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Microsoft’s $3 Trillion Showdown: What July 29 Earnings Mean for Your Cloud Bills, AI Tools, and Next PC
Microsoft will report fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 earnings on July 29, and the numbers will answer a $3 trillion question: Is the company’s historic AI investment paying off? Azure...
Intel Plans DDR5-8000 for Xeon 6: 20% More Memory Bandwidth, 6% Lower Latency. Here's What Changes for Your Data Center
Intel has confirmed that selected Xeon 6 processors will officially support DDR5-8000 registered memory (RDIMMs), delivering a 20% lift in measured memory bandwidth alongside a modest 6% latency...
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Surpasses Claude and GPT in Front-End Coding — Here’s What Windows Developers Should Know
On July 17, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model from Beijing startup Moonshot AI shot to the top of the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard, unseating Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s...
Azure Taps AMD's Helios AI Racks to Ease Compute Crunch, but Capacity Details Remain Scarce
Microsoft committed to a large-scale deployment of AMD’s Helios rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure, giving Azure’s own services and its paying cloud customers access to...
Microsoft Previews AMD-Powered Azure VMs for AI and HPC, but They’re Not Ready Yet
Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on three new Azure virtual machine families built with next-generation AMD silicon, but IT buyers hoping to spin up instances this quarter will be disappointed:...
Return on AI Cloud Spending: Why the AWS vs Azure Race Is Still a Toss-Up
A new analyst note claims Amazon Web Services is poised to deliver better returns on artificial intelligence infrastructure spending than Microsoft Azure, but the argument leans heavily on investment...
Dell Storage Revenue Leaps 41% as Azure Local Integration Opens Doors for Windows Shops
Dell Technologies closed the first quarter of 2026 as the runaway leader in external enterprise storage, capturing 31.2% of global revenue and growing 40.8% year over year. The overall market swelled...
Nvidia’s HBM4 Deal With SK hynix Will Reshape Windows AI — Here’s How
SK hynix has locked down roughly 70% of Nvidia’s initial HBM4 memory orders for the upcoming Vera Rubin AI platform, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. The allocation gives SK hynix a...
Kimi K3 Open-Weight AI Arrives July 27: What Windows Developers and IT Pros Need to Know Now
Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 model, released July 16, immediately shot to the top of Arena's front-end coding benchmark. On July 27, its full model weights go public—a move that reshapes the AI coding...
NVIDIA Pledges 75% Fewer GPUs for Agent Training with Vera Rubin—But Windows IT Gets the Ripple Effects
NVIDIA just dropped a number that could reshape how businesses think about AI training costs: 75% fewer GPUs for the continuous post-training of agentic models. On July 17, the company said its...
Anthropic Turns to Meta for $10B AI Compute Lease as Claude Demand Surges
Anthropic has entered early-stage negotiations to lease up to $10 billion worth of AI computing capacity from Meta, CNBC reported on Thursday. If finalized, the two-year deal would give the Claude...
You Can Soon Self-Host a Near-Frontier AI Model — Kimi K3 Arrives July 27
Moonshot AI dropped a 2.8-trillion-parameter model on July 16 that doesn’t quite beat the top US systems overall but has already topped them on a critical coding benchmark. The bigger news: on July...