Microsoft says Azure affected after cables cut in the Red Sea

Anthony Ha / techcrunch - It's not clear who cut the cables or why.

Microsoft Azure disrupted by Red Sea fiber cable damage

Microsoft experienced an unexpected hiccup when damage to fiber optic cables in the Red Sea disrupted its Azure cloud services. The incident, which momentarily rattled customers’ connections, has prompted urgent repairs. While engineers work to mend the issue, this serves as a reminder that even tech giants can face very old-school infrastructure challenges.

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AI inference startup Baseten closes $150M investment backed by CapitalG

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Artificial intelligence startup Baseten Labs Inc. today announced that it has closed a $150 million late-stage investment at a $2.15 billion valuation. BOND led the Series D round, which comes about six months after the company’s previous raise. It was jo…

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AI inference startup Baseten closes $150M investment backed by CapitalG

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Baseten Raises $150 Million to Scale AI Inference Platform

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AI-Related Products Help Drive 26% Revenue Growth in Alibaba’s Cloud Division

PYMNTS / pymnts - Artificial intelligence-related products led Alibaba Group’s gains during a quarter in which the global technology company earned double-digit year-over-year revenue growth across its businesses. Overall, during the quarter ended June 30, Alibaba reported…

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UK iCloud data demand wanted far more than the world's Messages

appleinsider - The UK seemed to give in over demanding Apple give it backdoor access to iPhone users' encrypted data, but it may still be pressing for it — and it wanted much more than was previously believed.UK Parliament — image credit: UK GovernmentThe UK government …

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Apple Reportedly Still Under Pressure to Give UK Government Backdoor iCloud Access

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UK Pressed Apple Even For iCloud User Data, Document Reveals

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UK's demand for Apple backdoor may have been broader than previously thought

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UK iCloud data demand wanted far more than the world's Messages

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UK Still Demanding Global Access to iCloud User Data, Filings Suggest

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Microsoft Unveils In-House MAI-1 and MAI-Voice-1 AI Models to Diversify Beyond OpenAI

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has launched two powerful in-house AI models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, signaling a major strategy to build its own foundational AI alongside its OpenAI partnership.The post Microsoft Unveils In-House MAI-1 and MAI-Voice-1 AI Models to Dive…

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With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

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Microsoft debuts in-house AI models as it builds independence from OpenAI

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Microsoft presents its first large AI models and signals greater independence from OpenAI

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Microsoft Unveils In-House MAI-1 and MAI-Voice-1 AI Models to Diversify Beyond OpenAI

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Microsoft launches two in-house AI models to rival competitors

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vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list

Simon Sharwood / theregister - Nor is its Arm port When VMware delivered its Cloud Foundation 9 suite in June, it marked the end of a two-year push to integrate its compute, storage, and networking products. What’s next for the Broadcom business unit? At the VMware Explore conference t…

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vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list

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New Belgium Brewing hops onto VMware’s private cloud platform

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Grinnell Mutual taps VCF 9 to drive secure hybrid cloud transformation

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Microsoft now saves all Word files to the cloud by default

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Anyone who has used Microsoft Word for a number of years will remember the times they have been saved by the autosave feature. The move to the cloud complicated things slightly meaning that many people lost files when Microsoft changed the way the feature…

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Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default.

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Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud. Microsoft 365 Insiders are now testing changes to how documents are saved in Word for Windows

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Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default

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Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud

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Microsoft Word will soon save documents to the cloud by default

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Microsoft now saves all Word files to the cloud by default

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Snowflake’s stock pops as AI momentum drives solid earnings and revenue beat

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Shares of Snowflake Inc. popped in extended trading after the cloud-based data storage giant reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and revenue and issued upbeat guidance for the rest of the year. The company reported adjusted earnings of 3…

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Snowflake’s stock pops as AI momentum drives solid earnings and revenue beat

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Gemini AI lands on Google Distributed Cloud for secure on-premises adoption

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Google LLC today announced the general availability of its Gemini artificial intelligence models on Google Distributed Cloud, extending its most advanced AI capabilities into enterprise and government data centers. The launch, which sees Gemini now availa…

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Gemini Can Now Answer Questions About Images In Google Drive

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Google Shares Best Prompts for Gemini Image Generation

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Gemini AI lands on Google Distributed Cloud for secure on-premises adoption

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Microsoft expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers

Tom Warren / theverge - Microsoft is expanding its Xbox Cloud Gaming technology to Xbox Game Pass Core or Standard subscribers, dropping the requirement for the highest tier Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for access to cloud games. As part of an Xbox Insider test, Microsoft is also pro…

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Microsoft starts expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to other Game Pass tiers

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Microsoft’s Latest Move Could Upend How You Play With the Best Deal in Gaming

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Xbox Cloud Gaming is now playable in the cheaper Game Pass tiers

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Xbox Insiders On Cheaper Game Pass Tiers Can Now Stream More Cloud Games And Access PC Versions of (Some of) the Games They Own

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Microsoft expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers

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The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams

Jessica Lyons / theregister - Don't let it happen to you Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then…

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Storm-0501 hackers shift to ransomware attacks in the cloud

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The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams

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Microsoft report warns Storm-0501 is turning cloud features into ransomware weapons

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Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

engadget - The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a copy of a key Social Security database to an unsecured cl…

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Whistleblower says DOGE copied Social Security data to insecure cloud environment

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DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

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DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud

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Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

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Broadcom clears the way for AI-native private clouds with VMware Cloud Foundation

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Broadcom Inc. said today it’s transforming its VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 software into an artificial intelligence-native platform, giving developers a secure, modern and private cloud infrastructure that’s geared for the development of sophisticated AI …

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Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises

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Broadcom’s VMware overhaul puts private cloud at the center of enterprise AI shift

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Broadcom clears the way for AI-native private clouds with VMware Cloud Foundation

6 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Broadcom to Add Support for AMD GPUs to VCF Platform

6 months / techstrong / Mike Vizard

VMware Tanzu delivers speedy, AI-ready data access for AI agents

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Meta reportedly inks $10B+ cloud deal with Google

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. has reportedly signed a cloud deal with Google LLC that will be worth more than $10 billion over six years. Sources told Reuters on Thursday that the agreement encompasses servers, storage, networking and “other services.” The deal com…

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Meta reportedly inks $10B+ cloud deal with Google

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Meta's AI Push Leads to $10 Billion Google Cloud Deal, Report Says

6 months / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Google Drive now offers in-browser video editing

Kris Holt / engadget - Google is now offering a way to edit videos right in Drive via Google Vids in a compatible browser. Whenever you're previewing a video in Google Drive, you may see an "Open" button in the top right of the screen. Clicking this opens the clip in Google Vid…

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Now, Workspace users can initiate a video edit using the Vids app directly from the Google Drive interface.

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Google makes it easier to edit Drive videos with a new Vids shortcut button

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Google Drive now offers in-browser video editing

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Google made it easier to edit your Drive videos

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

cnbc - Alphabet and Meta compete in online advertising, but Meta needs more data center infrastructure as it pursues artificial intelligence growth.

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Reports: Meta signs $10bn deal to use Google cloud

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Meta Bets on Gas Power and Google Cloud in $10 Billion AI Infrastructure Push

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

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Feds sign new agreement with Cohere to explore AI uses within government services

Madison McLauchlan / betakit - AI startup partnered with the Canadian government in June on AI research and safety.The post Feds sign new agreement with Cohere to explore AI uses within government services first appeared on BetaKit.

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Feds sign new agreement with Cohere to explore AI uses within government services

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Feds Sign AI Agreement with Cohere to Modernize Public Services

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Lightning AI launches multicloud GPU marketplace to connect developers to compute infrastructure

Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Lightning AI, a platform that provides tools for developing artificial intelligence and machine learning apps, today announced the launch of its multicloud graphics processing unit marketplace, which will provide AI teams access to on-demand and reserved …

#startups #cloud #gpu

Lightning AI launches multicloud GPU marketplace to connect developers to compute infrastructure

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Exclusive / Startup Lightning AI launches GPU rental marketplace that compares processors - Semafor

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UK Reportedly Withdraws Demand to Access Encrypted iCloud User Data

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - The British government has agreed to withdraw its controversial demand to access Apple users' encrypted iCloud data, according to the U.S. director of intelligence.Tulsi Gabbard said in a post on X (Twitter) the UK had dropped its plans to force Apple to …

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UK Will No Longer Force Apple Backdoor Access

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Tulsi Gabbard said that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance also participated in the negotiations with the U.K. government over its once-secret demand to Apple.

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Feels like potentially another “friends in high places who like gifts” story. Though derails are still murky US spy chief says UK has dropped its Apple backdoor demand | TechCrunch #Apple #Tech #politics https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/us-spy-chief-sa

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Trump admin says it convinced UK to drop demand for Apple backdoor

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