Electronics don’t play nicely with most liquids, which is why liquid cooling in the datacenter is often considered a little dangerous. Microsoft, however, has found a way to dispel such worries with a scheme that sees liquids flow across the surface of chips. As explained in a Tuesday post, the technique is called “Microfluidics” and sees “Tiny channels … etched …
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Microsoft is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 AI models to its Microsoft 365 Copilot today. It’s a big move that expands model choice beyond just OpenAI’s range of models in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and it will allow Microsoft’s customers to access Anthropic models in Researcher and Microsoft Copilot Studio. “Copilot will continue to be powered by …
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Earlier this month, Microsoft (MSFT) inked a $17.4 billion AI-compute deal with AI infrastructure firm Nebius (NBIS), and it appears to be one of those quiet catalysts that Wall Street may notice late. In an AI world starved for GPUs, power, and floor space, this deal buys time in the form of fast, ready capacity while Microsoft builds out its …
Read More »AI is an enormous energy drain, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the planet desperately needs progress in the opposite direction. Although most of that comes from running GPUs, cooling them is another significant overhead. So, it’s worth noting when a company of Microsoft’s stature claims to have achieved a breakthrough in chip cooling. Microsoft’s new system …
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The EU is set to scrutinize if Apple, Google, and Microsoft are failing to adequately police financial fraud online, as it steps up efforts to police how Big Tech operates online. The EU’s tech chief Henna Virkkunen told the Financial Times that on Tuesday, the bloc’s regulators would send formal requests for information to the three US Big Tech groups …
Read More »Microsoft Is Turning to the Field of Microfluidics to Cool Down AI Chips Bloomberg.com AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better. Microsoft Source Vertiv Stock Falls After Microsoft Reveals ‘Breakthrough’ Chip Cooling Tech Investor’s Business Daily Why Vertiv (VRT) Shares Are Trading Lower Today Yahoo Finance Microsoft Etches Microfluidic Channels Into …
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Despite getting long in the tooth, the current generation of consoles are not getting cheaper. For the second time this year, Microsoft announced that it’s raising prices on the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles starting October 3. Microsoft is blaming the increase on “changes in the macroeconomic environment.” Unlike the last price increase, this one only affects U.S. …
Read More »Microsoft is dishing out free Xbox store credit to users in new promo TrueAchievements Source link
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So, we’ve been having a browse on the Microsoft Store this morning to check out all the new Xbox deals that have been added (more on those later today), and we’ve come across something called “Check Your Chat” on the main page. Microsoft is specifically telling Xbox fans that they’ve been sent some free money, and it’s apparently in the …
Read More »Microsoft is increasing Xbox Series X|S prices in the US again trueachievements.com Microsoft hikes Xbox prices in US once again as tariff challenges persist Reuters Xbox Console Prices Are Going Up in the U.S…Again IGN Microsoft raises Xbox prices amid tariffs – is it time to buy? Windows Central Microsoft raises Xbox prices in U.S. due to economic environment CNBC Source link
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