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Microsoft will make Khan Academy’s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in cloud shift

by Todd Bishop on May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 at 10:05 am

Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced Tuesday morning. Microsoft says it will donate access to its… Read More

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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

by Alan Boyle on May 1, 2024May 2, 2024 at 8:11 am

A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates — not by making fresh observations of… Read More

Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

by Todd Bishop on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 at 7:56 am

Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others to size up the industry’s bet on the cloud… Read More

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With new Gemini model, Google tries to set a new standard in AI race vs. OpenAI and Microsoft

by Todd Bishop on December 6, 2023December 6, 2023 at 7:27 am

Google started to roll out its long-awaited Gemini multimodal artificial intelligence model Wednesday morning, touting its ability to natively process and reason across different inputs like text, images, video, and… Read More

Sphere of influence? Google’s big Vegas ad buy clouds the landscape at Amazon re:Invent

by Todd Bishop on November 28, 2023November 28, 2023 at 4:30 pm

Reporting from Las Vegas … Brilliant marketing move or big waste of money? That’s the debate after Google Cloud bought advertising space on the Las Vegas Sphere to send a… Read More

AI in the cloud: Microsoft boosts share; Amazon predicts ‘tens of billions’ in new revenue

by Todd Bishop on October 30, 2023October 30, 2023 at 6:46 am

AI is starting to generate real money for the big cloud providers. Global spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $68 billion in the third quarter, up 18% year-over-year. That’s the… Read More

Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

by Todd Bishop on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 at 7:36 am

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded two years ago by former OpenAI executives and considered… Read More

Google Cloud posts second straight profitable quarter on 28% revenue growth

by Todd Bishop on July 25, 2023July 25, 2023 at 3:43 pm

Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter… Read More

Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

by Todd Bishop on July 12, 2023July 12, 2023 at 7:43 am

Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud. Vonderhaar started at Google Cloud this week with the title… Read More

How the economy is hitting the Amazon and Microsoft clouds, and what they’re doing about it

by Todd Bishop on October 28, 2022November 3, 2022 at 12:22 pm

After soaring during the pandemic, the cloud is getting dragged down by the economy, and both of the Seattle region’s tech giants are feeling the impact. Microsoft said its Azure… Read More

With Google’s Mandiant deal pending, Microsoft looks to get ahead in security threat intelligence

by Todd Bishop on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 at 10:48 am

Microsoft announced two new security threat intelligence products Tuesday morning, the latest moves in a broader effort to help businesses proactively sniff out and prevent cyberattacks. Built in part on… Read More

Illustration showing pi and pie

Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100 trillion!

by Alan Boyle on June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 at 8:08 am

Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google set the world record for calculating pi precisely, they’ve done it again. Thanks to Iwao and… Read More

Allen Institute and Google team up to build platform exploring the immune system

by Charlotte Schubert on June 1, 2022June 2, 2022 at 10:27 pm

The Allen Institute for Immunology unveiled a new interactive platform on Wednesday to showcase the human immune system, the Human Immune System Explorer. Built in partnership with Google, the explorer… Read More

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Astronomers demonstrate how using the cloud can rev up the race to find asteroids

by Alan Boyle on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 at 5:21 pm

Astronomers have used a cloud-based technique pioneered at the University of Washington to identify and track asteroids in bunches of a hundred or more. Their achievement could dramatically accelerate the… Read More

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Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Boeing chooses all of the above for cloud computing services

by Alan Boyle on April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 at 4:10 pm

The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft are all getting… Read More

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Google Cloud’s $5.4B Mandiant deal accelerates cybersecurity race with Microsoft and Amazon

by Todd Bishop on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 at 9:23 am

Google’s agreement to buy cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4 billion, announced Tuesday morning, reflects a broader effort by the major cloud providers to give businesses better defenses against a growing… Read More

Return of the JEDI: Pentagon’s multicloud sequel puts Microsoft and Amazon in leading roles

by Todd Bishop on November 19, 2021November 22, 2021 at 4:04 pm

The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting bids from multiple companies to upgrade its technology capabilities with the benefit of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analysis and other hallmarks of… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon, Andy Jassy and the cloud, with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group

by Todd Bishop on February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 at 8:08 am

What does Andy Jassy’s track record at Amazon Web Services say about how he’ll lead Amazon as the company’s next CEO? What will be Jeff Bezos’ ongoing influence as the… Read More

Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job

by Todd Bishop on June 8, 2020June 28, 2020 at 9:29 pm

Follow-up: Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice… Read More

Google Cloud revenue rises 52% as crisis forces tech giant to temper hiring and spending

by Todd Bishop on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 at 8:29 pm

Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78 billion in the first quarter, helping Google parent Alphabet beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations even as the company’s broader advertising business struggled amid… Read More

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Amazon and Microsoft join White House team to unleash high-performance computing on COVID-19

by Alan Boyle on March 22, 2020March 26, 2020 at 5:33 pm

Less than a week after the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy organized a consortium to focus the power of artificial intelligence on addressing the coronavirus outbreak, another… Read More

Google discloses cloud revenue for the first time — here’s how it compares to Amazon and Microsoft

by Nat Levy on February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 at 6:25 am

Google parent Alphabet gave new insight into the state of its cloud division this week, disclosing quarterly and annual revenue for the first time as the search giant challenges rivals… Read More

Google wades deeper into Expedia’s territory with new travel and cloud pact with Sabre

by Nat Levy on January 21, 2020January 22, 2020 at 4:59 am

Google is taking a major step in its travel push, teaming up with travel giant Sabre Corp. in a new 10-year alliance. Sabre is a 60-year-old company that rose to… Read More

What’s at stake for Amazon’s $36B cloud business at its big AWS re:Invent conference this week

by Todd Bishop on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 at 7:32 am

Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. AWS is… Read More

Alexa in every light switch? Amazon reduces requirements for voice controls in small devices

by Todd Bishop on November 25, 2019December 2, 2019 at 6:41 am

Amazon is releasing a new integration designed to help hardware makers build its Alexa voice assistant directly into smaller devices, such as light switches, thermostats and small appliances, without needing… Read More

Microsoft unveils Azure Arc, aiming to fend off Google and Amazon with new hybrid cloud tech

by Todd Bishop on November 4, 2019December 2, 2019 at 5:37 am

Microsoft has long made hybrid technologies a core part of its Azure platform, letting customers run cloud technologies on their own servers in addition to the public cloud, but the… Read More

Judge limits role of former Amazon sales exec in AWS vs. Google Cloud non-compete lawsuit

by Nat Levy on October 29, 2019October 29, 2019 at 8:50 am

A lawsuit against a former Amazon Web Services sales executive who joined rival Google Cloud earlier this year took an interesting turn, with a federal judge slapping some major limitations… Read More

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Google Cloud hiring spree: Alphabet adds 6,450 employees in Q3, cites cloud as biggest factor

by Todd Bishop on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 at 3:43 pm

Google parent company Alphabet grew by a net total of 6,450 employees in the third quarter, up nearly 6 percent from the end of the second quarter, topping 114,000 employees… Read More

Interview: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on AI, the cloud and the bank’s big bet on Seattle tech

by Todd Bishop on September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 at 5:21 am

Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman, will visit Seattle on Wednesday, which happens to be a key date in the financial services giant’s history with the city. Eleven… Read More

Amazon Web Services powers tech giant’s profits, again, but slower growth raises new questions

by Todd Bishop on July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 at 4:33 pm

Amazon Web Services posted $8.4 billion in net sales and $2.1 billion in operating profits in the second quarter, continuing its outsized impact on the tech giant’s overall bottom line.… Read More

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