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.

Amazon boss blames chips and power for lagging GenAI performance

Amazon supremo Andy Jassy does not appear to be sweating over whether his outfit can keep pace with Microsoft and other AI-obsessed cloud vendors.

Redmond rides GenAI gold rush

Software King of the world, Microsoft's share price briefly cracked the $4 trillion mark on Thursday, making it only the second outfit in history to do so, before it promptly slid back to $3.96 trillion.

Ellison cuddles up to federal wallets

Oracle is slashing prices for its software and cloud services to please the Trump administration, offering what it calls a “substantial” discount on its cloudy wares and 75 per cent off on licence-based database and analytics products.

Flogging a full-stack IoT dream, not just chips

Nordic Semiconductor has decided it’s had enough of being just another silicon pusher and snapped up its long-time partner Memfault, the cloud outfit best known for keeping IoT devices from going tits-up.

AI threats and zero-trust mandates are driving a $26bn boom

Beancounters working for the Dell’Oro Group have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that while everyone is banking on about hardware cybersecurity, particularly of the cloudy sort, is where the cash is.