… In addition to an executive shuffle, Microsoft has only pushed further into AI in recent months, with the company reporting $54.5 billion in revenue from its cloud business, marking a 29 percent year-over-year increase. “We are focused on delivering cloud and AI infrastructure and solutions that em… …
… Apple can’t control Google, Intel, and Nvidia’s supply chains though. Instead, Apple now maintains a “cryptographically verifiable, append-only ledger” of all Google Cloud hardware used for Private Cloud Compute and “retains complete control” of the software. …
… If Google had made the storage requirements clearer to users — or provided an option to power Chrome AI features with cloud-based models — this confusion could have been avoided. “We’ve offered Gemini Nano for Chrome since 2024 as a lightweight, on-device model,” Google spokesperson Scott Westover … …
… Cloudflare is calling EmDash the “spiritual successor” of WordPress — something WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has already refuted in a blog post about the new platform. “Please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit,” Mullenweg writes. “I think EmDash was crea… …
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… That shell listing, however, still has some use as the Financial Times points out, and now CEO Joe Vernachio has announced a plan to raise $50 million from an unnamed investor, which will turn NewBird AI into “a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service GPUaaS and AI-native cloud solutions provider.” NewBi… …
… But against all odds, Microsoft and OpenAI divorced this week in a way that looks strangely amicable. Microsoft announced the updates to its long-standing OpenAI deal on Monday, with the most important change allowing OpenAI to make its products and services available across all cloud providers. …
… That never quite happened, but OpenAI did tell its employees last month that its deal with Microsoft had “also limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are — for many that’s Amazon Bedrock.” Microsoft’s renegotiated deal with OpenAI allows the AI startup to bring its models, Codex, and ot… …
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