Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country’s powerful national security adviser. Microsoft and the technology holding company G42 announced the deal Tuesday. As part of the agreement, Microsoft's president, Brad Smith, will join G42's board of directors.
Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion in Indonesia to empower the Southeast Asian country with cloud and artificial intelligence, including by building data centres, visiting chief executive Satya Nadella said in a seminar on Tuesday.
The new Coca-Cola $1.1 billion deal looks to incorporate Microsoft's AI in potentially improving its beverage-making services.
The Greater Manchester sportswear seller is set to acquire the Alabama company for $87.5 per share, marking a 21% premium on its closing share price on Monday
Microsoft has announced a new five-year deal with The Coca-Cola Company, which plans to spend a total of $1.1 billion during that time to access Microsoft's cloud and generative AI services.
British antitrust regulators are seeking views on partnerships between Microsoft and Amazon with smaller generative AI model makers.
Microsoft laid out $1.5 billion for a stake in UAE-based G42 in a deal that gave the tech giant a seat on the AI company’s board.
PANMUNJOM, South Korea — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea’s bad behavior and blocking U.N. scrutiny of the isolated country’s efforts to evade sanctions over its weapons programs. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the remarks during a visit to the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war. Her trip to South Korea came after Russia...
The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since November 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions.
British competition regulators said Wednesday they'll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by Microsoft and Amazon over concerns that the moves could thwart competition in the AI industry. The Competition and Markets Authority said it's looking into Microsoft's partnership with France's Mistral AI and the company's hiring of key staff from
The U.K.’s biggest sportswear retailer JD Sports is to buy Alabama-based athletic fashion retailer Hibbett Inc. for about $1.08 billion, the companies said.
The U.S. and China will hold their first high-level talks on artificial