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Global software and cloud giant; Azure, M365, Intune; DMA probe and US cloud sovereignty risk.
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#527 May
Mentioned in: Brussels locks 27 May for CAIDA and Chips II
European Tech Sovereignty#915 May
Mentioned in: WARN Act untested: four AI cuts, zero enforcement actions
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#215 May
Mentioned in: Publisher AI adoption hits 93% in Q4 2025
Media's AI Pivot#913 May
Launched voluntary retirement programme for 8,750 US employees and took $900M Q4 charge
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Microsoft's $900M retirement charge obscures 8,750 departures#1011 May
Mentioned in: Brussels gives no case number on Article 102 file
2026 FIFA World Cup#18 May
Mentioned in: News Corp names $1.5bn Anthropic settlement
Media's AI Pivot#28 May
Mentioned in: Akamai puts Claude on the EU edge for $1.8bn
Media's AI Pivot#38 May
Mentioned in: Trellix discloses 21-day-old breach of source-code repository
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#57 May
Named as one of three hyperscalers targeted by CAIDA public-sector ban
European Tech Sovereignty: CAIDA leak: US clouds barred from EU public data#37 May
Mentioned in: Ivanti EPMM logs fourth KEV zero-day since 2023
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#36 May
Mentioned in: CISA deadline for PAN-OS RCE lands four days early
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#830 Apr
Mentioned in: Hangzhou court bans AI-driven worker sackings
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#230 Apr
Mentioned in: Seattle freezes data centres for a year
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#230 Apr
Reported $30.88bn fiscal Q3 capex up 84% YoY and $37bn AI annual run rate
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Hyperscalers raise 2026 capex to $725 billion#830 Apr
Mentioned in: Apple R&D up 33% as Tim Cook announces exit
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#529 Apr
Mentioned in: Mistral ships Le Chat Enterprise and Medium 3.5
European Tech Sovereignty#829 Apr
Raised annual capex to $190B and disclosed headcount will decline year-on-year in 2027
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Microsoft tells investors 2027 headcount will fall#329 Apr
Reported $30.88bn Q1 capex with no downward revision
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Hyperscalers post record $110.75bn Q1 capex#328 Apr
Mentioned in: OpenAI cuts compute target by $800bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#227 Apr
Mentioned in: Johor halts data-centre approvals after water protest
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#424 Apr
Mentioned in: CISPE ships rival sovereign cloud badge
European Tech Sovereignty#223 Apr
UNC6692 runs SNOW through Microsoft Teams
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#523 Apr
Lost Health Data Hub reference customer contract to Scaleway
European Tech Sovereignty: France awards Health Data Hub to Scaleway#223 Apr
Mentioned in: Sixteen agencies put IOC extinction in print
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#319 Apr
Issued emergency out-of-band patch KB5091157 on 19 April for Windows Server LSASS reboot loops
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: KB5091157, Gentlemen C2 intel, ENISA CNAs: in brief#217 Apr
Mentioned in: EU awards first sovereign cloud deal
European Tech Sovereignty#317 Apr
Mentioned in: Commission awards sovereign cloud slot to Google joint venture
European Tech Sovereignty#116 Apr
Mentioned in: IEA: 17% growth, $700B capex run-rate
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#216 Apr
Mentioned in: DMA orders Google to open search data
European Tech Sovereignty#116 Apr
Mentioned in: Avid embeds Google Gemini in Media Composer
Media's AI Pivot#215 Apr
Mentioned in: Meta faces DMA order on WhatsApp AI
European Tech Sovereignty#215 Apr
Mentioned in: ORG brands UK tech dependency a risk
European Tech Sovereignty#114 Apr
Contained a 17-year-old RCE vulnerability now actively exploited in unpatched legacy deployments
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: 17-year-old Office RCE back on KEV#313 Apr
Mentioned in: OpenAI takes 88,500 sq ft in London, pauses Stargate UK
European Tech Sovereignty#113 Apr
#58 Apr
Anthropic withholds Mythos from public release
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#17 Apr
Mentioned in: GRU hijacks home routers for M365 logins
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#57 Apr
“granted restricted model access via glasswing”
AI: Jobs, Power & Money · source event
#22 Apr
Mentioned in: Outlook Crashes at 46,000 Miles From Earth
Artemis II Moon Mission#81 Apr
Mentioned in: Alphabet books $35.7bn Q1 capex; backlog hits $460bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#81 Apr
Mentioned in: India IT trio post first negative quarter
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#11 Apr
Mentioned in: Reach signs AWS pay-per-usage AI licensing deal
Media's AI Pivot#331 Mar
Mentioned in: Amazon pays $20.5m Boardman nitrate deal
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#128 Mar
Mentioned in: Granola hits $1.5bn in three years
UK Startups and Innovation#326 Mar
Azure up 40%, Microsoft posts $77.7bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#123 Mar
Mentioned in: CitrixBleed 3 lands on SAML broker
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#811 Mar
Microsoft and Google back the Warner-Rounds bill
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#111 Mar
Mentioned in: Handala wipes 200,000 devices at Stryker
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#12 Mar
Mentioned in: UK 24-hour reporting bill at Report
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#11 Mar
Mentioned in: Google closes $32bn Wiz deal; 38 M&A
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#11 Mar
Mentioned in: BRICKSTORM dwell hits 393 days, Mandiant
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#11 Feb
Mentioned in: Sovereign cloud spend set to triple by 2027
European Tech Sovereignty#11 Feb
“admitted as member undermining sovereignty mandate”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#11 Jan
Announced basin-level water disclosure framework while requiring Racine NDA suppressing community impact data
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Microsoft Mount Pleasant: 8M gallons via lawsuit#11 Jan
Mentioned in: French military signs Mistral AI deal
European Tech Sovereignty#11 Dec
Mentioned in: GE Vernova gas backlog hits 80 GW into 2029
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#11 Oct
EC opens DMA cloud probes against AWS and Azure
European Tech Sovereignty#11 Oct
“opened cloud gatekeeper probe”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event