Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Microsoft has escaped the recent backlash against the power and wealth of the biggest US tech companies. Despite a stock market value that has soared to more than $2 trillion on its dominance of various parts of the business software market, it has avoided a repeat of the […]
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Enlarge / An aerial view of the NSA. (credit: nsa.gov) Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named the winner of a $10 billion cloud computing contract, called “WildandStormy,” for the National Security Agency. But Microsoft, no doubt still salty about Amazon’s successful challenge of Redmond’s $10 billion JEDI contract with the Pentagon, filed a formal […]
Enlarge (credit: US Department of Defense) Following years of controversy and intrigue, the Pentagon canceled its JEDI cloud computing contract with Microsoft today. Microsoft was awarded the contract in October 2019, but work stalled as Amazon, the other finalist, mounted a legal challenge. Now, the Department of Defense has scrapped the entire project, saying that […]
IBM president and former Red Hat chief Jim Whitehurst is stepping down. Read More
A.I. spending by companies is expected to rise this year due to additional training of their machine learning models. Read More
Amazon, like other tech giants including Google and Facebook, is hunting for workers who are experts in artificial intelligence. Read More
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