The general manager of Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary, Alon Haimovich, has been forced to step down, along with several senior compliance managers, following an intense global investigation into the local office's ties to the Israeli military. The corporate shakeup, reported by Israeli financial daily Globes on May 11, 2026, comes after an external inquiry concluded that Microsoft Israel allowed defense units to use the company's Azure cloud platform for mass civilian surveil

The global race for artificial intelligence infrastructure reached a fever pitch this week as the "Big Three" cloud providers reported Q1 2026 earnings that shattered analyst projections. While all three titans saw massive gains, Google Cloud emerged as the clear leader in momentum, posting a staggering 63% year-over-year revenue increase. Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock The combined results from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon underscore a "paradigm shif

Google Cloud has officially entered the "Agentic Era," rebranding its flagship Vertex AI platform to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and unveiling eighth-generation TPUs to power a new wave of autonomous business agents. During the Google Cloud Next ‘26 conference in Las Vegas, CEO Thomas Kurian declared that the industry has moved beyond simple chatbots toward "agentic workflows." Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock The three-day event was dominated by t

In a bid to accelerate its "supercluster" AI infrastructure without relying on the strained U.S. electrical grid, Oracle has nearly tripled its fuel cell supply agreement with Bloom Energy to a staggering 2.8 gigawatts (GW). The expanded deal, announced on April 13, 2026, follows a successful pilot where Bloom delivered a fully operational power system to an Oracle site in just 55 days, a timeline traditional utility companies often measure in years. Powering the "AI supercyc

OpenAI has officially suspended its multi-billion-pound Stargate UK data center initiative, dealing a major blow to the British government’s ambitions of becoming a global AI superpower. The decision to "pause" the project, which was slated to bring up to 31,000 GPUs to the North East of England, comes as OpenAI cites an "unfavorable" mix of high industrial power prices and unresolved copyright frameworks. The economic wall: Runaway energy The primary driver for the freeze is