OpenAI ended Microsoft’s exclusivity today, but last week’s leaked memo leaves questions unanswered
… Microsoft played a major factor in OpenAI's initial growth, contributing financially and with compute power. …
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Microsoft helped build OpenAI, now it’s holding them back?
… But CEO Sam Altman indicated that the company was no longer compute-constrained after announcing the $500 billion Stargate project . …
Microsoft didn't walk away from a $3 billion cloud deal — Oracle calls fake news.
…Oracle was not willing to add this framework, one of the people said." Microsoft reportedly planned to leverage its cloud partnership with Oracle to access additional computing power, enabling it to meet…
Bill Gates assumed Microsoft would eat a $1B loss on OpenAI and the payoff proved him completely wrong
…It further revealed that the executive's word is treated as the gospel and that he played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership . Interestingly, a separate report revealed…
Microsoft feared OpenAI would storm off to Amazon and "shit-talk" Azure on its way out
…Nadella sent Altman a congratulatory email, which he (Altman) seized as an opportunity to propose an even bigger partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft. However, OpenAI needed much more computing power to scale…
Microsoft veteran shares a rare video of Windows 8 running on NVIDIA's ARM chips way back in 2010
… And now, Microsoft, in partnership with NVIDIA at Computex 2026 , has unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra — equipped with 128GB of unified memory and full CUDA support with Windows-compatible RTX Spark under the hood. …
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…Azure News Microsoft's widely used Azure cloud computing platform is experiencing an outage, leading to Office 365, Teams, Xbox, and more going down. News News Multiple undersea cable cuts in the…
Microsoft explored buying Cursor before SpaceX stepped in
… SpaceXAI and @cursor ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will… April 21, 2026 The n… …
Windows and Xbox rediscover user feedback and fans are wondering what took so long
… I highly doubt Azure will be in a situation where its GPUs end up sitting idle; demand for compute is well and truly outstripping supply. …
AI‑driven GitHub outages pushed Microsoft into an unexpected alliance with Amazon
… Consequently, it has strained the platform's compute resources. …