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Fareed Zakaria opened with the question everyone is circling. Are we in an AI bubble, and has it begun to deflate? OpenAI has promised to spend hundreds of billions while making a fraction of that, he noted. The maths does not add up. Nadella did not push back. He reframed the question as a test […]
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Microsoft and Amazon announced new cloud gaming strategies on the same day, each acknowledging in different ways that the category has not reached the audience they expected. Xbox will test ad-supported game streaming, letting users in its Insider Programme stream games they already own for free with a one-hour session limit and advertising. Amazon is […]
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On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners completed their purchase of all the equity in Aligned Data Centers. The deal […]
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Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eightfold in four years. It is more than the $1.35 trillion the five […]
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Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron Read More »
Microsoft has agreed to bankroll a large slice of Mistral AI’s European build-out, extending a partnership that already binds the Paris lab to the American giant’s cloud. The two companies announced the expanded agreement on Tuesday, describing it as a multibillion-dollar commitment to compute infrastructure across the continent. What is clearer is the shape of […]
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