Microsoft

New in-house processor targets inference costs as cloud providers grapple with rising AI demand and tight Nvidia supply.

The company plans to quadruple exports to $80 billion and create 1 million jobs by 2030, as it deepens bets on AI, cloud and quick commerce.

As Microsoft AI and OpenAI issue rare public warnings about the risks of superintelligence, researchers and policymakers confront a deeper dilemma: the very forces driving rapid progress make slowing down almost impossible.

Anthropic will buy $30 billion of Azure compute while keeping AWS as its main training partner, making Claude the only frontier model available across all three major clouds.

Microsoft touts “humanist superintelligence” built to stay bounded and under human control.