1+ hour, 54+ min ago  (386+ words) Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings. Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40, 000 server workloads off of VMware amid "abusive conduct" from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (396+ words) Anthropic secures 5 gigawatts of Amazon's custom silicon as Claude demand soars. Amazon has significantly boosted its multibillion-dollar bet on Claude developer Anthropic by investing an additional $5 billion'enabling Anthropic to eventually secure up to 5 gigawatts' worth of AI chips from Amazon…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (277+ words) Uninsurable war damage is forcing tech companies to rethink Middle East plans. A data center developer has paused all Middle East project investments after one of its facilities was damaged by an Iranian missile or drone attack. The decision comes…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (235+ words) Amended agreement clears the way for Open AI models to run on Amazon Bedrock. Since Microsoft invested $1 billion in Open AI back in 2019, the exclusive partnership between the two firms has been one of the strongest and most consequential in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (348+ words) This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago. Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports. The investment follows Amazon's $5 billion…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (444+ words) Western Union exec says there were "challenges" working with Broadcom. Amid customer dissatisfaction around Broadcom's VMware takeover, rivals have been trying to lure customers from the leading virtualization firm. One of VMware's biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (346+ words) Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities." A trade association of cloud service providers (CSPs) filed an antitrust complaint today with the European Union's European Commission (EC) over Broadcom's shuttering of VMware's CSP partner program this year. Since Broadcom…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1695+ words) One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security. In late 2024, the federal government's cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft's biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant's "lack of proper detailed security documentation…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (161+ words) Problems viewing products and checking out. Based on over 20, 000 reports, Amazon appears to be experiencing an outage. According to Downdetector, reports of problems started increasing at 1: 41 pm ET today. By 2: 26 pm, ET, Downdetector received 18, 320 reports of problems with Amazon's website....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (609+ words) Blames "user error, not AI error" for incident in December involving its Kiro tool. Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools, leading some employees to raise doubts about the US…...