Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI could mean billions of dollars a year in new revenue as workloads pile up in Azure. The investment, which most recently values OpenAI at a reported $29 billion, is complicated given the company’s “capped-profit” model Microsoft
REDMOND, Wash., Feb 7 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is revamping its Bing search engine and Edge Web browser with artificial intelligence, the company said on Tuesday, signaling its ambition to retake the lead in consumer technology markets where it has fallen
Microsoft will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. It will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2bn (£972m) in severance and reorganisation costs. Microsoft chief
Drought conditions are worsening in the U.S., and that is having an outsized impact on the real estate that houses the internet. Data centers generate massive amounts of heat through their servers because of the enormous amount of power they
Microsoft announced Monday it’s reopening its Washington state and California Bay Area offices this month as Covid-19 cases continue to ease. Starting Feb. 28, the select offices will be open to employees, visitors and guests. The company has been operating
A gamer plays the video game ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ developed by Treyarch and published by Activision during the ‘Paris Games Week’ on October 25, 2018 in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty Images Microsoft announced Tuesday it will buy
The race to develop new technologies to solve the climate crisis is similar in scale to America putting the first man on the moon, Microsoft President Brad Smith said Wednesday. “We will need to invent new technologies,” Smith told CNBC’s
Microsoft passed Apple in market cap on Friday, making it the world’s most valuable public company. The move comes after Apple reported revenue Thursday that fell short of analyst expectations Dado Ruvic | Reuters Microsoft passed Apple in market cap on Friday, making
Microsoft will shut down LinkedIn in China as it faces harsher internet censorship in the country. The company will launch a China-specific version of LinkedIn later this year for job searching. But it won’t have LinkedIn’s social media features. LinkedIn
In the wake of increasingly sophisticated criminal hacks of companies like SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, and JBS Foods that touched on fears of national security weaknesses, U.S. politicians all the way up to the White House have been adamant on one