
Microsoft Weighs Lawsuit Over OpenAI's $50B AWS Deal
Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.
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Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano 4B packs a Mamba-dominant hybrid architecture, 262K token context, and 95.4% on MATH500 into a model that fits an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano.

Jensen Huang confirmed at GTC 2026 that NVIDIA has export licenses for multiple Chinese customers and is restarting H200 production, with 82,000 GPUs ready to ship after nearly a year of zero deliveries.

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A 1-trillion-parameter model called Hunter Alpha appeared anonymously on OpenRouter on March 11. Developers say it's DeepSeek V4 in disguise. The signals are strong but the precedent cuts both ways.

Tencent's 2025 results beat estimates, with the company spending $2.6B on AI last year and planning to at least double that in 2026 despite ongoing GPU supply constraints from US export controls.

Seven AI and cloud companies pool $12.5M through OpenSSF and Alpha-Omega to build tools that help open-source maintainers cope with a flood of AI-generated vulnerability reports they can't triage.

Mistral's new Forge platform lets enterprises train frontier-grade AI models entirely on proprietary data, without sending any of it to a third party.

Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and six other tech companies signed a voluntary anti-fraud accord at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on March 17, 2026.

NVIDIA released OpenShell at GTC 2026 - an open-source runtime that sandboxes AI agents with locked filesystems, blocked networks, and YAML-defined policies. One command to secure Claude Code, Codex, or OpenClaw.

Microsoft Azure's Foundry platform now runs Fireworks AI's inference engine, bringing DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.5, and MiniMax M2.5 into enterprise AI under a unified control plane.

OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.