Microsoft Signs a 20-Year Power Deal for Its Indiana Data Centers
Microsoft has secured about 1,100 megawatts of new generating capacity for its data center campus in northwestern Indiana under a 20-year energy agreement with NiSource, the utility announced on October…
Britain Moves to Designate Microsoft’s Software Ecosystem for Special Scrutiny
About 20 million people in Britain use Microsoft’s business software every month. That figure is why the country’s competition regulator proposed on October 16 to designate the company’s commercial software…
A Model Name Appears in Microsoft’s Cloud Catalog Before Anyone Announces It
A model identifier showed up in a Microsoft Azure catalog and in a public record left by a routing tool, and the appearance was enough to generate a release announcement…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark Outruns Apple’s M5 Max in Local Agent Tests
The first independent tests of Nvidia’s RTX Spark, a processor the company has built for laptops, appeared on October 15, and they measured something the PC industry has not traditionally…
Blackstone Builds a $200 Billion Data Center Portfolio
Blackstone has spent the past two years buying the parts of the artificial intelligence economy that sit behind the chip, and the total now stands at $200 billion. The figure…
Apple Sets an October 28 Event for Touchscreen MacBooks and M6 Macs
Apple has begun inviting journalists to a product event in Los Angeles on October 28, according to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, who reported the invitations on X on October 15.…
Amazon Adds Two Bee Wearables and a Subscription to Its AI Hardware Line
Amazon introduced two devices under its Bee brand on October 15, betting that a wristband and a card-sized recorder can sell hardware whose only obvious feature is that it listens…
Microsoft Says Its Third Maia Chip Delivers 40% More Tokens per Megawatt
Microsoft introduced its third generation of in-house artificial intelligence chips on October 12, a processor built for inference rather than training, and attached a number to it that the cloud…
Bending Spoons Jumps 41% as Berkshire Adds $330 Million
Berkshire Hathaway bought more shares of Bending Spoons, and the market treated the filing as a verdict on the software company’s listing. The stock closed up 41 percent on October…
Anduril Lets Employees Sell at a $90 Billion Valuation
Anduril Industries confirmed on October 14 that it has opened a tender offer for its own employees, valuing the defense technology company at about $90 billion. Employees can sell shares…
