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IBM and Microsoft on Tuesday announced Imagine Enterprise, a jointly developed agentic AI platform aimed at moving enterprise AI projects from pilots into production. The platform combines IBM Consulting's library of prebuilt AI agents with Microsoft's cloud, security and…
Unusual Whales, a market-data platform, has published a summary of a Guardian article reporting that several large companies are pulling back on internal AI-agent deployments after early rollouts created cleanup work and failed to deliver productivity gains. Unusual Whales…
Microsoft is winding down a 2023 agreement to rent AI computing capacity from Oracle after deciding not to renew the contract, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The software giant has spent recent months switching off the rented capacity because…
Around 100 activists, including supporters of the Dutch group Geef Tegengas, broke into a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam on Friday morning, climbing a crane and hanging banners in a physical escalation of local opposition to AI infrastructure expansion. The…
OpenAI announced on November 4, 2026, that it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, a developer-tools startup whose libraries already power file navigation and code review inside Codex. The deal brings Pierre's Code Storage product—a distributed Git-based storage system designed…
Facing multi-year waits for grid connections, several major AI companies are buying converted jet engines pulled from retired aircraft to generate their own electricity — a solution that is faster to deploy but less efficient and more polluting than purpose-built turbines.
Microsoft reported its fiscal first-quarter 2027 results Wednesday, delivering a quarter that exceeded Wall Street expectations on revenue, profit and cloud growth while also disclosing two figures that have long been absent from its financial statements: Azure's standalone…