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Microsoft launches Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP and others, to allow publishers to license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 3, 2026

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Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28 billion liters by 2030, up from 7.9 billion liters in 2020 and 10.4 billion liters in 2024 (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 28, 2026

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Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its 2nd generation AI accelerator built on TSMC’s 3nm process, deployed today in its Azure US Central data center region (Tom Warren/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 26, 2026

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Microsoft confirms that it provides BitLocker recovery keys for encrypted data if it receives a valid legal order and the user has stored the keys on its servers (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 24, 2026

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Elon Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 17, 2026

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Microsoft is quietly becoming one of Anthropic’s biggest customers and was recently set to spend nearly $500 million a year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 14, 2026

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A look at global AI adoption in 2025; consumption in the countries of the North has increased almost twice as fast as in the South; UAE leads with 64% of working age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 11, 2026

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Amazon, Microsoft and Google have pledged a total of $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending spree in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 26, 2025

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Amazon is in talks to invest more than $10 billion in OpenAI at a valuation of more than $500 billion, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft retains rights to sell OpenAI models (News)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 17, 2025

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LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG revealed an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom’s Hardware)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 15, 2025

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SpaceX gets property tax exemption for its $55 billion Terafab chip plant project in Texas, despite threats of legal action from Texans, amid local opposition to AI (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and expand access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures have eroded its AI security standards (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit say peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes that their posts will be deleted and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app (Google Developers Blog)

Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75 billion in its IPO, selling 555.6 million shares at $135 each, which would value the company at about $1.77 billion (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

Browsing: Microsoft

Microsoft launches Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP and others, to allow publishers to license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28 billion liters by 2030, up from 7.9 billion liters in 2020 and 10.4 billion liters in 2024 (New York Times)

Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its 2nd generation AI accelerator built on TSMC’s 3nm process, deployed today in its Azure US Central data center region (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft confirms that it provides BitLocker recovery keys for encrypted data if it receives a valid legal order and the user has stored the keys on its servers (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Elon Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)

Microsoft is quietly becoming one of Anthropic’s biggest customers and was recently set to spend nearly $500 million a year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (The Information)

A look at global AI adoption in 2025; consumption in the countries of the North has increased almost twice as fast as in the South; UAE leads with 64% of working age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)

Amazon, Microsoft and Google have pledged a total of $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending spree in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Amazon is in talks to invest more than $10 billion in OpenAI at a valuation of more than $500 billion, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft retains rights to sell OpenAI models (News)

LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG revealed an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom’s Hardware)