICROSOFT AI PARTNERSHIP JUST GOT BIGGER
Market-leading chipmaker Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI have joined the partnership between Microsoft and private equity giant BlackRock to build up to $100 billion worth of AI data centers and electricity supplies to power them.
MICROSOFT CANCELS LEASES ON DATA CENTERS
Microsoft, which had budgeted $80 billion this year to build out its AI infrastructure, has been canceling leases on “a substantial amount of data center capacity,” Bloomberg reported.
MICROSOFT CLAIMS QUANTUM COMPUTER BREAKTHROUGH USING NEW FORM OF MATTER
Microsoft has unveiled its Majorana 1, a quantum computer processor designed to house a million “qubits” and using a form of matter theorized for a century but never created before in physical form, the company claims.
MICROSOFT CEO PRAISES DEEPSEEK, WILL OFFER THE R1 TO ITS CUSTOMERS
“DeepSeek has had some real innovations,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during a 27 January call with investors. “Obviously now that all gets commoditized and it’s going to get broadly used.”
MICROSOFT WILL INVEST MORE IN CLOUD AS GROWTH SLOWS
Microsoft will continue pouring money into expanding its cloud infrastructure to support the AI economy even though growth in its cloud business has slowed, the company announced.
AI THAT’S SO GOOD YOU CAN’T HAVE IT
Microsoft has developed VALL-E 2, a voice-cloning AI that mimics a person’s voice and speech patterns so perfectly that the company won’t release it to the public.
TECH FIRMS’ AI FRENZY CONTRADICTS THEIR STATED CLIMATE GOALS
Google has promised to cut its carbon emissions by 50 percent compared to 2019; Microsoft pledges it will be carbon negative by 2030.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.