In a surprising move, Microsoft declined a nearly $12 billion deal for data center capacity, allowing OpenAI to swiftly secure the contract, highlighting the intense competition and high stakes in the AI industry as CoreWeave's impending IPO is viewed as a bellwether for the sector.
AWS commits $4M to support The HALO Trust's groundbreaking use of AI and machine learning for detecting landmines and war debris in Ukraine, enabling efficient data analysis and cloud computing for this critical humanitarian mission in active warzones.
DuckDB unveils preview support for connecting to Apache Iceberg REST Catalogs, unlocking access to Amazon S3 Tables and SageMaker Lakehouse, allowing users to query Iceberg tables while handling schema evolution.
Amazon's decision to eliminate local processing for Alexa requests on Echo devices, mandating cloud transmission of voice recordings from March 28, has sparked privacy concerns despite enabling enhanced AI capabilities through cloud computing power.
In a groundbreaking move, CoreWeave, an AI computing services provider, secured a staggering $11.9 billion, 5-year deal with OpenAI, granting the latter a $350 million stake in CoreWeave's upcoming IPO, solidifying their partnership in powering AI innovations for tech giants like Microsoft and Meta.
smallpond, a lightweight and scalable data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS, offers high-performance data operations with no long-running services, enabling efficient handling of petabyte-scale datasets through seamless integration of DuckDB's powerful querying capabilities and 3FS's distributed storage.
Alibaba's unveiling of its powerful QwQ-32B AI model, rivaling DeepSeek's R1, sparked a stock rally with its Hong Kong shares hitting a 52-week high, fueling optimism among analysts about the company's earnings potential driven by its AI advancements.
In a groundbreaking move, tech titans Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon unleash a staggering $320 billion investment blitz to propel AI innovation, fueling a frenzy of advancements across data centers, infrastructure, and cutting-edge technologies.
In a major global outage, Microsoft left tens of thousands of users in major cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles unable to access email and apps like Outlook, Exchange, Teams, and Azure for several hours before resolving the issue without specifying the cause.
NVIDIA shattered records with a staggering $39.3 billion quarterly revenue, up 78% year-over-year, propelled by the AI boom that fueled a $35.6 billion Data Center revenue, while projecting $43 billion revenue for Q1 fiscal 2026 amidst soaring demand for its AI offerings.