Microsoft Corp. will use Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s upcoming Helios rack design, featuring 72 Instinct MI455 GPUs with 432 GB of HBM4 memory and CDNA 5 architecture, to power new Azure ND MI455X v7…
Microsoft is testing Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model for Copilot, aiming to reduce AI inference costs by up to $600 million by shifting workloads from OpenAI and Anthropic models. The Chinese startup's 2.…
Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios rack-scale AI platform at scale on Azure, making it the first hyperscaler to publicly commit to the platform. The deployment, expected to begin in the second half of…
Microsoft and AMD announced a partnership to deploy large-scale AI clusters on Azure using AMD's Helios rack design, which includes MI455X GPUs, Venice Epyc 9006 CPUs, Pensando DPUs, and the ROCm soft…
Microsoft is expanding Azure's AI infrastructure with AMD's new Helios platform, set to challenge Nvidia's GPU systems in the second half of 2026, and a public GitHub profile suggests Anthropic is als…
Microsoft will offer three new Azure instances powered by AMD Helios racks, joining Meta and OpenAI as large-scale buyers of the systems that start shipping in Q3. The HDv2 VMs target AI data processi…
AMD announced an expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft to deploy the AMD Helios Rackscale Solution on Microsoft Azure, powering frontier model AI inference for Microsoft and its Azure AI servi…
Microsoft is evaluating Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model for integration into its Copilot service on Azure, a move that could partially displace OpenAI and Anthropic models on one of the world's largest cl…
GitHub added its first open-weight AI model, Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI, to the Copilot model picker on July 1, 2026, allowing users in regulated industries to audit the model's weights under an …
Microsoft is expanding its Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD's latest Helios AI platform and next-generation EPYC datacenter processors, introducing three new virtual machine offerings: HDv2 fo…
Microsoft and 3M announced a strategic partnership on July 15 under which Azure becomes the first hyperscale cloud provider to deploy 3M's Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) technology in its data centers, w…
Average GPU utilization in production Kubernetes clusters is just 5%, according to the Cast AI 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report, meaning 95 cents of every GPU dollar goes to idle silicon. …
Average GPU utilization across tens of thousands of production Kubernetes clusters is just 5%, according to the Cast AI 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report. Default Kubernetes scheduling uses…
A developer built an AI agent that provides read-only access to an enterprise system of record using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Azure. The architecture uses Azure Logic Apps, API Management, …
Meta plans to hire a senior executive from Amazon's cloud division as it accelerates its push into cloud computing with Meta Compute, a venture that monetizes excess AI computing capacity. The company…
Meta is reportedly launching Meta Compute, a cloud service offering hosted Llama model APIs and raw GPU rental, directly competing with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Bloomberg reported the plans on Ju…
VLLM v0.25.0, released July 11, deletes the original PagedAttention implementation and makes Model Runner V2 the default execution backend for all dense models, delivering a 56% throughput improvement…
Costory rebuilt its FinOps MCP server after discovering that LLMs like Claude ignored dedicated tools like query_cost_diff in favor of calling query_cost twice and doing subtraction themselves. The te…
Aviatrix introduces the Containment Era for securing AI workloads, claiming its Cloud Network Security Fabric (CNSF) passes all five testable containment properties while centralized firewall architec…
A new framework called Canonical Action Verification and Attestation (CAVA) aims to standardize AI action records across multiple runtimes, addressing governance challenges in complex AI systems. Deve…