EU set to name AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers in November
EU set to name AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers in November

The European Commission plans to name Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in November, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Citing people familiar with the matter, it said regulators are finishing an inve…

If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?
If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?

San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that’s changed in recent years, as data centers have grown into massive “hyperscale” facilities spanning millions of square feet and housing the physical infrastructure for AI. There are now more […]

LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft
LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft

Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn before taking over Microsoft’s Office group, will leave the company at the end of 2026, as Jordan Novet reported for CNBC. Chief executive Satya Nadella announced the exit in a memo to staff on Thursday, according to CN…

Microsoft’s Office and Teams chief is leaving
Microsoft’s Office and Teams chief is leaving

After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company. Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this year. Roslansky’s departure has triggered another leadership shuffle inside Microsoft. “Ryan leaves the organization […]

Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink
Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink

Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted an intimate, invite-only event for leaders from some of its key enterprise customers. Instead of a flashy media event, Nadella outlined the future of Copilot directly to the customers Microsoft really cares about, pitching its latest rethink of the AI assistant as the “OS for work.” Microsoft is […]

Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times
Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times

Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsoft’s gaming chief published on Wednesday. “Xbox is not for sale,” Sharma said. “We will do whatev…

OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic
OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic

In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlan…

Gears of War: E-Day is a great game launching at a terrible time
Gears of War: E-Day is a great game launching at a terrible time

There are few blockbuster games that are as confident as Gears of War: E-Day. A prequel to one of Xbox’s most transformative titles, E-Day knows exactly what it wants to be: a brutal, tense, and self-aware action game, one that is stronger because it doesn’t deviate from that premise. Twenty years since the original Gears […]

HP’s answer to the MacBook Neo is thinner, lighter, and comes with OLED
HP’s answer to the MacBook Neo is thinner, lighter, and comes with OLED

HP is announcing a new laptop that’s squarely aimed at Apple’s MacBook Neo. The 2026 HP OmniBook 5 14 starts at $699.99 with an Intel Core 5 315 “Wildcat Lake” processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Much of that sounds pretty familiar, being in lockstep with both Apple’s Neo and its recent competition […]

Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports
Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports

A final investment decision on Project Kilby, a huge gas-powered data centre in West Texas, could slip from the end of this year to 2027 because of state politics. Tim McDonnell reported the news for Semafor on Thursday. The project, near Pecos in the …