Microsoft

Apple's new iPads feature what the company calls "an insanely powerful chip for AI", a sign of its growing focus on artificial-intelligence services. Just months after introducing the M3 chip with new Macs, the company announced the "M4"…

Microsoft's cloud services sales surpassed analysts' expectations, as the demand for this high-profile technology is challenging the company's ability to keep up. The Seattle-based company, which is a bellwether of the rapidly growing AI…

The London office of a tech giant has set up a division for artificial intelligence Microsoft will open a new artificial-intelligence (AI) hub for London, one year after the company's former president stated that his confidence to invest…

Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman to lead a new consumer-facing AI unit. Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Google's DeepMind, as well as the chief executive officer of Inflection. Microsoft announced Tuesday that Suleyman will be…

Microsoft has signed a deal to expand its presence in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence industry beyond OpenAI. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, announced a “multi-year partnership” with Paris-based Mistral Monday to help the…

The companies have announced that Intel, a US chip manufacturer, will produce high-end semiconductors exclusively for Microsoft. Intel is competing with TSMC, Samsung and other suppliers to provide the next generation silicon for artificial…

The New York Times is the first major US news organization to sue OpenAI over its artificial intelligence chatbots. The tech companies are accused of taking a "free ride" on millions articles in order to create the revolutionary technology.…

The software giant paid the money in the past 15 months as part of a "bilateral contract". Microsoft paid HMRC £136m for back taxes as part of a deal reached with authorities regarding how the company shifts its revenues…

Regulators around the globe are faced with a tough choice as they try to deal with the unfair competition in cloud computing. To open the cloud market, more detailed intervention will be required than in other tech markets. This includes…

Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, has referred the $500bn industry of cloud computing to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for an antitrust probe after finding that Microsoft and Amazon dominate the market. In the UK,…

The red tape could keep the country out of the forefront of the AI revolution Rishi Sunak, a British scientist and technologist, announced his plans less than six months earlier to turn Britain into a global superpower in…

Microsoft dramatically altered the terms of the $75bn acquisition by Activision Blizzard, after UK regulators issued a global ban on the deal due to concerns that it would stifle the innovation in the cloud gaming market. The two…