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Dina Bass

@dinabass.bsky.social
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Bloomberg News Tech Reporter covering Microsoft and AI, Mom, Liverpool FC Fan. Opinions are my own... or my evil twin's.

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nate @natefc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Liverpool’s undying ability to rage bait and then kick Newcastle in the nuts remains undefeated it’s astonishing
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Well that draw wasn't deserved, but we'll take it. Lot of work for Iraola. Even more to do for Hughes, which is an issue because he seems to be enjoying doing fuckall
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
OpenAI's Sachin Katti serves as Head of Industrial Compute, which means he gets to help figure out how to line up trillions of $ in AI compute. @shiringhaffary.bsky.social & I spoke with him about his role, Nvidia, AWS, memory shortages & more www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Former Academic Guiding OpenAI’s Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout
For months, OpenAI’s Sam Altman has been talking up plans to spend trillions of dollars on an unprecedented buildout of data centers stocked with advanced chips to power AI.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is retiring and will be replaced with AI exec Asha Sharma, who says the company will recommit to console gamers. Matt Booty is becoming chief content officer reporting to Sharma. Sarah Bond will leave the company.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
FTC is accelerating an antitrust probe of Microsoft and has sent requests for information to cloud and office software rivals relating to things like licensing Office/Windows for rival clouds & AI/Copilot, sources tell @sisco.bsky.social, me & @mattmday.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI
The US Federal Trade Commission is accelerating scrutiny of Microsoft Corp. as part of an ongoing probe into whether the company illegally monopolizes large swaths of the enterprise computing market w...
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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 03/02/2026
Congratulations to @bloomberg.com for earning an Honorable Mention for “The Hidden Costs of AI”. Read: bloom.bg/4rmdhDc By: Josh Saul, @naurtorious.bsky.social , Leonardo Nicoletti, @michellema.bsky.social , @dinabass.bsky.social , Demetrios Pogkas and Andre Tartar
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
NEW: I took a trip down to Obsidian Entertainment to talk about their stunning 2025, in which they somehow shipped three games. They were remarkably candid about their successes, their failures, and their plans for navigating the future. For Businessweek Magazine: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Inside Xbox, a Game Studio Is Trying to Reinvent Itself
Microsoft’s Obsidian Entertainment is searching for ways to make games more quickly and on smaller budgets.
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Maria Sacchetti - reporter - The Washington Post @mariasacchetti.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
honor of the 25th anniversary of the original Xbox unveiling at CES, here's a gift link to read the oral history I wrote for the 20th anniversary www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... (thanks to Mark Milian for the lovely edit of way too many words on this one)
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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A year after the LA wildfires, the price tag for the costliest blazes in US history is still climbing. Who pays is uncertain. Our story on how risk and damage have spread beyond burned neighborhoods and the fight to limit losses and shift liability: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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One Year After LA Fires, Recovery Is a Battleground
The price tag for the costliest blazes in US history is still climbing and disputes over who will pay are escalating.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I spoke to Johanna Faries, president of Blizzard Entertainment, about improving the company's culture, fixing the opaque bonus system, her ideal game release schedule, Xbox pressure, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Blizzard President Talks Culture, Bonuses and Releasing More Games
Johanna Faries, who took over as president of Blizzard in 2024, reveals what’s coming from the storied studio
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I have always wanted to take a close look at the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel. For 40th anniversary, we dove deep with spreadsheet pioneers, Excel's original team and the current gen of experts and influencers by @chafkin.bsky.social and me www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Microsoft Is the House That Excel Built
The ubiquitous spreadsheet software is expensive, derivative and depressing. It’s also the software the world can’t quit, even in the era of AI tools.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Has the whole Liverpool squad been replaced by their Temu versions?
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Lots of AI datacenter, neocloud and chip stuff this am: Cerebras signing an MOU with Guyana for a multibillion data center to serve the Caribbean nation and its neighbors + unveils a global sovereign AI program: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Cerebras to Help Build Guyana Data Center, Unveils Sovereign AI Push
Cerebras Systems Inc. is teaming up with the government of Guyana on a multibillion-dollar deal to build the area’s first data center, part of a push by the AI chip upstart to help countries expand th...
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I really have nothing nice to say about this Liverpool match...and my mother always said if you can't say anything nice...
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Also Microsoft is keeping its 20% revenue share, sources tell us, but OpenAI has more time to make payments.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
BREAKING: Amazon is making "significant" cuts to its video-game division, moving away from MMOs like New World, and gutting its Irvine and San Diego development studios www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Amazon Makes ‘Significant’ Cuts In Video-Game Division
Tech giant will reduce game development work
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Fans have spent the last two years wondering why Xbox is closing studios, canceling games, raising prices, cutting jobs, and releasing its games on rival PlayStation and Nintendo platforms. This ambitious 30% profit margin target helps explain many of those moves. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average. This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
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The Liverpool Offside @liverpooloffside.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I for one can't wait for next week when we nail Mo and Cody to the touchline again, ask our fullbacks to underlap constantly, and nobody knows what anybody else is doing while our press looks like steaming dogshit but individually we create enough xG to say maybe on another day...
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Well that was not an enjoyable match at all. Slot’s got a lot to work out here.
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Robert Jameson @rhjameson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Globally, data centers are expected to consume more than 4% of electricity by 2035 - if they were a country they’d rank 4th in power use www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... via @bloomberg.com By Josh Saul, Leonardo Nicoletti, Demetrios Pogkas, @dinabass.bsky.social @naurtorious.bsky.social
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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 16/09/2025
Invisible Technologies, a Scale AI rival that helped train ChatGPT, raised $100M, sources say at a $2B+ valuation, and reports $134M in 2024 sales (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
OD, the collaboration between Xbox and Hideo Kojima, is still in development, a Microsoft spokesperson tells me.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
BREAKING: Xbox is canceling Contraband, announced in 2021 from Avalanche Studios (Just Cause), after four years of radio silence, sources tell Bloomberg News. This news arrives weeks after a mass layoff in which Xbox canceled several other big titles.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Microsoft finally reported an Azure revenue number, after years of various less-than-specific ways of describing cloud sales that elicited complaints from analysts, investors, reporters &even a post-MSFT Steve Ballmer bloomberg.com/news/article... by @mattmday.bsky.social @brodyford.bsky.social
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Microsoft Gives Azure Cloud Sales for First Time at $75 Billion
Microsoft Corp. said its Azure cloud-computing unit generated more than $75 billion during the 2025 fiscal year, the first time the company has put a dollar figure on a critical business it has spent ...
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Many of Xbox's subsidiaries are getting hit by the layoffs this morning, including Call of Duty studios such as Raven. Big cuts at Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 - nearly 50% of staff, per source.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
BREAKING: The new MMORPG project from Zenimax Online Studios, maker of Elder Scrolls Online, has been canceled as part of the Xbox layoffs, sources tell Bloomberg News. The project, code-named Blackbird, had been in development since 2018. Still more news to come this morning.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Google has signed the first commercial deal with nuclear fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems and will make a second investment in CFS (both of undisclosed size) as cloud and AI companies look for more sources of energy. With Will Wade www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Google Is Betting on a Fusion Future in Power Deal With Commonwealth
Google will also invest again in Commonwealth, which expects its first commercial plant will generate power in the early 2030s
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Breaking: Microsoft is planning major job cuts at Xbox that will begin next week, sources tell Bloomberg News. Not yet clear how many people, but it's expected to be big. This will be the fourth mass layoff at Xbox in the last 18 months. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division
The video-game division’s latest round of layoffs is expected next week
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
One of the top-ranked hackers in the US isn't a person - it's an AI from a company called @xbow.com Founded by former GitHub Copilot chief Oege de Moor, Xbow has closed a $75 mln Series B round backed by Altimeter, Sequoia and Nat Friedman www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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One of the Best Hackers in the Country is an AI Bot
Xbow, the startup behind a highly ranked hacking security tool, has raised $75 million
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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Bell plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build data centers in six Canadian cities, its CEO said in an interview. The first site, in British Columbia, is expected to come online in June, with US-based AI chip startup Groq as anchor tenant. @dinabass.bsky.social had the story first:
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Canadian Telecom BCE to Build Large Network of AI Data Centers
BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telecom company by revenue, will set up a network of artificial intelligence data centers across the country, mirroring the aggressive AI infrastructure build-out happening ...
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
So why is Microsoft back to pouring resources into training its own large language models? When will it use them as versus OpenAI's? @austincarr.bsky.social and I spoke with Satya Nadella and Mustafa Suleyman on the philosophy behind MAI
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
2 years ago Microsoft set out to spin an early GenAI lead (courtesy of the OpenAI deal) into corporate & consumer AI gold. @austincarr.bsky.social I take a look at how it's gone, how Satya is hedging bets, building new AI models & navigating changing OAI conditions www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Microsoft’s CEO on How AI Will Remake Every Company, Including His
Nervous customers and a volatile partnership with OpenAI are complicating things for Satya Nadella and the world’s most valuable company.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/05/2025
Inside the secretive Microsoft MSTIC unit: How the elite hacker hunters became a pillar of US cyber defenses
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The Elite Microsoft Unit Constantly Working to Thwart Hackers
Over the past decade, the software company has become a pillar of US cyber defenses — a position that could become more complicated under Trump.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/05/2025
Inside the secretive Microsoft MSTIC unit: How the elite hacker hunters became a pillar of US cyber defenses
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The Elite Microsoft Unit Constantly Working to Thwart Hackers
Over the past decade, the software company has become a pillar of US cyber defenses — a position that could become more complicated under Trump.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We took an inside look at Microsoft's MSTIC threat intel center, the team that hunts nation-state hackers and helped the US gov't discover a massive attack on US telecoms over the summer and fall: bloomberg.com/news/feature... Feature by me, @jeffstone.bsky.social and Jake Bleiberg
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The Elite Microsoft Unit Constantly Working to Thwart Hackers
Over the past decade, the software company has become a pillar of US cyber defenses — a position that could become more complicated under Trump.
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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
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Mark LFC @cattytubeit23.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Arne Slot’s first season at Liverpool has been remarkable. One signing in January and he’s won the league with a month to spare. FSG deserve credit too — they’ve been great owners, even if some fans don’t want to admit it. Stability and smart calls.
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The Liverpool Offside @liverpooloffside.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
LIBPOOL BACK ON OUR PERCH LIBPOOL LIBPOOL BACK ON OUR PERCH
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
And Mo gets his!
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
It's a bit wacky to be in a position to cheer that loudly at the scene of a ref miming the shape of a screen but at this exact moment I'm not inclined to criticize VAR
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Some personal news: After covering Microsoft for more than half that company's 50 years, I'm excited to be switching to a newly created AI Infrastructure beat! The brilliant @brodyford.bsky.social will be taking over for me, joining the equally brilliant @mattmday.bsky.social on the Microsoft patch.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Google Cloud has secured a $2.5 billion contract with Salesforce (normally a mostly-AWS shop), plus a bunch of product integration work meant to help Google and Salesforce better compete with Microsoft Office and Microsoft AI tools. Story with @brodyford.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Google Wins Salesforce Cloud Deal in Bid to Counter Microsoft
The contract, worth $2.5 billion, is emblematic of how big tech companies are forging alliances to offer a broader menu of AI products.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18/02/2025
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI showed off the updated Grok-3 model, showcasing a version of the chatbot technology that the billionaire has said is the “smartest AI on Earth.”
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Musk Debuts Grok-3 AI Chatbot to Rival OpenAI, DeepSeek
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI showed off the updated Grok-3 model, showcasing a version of the chatbot technology that the billionaire has said is the “smartest AI on Earth.”
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Mark Gurman @markgurman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
NEW: Apple, SpaceX and T-Mobile have secretly been working together to launch Starlink satellite support for iPhone customers. It’s a secret addition in iOS 18.3 and Starlink will slowly roll out in beta for T-Mobile users who apply. Details here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apple and SpaceX Link Up to Support Starlink Satellite Network on iPhones
Apple Inc. has been secretly working with SpaceX and T-Mobile US Inc. to add support for the Starlink network in its latest iPhone software, providing an alternative to the company’s in-house satellit...
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Microsoft and OpenAI are looking into whether a group linked to DeepSeek obtained data output from OpenAI's API in an unauthorized manner, sources tell @shiringhaffary.bsky.social and me www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I know we're all paying attention to the $500B massive AI infrastructure/data center thing but also Microsoft and OpenAI made some tweaks to their multiyear deal: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Changes OpenAI Pact to Allow Use of Rival Cloud Services
The software giant was previously the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI and now retains right of first refusal.
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Dina Bass @dinabass.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The US FTC says Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, as well as AWS and Google's with Anthropic, raises antitrust concerns: bloomberg.com/news/article... with @ebirnbaum.bsky.social @rachelmetz.bsky.social @leahnylen.bsky.social
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
Microsoft Corp.’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the tech giant could extend its dominance in cloud computing into the nascent artificial intelligence market, the Federal Trade ...
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