Perplexity signs $750 million deal with Microsoft

Perplexity signs a $750 million deal with Microsoft for Azure cloud access, while its main cloud provider Amazon is suing the startup.<br /> The article Perplexity signs $750 million deal with M [...]

'Investors suffered damages': Microsoft shareholders file class action lawsuit over its huge increase in AI and cloud spending

Microsoft shareholders filed a class action lawsuit alleging AI spending and disclosure practices contributed to investor losses. [...]

Rent a supernode by the hour - Alibaba brings frontier-scale AI compute to the public cloud, but only if you live in this remote Chinese province

Alibaba's new AI supernode is rentable by the hour, built entirely on Chinese silicon, and smaller than every rival it's compared to. [...]

Amazon in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI and supply its Trainium chips

Amazon is in discussions with OpenAI to invest $10 billion in the company while supplying more of its AI chips and cloud computing services, according to The Financial Times. The deal would push OpenA [...]

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl [...]

Mistral launches powerful Devstral 2 coding model including open source, laptop-friendly version

French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developer [...]

Organizations must own the right to their cloud compute, or innovation will suffer

The future of digital sovereignty and responsible AI use depends on infrastructure autonomy. [...]

The UK just declared Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle ‘critical’ to its financial system

Britain’s banks run on four American clouds. The Treasury reckons two-thirds of UK firms lean on the same handful. Now the regulators are stepping in. The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and [...]

The EU wants to crack down even further on using US cloud platforms for sensitive government data

US (and other global) hyperscalers could be pushed out of the running for contracts relating to sensitive public sector data. [...]