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Microsoft to invest $3B in AI, cloud expansion, training in India

DIGIT — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:15:30 +0000

Microsoft will expand its AI and cloud presence in India, including training 10 million individuals by 2030 and supporting AI startups.

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AI boosts Meta and Microsoft Q3 earnings, but outlook sours stock prices

DIGIT — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 05:12:07 +0000

Meta and Microsoft have reported better-than-expected earnings for the last quarter carried by their AI businesses, but muted outlooks saw their shares drop after hours.

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Microsoft investors’ fears escalate over AI’s slow payoff

DIGIT — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:42:22 +0000

Microsoft investors are increasingly anxious about the slow financial returns from its significant investments in artificial intelligence, despite Azure’s steady growth.

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Microsoft enters $100M partnership with Canadian firm after quantum breakthrough

DIGIT — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:28:48 +0000

Photonic’s founder and Chief Quantum Officer says the company can bring a quantum computer to market within the next five years.

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Axelar partners with Microsoft for hybrid blockchain solutions

DIGIT — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Through the collaboration, Axelar will be the first cross-chain protocol to join Microsoft’s Azure marketplace.

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‘Hey Mercedes’ — Mercedes-Benz trials ChatGPT-powered voice control

DIGIT — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:50:00 +0000

More than 900,000 Mercedes vehicles in the United States will have access to the new ChatGPT-enabled beta feature, which will be trialed for about three months.

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Microsoft bans cryptocurrency mining on cloud services

DIGIT — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:17:45 +0000

Microsoft now requires users to obtain a written pre-approval from the firm in order to use Microsoft Azure for mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

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Docker Changes Free-Tier Service Policy Due to Cryptocurrency Mining Abuse

DIGIT — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:30:04 +0000

Docker, a popular cloud computing integration solution, is making changes to its free-tier service due to cryptocurrency mining abuse. The service discontinued its “autobuild” feature due to misuse by bad actors, using it to mine cryptocurrencies in their servers. This is a modus operandi that is now affecting several cloud continuous integration platforms, including GitHub, […]

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Microsoft quietly closing down Azure blockchain in September

DIGIT — Fri, 14 May 2021 03:45:19 +0000

Microsoft is closing its Azure Blockchain Service, giving existing customers just four months to transition to new service providers.

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Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Clusters Cryptojacked to Mine Monero

DIGIT — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 09:15:00 +0000

Hackers have attacked badly configured machine learning clusters on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing network, and hijacked them to mine Monero.

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