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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Did Sam Altman just announce an OpenAI cloud service?

OpenAI is exploring directly selling compute capacity to companies and people, potentially becoming an AI cloud competitor to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

OpenAI strikes $38 billion AI training deal with Amazon

OpenAI has struck a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services that will give the AI giant access to "hundreds of thousands" of Nvidia GPUs to power its AI models. The seven-year partnership comes as Microsoft continues to loosen its grip on OpenAI, dropping its status as its exclusive cloud provider and losing the first right of refusal to host its AI workloads.
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fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

EU and UK organizations ponder resilience after Azure outage

an inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD)
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fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Amazon cash juggernaut keeps rolling despite recent bad news

Amazon's business remains strong with AWS driving significant growth, boosting stock despite job cuts and reduced free cash flow.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

The dazzling appeal of the neoclouds

Neoclouds are AI-optimized, GPU-focused cloud platforms that lower AI compute costs and performance inefficiencies, challenging hyperscale cloud providers while introducing integration trade-offs.
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Google pitches Workspace tools for "when, not if" Microsoft 365 fails

Google is trying to capitalize on what it calls "frequent and severe" Microsoft 365 outages by offering up services like email, storage, and videoconferencing to businesses in the event of a Microsoft outage. The search giant's new Business Continuity plan runs a Google Workspace in parallel with Microsoft 365, so if there's an outage then businesses just switch over to Gmail and Google Meet instead of Outlook and Microsoft Teams.
Tech industry
fromTechzine Global
6 months ago

License fees 8 to 15 times higher since VMware became part of Broadcom

European VMware users report drastic price hikes, with bills surging tenfold due to Broadcom's licensing policies, raising significant concerns about competition and fairness.
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fromTheregister
7 months ago

Google and AWS: Linux too hard, so customers move to Azure

Companies heavily reliant on Microsoft infrastructure face high costs migrating to competing clouds without switching to Linux.
The shift to Azure is a cost-saving measure, avoiding significant markup charges for Microsoft software on other clouds.
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