AI

European spending on sovereign cloud IaaS to nearly double in 2026

Google, Microsoft, Oracle, also market cloud services as sovereign.  A better approach for US hyperscalers might be to partner with local providers. There are already...

OpenAI partners with consulting giants to deploy enterprise AI agents

“Frontier provides the technical foundation,” said OpenAI. “But making real impact with AI also requires leadership alignment, workflow redesign, integration across systems and data,...

Why waiting for Siri could make it a winner

The company is also in a good position to lean back into the advantages it does have. I mentioned its biggest advantage right at the...

Trump administration bans Anthropic, seemingly embraces OpenAI

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has been in discussions with OpenAI and Google about expanding their models’ availability from unclassified systems into more sensitive environments, Axios...

European consumers ask EU to put a stop to digital enshittification

Online rights campaigners have come together to complain about the propensity of IT companies to make life more difficult for their users. The groups,...

PwC US tells staff to opt out of company, not AI

The company has already begun incorporating AI into its services. Earlier this week, it launched PwC One, an AI platform that allows clients to...

What really caused that AWS outage in December?

AWS continued: “The disruption was an extremely limited event last December affecting a single service (AWS Cost Explorer—which helps customers visualize, understand, and manage...

Starcloud prepares to launch AWS Outpost into space

One executive skeptical of the idea of data centers in space is AWS’s own CEO, Matt Garman. “There are not enough rockets to launch...

Startups accuse Microsoft of ‘billing trap’ in Azure AI Foundry after unexpected charges

Microsoft, which offers up to $150,000 in Azure credits to early-stage ventures through the Microsoft for Startups initiative, did not respond to an email...