Amazon arms its cloud with chip tech while rivals circle.

Amazon’s AWS outfit is strapping Nvidia’s prized NVLink Fusion into a future Trainium4 chip as it tries to lure heavyweight AI customers onto its cloud turf.

Seoul throws cash and clout at its own AI destiny

The global AI arms race between China and the US has smaller nations nervously eyeing their supply lines, fearing they will end up beholden to the whims of the superpowers.

Hefty splurge to keep federal bods swimming in compute

Amazon Web Services has decided to chuck a hefty pile of cash at new kit designed to boost AI capabilities for US government outfits.

Big Red’s grand AI punt keeps shredding its own valuation

Oracle’s market value has been sliding like a greased ferret since 10 September, when it trumpeted its $300bn deal with OpenAI and watched roughly $315bn vanish in the process.

Heavy debts rattle investors already twitchy about runaway AI spending

Oracle has taken a wallop as tech stocks and bonds tank, landing far harder than its Big Tech pals thanks to its colossal borrowing spree to muscle into the AI circus, which has rattled the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street something fierce.

Cloudy profits surge past expectations

Jeff Bezo's Amazon’s latest results show the company continues to turn artificial intelligence and cloud computing into serious profits.

Redmond giant’s capacity crunch boosts profits 

Software King of the World Microsoft is swimming in AI money but running short on the servers to handle it.

Block follows Guardian spy revelations and months of staff unrest

Software King of the World, Microsoft has pulled some Azure and AI services from a unit inside Israel’s defence ministry after an internal review backed media reports about mass surveillance of Palestinians.

German outfit wants to keep Europe’s ai data away from US

The maker of esoteric business software, which no one is sure quiet what it does, SAP has promised to splurge more than €20 billion ($23.3 billion) over the next decade on “sovereign cloud” infrastructure in Europe.

Redmond stonewalls watchdogs over Office 365 flows

Software King of the World, Microsoft is refusing to tell Police Scotland where the sensitive data it processes in Office 365 goes, leaving the force staring down a breach of UK law.